1) I would say that they can´t be compared but perhaps lil bitchiness
made a better point up there. So, perhaps they are equivent in some sense.
2) Complete ? How exactly complete ?
3) Yes. We can only understand one because there is the other to make contrast with it. For example you will need to refer to nothing if you want to define what is everything or at least you will end up by defining the other in the process of defining the first.
Originally posted by Atlantis001
1) I would say that they can´t be compared but perhaps lil bitchiness
made a better point up there. So, perhaps they are equivent in some sense.2) Complete ? How exactly complete ?
3) Yes. We can only understand one because there is the other to make contrast with it. For example you will need to refer to nothing if you want to define what is everything or at least you will end up by defining the other in the process of defining the first.
3) Oops... I mean No one cannot exist without the other, they need each other.
Everything and nothing...they are like light...in an abundance of color there is white and when there is no color there is black...
Black and white...when there is an absence of everything, there is nothing; when there is an absence of nothing, there is everything...how can we possibly even begin to understand these things? What is the absence of everything, aside from nothing--what is it definitively? What is the absence of nothing, aside from everything--what is it definitively? How can we even begin to wrap our minds around these things?
But, to answer your questions...
Everything, both (in a way), and no.
Originally posted by Lord Urizen
But what if everything was limitted ? What if everything was not infinite, and ended somewhere ?
Then it would cease to be an aggregate composed of every thing.
Originally posted by Lord Urizen
The remainder would be infinite nothingness...in that case, nothing would be far larger
By nature of being a state of non-exstence, nothing is not quantifiable.
I don't understand how ''everything'' can possibly be larger than ''nothing'', or more complete.
Or vice versa.
We cannot truly witness everything in its entirety, nor can we witness nothing in its entirety.
Since we don't have concept of everything that exists, we cannot claim to know what ''everything'' is or what it consits of. Equaly, we cannot claim ''nothing's'' shortcomings or otherwise, since concept of ''nothing'' would mean absence of all those, which again, we cannot bare witness to.