I posted a Substack link to a piece on this earlier today...

"What was was ever, and ever shall be. For, if it had come into being, it needs must have been nothing before it came into being. Now, if it were nothing, in no wise could anything have arisen out of nothing."
- Melissus of Samos

See biography for Melissus of Samos:
https://civilsimian.com/Melissus-of-Samos

Read Melissus of Samos' work:
https://civilsimian.com/user/250/content

Universal Humanism's distilled rule set as well as top categorical viewpoints and an appeal to negative utilitarianism.

#philosophy #quotes #CivilSimian #UniversalHumanism

https://open.substack.com/pub/axiomaticpanic/p/universal-humanisms-defi…

I'm not with this existentially...if there's an objective reality, you CAN know enough to just chill at a certain point...and there is....

Written around 1720....