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Dennis Junge · Post by **Dennis Junge** » 23 Apr 2015 4:38 am

You said, "This is the exit! This is the exit we DON'T want!"

(Long pause).

"Next time, DON'T say anything.... Just say NOTHING."

Richard Wilhelm · Post by **Richard Wilhelm** » 23 Apr 2015 8:03 am

'Young-uns these days know nothing about nothing' Feistus from Gunsmoke.

Don Kona Woods · Post by **Don Kona Woods** » 23 Apr 2015 8:28 am

All these postings are much to do about NOTHING!

Roy Heap · Post by **Roy Heap** » 1 May 2015 3:25 am

A wise man once said ...absolutely NOTHING.
He let her scream and shout, and then they had 'make-up sex' afterwards.

Richard Wilhelm · Post by **Richard Wilhelm** » 1 May 2015 9:39 am

What men dare do, what men may do, what men always do, not knowing what they do.......much ado about nothing

Harold Dye · Post by **Harold Dye** » 10 May 2015 6:01 pm

Is there no end to nothing??? If nothing were a guppy would we be out of guppies now ???

Dennis Junge · Post by **Dennis Junge** » 10 May 2015 7:24 pm

Sgt. Schultz....?

John Booth · Post by **John Booth** » 11 May 2015 6:56 am

I have no response tho this.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 11 May 2015 10:00 am

Dennis Junge wrote:Sgt. Schultz....?

Read the previous posts. 60% of them have been about Sgt. Schutz.
I stopped posting on this topic because it has gotten to the stage where every post is just a repetition of previous posts, and it's obvious that posters have not read them.
Over the years we've had serious discussions about the meaning of the word "nothing", the arithmetic value of zero, and the concept of nonexistence. I see nothing of this in recent posts. I suggest that we close it. It has just become a circle with no value, which just wastes space on Bobby Lee's expensive network page. Let's get back to talking about the steel guitar.

Scott Duckworth · Post by **Scott Duckworth** » 11 May 2015 10:36 am

I stopped posting on this topic

Really?... Then there must be NOTHING in the post above...

Dennis Junge · Post by **Dennis Junge** » 11 May 2015 11:27 am

Apologies to Alan... You are right... I didn't follow the entire post.

admin · Post by **b0b** » 11 May 2015 12:15 pm

Dennis Junge wrote:Apologies to Alan... You are right... I didn't follow the entire post.

It's nothing to be ashamed of.

John Booth · Post by **John Booth** » 11 May 2015 1:50 pm

Richard Wilhelm · Post by **Richard Wilhelm** » 11 May 2015 2:39 pm

Tom Brady "I have no knowledge of anything".

John Booth · Post by **John Booth** » 11 May 2015 3:23 pm

"Do not believe everything you read on the Internet"
Abraham Lincoln - 1863

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 12 May 2015 2:40 am

Alan, I tried applying severe topic drift to nothing, and nothing happened.
How can you close nothing?
How could you?

Richard Wilhelm · Post by **Richard Wilhelm** » 12 May 2015 9:24 pm

"Nothingness" has only been explained correctly by Zen Buddhists.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 13 May 2015 1:12 am

I'm currently reading 'The Universe in a Single Atom' by the Dalai Lama in which he tries to align
Buddhist philosophy with quantum physics. The nature of emptiness is hardly a humorous subject
and has nothing to do with pages filled with nothing. 'All things are empty manifestations, their meaning
being derived from their interconnectedness.' We've tried many pages to connect nothing with something
and have yet to do it.

John Booth · Post by **John Booth** » 13 May 2015 6:48 am

Charlie McDonald wrote:I'm currently reading 'The Universe in a Single Atom' by the Dalai Lama in which he tries to align
Buddhist philosophy with quantum physics. The nature of emptiness is hardly a humorous subject
and has nothing to do with pages filled with nothing. 'All things are empty manifestations, their meaning
being derived from their interconnectedness.' We've tried many pages to connect nothing with something
and have yet to do it.

Do tell. Go on !

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 13 May 2015 7:11 am

It's nothing.

John Booth · Post by **John Booth** » 13 May 2015 7:20 am

The biggest problem with "nothing" (or we'll call it ZERO)
is when you divide zero by zero you might tear a hole in the fabric
of space and time, then you'll be in a world of hurt.

Richard Wilhelm · Post by **Richard Wilhelm** » 13 May 2015 8:18 am

"Nothing is sacred in Zen: it is a central theme, an essential concept in Zen thought. Yet it is not a concept, for there is no conceptualization in true Zen; and there is no Zen thought, for there is no thought in true Zen. Nothing is, rather, something that is experienced, and not merely conceptualized. Yet nothing is no "thing" as all, for there is no "thing" to be experienced in Zen: the experience and the experiencer and the experiencing are one and the same. 'Sunyata', emptiness, nothingness is the heart of Zen."

From 'Nothing is Sacred; Or, the Concept of Nothing in Zen' by Allan Gulette. University of Tennesee-Knoxville.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 13 May 2015 3:29 pm

'For instance, if we examine our own conception of selfhood, we will find that we tend to believe in the presence of an essential core to our being, which characterizes our individuality and identity as a discrete ego, independent of the physical and mental elements that constitute our existence. The philosophy of emptiness reveals that this is not only a fundamental error but also the basis for attachment, clinging, and the development of our numerous prejudices.'

'Things and events are "empty" in that they do not possess any immutable essence, intrinsic reality, or absolute "being" that affords independence.'--the dalai lama, op cit.

That is not nothing.
But then, this is "humor."

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 13 May 2015 3:44 pm

'Once, when the universe was just a giant lump of coal, none of us were different. We were the same thing. Carbon, let's say, which is impossible because the basic elements hadn't even be created. So, coal. One of the elements: coal, air (there was none) fire (?) and water (??). There was none yet, just coal.

'When God clapped his hands--like having a Clapper--the coal exploded. (In advanced metaphysics, the god was destroyed at the moment of creation. This account is even less popular than the one that has lucifer as a castoff from a race of parthenogenic oracles on Saturn.)'--Excedrius the Benefacto, 7th c.

We are that lump of coal. There was nothing else. NOTHING. It was a singularity, the only time it ever happened.
However, the coal has been burning ever since, creating dark energy. The universe simply became too complex, and nothing collapsed.
Only space remains, infinite space.
'Blank, empty space.'--Jimmy Carl Black

Richard Wilhelm · Post by **Richard Wilhelm** » 14 May 2015 8:54 pm

"Nothing is better, nothing is best

Take heed of this and get plenty of rest"

from 'Nothing Was Delieved' Bob Dylan