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I liked reading your post, G. Thanks for mentioning many of my own metaphorically nauseating complaints about negativity. I also liked your post because your babbling ( your phrase, not mine) raised an intriguing question hidden near the end of your post, one that will require the use of positive im...

My contention is that if the absence of one thing can be imagined, then so can the absence of two, and if two then three and so on until the absence of everything that can be imagined, can be imagined. But what if there's nothing there to start with? If there isn't even one thing there how can you ...

Never mind black holes. If something exists, the absence of something exists. Nothingness suggests an emptiness or the negation of something. I see. You interpret the word “nothingness” to mean "an emptiness or the negation of something ." I am using the word to mean the absence of everyt...

d63 wrote:Nothing could make an intellectual more useless (i.e. a dick or asshole (than taking themselves too seriously.....

When I am feeling blue I start breathing again

Stanley Fish: "...I now believe that interpretation is the source of texts, facts, authors, and intentions. Or to put it another way, the entities that were once seen as competing for the right to constrain interpretation (text, reader, author) are now all seen to be the ‘products’ of interpre...

People, dogs, and black holes are not nothingness. Never mind black holes. If something exists, the absence of something exists. Nothingness suggests an emptiness or the negation of something. I've read that Aristotle may have subscribed to a similar notion of nothingness (however, I am not well-in...

I think a word game and a bona fide concept are not mutually exclusive. As one can see, you and I, without acrimony, are taking turns in a word game. And yet there exists a concept of a black hole, a uniquely difficult concept to imagine, but a concept nonetheless. Please pardon my ignorance above ...

Walker wrote: I cannot help you to imagine nothingness because there is nothing to imagine.

People, dogs, and black holes are not nothingness.

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Nothing could be more unlike my point of view ; )

Nothingness is a word game because nothingness cannot be imagined. There is no real opposite to everything outside of the word game. I think a word game and a bona fide concept are not mutually exclusive. As one can see, you and I, without acrimony, are taking turns in a word game. And yet there ex...

Nothingness is a word game because nothingness cannot be imagined. There is no real opposite to everything outside of the word game. I think a word game and a bona fide concept are not mutually exclusive. As one can see, you and I, without acrimony, are taking turns in a word game. And yet there ex...

Do you know of any way that I could obtain a copy of Fish's book on the cheap?

I promise to attack Fish from time to time at least to provide you some diversion from resting on what you already knew prior to Fish.

I watched an episode of The Carbonara Effect on television. It gave pause to wonder how we can tell whether we are having an experience or witnessing an illusion. How could we be certain that telekinesis is not based on an absolute? Is the absolute in this case the revelation that not all experience...

To both,

I realize I have some catching up to do (e.g., Continental approach, Lacanism), but do not give up on me. I am finding this discourse to be fascinating. It would pain me terribly if either of you were to drop out.

Is it the belief that an object changes through time that further defeats the dualistic idea of nothingness? After all, even if it were to be an observable experience of an absolute, nothingness would not change.