Is doing "Absolutely Nothing" the most impossible thing?

Answer 1

Have you ever been lying perfectly motionless and still had the sensation of movement?

Answer 2

Doing anything that is inherently self-contradictory is equally impossible. There are no degrees of "impossibility." An act is or is not logically possible; it cannot be more or less impossible than another. "Doing absolutely nothing" is a good example! It is impossible to do absolutely nothing, as I can tell you correctly concluded, but it is not "the most impossible" thing to do. It is also (equally) impossible to add 2 and 2 to make 91, or to construct the set of all sets. I like your example the best because it is the most intuitive of these three (i.e., you don't need to know any math, or even arithmetic, to understand why it's a good example of something that is logically impossible).

It will be fun to see if others come up with more examples similar to yours. A person could make a game out of this.

Answer 3

Whats this absolutely nothing you talk of??? Does that mean you and nobody else is doing anything? If thats what you mean then I guess it would probably be the most impossible because inoder for you to know that nobody else is doing anything youd have to be doing something. Thus the way to know if you are doing absolutely nothing in this context is really really really not possible at least imo...

Answer 4

You wouldn't ask this if you ever had a teenage boy....I said that to be funny...but as I reviewed the word "do" in Dictionary.com I noted that it is a verb...an Action Word...and it is used in the sense of an activity that is volitional and purposeful...as opposed to passive....therefore this would exclude involuntary movements such as breathing or digesting...or chemical reactions such as postmortem decomposition...or responsibility for evoking emotions in others (unless things were actively done such as by a mime or a comedian with the intention of causing an emotional response)...It would also exclude absence of action unless it was a purposeful choice to refrain from or cease a certain behavior...

If we look at one who is purposefully still and quiet as in the example of what is expected from a child in a "time out"...then that is a purposeful, volitional "doing" activity...and for some children...this may be "the most impossible thing" ever possible...

However when one has a teenage son...who is adept at behavior in which there is no volitional action of any kind...there is nothing impossible about this....except my ability to "Do" something about it....

Answer 5

Nothing is absolute so no thing is mostly impossible and if you do nothing that's not nothing it's something because you do otherwise you wouldn't do you would be absolutely a nothing :D

Answer 6

As long as you're alive, it's close to impossible, since you will be breathing and continuing with the heartbeat and all that... so even at rest, the "nothing" is not absolute.

Answer 7

Certainly right up there. "Doing" nothing implies no causation. Even during sleep, one is heating the space around one.

"Man, Master of His Destiny," O. M. Aivanhov.
"Climb the Highest Mountain," Mark Prophet.
"Watch Your Dreams," Ann Ree Colton.
"The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", Free and Wilcock.
"Expecting Adam," Martha Beck.

cordially,

j.

Answer 8

No. I've been able to collect all the moments of my life, sum them up, and find the resultant - I've done Absolutely Nothing. Thus, I, in the whole of my X years thus far, am "doing absolutely nothing."

Answer 9

I would agree with most of the previous answers which state that it it logically impossible to do any self-referentially contradictory action. However with that said, does it matter? If one only does only vacuous or insignificant things, then they are doing nothing of any importance anyways.

Answer 10

As a new child this develop into the 1st scripture that i learnt Titus a million:2, Jehovah under no circumstances lies! it somewhat is impossible for god to lie. This scripture is of great convenience, for all of us understand that all and sundry the ensures that Jehovah God has fortold for us interior the Bible, will certainly come actual!

Answer 11

Possibly.