Think this is a very good picture of nothing:



And yes, i made it mysel (Proud^^).

I found nothing to be very informative. I thought you might like to know that when people ask me what do I do for a living my reply is NOTHING! And without hesitation they always say “Come on, really now?” I then tell them it is true. I get paid to do nothing. In fact there is so much nothing to do that it consumes my entire day doing it there are some days that I do not finish doing nothing. I am seriously considering hiring someone to help me with doing nothing but the pay is not so great for them. It is exactly nothing.

Human being was born with NOTHING on his mind, NOTHING on his body and NOTHING was in his hands when he was born. He/She is a small child and has nothing in his hands.

He grows big and then starts earning money. But then What is MONEY?

As soon as he realizes what is Money, he realizes his family.

When he realizes his family, he realizes comfort.

When he realizes comfort, he realizes more dreams.

When he realizes dreams, he realizes more and more dreams towards making more money and thinks more about himself and the greed he has.

But, it's too late when he realizes that money, comfort, business, lifestyle everything is a virtual reality which is NOTHING to do with the real reality.

ULTIMATE GOAL: MAN has come with NOTHING in his hands, he will go with NOTHING in his hands.

THE ABOVE LINES WERE FOR PANDA. BELOW LINES ARE BY AMRUTRK.

The only things what a man can achieve in his life is the self-respect, god's grace and the good deeds he has done. This is something which cannot be seen, but is the reality of life.

My Thought about the reality.

Thank you..

Cheers!

You guys are all doing GREAT.... this will be so hard to judge a winner now!

We start, then, with nothing, pure zero. But this is not the nothing of negation. For not means other than, and other is merely a synonym of the ordinal numeral second. As such it implies a first; while the present pure zero is prior to every first. The nothing of negation is the nothing of death, which comes second to, or after, everything. But this pure zero is the nothing of not having been born. There is no individual thing, no compulsion, outward nor inward, no law. It is the germinal nothing, in which the whole universe is involved or foreshadowed. As such, it is absolutely undefined and unlimited possibility -- boundless possibility. There is no compulsion and no law. It is boundless freedom.

From "logic of Events"

Speaking of nothing...

From a General Chat thread:

QUOTE (zeum @ Jul 29 2008, 09:30 AM)

Hello everybody! Have a good time. I like this thread because it is abt NOTHING.

:

One of my favorite quotes:

Without promotion, something terrible happens.

NOTHING!

~P.T.Barnum

And who could forget:

One day, I went to see Nothing, but I couldn't find anything because Nothing wasn't there. So, I started to think about Nothing and wondering what Nothing was like.. but I couldn't remember anything, because it was Nothing.
Why is it that Anything always shows up for Nothing?

To do NOTHING at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual

I douldent edit my message so i just make a new reply.

I was gonna thing a text of nothing for MMG but came up with nothing.
Then i closed my eyes and saw nothing then my head came up with nothing since nothing is actually nothing.

"What is nothing?"

Even though we think of the room as empty, what this room contains is air. Floating around the room are an unbelievable number of atoms and molecules. The air in the room contains nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, water vapor and all sorts of other chemicals. But we cannot see all these atoms because they are transparent. So we think of the room as full of nothing, even though it is full of atoms.

To get to a real form of "nothing", we need to go into outer space. Imagine that you go to the farthest, emptiest corner of the universe. This is as close to nothing as we are ever going to get. What we are looking for is a section of space that contains zero atoms. No atoms at all -- it is a perfect vacuum. That is the best approximation of "nothing" that we have in our universe today.

"What color is nothing?"

What we think of as "color" comes from light that hits our eyes. Small units of light, called photons, have to leave the object we are looking at in order for our eyes to see a color. Photons can either be produced by something, like a light bulb, or they can bounce off of something and get reflected into our eyes. Those photons are what our eyes "see."

Since "nothing" contains zero atoms, there is nothing in "nothing" that can produce photons, or reflect them - so there are zero photons. Our eyes see zero photons as black. So the color of "nothing" is black.

But here's a deeper question: Is a section of space that contains zero atoms really "nothing"?

Not really. Space, even if there are no atoms in it, is "something." For example, photons can move through space even if the space contains zero atoms. So can gravity. So can radio waves. So can a magnet's field. And we can measure space -- a chunk of space has a length, a width and a height. And time elapses. In other words, empty space is a measurable framework that has the ability to transmit certain types of energy.

"True nothing" would be truly nothing -- no space. This is hard to get a grasp on, because we cannot imagine this kind of nothing. We have never seen it. It is, presumably, what existed before the universe existed. Apparently, at the creation of the universe, there was truly nothing. Space, with its ability to transmit different types of energy, was created when the universe was created. Then energy in this space condensed into matter -- the atoms that we find all around us today.

"True nothing" is that immeasurable, zero-energy, non-existent thing that did not exist before the universe, and all the space in it, came into existence.

Who knows what that was like? ...

(from The Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Sweet Nothings.




Nothing is an awe-inspiring yet essentially undigested concept, highly esteemed by writers of an existentialist tendency, but by most others regarded with axiety, nausea, or panic. Nobody seems to know how to deal with it (he would, of course), and plain persons generally are reported to have little difficulty in saying, seeing, hearing, and doing nothing. Philosophers, however, have never felt easy on the matter. Ever since Parmenides laid it down that it is impossible to speak of what is not, broke his own rule in the act of stating it, and deduced himself into a world where all that ever happened was nothing, the impression has persisted that the narrow path between sense and nonsense on this subject is a difficult one to tread and that altogether the less said of it the better.

This escape, however, is not so easy as it looks. Plato, in pursuing it, reversed the Parmenidean dictum by insisting, in effect, that anything a philosopher can find to talk about must somehow be there to be discussed, and so let loose upon the world that unseemly rable of centaurs and unicorns, carnivorous cows, republican monarchs and wife-burdened bachelors, which has plagued ontology from that day to this. Nothing (of which they are all aliases) can apparently get rid of these absurdities, but for fairly obvious reasons has not been invited to do so. Logic has attempted the task, but with sadly limited success. Of some, though not all, nonentities, even a logician knows that they do not exist, since their properties defy the law of contradiction; the remainder, however, are not so readily dismissed. Whatever Lord Russell may have said of it, the harmless if unnecessary unicorn cannot be driven out of logic as it can out of zoology, unless by desperate measures which exclude all manner of reputable entities as well. Such remedies have been attempted, and their effects are worse than the disease. Russell himself, in eliminating the present King of France, inadvertently deposed the present Queen of England. Quine, the sorcerer's apprentice, has contrived to liquidate both Pegasus and President Truman in the same fell swoop. The old logicians, who allowed all entities subsitence while conceding existence, as wanted, to an accredited selection of them, at least brought a certain tolerable inefficiency to their task. Of the new it can only be said that solitudinem faciunt et pacem appellant--they make a desert and call it peace. Whole realms of being have been abolished without warning, at the mere nonquantifying of a variable. The poetry of Earth has been parsed out of existence--and what has become of its prose? There is little need for an answer. Writers to whom nothing is sacred, and who accordingly stop thereat, have no occasion for surprise on finding, at the end of their operations, that nothing is all they have left.

The logicians, of course, will have nothing of all this. Nothing, they say, is not a thing, nor is it the name of anything, being merely a short way of saying of anything that it is not something else. "Nothing" means "not-anything"; appearances to the contrary are due merely to the error of supposing that a grammatical subject must necessarily be a name. Asked, however, to prove that nothing is not the name of anything, they fall back on the claim that nothing is the name of anything (since according to them there are no names anyway). Those who can make nothing of such an argument are welcome to the attempt. When logic falls out with itself, honest men come into their own, and it will take more than this to persuade them that there are not better cures for this particular headache than the old and now discredited method of cutting off the patient's head.

The friends of nothing may be divided into two distinct though not exclusive classes: the know-nothings, who claim a phenomenological acquaintance with nothing in particular, and the fear-nothings, who, believing, with Macbeth, that "nothing is but what is not," are thereby launched into dialectical encounter with nullity in general. For the first, nothing, so far from being a mere grammatical illusion, is a genuine, even positive, feature of experience. We are all familiar with, and have a vocabulary for, holes and gaps, lacks and losses, absenses, silences, impalpabilities, insipidities, and the like. Voids and vacancies of one sort or another are sought after, dealt in and advertised in the newspapers. And what are these, it is asked, but perceived fragments of nothingness, experiential blanks, which command, nonetheless, their share of attention and therefore deserve recognition? Sartre, for one, has given currency to such arguments, and so, in effect, have the upholders of "negative facts"--an improvident sect, whose refrigerators are full of nonexistent butter and cheese, absentee elephants and so on, which they claim to detect therein. If existence indeed precedes essence, there is certainly reason of a sort for maintaining that nonexistence is also anterior to, and not a mere product of, the essentially parasitic activity of negation; that the nothing precedes the not. But, verbal refutations apart, the short answer to this view, as given, for instance, by Bergson, is that these are but petty and partial nothings, themselves parasitic on what already exists. Absence is a mere privation, and a privation of something at that. A hole is always a hole in something: take away the thing, and the hole goes too; more precisely, it is replaced by a bigger if not better hole, itself relative to its surroundings, and so tributary to something else. Nothing, in short, is given only in relation to what is, and even the idea of nothing requires a thinker to sustain it. If we want to encounter it an sich, we have to try harder that that.

Better things, or rather nothings, are promised on the alternative theory, whereby it is argued, so to speak, not that holes are in things, but that things are in holes or, more generally, that everything (and everybody) is in a hole. To be anything (or anybody) is to be bounded, hemmed in, defined, and separated by a circumambient fram of vacuity, and what is true of the individual is equally true of the collective. The universe at large is fringed with nothingness, from which indeed (how else?) it must have been created, if created it was; and its beginning and end, like that of all change within it, must similarly be viewed as a passage from one nothing to another, with an interlude of being in between. Such thoughts, or others like them, have haunted the speculations of nullophile metaphysicians from Pythagoras to Pascal and from Hegel and his followers to Heidegger, Tillich and Sartre. Being and non being, as they see it, are complementary notions, dialectically entwined, and of equal status and importance; although Heidegger alone has extended their symmetry to the point of equipping Das Nichts with a correlative (if nugatory) activity of noth-ing, or nihilating, whereby it produces Angst in its votaries and untimely hilarity in those, such as Carnap and Ayer, who have difficulty in parsing "nothing" as a present participle of the verb "to noth."

Nothing, whether it noths or not, and whether or not the being of anything entails it, clearly does not entail that anything should be. Like Spinoza's substance, it is causa sui; nothing (except more of the same) can come of it; ex nihilo, nihil fit. That conceded, it remains a question to some why anything, rather than nothing, should exist. This is either the deepest conunddrum in metaphysics or the most childish, and though many must have felt the force of it at one time or another, it is equally common to conclude, on reflection, that it is no question at all. The hypothesis of theism may be said to take it seriously and to offer a provisional answer. The alternative is to argue that the dilemma is self-resolved in the mere possibility of stating it. If nothing whatsoever existed, there would be no problem and no answer, and the anxieties even of existential philosophers would be permanently laid to rest. Since they are not, there is evidently nothing to worry about. But that itself should be enough to keep an existentialist happy. Unless the solution be, as some have suspected, that it is not nothing that has been worrying them, but they who have been worrying it.
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NOTHING.

Just Nothing.

I don`t envy Yippee the task of deciding a winner. What fantastic entries are coming in!

NOTHING to worry about.
Sweet NOTHING.

 

NOTHING'S GONNA CHANGE MY LOVE FOR YOU (Glenn Medeiros)

If I had to live my life without you near me
The days would all be empty
The nights would seem so long
With you I see forever oh so clearly
I might have been in love before
But it never felt this strong

Our dreams are young
And we both know they'll take us
Where we want to go

(Chorus 1)
Hold me now
Touch me now
I don't want to live without you

(Chorus 2)
Nothing's gonna change my love for you
You ought know by now how much I love you
One thing you can be sure of
I'll never ask for more than your love

(Chorus 3)
Nothing's gonna change my love for you
You ought know by now how much I love you
The world may change my whole life through
But nothing's gonna change my love for you

If the road ahead is not so easy,
Our love will lead the way for us
Like a guiding star
I'll be there for you if you should need me
You don't have to change a thing
I love you just the way you are
So come with me and share the view
I'll help you see forever too

(Repeat Chorus 1)

(Repeat Chorus 2)

(Repeat Chorus 3)

(Repeat Chorus 2) (2X)

(Repeat Chorus 3)

(Repeat Chorus 2)

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In this exclusive offer when you pay for nothing you get our complete instruction manual free!

You too can do nothing in almost no time!. Of course, you can still fill out and mail this form. The irony is worth it!

___ Yes! I want nothing at this time. Quantity ___


send nothing to:

Name___________________________Address________________________________________

_______________________City___________________________State_____Zip___________

Cost: $5.00 per order .s postage, U.S. only).

Also available, tee-shirts that say nothing on them, black on black
or white on white (actual silk screening, not just a blank shirt).
From long distances it looks like it says nothing, close up you can
see that it really says nothing. Specify color Black__ White__
Specify size Small__ Medium__ Large__ Xlarge__ XXlarge__

___Yes! I want tee-shirts that say nothing on them. Quantity___


send it (them) to:

Name___________________________Address________________________________________

_______________________City___________________________State_____Zip___________

Cost: $20.00 each .s postage, U.S. only).

Please pay by check or money order only (no cash, no credit cards).
Make check payable to Nothing. 4 to 8 weeks to delivery.

Sorry we can't afford any fancy secure servers or anything
like that but we're on a budget that's next to nothing, really.

Send your order to:
nothing
nothing
P.O. Box nothing
nothing

For answers to questions :

Q: 1. What if the mail man delivers my nothing when I am not home, how will I know where he left it?
2. How much is shipping and handling on nothing?
A: 1:) This should never happen. If the mailman delivers nothing please contact us via e-mail.
2:) Nothing.

Q: "Do you ever actually receive orders? I must say I am slightly intrigued to see if anyone is truly that dumb. Thank you for your time."
A: No. We send the orders. (Because of the negative content of this e-mail we posted it on our site.)

Q: "Why?"
A: Because "it" isn't there.

Q: "Really, if I order nothing, what do I get?"
A: Nothing, and our big (actually small, but infinitely larger than nothing) instruction manual.

Q: "And what's in the instruction manual?"
A: Great tips, detailed instructions, recipes and more!

Q: "Can you give me any good reason why I should spend $5 on nothing?"
A: No.

Q: "Is nothing real?"
A: No, but we are selling "it".

Q: "Can I really buy it or is it just a hoax?"
A: This is not a hoax. When we say we'll send you nothing we mean nothing! Remember, you can also buy tee-shirts which are something.

Q: "What the hell are you guys talking about?"
A: Nothing.

"Did you know that Snapple stold your concept?"
A: Yes, but what can you do? (A: Nothing.)

Q: "You want us to send 20.00 for a t-shirt that says nothing on it??? What's the point, if it doesn't say anything, what do I do with it. Use it as a washcloth??!!"
A: 1:) The shirt actually does say something, the word "nothing", but it is printed in the same color as the shirt. 2:) Yes, using the shirt as a washcloth is a great suggestion. Alternately, you could do nothing with the shirt.

Q: "I'm very intrigued, what do you consider nothing?"
A: Nothing.

Q: "Why are you trying to sell me nothing for something?"
A: No reason.

Q: "Would you really get something when you pay for nothing?"
A: You get what you pay for.

Q: "Do you really deliver nothing?"
A: Yes.

Q: "Are you ever gonna do e-mail forwarding, or the Like?"
A: We've been thinking seriously about it for about 4 years. Not sure.

Q: "How Many Orders of Nothing do you receive daily?"
A: We are not equipped to process orders of nothing. However, we do receive numerous orders for nothing.

Q: "can i have yr children? please."
A: No. Nothing personal.

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P.S : This only my participation in this contest, Nothing for REAL

EVERYTHING IS NOTHING...
EVEN THIS WORLD IS NOTHING...
NOT ONLY WITH WORDS BUT ALSO I CAN PROOVE IT WITH FUNNY LOGICS

PROOF :
STEP 1 :
THE VALUE OF ZERO IS NOTHING..
SO ZERO = NOTHING

STEP 2 :
THE SHAPE OF ZERO IS OVAL..
SO ZERO = OVAL

STEP 3:
THE SHAPE OF WORLD IS ALSO OVAL..
SO WORLD = OVAL

MATHEMATICALLY IF

A=B,
C=B,
THEN
A=C

LIKEWISE FROM STEP 2 & 3

ZERO = OVAL,
WORLD = OVAL,
SO
ZERO = WORLD

FROM STEP 1, ZERO = NOTHING.
ZERO = WORLD ( from above proof)
SO
NOTHING = WORLD
(OR)
WORLD = NOTHING

SO EVEN THIS WORLD IS NOTHING..
YA NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE...
THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS WORLD WHICH CANT BE ACHIEVED..
THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE WHICH CANT BE SUCCEEDED..
THE ONLY THING WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING...
NAPOLEAN SAID EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE UNDER THE SKIES..
BUT I FEEL NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE EVEN ABOVE THE SKIES...
YA REALLY NOTHING IS A GIFT..

LETS CONSIDER AMOUNT OF 1MILLION$
1MILLION$ CONTAINS 6 ZEROS..
WE KNOW THE VALUE OF ZERO IS NOTHING..
SO IF WE NEGLECT THAT NOTHING, WE WILL HAVE ONLY 1$...
THATS THE VALUE NOTHING GOT..
SO NOTHING IS REALLY PRECIOUS...

TWO WONDERFUL SENTENSES WITH NOTHING...

There is NOTHING bigger & important in this world than you my dear [when love starts]

There is NOTHING between you & me [when love ends]

Even love starts with NOTHING & also love ends with NOTHING..

thats the value nothing had..

nothing seems like nothing.. but its everything,
the most powerful thing,
the most poetic thing,
the most painful thing,
the nost beautiful thing,
the most wonderful thing,
the most precious thing,
simply its NOTHING

The "Nothing" ...


Nothing is a concept that describes the lack or absence of anything at all. Colloquially, the concept is often used to indicate the lack of anything relevant or significant, or to describe a particularly unimpressive thing, event, or object. It is contrasted with something and everything.

Grammatically, the word "nothing" is an indefinite pronoun, which means that it refers to something. One might argue that "nothing" is a concept, and since concepts are things, the concept of "nothing" itself is a thing. This logical fallacy is neatly demonstrated by an old joke that contains a fallacy of four terms: if nothing is worse than the Devil, and nothing is greater than God, then the Devil must be greater than God:

The concept of "nothing" has been studied throughout history by philosophers and theologians; many have found that careful consideration of the notion can easily lead to the logical fallacy of reification. However, many of the existentialist and postmodern philosophers and writers would argue that "nothing" is actually the lack or absence of something, rather than of anything .



Regards

Umberto

Oh god !!! Yippee..... everyone is so good here with NOTHING

You may feel that there's nothing in there. But you will never know until you find out..







Source: http://flickr.com/photos/fotogenesi/449253890/

Meaning

A rather fatalistic and sardonic proverb. It draws on the actual inevitability of death to highlight the difficulty in avoiding the burden of taxes.

Origin

Several famous authors have uttered lines to this effect. The first was Daniel Defoe, in The Political History of the Devil, 1726:

"Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed."

Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) used the form we are currently more familiar with, in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789, which was re-printed in The Works of Benjamin Franklin, 1817:

"'In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

Another thought on the theme of death and taxes is Margaret Mitchell's line from her book Gone With the Wind, 1936:

"Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them."

Contest ended, No more entries accepted..... Will post the winner soon! Good Luck everyone!

OK, this was just waaaaaaaaaaaaaay to hard to judge so I am giving out several prizes as follows:

1st prize ESSAY: amrutrk (post #6)
1st prize IMAGE: optimale (post #30)
Consolation Prize: majdi290 (post #15)

Everyone post your LR number or PM it to me! Thanks everyone for the AWESOME entries - they were ALL good enough to be WINNERS!

Thank You VERY Much for the award Yippee..

I just spoke my heart out..

Pleased that everyone liked my essay..

Congrats to other winners as well!!

Cheers!!

NOTHING to read here, go down.

Congrats !!!

Thank you Yippee for the consolation Prize

I did my best for this contest, lots of ideas in my mind

armutruk and optimale Congratulations, both you deserve it ;

Payments Made... Thanks for playing everyone!