Why is there something instead of nothing?

Nothing is just a word. Nothing isn't something. Nothing does not exist.

Originally posted by pcp
Nothing is just a word. Nothing isn't something. Nothing does not exist.

Originally posted by pcp
Nothing is just a word. Nothing isn't something. Nothing does not exist.

You are right nothing doesn't exist, but there might be an end to something and nothing would be beyond that...

It's not a question of "does not exist" (implying it could exist). By definition, nothing can not exist. That's why there's something. 🤣

Originally posted by Mindship
It's not a question of "does not exist" (implying it could exist). By definition, nothing can not exist. That's why there's something. 🤣

😂 However, by stating that nothing cannot exist, you have stated that it does.

Sleight-of-word.

Nothing is something because you even call it anything

Originally posted by chithappens
Nothing is something because you even call it anything

You can't call nothing anything. 😎

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
You can't call nothing anything. 😎

The word nothing, or nothing itself? (If nothing can be called nothing) 😆

Originally posted by Hydrono
The word nothing, or nothing itself? (If nothing can be called nothing) 😆

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
😕 😆 So the word nothing is not nothing? 😉

No the word nothing is definitely something, otherwise we couldn't say it. You couldn't say nothing if nothing was really nothing.

Originally posted by Fishy
No the word nothing is definitely something, otherwise we couldn't say it. You couldn't say nothing if nothing was really nothing.

You really can't talk about nothing, can you?

Originally posted by Hydrono
I'm not aware of any other threads on this topic.

So, what do you think?

you so stole this from me.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
You really can't talk about nothing, can you?

I can talk for hours about nothing, it's easy... I just can't understand nothing or really define nothing or use something that does not exist and can not be known/comprehended in a sentence...

Originally posted by Fishy
I can talk for hours about nothing, it's easy... I just can't understand nothing or really define nothing or use something that does not exist and can not be known/comprehended in a sentence...

😆 Give me three pints of really good dark beer and I can talk about nothing all night.

Have you ever read flatland?

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
You really can't talk about nothing, can you?

Originally posted by Mindship
The less you talk about it, the more you know about it.

...

So this whole thread, then, defeats its own purpose. Far out.

Originally posted by Mindship
The less you talk about it, the more you know about it.

But there is "nothing" to know.

One can't not be on a boat. That is, one cannot not be when one is involved with something that clearly exists.

So, one might say the opposite is true. A boat can't not be if you are on it. Meaning that something exists because something exists to observe the something that exists.

If the boat does not exist and the person on the boat does not exist: One is not on a boat with no one on it. Which works out rationally meaning that rationality exists as part of nothingness thereby negating nothingness in to something.

😑

Well that was fun.