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    absolutely haram Recognized Member Madame Adequate's Avatar
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    Nothingness is beyond our comprehension. We fail at understanding it the second we begin to try to visualise it. It cannot be visualised, because there is nothing there. There is nothing to see, but equally there is nothing to NOT see. It isn't seeing nothing, it isn't blindness, it isn't seeing all black, it is simply... not. It's not seeing, in a far more profound way than blindness is not seeing. It's also NOT not seeing. Because it isn't anything at all.

    The root of our problem is that our minds and our languages do not cater to the idea of nothingness. By definition the application of a word is giving it something, no matter how intangible and weightless. The only way to remotely begin to approach the concept of nothingness is to reject any concepts applied to it, as well as rejecting that in itself.

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    well, MILF, it seems like you have certainly brought this discussion to a completely new level just as radyk had before. you are quite right when you say that the thought of nothingness is a profound idea. whoever thought of the concept behind nothing is truly a genius. it's just hard to imagine that no one had before thought to question this. thank you all for participating. i think i'm going to write a small paper on the idea behind nothing. now argue a little bit so i can get something going.

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