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Nothing doesn't exist

Postby Steve M » Sun Mar 24, 2013 3:01 pm

Sitting here bored on a Sunday afternoon, thinking about nothing, which is actually thinking about something.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/nothing-physic ... 17357.html

Nothing cannot be seen or measured.. so nothing doesn't exist.
It's impossible to have nothing, or to do nothing, or to say nothing, as the act of saying nothing sends a message louder than than saying everything.
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Re: Nothing doesn't exist

Postby Fozzer » Sun Mar 24, 2013 4:37 pm

I could say that there is nothing in my wine glass at the moment... :cry: ....

...but actually, it is full of air!.... :o ...!

Paul.... :mrgreen: ...!
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Re: Nothing doesn't exist

Postby Steve M » Sun Mar 24, 2013 5:12 pm

Fozzer wrote:I could say that there is nothing in my wine glass at the moment... :cry: ....

...but actually, it is full of air!.... :o ...!

Paul.... :mrgreen: ...!




Air isn't good for wine glasses, Fozz. :naughty:
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Re: Nothing doesn't exist

Postby Fozzer » Sun Mar 24, 2013 6:44 pm

Steve M wrote:
Fozzer wrote:I could say that there is nothing in my wine glass at the moment... :cry: ....

...but actually, it is full of air!.... :o ...!

Paul.... :mrgreen: ...!




Air isn't good for wine glasses, Fozz. :naughty:


I found that filling the glass with California red wine, displaced all of the air so that "nothing" didn't exist any more...

...and I feel so much happier... :banana-linedance: ....HIC!.... :mrgreen:
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Re: Nothing doesn't exist

Postby garryrussell » Sun Mar 24, 2013 7:16 pm

Indeed...one of those impossible subjects

If you truly had a void with nothing, the void would be among things that are something so the void itself is something...a void of nothing.

Bit like the universe...where is it...it can't be endless so it must be in something and if it truly is, there what is that something in and so it goes on and on, ad infinitum.
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Re: Nothing doesn't exist

Postby Apex » Sun Mar 24, 2013 9:05 pm

Yep. Yep. Yep. My favorite pastime, sitting around with the guys, sipping beer, saying "Yep, yep, yep", and doing nothing.

Someone once said to me, "Y'know, you're the only person I know that can actually see nothing coming so that when nothing gets to you, you've already prepared yourself for it by doing nothing about it.

"I know nothing. Nothing!" - Sargent Schulze

I'm sure there's a lot more nothings to philosophize about, but I can't think of any of them right now, nothing's coming to mind.

So if I may be excused, there's a beer in the fridge with my name on it. Oh, no, I forgot to get beer and chips! There's nothing there! Aauugghh!
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Re: Nothing doesn't exist

Postby Webb » Sun Mar 24, 2013 9:15 pm

This is clearly a question for military intelligence.

But that doesn't exist either.
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Re: Nothing doesn't exist

Postby expat » Sun Mar 24, 2013 11:30 pm

It would seem that a load of people with nothing better to do got together to discuss nothing, thus proving they had a lot of spare time on their collective hands.......................

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Re: Nothing doesn't exist

Postby Webb » Sun Mar 24, 2013 11:55 pm

Thus ending another typical day in the life of the world wide web.
"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!" - Sen. John Blutarsky

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Re: Nothing doesn't exist

Postby Fozzer » Mon Mar 25, 2013 6:37 am

I now find that there is nothing left in my wine glass again, except air...

....so there is nothing else left, to live for*... :( ...!

Paul... ;) ...!

* ...perhaps?.... :whistle: ....!
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Re: Nothing doesn't exist

Postby Strategic Retreat » Tue Mar 26, 2013 12:19 am

Fozzer wrote:I now find that there is nothing left in my wine glass again, except air...

....so there is nothing else left, to live for*... :( ...!

Paul... ;) ...!

* ...perhaps?.... :whistle: ....!


Have you tried beer? O0
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Re: Nothing doesn't exist

Postby BLAZE » Tue Mar 26, 2013 1:50 am

Fozzer wrote:* ...perhaps?.... :whistle: ....!


Just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing! :dance:

Like This!.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ
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Re: Nothing doesn't exist

Postby Fozzer » Tue Mar 26, 2013 3:26 am

BLAZE wrote:
Fozzer wrote:* ...perhaps?.... :whistle: ....!


Just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing! :dance:

Like This!.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ


Tried that, Dwayne...

...it was just all the; "hanging about" involved, that I found rather depressing... :( ....!

Paul.... :lol: ... :lol: ...!

...and still no wine!
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Re: Nothing doesn't exist

Postby Ang2dogs » Tue Mar 26, 2013 9:33 pm

Not for nothing, but this has got to be the best discussion about nothing. I got nothing more to say.

"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about."
-- Oscar Wilde

:confusion-shrug: :confusion-shrug: :confusion-shrug:
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Re: Nothing doesn't exist

Postby H » Fri Mar 29, 2013 3:15 am

This I pondered long ago and realized, in the Modern English language** and in math, nothing has to be something.
An "=" equals "exists as" -- thus "nothing = nothing" or "nothing exists as nothing" means that nothing must be something, making "nothing does not = something" unviable because you should then have something akin to " does not = something"... (which also contradicts itself with the "you should have something akin to...).

So, the next time I think I have nothing to do, I should be glad I have something to do... ;)

**P.S. For some weird reason I first typoed "languish"...
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