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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Nothing

The thing about nothing is that it truly is something. When Freddie Mercury sang "nothing really matters...to me" in Bohemian Rhapsody, he may well have been stating one of the most profound declarations of caring ever. Next time you ask someone "are you ok" and they reply "its nothing", maybe reply with, "nothing really matters", because if nothing is something, then they are actually trying to tell you something about what they claim to be nothing. But if nothing really is nothing then it still is something, its nothing, so nothing is sort of something.

This has troubled philosophers for a while.

It follows that if nothing the indefinite pronoun is some sort of something then maybe everything is part of nothing.



some nothing links:

http://www.nothing.net/deult.html
http://www.nothingamsterdam.com/
http://nothing.org/

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