Susan's Place Logo

News:

Please be sure to review The Site terms of service, and rules to live by

Main Menu

Define Nothingness

Started by The Middle Way, June 02, 2007, 05:19:18 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

The Middle Way

Go 'head, give it your best shot...
  •  

Yvonne

Nothingness is that great empty hollow ...smack bang in the middle of your heart .. when theres no one to fill you up again. ;)
  •  

The Middle Way

That gives us emptiness. Is emptiness the same as nothingness?

tmw
  •  

Yvonne

Quote from: The Middle Way on June 02, 2007, 05:33:54 PM
That gives us emptiness. Is emptiness the same as nothingness?

tmw

You are right.  Then I would say that nothingness is just that, nothing, but we label it in our minds as something by giving it the name nothing, it is like negative space, defined by what is around it even though, it in itself, does not exist.
  •  

Diane

Nothingness is what you become when you die.
  •  

Pica Pica

I thought that was compost.
  •  

Kendall

That which is not something. Something infers a conscious thought about meaning, definition, analysis, being, or presence. Meaning no thing, no entity, no part, no portion, no consequence or reaction.
  •  

Yvonne

  •  

The Middle Way

Quote from: Yvonne on June 02, 2007, 05:37:30 PM
Quote from: The Middle Way on June 02, 2007, 05:33:54 PM
That gives us emptiness. Is emptiness the same as nothingness?

tmw

You are right.  Then I would say that nothingness is just that, nothing, but we label it in our minds as something by giving it the name nothing, it is like negative space, defined by what is around it even though, it in itself, does not exist.

There you go. Is negative space possible? If nothingness is the state of nothing, Is *nothing* then actually *something*?  ;)

tmw
  •  

tinkerbell

Nothingness is zilch, nada.  Just kidding!  ;D  Nothing is the lack of anything.  :P

tink :icon_chick:
  •  

cindianna_jones

Nothingness is a null set.  I believe they are equivalent, no?

Did I do good?  ;)

Cindi
  •  

Pica Pica

I was going to do that, thought better of it though.

Nothingness is the part of the Polo which is not minty.
  •  

Butterfly

If something exists, and nothing exists, what is it that does not exist? Is nothing something that doesn't exist? or is nothing the absence of something/existence?

'Nothing' is the absence of existence. It is impossible to apprehend any absolute and therefore difficult for a mind to grasp the absolute nature of non-existence. With this line of argument it is probable that the logical conclusion would be that non-existence in it's absolute nature does not exist. There is no absence of existence (see Descartes proof ;)) and therefore absence of existence is not a logical reality.
  •  

katia

nothingness is like stasis. existence suspended, as it were. some would call it a momentary journey back to source, the universal energy. our natural state as it were. very peaceful, yet it can also be very boring. now we know why we come here in the first place. lol
  •  

Jeannette

Unfortunately nothing is something.  You can put nothing in a box, and still measure how big it is, so it must be something, no?
  •  

The Middle Way

Quote from: Jeannette on June 04, 2007, 06:04:01 PM
Unfortunately nothing is something.  You can put nothing in a box, and still measure how big it is, so it must be something, no?

Quote from: Tink on June 02, 2007, 07:46:37 PM
Nothing is the lack of anything.  :P

Where can I find this "lack of anything"? All I see (and hear...) is a whole lot of stuff.

Quote from: Katia on June 04, 2007, 03:32:10 AM
nothingness is like stasis. existence suspended, as it were. some would call it a momentary journey back to source, the universal energy. our natural state as it were.

Well, that's what I think, too.

One's search for stuff like god just might be the wrong question; that who knows, you might find something like that in No Thing.

TMW
  •  

Jessica

  •