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Roy Heap · Post by **Roy Heap** » 6 Feb 2015 1:50 am

Now come on Larry, There is just NOTHING here to confuse you, just NOTHING.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 6 Feb 2015 5:54 am

Alan Brookes wrote:I'm just about to eat my breakfast, which, like every other day, consists of toast, fried egg and sausage.

The Daily Texan, newspaper of the University of Texas, used to say 'read the Texan with your cornflakes;
you'll have nothing on your stomach and nothing on your mind.'

That was in the 'sixties; nothing is not new.

Larry Rafferty · Post by **Larry Rafferty** » 6 Feb 2015 6:12 am

I don't know why I'm reading this thread this morning. I guess I just don't wanna miss out on nothing!

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 6 Feb 2015 11:36 am

There's nothing to miss out on, Larry.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 6 Feb 2015 12:30 pm

I think I should re-read it all to make sure I missed nothing.

John Booth · Post by **John Booth** » 7 Feb 2015 9:59 am

... and on this day nothing happened. Not a darn thing.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 7 Feb 2015 10:35 am

Will nothing ever end?

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 7 Feb 2015 12:06 pm

"...A thing of beauty is a joy for ever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness..."
John Keats [1795-1821]

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 10 Feb 2015 6:03 am

So, to recap the topic:

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 10 Feb 2015 8:12 am

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 10 Feb 2015 9:06 am

And to add, my favorite piece of music:

Joey Ace wrote:www.nothing.com

4'33" click to listen
I love how they tune up beforehand; the performance begins promptly at 1:35.
It demonstrates that nothing can't last forever, but it can seem like it.

Nothing: we fear it, we welcome it. We so fear that the universe is so full of it that we must predict, to say ahead of time
[even though the law of parity (concerning the existence of mirrored states) was declared illegal in 1957, my teenage friend--
seeming reincarnation of my own teenage best friend Lee on altho sax--told me in the cornfield.
It was the International Geophysical Year. Sputnik beeped.] yet we welcome it at the end of the day.

...predict, I say, to say ahead of time, that there must be dark--occult, meaning unseen--forces at work to hold matter together,
when nothing, over a long period of time, would accomplish the same result toward binding the galaxies together.

Nothing was the original thesis of my book, but alas, too short and unable to substantiate or replicate, unlike humans.
Its anathema is music.
In some parts of the universe, beings fear its coming and are paralyzed in stopping it; you can't, since it's nothing--
it is the war of the wind and the silence, cancelling each other out--
the background noise to the Big Bang, and the only problem is, we're not listening.

In terms of social mores, the global conversation, irrelevance has reached its peak in nothing, not listening to the elephant in the room.
As mirrored in the Forum--and this is humorous, mind you--relegated to an obscure topic of epic proportions, buried in HUMOR,
just above the body of DNT UNDRSTND

and I can only guess that what I'm saying is, to quote that scholar of Chinese philosophy Buddy Emmons,
'Those who say don't know, those who know don't say.'--to indicate that I know nothing, nothing.

What does all this mean? The irrelevant--the elephant, my hi school/college friend Lee called it--
the myth of fingerprints, Paul Simon sang, to Lee's "Footprints, handprints, fingerprints, [whistles] 'Here Prince, here Prince....'"
'They were all over us,' The Luz, our other companion of the Marco Polo Church Exploring Club told me later... yes, they were all over us.
'Remember, just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.'--Don London

It's nothing, we say, hoping that it will go away, blowing wind against the silence, fanning the blue flames war
on the empty battlefield of psyche--but I digress. To be serious for a moment,
we have collectively only identified where we are; that we don't understand must necessarily be glossed over,
there just isn't enough time left in the universe to answer our plaintiff--oops, plaintive--questions.

It's all nothing, but the reverberations of the Big Story, a bright pebble dropped into a dark pond,
scattering little lights into a dark sky, the vast darkness of, to quote Jimmy Carl Black,
or perhaps Eric Estrada: 'Blank.. empty.. space..' referring to Zappa's tapes, but I know he means 'out there,'
beyond the universe as we know it, endless room for expansion, nothing to stop it, much like Zappa, and little Moon Unit One.
-------------------------
I fear that my posts can at times signal the death to a thread--I cannot call it causal, only can call 'here Prince'--
but one can always hope. The motives of ID and its monsters, here on the Forbidden Planet, not to mention your neighbors,
who were pods only last night, and they're communists...
... are as dark and dank as the daffy doings of the steely ship Forum--
I mean, form, the racing form, here it is, Pavlov's Dog favored in the third....

4'33" should be over by now. I think the only proper applause would be the sound of one hand clapping.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 12 Feb 2015 11:07 am

Charlie McDonald wrote:...I fear that my posts can at times signal the death to a thread...

...but nothing never dies, not nohow, not ever, not in anywise. $:\$

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 12 Feb 2015 12:42 pm

If that didn't assassinate it, nothing will.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 13 Feb 2015 11:14 am

If nothing does assassinate it, that "it" being "nothing", then nothing would be committing suicide.

But if nothing commits suicide, then we have nothing to worry about.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 13 Feb 2015 12:29 pm

I know, I thought about the suicide thing but it was too late.

Fred Glave · Post by **Fred Glave** » 15 Feb 2015 2:05 pm

About what?

Roy Heap · Post by **Roy Heap** » 15 Feb 2015 3:07 pm

Oh come on Charlie, NOTHING is going to happen.
And if it did you would know NOTHING

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 15 Feb 2015 3:38 pm

Fred Glave wrote:About what?

Larry Carlson · Post by **Larry Carlson** » 19 Feb 2015 7:42 pm

A crow was sitting in a tree doing nothing all day.
A small rabbit saw the crow and asked him, "Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?"
The crow answered, "Sure, why not."
So the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow and rested.
All of a sudden a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Moral of the story is:
To be sitting and doing nothing you must be sitting up very very high.

Dave Harmonson · Post by **Dave Harmonson** » 20 Feb 2015 2:50 am

All this talk about nothing is really something.
Oh crap I hope I didn't blow the whole thread wide open.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 20 Feb 2015 7:29 am

Dave Harmonson wrote:All this talk about nothing is really something.
Oh crap I hope I didn't blow the whole thread wide open.

I hope you did.

Charlie McDonald wrote:I meant to say, something out of nothing.

John Booth · Post by **John Booth** » 20 Feb 2015 8:27 am

There's nothing wrong with that.

Fred Glave · Post by **Fred Glave** » 25 Feb 2015 12:25 pm

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 25 Feb 2015 1:12 pm

.
It's so hard to say nothing.

A wise man would say nothing.

You ask the right question.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 26 Feb 2015 4:46 am

it's so hard saying
nothing, like the silence that
surrounds us, Corcovado..
____________

A wise man would say nothing.

It's interesting... it might be nothing...
but WHO appears to be the final question--
and certainly, it is a question that's the question--

on the day that everyone is listening and no being in the universe can lie.. who?
Kurt Vonnegut described it in the moment of the armistice in WWI
where it was so silent that it must've been like the voice of God.
I can't attest to that, I was not there. Nonetheless..

It might be nothing.. but that's how the story goes on Dr. Who.
And you know, the thug he met in the bar did reveal that the wind is working for The Silence--
I mean, nothing--and as a matter of fact, everybody is. Of course that's the story we get only to this point..
which is who it is that's wrong on the internet. See http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopi ... 49#2353149

It was the nothing that was taking over the Fantastican Empire in 'The Neverending Story'.. but that's another story.

It's so hard to say goodbye, so darling, let's just
sayonara,

charlie

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