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Everything is nothing

posted 13 years ago by andreas-schmidt-pabst
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The blind man says this (or "All is nothing.", if you can say so. I´ve just seen the German dubbed version.) Does s.o. has an idea what that could mean?

I suggest two possibilities: 1. Because everything is the same time positive and negative, these two valuations annihilate each other in the end so everything has no valuation at all.

2. In the end, no word has a meaning because in order to explain the meaning of a word you have to use other words and then you have to define these words and so forth until all words of a language would be depleted, so in the end words mean nothing (at leat nothing you could put into words).

Any other ideas?

[–] poonhokong 13 years ago

3. he is blind and mad

[–] andreas-schmidt-pabst 13 years ago

Thank you for your reply!

I find it really funny! (No irony).

But don´t you think there is deeper truth in this sentence?

[–] andreas-schmidt-pabst 13 years ago

I see another explanation:

4. In the end every lifeform has to die and everything is destroyed, so nothing really matters.

[–] liveonppv 13 years ago

I see a few other explanations:

1. If a life form exists it can disappear with its boundaries intact.

2. Nothing exists but in the realm of its logic.

3. All is one form but the shape is anonymous.

[–] andreas-schmidt-pabst 13 years ago

Thank you very much.

That sounds really sophisticated. If this article is serious, would you mind to explain your interpretationss a little closer? I can´t really follow.