When you ain't got nothing you've got nothing to lose.
Some sort of criminal thought or fact of life
2007-12-01 15:13:03 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Abuse and surround are not the only components to the equation. There is a fallacy, secundum quid, in which one argues from a circumstance (nothingness of material goods and/or nothingness of soulfield coherency/awareness) to a specific conclusion (nothing to lose). In fact, the poor and honest has less karmic entanglement, other factors holding constant, than the poor and criminally inclined.
One might lose one's integrity, sense of self-worth, and/or sense of honor. Nothingness still offers choice: food stamps; job training; housing assistance; turning to God. Learning to earn and/or love God is not necessarily a cakewalk. Some humanity and even heroism resides in earning daily bread, leaving wealth to children, tithing, being in love with God.
Dylan was also likely referencing a type of artistic nihilism.
"Nihilism," Father Seraphim Rose, speaks to this stripping of bourgeois/materialist pretensions while not necessarily demonstrating Love and Mindfulness--a dumbing down of Saint Francis' "divine poverty" to psychologistic, enangered class strife.
You might benefit by reading "The True Story of the Bilderberg Group," Daniel Estulin, and "Hope of the Wicked," Ted Flynn.
cordially,
j.
2007-12-01 15:35:19 · answer #1 · answered by j153e 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is a thought that comes to everyones mind at one point or another in their lives.
Sorry it is really not as dramatic nor criminal as you may imagine it to be.
There are ordinary situations where you and I can say
"Here goes nothing!" like the time you were supposed to say something on stage, or make a fool out yourself in recital.
Making a speech, performing, singing, pledging for a frat for a guy or sorority for a girl, approaching someone for a donation, selling your project to your boss, asking for a raise...
2007-12-01 23:20:50 · answer #2 · answered by QuiteNewHere 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever heard that that which we value as something is nothing but dust? And it is if you look on something with a little broader perspective...There is nothing to lose in truth...Value existing only in your mind, otherwise they are non existent....
2007-12-01 23:58:36 · answer #3 · answered by Oleg B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people do not have anything in their lives, be it family or things, so they believe they can do what they like since they don't have any of those things to be taken from them.
2007-12-01 23:18:32 · answer #4 · answered by PG 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first thing I must do is translate that mutilated English. That sentence is not what it seems.
"When you [do not] have nothing"... That means you have something.
So, "when you have something, you have nothing to lose."
Well, in that case...
I f you have "something" then you don't have "nothing." It is impossible to lose something you do not have. Which in this case is "nothing."
hmmmmmm
2007-12-02 00:57:03 · answer #5 · answered by Trina™ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means desperate people do desperate things.. they're not necessarily criminals, but that's sometimes how it ends up.
2007-12-01 23:17:18 · answer #6 · answered by ignatius 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋