What is nothing?

Nothing is like a paradox. Its the absence of anything, so its like an empty void. So does it exist?

Nothing. It’s a blank of thoughts that can be given into any subject. The start from nothing to something!

I was in a float tank last week when I had a though that for me, captured the essence of nothing as well as any I’d had before. For some reason it resonated with me in that moment, whether or not anyone else will feel the same way, idk, but I’ll share anyway…

Go into a dark area and close your eyes. What do you see? Nothing? No, you see darkness, blackness, emptiness, etc, but not nothing. It surrounds you, fills your “vision”.

Now keep your eyes closed, and tell me, is that blackness all encompassing? At first glance, yes, but it is not so. There is an end to it, a border, even with an empty black void, we have a peripheral. Yes, it is all we “see” but it is not all there is.

Close your eyes again. But this time, tell me what is the sight behind you? What do you see beyond your peripheral, in the space that wraps around your head. No, not blackness, not darkeness. Even though we can’t see anything in front of us, we still perceive something in that space, we perceive that emptiness. But behind us, even that blackness does not exist.

Behind us is not there, it is nothing.

Nothing is the culmination of the ultimate subtraction.

@caoimhesweeney, The word “nothing” is something too yknow.

@caoimhesweeney, it doesn’t even have meaning to you as an abstract concept?

You might not be able to perceive it or fully understand it but surely there is some aspect of the concept that resonates with you. I think if we were all honest with ourselves, we’d all admit none of us can ever completely grasp the full magnititude (or lack thereof) of “nothingness”, but we can all come to varying degrees of understanding.

@twinsoul, where would you put everything if you didn’t have nothing??