Sunday 9 September 2007

NOTHINGNESS DOES NOT EXIST

The concept of "nothing" or "nothingness" has always struck me as a very interesting and worthwile aspect of reality to think about and form theories about, it is a concept that is used a lot by philosophers and by people in general. People even say that when you die you become nothing, but if your body is buried the atoms that your body consists of still exist, and some of these atoms gets converted into gases, on the other hand if you are cremated most of your atoms get dispersed into the atmosphere, and the rest of the atoms remain in the left over ashes. Even an empty paper bag contains particles, atoms, and molecule and cannot be said to contain nothing, it is also impossible in nature to create a complete or absolute vacuum, a vacuum will always contain a degree of matter in the form of particles. If nothingness existed there would not even be any space, let alone infinite space, a common axiom is that everything in physical reality is something including space itself which is infinite and also has infinite energy in its structure, and the fact that things exist is the only truth of physical reality concerning the fact that you cannot have nothing in physical reality even if something is only a temporary truth and impermanent. The reason why humans have a concept for nothing or nothingness is because concepts get defined more in relational terms to other concepts, for example, we have "something" or "being" and so what happens is that people have to invent the concept of "nothing" so that we can define and understand the concept of "something" more fully. Absolute truth consists of something, and the concept of truth exists because of the fact that reality itself is something (i.e., it consists of infinite energy, and space, and potential to create forms and events,) and to presuppose nothingness as an aspect of truth and reality is incorrect, and only that which is not true or does not exist, or has never existed can be labelled as nothing or not a thing that has ever existed, you cannot have the concept of nothing as the negation of being or of the concept of "something" and then say that this nothing exists as a part of being and existing things and then apply it to a description of reality. Everything in physical reality exists as energy and space and is part of a process that is like a continuum, whether you call a thing in nature a "something" or call it a "being" does not really matter, it is still an aspect of creation, or has a temporary existence, or is part of the dispersion of energy, or destruction and does not really matter because all of these processes are something and they consist of energy in space and are part of physical reality. Only an imaginary thing that does not exist in any way whatsoever and has never existed can be considered as nothing and be called this with confidence. The concepts of nothingness and untruth that we have only exist in the minds of human beings and also in their works, these concepts or things do not exist anywhere else in nature. The word nothing is only used in speech because languages contain many errors of reasoning, and languages are full of faults of all kinds anyway and if one chose to find errors and mistakes in languages one could find them easily, but people who are proud of human languages try to cover up these errors by defending these languages, but these errors are their and exist in languages none the less and cannot be denied. "Something" can only exist in relation to "space" and not in relation to "nothing", space is something also, but in relation to solid tangible objects it has less stable matter so it seems like it is less of a something even though it is not, nuclear reactions create stable matter, whereas matter exists everywhere in the fabric of space itself whether stable or unstable. The concept of relation means something is relative to something else, things cannot be felt or seem like they are concrete and dynamic unless they exist in the form of duality or relativity, but one can say that these things are not opposites they are the same thing but in a different state of activity, the concept of opposites are simply extremes of the same thing in polar opposite states of activity or state, I have explained and described some of these things more in my essay called: "So-Called Opposites" and also in my other essay called "Unity And Duality". It must also be pointed out that our senses cannot detect nothing, or nothingness, our senses can only detect something, ideas come from sense impressions, ideas are formed from things that exist and are a something that gives us an impression through our senses, so therefore we cannot have an idea of nothingness as an idea because it has no impression on our senses whatsoever. Sartre seems to use the concept of nothingness in a subjective, emotional manner, as a way of describing a feeling he gets in certain situations; someone else would feel differently in these same situations than he does, and that he describes, or they would analyze, and describe it more objectively than he does.

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