The Digital Skystrider
02-13-2009, 10:10 PM
Think of everything you know. Life, Trees, ect.
Imagine them gone.
Now picture in your already empty world, that everywhere else there was no life either.
Nothing but floating chunks of rocks with diffrent temperatures.
Already if you can grasp this, the first question about meaning comes up.
Then, take another step forward.
Imagine in your already ghost world, that there was no longer anything material. Just a large chunk of space.
Now imagine that that is gone as well. No more space.
What's left should be void. Imagine that gone as well, and all meaning behind the word "void".
What do you have left? Nothing is not the answer, because Nothing is an idea, and therfore has some rational anchor in your mind.
You need to imagine that there is truely nothing, not even an idea or concept of nothing.
What would be left of exsistance?
My mind allways seems to snap at this point, I get a primal fear of thinking about that. The breachpoint seems to come when the realization of what exsistance defines, and what would the world even mean if there was not even the concept of meaning.
Are we objective based to the core? Is thinking truely what defines us? No one has a problem thinking of a universe with nothing in it. But as soon as they sever every link to tangable means, even Ideas and meaning behind the term 'nothing', That's when they all just sort of snap into the perspective.
/disscuss.
Imagine them gone.
Now picture in your already empty world, that everywhere else there was no life either.
Nothing but floating chunks of rocks with diffrent temperatures.
Already if you can grasp this, the first question about meaning comes up.
Then, take another step forward.
Imagine in your already ghost world, that there was no longer anything material. Just a large chunk of space.
Now imagine that that is gone as well. No more space.
What's left should be void. Imagine that gone as well, and all meaning behind the word "void".
What do you have left? Nothing is not the answer, because Nothing is an idea, and therfore has some rational anchor in your mind.
You need to imagine that there is truely nothing, not even an idea or concept of nothing.
What would be left of exsistance?
My mind allways seems to snap at this point, I get a primal fear of thinking about that. The breachpoint seems to come when the realization of what exsistance defines, and what would the world even mean if there was not even the concept of meaning.
Are we objective based to the core? Is thinking truely what defines us? No one has a problem thinking of a universe with nothing in it. But as soon as they sever every link to tangable means, even Ideas and meaning behind the term 'nothing', That's when they all just sort of snap into the perspective.
/disscuss.