Amelia: we;re talking about nothing
nothing is acualy something
i mean, if u think about it, there IS no "nothing"
So what we decided to do, the trio of fantastic bloggers, is to all write a blog entry about this whole nothing concept. How can there be nothing? Is it possible, but beyond our comprehension. Come to think of it, how did someone even come up with the whole "beyond our understanding concept"? Maybe the same person questioned "nothingness" for the first time too. Anyway, I have had hundreds of chats were someone says to another person (or more than one) what's up, and they say, nothing. Then on the rare occasion where I pry for fun I ask, Nothing at all, and they say, yup. Because in essence, that's questioning because they seem so confident with this whole nothing thing. Sure they don't think about it, but hey, they're saying it, and that can be seen as voicing an opinion. But at the same time, people ask me (Ok, Ok, my parents ask me) what I learned at school that day. Either I have some creative response at the ready that took me way too long to come up with, or I mumble, eh - nothin. But that means I'm contradicting myself (Who woulda thunk it?) because I'm arguing that nothing is nothing in the realms of possibility, if that makes sense. Is using it as a term any different than actually weighing the pros and cons (if any, there have to be some) or nothing. Can you be nothing? Can you feel nothing? Can you do nothing? Can someone be nothing to you? Is there anything beyond nothing? Is nothing such a misconception that it should be officially removed from all the dictionaries? What is nothing? Is nothing not....anything? Or is nothing something that didn't have a name? Does it have a name now, is it any clearer, or still just nothing? Is nothing like the word cliche, used too frequently and misused? Who came up with the word? Were they remembered, or were they nothing to the world? Let's look it up (dictionary.com style)
Those two are questionable for me. Other entries seem to back me up on this quest to find out if nothing is nothing or if nothing is something or if nothing is everything. I'm getting really absorbed actually. How sad is it to be absorbed in nothingness? I'll leave that up to you to decide. And now I'll leave abruptly without closing the entry because I'm so bad at conclusions. Because you know it's not the end. The debate has just begun.
So what we decided to do, the trio of fantastic bloggers, is to all write a blog entry about this whole nothing concept. How can there be nothing? Is it possible, but beyond our comprehension. Come to think of it, how did someone even come up with the whole "beyond our understanding concept"? Maybe the same person questioned "nothingness" for the first time too. Anyway, I have had hundreds of chats were someone says to another person (or more than one) what's up, and they say, nothing. Then on the rare occasion where I pry for fun I ask, Nothing at all, and they say, yup. Because in essence, that's questioning because they seem so confident with this whole nothing thing. Sure they don't think about it, but hey, they're saying it, and that can be seen as voicing an opinion. But at the same time, people ask me (Ok, Ok, my parents ask me) what I learned at school that day. Either I have some creative response at the ready that took me way too long to come up with, or I mumble, eh - nothin. But that means I'm contradicting myself (Who woulda thunk it?) because I'm arguing that nothing is nothing in the realms of possibility, if that makes sense. Is using it as a term any different than actually weighing the pros and cons (if any, there have to be some) or nothing. Can you be nothing? Can you feel nothing? Can you do nothing? Can someone be nothing to you? Is there anything beyond nothing? Is nothing such a misconception that it should be officially removed from all the dictionaries? What is nothing? Is nothing not....anything? Or is nothing something that didn't have a name? Does it have a name now, is it any clearer, or still just nothing? Is nothing like the word cliche, used too frequently and misused? Who came up with the word? Were they remembered, or were they nothing to the world? Let's look it up (dictionary.com style)
| 3. | something that is nonexistent. |
| 4. | nonexistence; nothingness: The sound faded to nothing. |
Those two are questionable for me. Other entries seem to back me up on this quest to find out if nothing is nothing or if nothing is something or if nothing is everything. I'm getting really absorbed actually. How sad is it to be absorbed in nothingness? I'll leave that up to you to decide. And now I'll leave abruptly without closing the entry because I'm so bad at conclusions. Because you know it's not the end. The debate has just begun.
2 comments:
That is awesome. Number 3 definition makes no sense whatsoever. Something (needs to exist) that is nonexistent (can't exist). Does that make nothing an oxymoron by itself?
That was real, real good Becca. I was going to use the dictionary, but then just decided not to. That was some nice thinking, there on your post.
Yeah, potato dude, that like doesn't...work? My brain is hurting from thinking about that so hard.
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