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crap! pyro's doing nothing for tormod & now i. have nothing to do! :eek2:
Qwitch yer belly-aching!

If you got nothing to do, then get off your butt and DO IT.

 

:turtle: godfrey-smackin sunnava gunchin frukin stucka beech swipin lay zeecrocka dilbo blabbin...

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Nothing was of interest to me so I came here to write about nothing.

 

I'm trying to think of nothing profound. I'll give it my best shot.

 

Cosmology:

Despite many imaginative suggestions, the questions of where everything came from—and equivalently, why something should exist rather than nothing—have remained the most intriguing and troublesome.

 

Of course, we could always ask the inverse question: Why should nothing exist rather than something?

 

There is no reason why nothing should exist. Very often, space (the vacuum) is treated as if it were nothing. But space is something with properties and qualities that can be defined.

 

If nothing were a state it could be used as a synonym for a point in time, a moment in time, or a single instant. But I don't think nothing is a physical state.

 

What about before the big bang, before t = 0?

 

The question of what happened before the 'beginning' has very often been shrugged off as irrelevant, as there was no time or space to even think about. In the language of geometry, the void is a spacetime that contains no points: i.e., there is no spacetime, no language of geometry.

 

It would characterize absolutely nothing. The nothingness prior to the creation of the universe is considered (by several specialists) as the most complete void imaginable—no space, no time, no matter, no antimatter, no radiation, no light, no darkness, no temperature, no dimensions, no size, no vacuum, no energy, no pressure, no force, no particles, no fluctuation, no density, no mass, no zero-point energy, no general relativity, no quantum mechanics, no thermodynamics, no laws of nature, no order, no disorder, no universe, no God, no organizing Wit, and no Astrophysical Journals—the empty set—as referred to by mathematicians.

 

 

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Mathematics:

The empty set is unique. It has no elements and its size is zero. Its existence can be deduced. There are many possible properties of sets that are true (trivially) for the empty set.

 

 

Topology:

The empty set is both open and closed topologically.

 

 

Western Philosophy:

The empty set is a set with nothing inside it, and a set is always something. That is, the empty set is not the same thing as nothing, at least formally speaking.

 

Not only is it not clear that the empty set exists, but it not clear that nothing exists.

 

Jonathan Lowe argues: "What is unclear is how there can be, uniquely amongst sets, a set which has no members. We cannot conjure such an entity into existence by mere stipulation."

 

 

Eastern Philosophy:

Shunyata (emptiness), unlike nothingness, is considered to be a attainable. In other words, this state can only be achieved if an individual is not consciously thinking. Like me before I posted.:eek2:

 

 

Sports:

Barcelona just beat Milan 1 to nothing. But they had to win 2 to nothing to head to the final.

 

 

I conclude that nothing is a state of mind.

And, we can conjure such an entity {nothing} into existence by mere stipulation.

 

 

 

CC

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How could nothing even exist? If it existed wouldn't it be something? ...
Now, CC, there you go again!

You keep dishing out this "common sense" logic as if it was nothing.

Well, it's NOT nothing, and thas a fact!

The time has come to tell you that I'm saying nothing against you!

And I'm saying it hard!

And you got nothing to say about that?

Well, you better say it good and loud, then.

Cause nothing is as nothing does.

See if it don't! ;)

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my drawing of a prophet....
Gosh, that is just freakin awesome!

 

I loved the way you captured the ambiguity and uncertainty of prophecy as a form of emotional conjugation with the philosophical ramifications of deity as a virtual expression of mankind's need to control and dominate, and yet support our eternal longing for a celestial sugar-daddy that takes all our ephemeral longings and hopes and transforms them into the quintessence of expectant nothingness.

 

Yeah.

 

And I really, REALLY love the tits!

 

Awesome!

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Gosh, that is just freakin awesome!

 

I loved the way you captured the ambiguity and uncertainty of prophecy as a form of emotional conjugation with the philosophical ramifications of deity as a virtual expression of mankind's need to control and dominate, and yet support our eternal longing for a celestial sugar-daddy that takes all our ephemeral longings and hopes and transforms them into the quintessence of expectant nothingness.

 

Yeah.

 

And I really, REALLY love the tits!

 

Awesome!

 

exactly! they say there is nothing as useless as tits on a bore, so i worked them in as counterpoint to the ambiguities. B)

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