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Jim Konrad · Post by **Jim Konrad** » 10 Nov 2008 6:00 pm

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David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 10 Nov 2008 8:12 pm

Cass, I think Jim pretty well summed it up. I can think of nothing he left out.

Farris Currie · Post by **Farris Currie** » 10 Nov 2008 9:19 pm

SORRY

I GOT NOTHING TO SAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

farris

Edward Meisse · Post by **Edward Meisse** » 10 Nov 2008 10:00 pm

Empty space isn't nothing. It's empty space. Nothing is transcendant of mental conceptions. Really we shouldn't call it nothing or not nothing or neither or both. But in order to talk about we have to call it something. But if it's something, then it can't be nothing!

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 10 Nov 2008 10:03 pm

Well now we know what Jim found in
The Great Black Swamp!

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 11 Nov 2008 5:18 am

I agree with Edward.
I think.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 11 Nov 2008 7:23 am

Edward Meisse wrote:Empty space isn't nothing. It's empty space....

It's also disk space on the Forum computer.

Cass Broadview · Post by **Cass Broadview** » 11 Nov 2008 10:13 am

Hey, i like to do nothing the same as everyone else. But 52 pages of nothing? Nothing is harmless isn't it? Cass

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 11 Nov 2008 12:43 pm

I hope so....

Edward Meisse · Post by **Edward Meisse** » 11 Nov 2008 9:35 pm

I think nothing ought to be pretty harmless. But what could be more harmless. Perhaps we should drop the nothing thread and start a what thread.

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 11 Nov 2008 10:30 pm

Nothing is the same.

Archie Nicol · Post by **Archie Nicol** » 12 Nov 2008 3:40 am

Yes, it's not.

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Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 12 Nov 2008 7:58 am

"Nothing" can kill you.

The man was drowning. The onlookers just watched and did NOTHING.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 12 Nov 2008 8:05 am

So we should fear nothing?
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We're down to precious few respondents (last responders?) now....
Never has so much been said about so little;
and so few of us left to see nothing die the vacuous death it deserves.

I suppose nothing can be depressing.
Personally I'm pretty happy today. Why? Nothing....

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 12 Nov 2008 8:33 am

Nothing cannot die, Nothing lives on!

Nothing is, and Nothing is not.

Cass Broadview · Post by **Cass Broadview** » 12 Nov 2008 11:05 am

I guess maybe i'm concerned then, over nothing. What about absolutely nothing? is it the same as nothing? And should i fear nothing? how about "Nothing At All"? same deal? it's just nothing. And what should we then expect the final conclusion of this thread to be? yeah i know...nothing.

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 12 Nov 2008 7:01 pm

The "null" hypothesis?

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 13 Nov 2008 7:33 am

"Nothing" is the absence of anything, including commentary about it.
By discussing "nothing" we create something, which is not nothing.

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 13 Nov 2008 9:10 am

I discuss nothing,therefor I am!

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 13 Nov 2008 9:58 am

DLD has summed it up well enough for me.

I think I can quit watching "Nothing" for a while.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 13 Nov 2008 1:08 pm

BUT first, a story about Lao Tzu.

His story goes that Confucius came to him one day to ask about how to rule. Lao Tzu was fishing; presumably he had already left Beijing, our symbol for a city in northern China, from which he departed, disgusted at the ways of men; possibly disgusted at the way men are ruled against their true natures, which it seemed to him on that day that only he could see.
But there was another who saw something, a gatekeeper, who pleaded with him to write down his wisdom--the wisdom that was just rejected within the walls, but comes to light in another man without.

So Confucius sat down with Lao Tzu. Did he ask a question? We don’t know, as Confucius didn’t say, but he said he was unable to speak for three minutes, the man in front of him being so full of the energy of the universe that Confucius couldn’t speak, so full of the energy of the universe at being in its presence. It must’ve been a moment of enlightenment for Confucius, but one which did not yield the answer he sought. There is nothing more Lao Tzu could have said about how to rule men than 'by emptying hearts and filling bellies'.

By then, all the words had been spoken, and everything was known. It was validation for the old boy, the forever young and getting younger, on his journey from old yang to young yin. It was just more confusion for Confucius, as the conclusion that the wise govern by governing less, and the world insists on more, trying to fill itself into an identity, trying to create something from nothing.

Try as we might, we fail; only the universe has been able to do that, to create something from nothing.
You must change the value of nothing to understand creation. Lao Tzu had nothing, thus he had everything. By not filling himself up with something, he had room for everything.
Confucius left with nothing.

Archie Nicol · Post by **Archie Nicol** » 13 Nov 2008 2:56 pm

A police officer searches Lau Tzu's flat for the missing, presumed stoned, Confucius.

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Tamara James · Post by **Tamara James** » 13 Nov 2008 3:30 pm

Archie Nicol wrote:A police officer searches Lau Tzu's flat for the missing, presumed stoned, Confucius.

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Nice crop. Too bad they are only half-grown, worth NOTHING without blooms.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 13 Nov 2008 3:51 pm

OK, so Confucius left with something, but Tamara's right, no buds, no glory.
So, he left with little.
Which is not nothing.

Archie Nicol · Post by **Archie Nicol** » 13 Nov 2008 4:30 pm

I'm NO ex-pert, now flabby, on these THINGS. More can-o-beans than cannabis am I. I do know which smells nicer, though.

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p.s. Please excuse me. I've had a tish(anagram for decency) load of beans tonight.