From: a_rod_777@yahoo.com   
      
   On Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 7:28:23 PM UTC-6, Eric Vinyard wrote:   
   > On Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 3:51:46 PM UTC-4, litewave wrote:   
   > > On Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 7:42:01 PM UTC+2, a_rod_777 wrote:   
   > >     
   > > > If nothing isn't something, then how can you refer to it?   
   > > > Nothing is indeed something... it is a concept.   
   > >    
   > > Hmm... nothing is a word whose meaning is that it doesn't refer to   
   anything.   
   >    
   > If there were nothing, there wouldn't be nothing.   
   >    
   > Nothing is a state of total nonbeing, but it's also a state that can only be   
   conceived of relative to a state of somethingness. In order to imagine   
   nothingness, you have to be in a world where nothingness doesn't exist.   
   >    
   > In fact, I'm not sure that pure "nothing" is, ever will be, or ever has been   
   possible. I've never heard a good argument for how something can come from   
   nothing.   
   >    
   > Even particles that supposedly blink in and out of existence come from the   
   fabric of spacetime - whatever that even "is".   
   >    
   > If total nothingness ever was, it would seem to continue to always be. Which   
   contradicts my first statement, obviously.   
      
   Again, when applying limited human logic, based solely on the physical realm,   
   you are like dogs chasing your tails around in circles infinitely. The   
   Universe clearly transcends the physical and must include the mental. Thus   
   some type of understanding of    
   the mental Universe is imperative to forming any type of resolution of the   
   mechanics of reality.   
      
   Something and Nothing are identical in nature, but different only in degree.   
   They exist as a concept or an archetype within the mind of the ALL. We know   
   the "nothing" does indeed exist because we can conceive of it's opposite in   
   the physical plane as "   
   something". It only makes sense that the concept of "nothing" would transcend   
   the physical plane since it is the extreme opposite pole of the physical   
   world, which is "something".   
      
   "Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of   
   opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature,   
   but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all   
   paradoxes may be reconciled."--   
   The Kybalion.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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