Could someone out there explain this to anyone? Everyone could answer it, but perhaps noone could give such satisfatory one.... LoL!!
2007-04-09 09:20:31 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Isn't this from Wisdom of the East? But anyway, I also still try to understand it. And Noa, please don't twist your words. It gives me such headache here. LoL!!
Anyway, in cosmology, your question might relate to Big Bang theory, Black Hole, and Big Crunch. I suggest you read Stepehn Hawking's work: A Brief History of Time. I believe you'd find that amusing and some answerers also have hinted that as their answer.
Good luck Noa!!
2007-04-09 10:18:20 · answer #1 · answered by Professor Franklin 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ask this question to those unfortunate have-nots.
Philosophy is absurdity purified with massage of mind ,some hope and some despair . Only thus , a vicious circle of such question be formed .
Let me put this way- Nothing is nothing if every thing was everything . A sparrow in hand is always better than two in the bushes . Dissect this !
2007-04-10 04:59:04 · answer #2 · answered by Prince Prem 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The opposite of everything is nothing. So therefore it's not the same. Why do people have to make such a big thing out of nothing? In other words..get a life.
2007-04-09 16:40:34 · answer #3 · answered by Dr Know It All 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
*Sigh* Truthfully this has nothing to do with Philosophy.
Prop. 1: Nothing is everything
Corallary: No one thing is all things, as is self evident.
Prop. 2: Everything is nothing
Corallary: All things are no things, which is to assert
P is not P, which is absurd.
Question: are all things some thing?
Answer: By prop.1 no one thing is all things,
which takes as a given that things exist
(i.e. given: P), then P (1,2...n,n+1) aka
all things are things.
Everything is Nothing is a meaningless phrase. It doesn't mean anything usefull. It is an attempt at a metaphysical assertion that assumes the absurd. Please avoid it in the future.
The only way it makes sense is in the Existential concept of Absurdity. Even then, it is not saying that P is not P, it is saying that it is of no consequence. The real meaning of "Every thing is Nothing" is that life has no point. This is an interesting philisophical deviation, but has nothing to do with your first proposition.
2007-04-09 16:38:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
These phrase was a contradictory and a querry of a lonely person who sees the world with emptyness and inferiority complex. When someone sees nothing but everything... and these things were empty.... then that person was at its zenith of anger or depression.... it is very hard to figure this kind of feeling. it is not normal for a person to percieve the world as empty.... the world was filled with colors and musics where the human mind and sould could get.
Unless you are at a "black hole" ouside the universe... all you see is everything turning into nothing, where all the energy is absorbed by the black hole. and as the black hole attain its maximum energy, it will blast into fussions of gass and plasma... maybe that is what you wanted to point out.
2007-04-15 04:57:59 · answer #5 · answered by micalovadinnerdevanne 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, according to the Big Bang theory, everything might be just a baseball size thing. And all these things are because of others things that move very fast and can be in millions of places at the same time, thus being something, which's also EVERYTHING, (including your common Universe, don't forget all dimensions in it too) at the same time. And if you call the Universe nothing, at least wait until it shrinks to a baseball size thing again.
2007-04-09 16:37:01 · answer #6 · answered by rancidmilko 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is just a bunch of word semantics, that can't be answered with anything but rhetoric.
So I think moody is right
if nothing is something, and something is everything, then why isnt everything nothing?
that sounds good
2007-04-09 19:13:16 · answer #7 · answered by Marco4 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you've got to separate the statements
if everything is nothing... to me that means that material things have no value.
if nothing is everything.. again.. no single thing should has value.. material things are worthless...
you are just saying the same thing in a different way.. people get too wrapped up in the similarity of the words instead of their context.
2007-04-09 17:21:55 · answer #8 · answered by pip 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means we are all One. Everything exists of the same source. It's like a drop of water in the ocean. How many individual drops are in there, all separate because they're all individual when you separate them. However, they're all the same ocean. One ocean, one source expressing as individual drops.
Get it?
2007-04-14 01:52:21 · answer #9 · answered by Closed for Remodeling 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think first you have to explain WHY Nothing is Everything... what's the argument?
2007-04-16 02:29:25 · answer #10 · answered by talula_talula 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋