If anyone who has read this blog before remembers previous posts about a neighbor I've called "Q", yes, I am still having problems with her. Rather than OD'ing on tranquilizers I've chosen to limit my contact with her as much as possible. I urge all that have "friends" who might as well be "enemies" to wisely consider cutting off or at least limiting contact with these people.
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Slight change in wording needed in the first sentence (last post):
It would be impossible for us as human beings within a universe with certain dimensions and forms, to even pose the question, "Why is there something rather than nothing?" if, indeed, there could be nothing.
Reply to philosophers' question
It is impossible for us as human beings to even pose the question, "Why is there something rather than nothing?" much less write a whole essay or book around that.
Why? The answer is so simple, I wonder why others can't see it, or if they can imagine it, why they can't agree with it. We don't have the mental capacity, the neural circuitry to conceive of nothing. We might, with our limited knowledge, imagine nothing to be a huge, empty vacuum, but even that is something. We have no means to imagine what nothing would be! And if nothing could be, it would still be something, which is logically impossible. That nothing would be a space in which nothing exists, and that space -- would it be somehow contained? -- would still be something.
THERE COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE NOTHING BECAUSE THERE'S ALWAYS AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN SOMETHING! (Roseann Rosanna Danna kept telling us this.) Why is there not nothing? We are talking of impossibilities. It goes against all of natural law, all that we have obtained through research and all that we simply observe. Even a baby knows that there is something rather than nothing. To the baby, the Something Other than him/herSelf is Mother. He knows that immediately, upon taking his first breath. THE BABY KNOWS THAT HE CAME FROM THE MOTHER -- NOT FROM NOTHING! HE COMES INTO THE WORLD SEEKING THAT ATTACHMENT OF SOMETHING! The human (thinking) condition ("I think, therefore I am," homo sapiens, thinking man) is to be something. This is reality as we know it! And after all, it is we who are posing the question, isn't it?
The possibility of nothing is inconceivable by our limited capacities. Therefore how could there be nothing? To quote Stuart Wilde (and certainly others have said it), "It is what it is."
Why? The answer is so simple, I wonder why others can't see it, or if they can imagine it, why they can't agree with it. We don't have the mental capacity, the neural circuitry to conceive of nothing. We might, with our limited knowledge, imagine nothing to be a huge, empty vacuum, but even that is something. We have no means to imagine what nothing would be! And if nothing could be, it would still be something, which is logically impossible. That nothing would be a space in which nothing exists, and that space -- would it be somehow contained? -- would still be something.
THERE COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE NOTHING BECAUSE THERE'S ALWAYS AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN SOMETHING! (Roseann Rosanna Danna kept telling us this.) Why is there not nothing? We are talking of impossibilities. It goes against all of natural law, all that we have obtained through research and all that we simply observe. Even a baby knows that there is something rather than nothing. To the baby, the Something Other than him/herSelf is Mother. He knows that immediately, upon taking his first breath. THE BABY KNOWS THAT HE CAME FROM THE MOTHER -- NOT FROM NOTHING! HE COMES INTO THE WORLD SEEKING THAT ATTACHMENT OF SOMETHING! The human (thinking) condition ("I think, therefore I am," homo sapiens, thinking man) is to be something. This is reality as we know it! And after all, it is we who are posing the question, isn't it?
The possibility of nothing is inconceivable by our limited capacities. Therefore how could there be nothing? To quote Stuart Wilde (and certainly others have said it), "It is what it is."
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