What is nothing? Hmmm... No one knows the answer. Plainly, nothing is nothing. Nothing has to be something though, right? I mean we cannot be speaking and pondering nothing. So therefore I value the statement that "nothing is something, it has to be". What is funny about that is the fact that an eight year old could proclaim that. In saying that nothing is something, we can infer that there is no such thing as nothing. Nothing is nothing; if that makes any sense at all. A great parallel to the definition and semi-understanding of the word "nothing" is the universe. In eighth grade at Bonita Vista Middle School, my science teacher proposed a question to us. We were studying astronomy and astrology when he questioned, "If the universe is always expanding, and the universe is everything, with nothing outside of its edge, how is it growing?" he also asked, "what would you see, feel, hear, if u stepped outside of the possible edge of the universe? what is there?" Mr. Dougherty also told us to think of a plausible answer to these ,abnormally large questions for a thirteen year old, before we fell asleep. If anybody besides me abided to what he said, they were very tired the next day. I don really understand this. In fact I don't at all. As soon as I have a lead it gets foiled by "what if's" and "no that can not be true's" As Karina said very opiniated, as usual, after our coffee shop conversation, "nothing is something ithout anything". When I heard this I was amazed. It is incredibly true yet incredibly incorrect. Like I said, nothing is something but the part that she summed it up with was "without anything". This still brings me back to the question of "what does nothing look like?" It cannot be white or black or even blue. It cannot be big, nor small. Not noisy or silent. Not warm or cold. Nothing is a series of "not's".coming away froms Kay's class I was utterly stumped but now I feel that I understand that nothing cannot be correctly translated, which is a step ahead. Whether or not you got anything out of this, or it was a huge compilation of "nothing", thank you for reading my little something about nothing. Is that possible?
Josh
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My head hurts.
No.
Seriously, I think that you stumbled across a great ending thought - even the discussion of nothing is inaccurate, because it is simply nothing.
How can you talk about a void?
But although you cannot describe it, or explain it, I think you can feel it. Is nothing an absence of something?
Ha~ I did a speech on this on a Friday in Kay's Class. It was how to do nothing, in which nothing is never achievable. Even when your dead, for example, your not doing nothing, your still doing something, your decomposing, and laying there, thats not nothing, its still something. I made a lot of people's head hurt that day. But it is definitely a point to ponder. The only time I remember. ..or not really. . .remember doing nothing was before I was born. . .oh idk . . . this is making my head hurt! lol
Haha yes, Karina is always very opinionated isn't she, well yes, she is still right so there is no need to be further perplexed.why am I still talking about my self in the third person?haha..
toodles
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