How old is the cup in the room? How long has it been there?

You travel to a new country you have never been before. As you walk through the airport, you stop at the bathroom. On the bathroom sink is a solo cup. How do you determine the age of the cup, as well as determine how long it has been there?



Sounds crazy when people say a certain bone, fossil etc. is 8 Billion years old, how do they know for sure? Same people thought the world was flat.



God is good.How old is the cup in the room? How long has it been there?
It doesn't matter. Its there and what will you do with it.

The world is here and we have the word of God to tell us that Jesus died for us on th cross and if we put our trust in him we can have eternal life. What you do with Christ is what matters most.



Romans 10:12: For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

Romans 10:13: For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

John 14:6: Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Mark 8:36: For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
The cup doesn't exist and for that matter the bathroom nor the sink do, etc. either. What you perceive conventionally as a cup is a conglomeration of parts that we label. By the same logic you don't exist either. All things are dependently arising and impermanent. What part of you is you? Are you your arm? Your spleen? What is it that makes you, "you"?



What part of the cup makes it a cup? If you take one item out of the process of making a "cup", it isn't a cup.



Another little item... how you perceive things can really make you ask yourself what really exists independently, of which many scientists haven't been able to find yet, nor have I in my short time of logical examination. Take a pencil: It is a writing instrument to you, to someone ornery it's a dart thrown up to try to stick the point in the ceiling, but to a dog, it's a chew toy, and so on.



So you see, Schrodinger's cat "experiment" has merit when examined logically.



_()_How old is the cup in the room? How long has it been there?
Well, if it's a Solo cup, you can find out how long Solo has been in business. Obviously the cup cannot be older than the company that made it.



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What you do it you pick up the cup run it under cold water for 10 seconds then hot for 25 seconds...then you throw the cup on the floor then based on the sound it makes you'll know how old it is
you see the duty roster at the lavatory doors.

last time they did the cleaning, that's the time when the cup "deposited in the sediment"
No one says a bone is 8 billion years old, dear.
Try reading a science book once in a while. God does not exist.