What is your understanding of "Nothing"?

Answer 1

Peace!

They say that an expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about absolutely nothing.

That is one thing I understand.

Barbara Cook sang a song, "It takes nothing away from me to give to you ....."

That is another thing I understand.

Once my brother, when he was a baby, asked my mother what was in a box on the table. My mother replied, "Nothing." My brother then said, "Well, I want to see nothing!"

Fair enough? Or naught?

Answer 2

Nothing means lacking anything.
Nothing is the lack or absence of anything. Colloquially, however, the term is often used to describe a particularly unimpressive thing, event, or object.

The concept of "nothing" has been studied throughout history by philosophers and theologians; many have found that careful consideration of the notion can easily lead to the logical fallacy of reification. The understanding of "nothing" varies widely between cultures, especially between Western and Eastern cultures and philosophical traditions. For instance, emptiness, unlike "nothingness", is considered a state of mind in Buddhism (See Nirvana, Mu, Enlightenment). Existentialism and Heidegger have brought these two understandings closer together.

The label nothing gets perceived as either important or not-important depending on the actual system in which it is considered. Compare these two sentences in which "nothing" plays the central role:

While traveling to the city nothing happened and so I arrived safely.
While getting ready to pay I discovered that there was nothing in my wallet, and so I had to go wash the dishes.

Answer 3

We pierce windows and doors in a structure to make a house, yet it is where there is nothing that the usefulness of the house exists. We turn clay to make a vessel, yet it is where there is nothing that the usefulness of the vessel exists. Clearly as we recognize the things that are we must consider the things that are not! Lao Tzsu, Tao Tse Chan.

Manny a Zen question are thus answered with with Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! Nothing!

Answer 4

Nothing would be the lack of anything.

When you ask someone what they are doing and they say nothing that's really not true(They are breathing, sitting or standing.) So like so many other terms and phrases it has become slang. Nothing meaning "not much" or more often "not a thing of interest"

Answer 5

Some implies that something exists in a particular place and time that matter occupies space. Therefore in the spaces between atoms and sub atomic particle there is no matter existing in those spaces. space implies a vacuume an absence of matter and energy. Cold is the absence of heat therefore if there exists a temperature where there exists no energy, no heat ,no light, no movement, either molecular or atomic, more of a state of non-existence,(I assure such a state of non-existance exists) then there is a Nothing. Nothing =the Abscence of a thing an existance and there are things that just don't exist.

Answer 6

A Whole Lotta Nothing!

Answer 7

The opposite of what you either never had, or what you "used" to have. I have nothing to worry about, I've had it all. I mean "nothing" by that. There's "nothing" in the fridg. to eat. My life means "nothing" without love in it. Nothing from nothing leaves nothing, you gotta have something, if you wanna be with me, doo doo doo. Oh wait, that's a song!

Answer 8

Nothing is the opposite of something.

Answer 9

Clearly nothing.

Answer 10

Nothing is so much of everything that it is nothing.