Nothing

Rick Nicklas · Post by **Rick Nicklas** » 17 Jun 2014 9:28 am

OMG ... the concept of "nothing" would be everything does not exist.

OMG ... the concept of "everything" would be everything does exist including the concept of nothing.

OMG ... I've got a brain cramp.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 19 Jun 2014 10:15 am

Rick Nicklas wrote:OMG ... the concept of "nothing" would be everything does not exist.

OMG ... the concept of "everything" would be everything does exist including the concept of nothing.

OMG ... I've got a brain cramp.

No wonder you have brain cramp. Nowhere is there the concept that everything does not exist, but the concept that everything include the concept of nothing only means that it includes the word "nothing", not the absence of anyting.
In the absence of anything we would not be having this discussion.

admin · Post by **b0b** » 19 Jun 2014 10:55 am

"I've got nothing to say but it's okay, Good Morning," sang John Lennon.

Rick Nicklas · Post by **Rick Nicklas** » 19 Jun 2014 4:28 pm

Alan said: "In the absence of anything we would not be having this discussion."

Or, I may have the discussion with you but not remember it. Like the same absence of thought or memory before I was born or existed.

OMG... I got another brain cramp and I have "NOTHING" to take for it.

Fred Glave · Post by **Fred Glave** » 19 Jun 2014 7:12 pm

I just thought of.......nothing.

Harold Dye · Post by **Harold Dye** » 24 Jun 2014 12:54 pm

Why don't we consider this....

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 25 Jun 2014 8:16 am

Rick Nicklas wrote:...Like the same absence of thought or memory before I was born or existed...

There have been philosophers over the years who have concluded that nothing existed before they were born; that the universe came into existence the moment they started to think; that they were the only ones who actually existed and everyone else was a figment of their imagination.
Prove it wrong.

Rick Nicklas · Post by **Rick Nicklas** » 25 Jun 2014 8:39 am

Alan ... I can't prove it wrong... as a matter of fact, I can't even prove it right. I think I will relax and enjoy as if "Nothing" matters.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 25 Jun 2014 10:19 am

Rick Nicklas wrote:Alan ... I can't prove it wrong... as a matter of fact, I can't even prove it right. I think I will relax and enjoy as if "Nothing" matters.

Yes, but Rick, you might be a figment of my imagination, as might be the entire Steel Guitar Forum, as might be the internet, as might be this room that I am in and this chair that I am sitting in; in fact, as might be the hands that I am using to type this.
Existence, as we know it, might not exist.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 25 Jun 2014 10:24 am

Everything that exists is an arrangement of atoms, and the matter from which atoms came is interchangeable with energy. We all consist of energy, as does everything around us. That energy came from the Big Bang, and is continually expanding. But from where came the energy for the Big Bang?
An arithmetical answer is that the Big Bang produced both positive and negative energy that balance out, and the total amount of energy in the universe is NOTHING.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 25 Jun 2014 10:29 am

Alan Brookes wrote:...Yes, I do know the fallacy. I speak fluent Algebra.

The fallacy in the connundrum, which no-one seems to have taken up, is that you cannot divide the equation by x-1 if x=1, since you would be dividing by nothing, and, in mathematical terms, dividing by nothing is not allowed.

Rick Nicklas · Post by **Rick Nicklas** » 25 Jun 2014 10:34 am

I see nothing here except opinions from accumulated education. I must trust my own opinions and stick to my belief that this whole thread still means "Nothing" to me. But I love to visit seeing all the mental socializing and sparring in the nothingness of "Nothing".

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 25 Jun 2014 1:14 pm

I agree. It's the existential place to hang if there's nothing on your mind.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 26 Jun 2014 2:05 pm

...and in philosophical terms, it's full of existential instantiations.

Example:
"This car is red, therefore all cars are red."
"I bleed when I cut myself, therefore everyone bleeds when they cut themselves," or, "therefore everone bleeds when I cut them."

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 30 Jun 2014 9:34 am

Duplicate post. (Aren't most of them?)

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 30 Jun 2014 9:36 am

No posts. Nothing. All is gone.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 30 Jun 2014 4:47 pm

So it goes back to page 1 ???

Daryl Thisdelle · Post by **Daryl Thisdelle** » 1 Jul 2014 5:37 am

I sat down and thought long and hard on..............

Hello are you there.......

Darn...what's that word again.......

Daryl

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 3 Jul 2014 6:58 am

I've never seen so much said about NOTHING.
This thread has to be a first __ everything you have ever wanted to know about NOTHING.
This entire thread should be sent to those who compile, edit, and publish Webster's Unabridged...
NOTHING could take on a new meaning.

Les Cargill · Post by **Les Cargill** » 3 Jul 2014 9:31 am

Alan Brookes wrote:
Alan Brookes wrote:...Yes, I do know the fallacy. I speak fluent Algebra.
The fallacy in the connundrum, which no-one seems to have taken up, is that you cannot divide the equation by x-1 if x=1, since you would be dividing by nothing, and, in mathematical terms, dividing by nothing is not allowed.

You can, you just have to know your limit-ation-s.

Chris Templeton · Post by **Chris Templeton** » 3 Jul 2014 5:36 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HqyEHqEYho

Scott Shipley · Post by **Scott Shipley** » 6 Jul 2014 1:05 am

Scott Shipley · Post by **Scott Shipley** » 6 Jul 2014 3:16 am

Nothing, Arizona

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 6 Jul 2014 9:46 am

Scott Shipley wrote:

Absolutely nothing in the world will make me go to that place!

Daniel Policarpo · Post by **Daniel Policarpo** » 10 Jul 2014 11:11 am