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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.

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.

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

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.

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

Why don't we consider this....

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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".

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

...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."

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

No posts. Nothing. All is gone.

So it goes back to page 1 ???

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

Hello are you there.......

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




Daryl

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.

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.

Scott Shipley wrote:

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