>>Quite the opposite. It filters out anyone who's not serious about the Content.
>I'll leave it to others to point out why that isn't stricly true.
these are sufficient. their mark-up is not useful, only distracting.
to grok Nothing
Re: to grok Nothing
well nothing and no-thing can be seen as two different conceptsAdvocate wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 3:33 am There is no such thing as nothing.
In practical use the word always refers to a specific use-case. The only way there could be no-thing is of there were no minds.
The way somet-hing can come from no-thing is metaphorically, because things didn't exist before minds existed to distinguish them. It was just undifferentiated stuff.
nothing means that there isn't even undifferentiated stuff, no-thing means that there are no things, which you spoke about above
Re: to grok Nothing
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[quote=Advocate post_id=587299 time=1659321189 user_id=15238]
There is no such thing as nothing.
In practical use the word always refers to a specific use-case. The only way there could be no-thing is of there were no minds.
The way somet-hing can come from no-thing is metaphorically, because things didn't exist before minds existed to distinguish them. It was just undifferentiated stuff.
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well nothing and no-thing can be seen as two different concepts
nothing means that there isn't even undifferentiated stuff, no-thing means that there are no things, which you spoke about above
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A thing is a pattern in a mind so no thing means no patterns in a mind while nothing would mean, by your dichotomy, no minds exist within which patterns can exist. They're functionality identical.
[quote=Advocate post_id=587299 time=1659321189 user_id=15238]
There is no such thing as nothing.
In practical use the word always refers to a specific use-case. The only way there could be no-thing is of there were no minds.
The way somet-hing can come from no-thing is metaphorically, because things didn't exist before minds existed to distinguish them. It was just undifferentiated stuff.
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well nothing and no-thing can be seen as two different concepts
nothing means that there isn't even undifferentiated stuff, no-thing means that there are no things, which you spoke about above
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A thing is a pattern in a mind so no thing means no patterns in a mind while nothing would mean, by your dichotomy, no minds exist within which patterns can exist. They're functionality identical.
Re: to grok Nothing
Well nondualists like me have totally done away with thinking in terms of "things". I have to force myself all the time to create the illusion that I still do that. But that's not nothing at all.