DayRaven
Beyond the wall
Perhaps Nothing is that which happens when you're no longer engaged in Being (if Being is that which Is and can Be)?
I reckon I'm going to be reeled in, but I'll bite. I'm not following.
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Being, non-Being/ Some-thing and No-thing
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Perhaps Nothing is that which happens when you're no longer engaged in Being (if Being is that which Is and can Be)?
I reckon I'm going to be reeled in, but I'll bite. I'm not following.
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
No....... The something that is me will exist after I am no longer engaged in being. No part of me will become no-thing. All my borrowed atoms will remain.
DayRaven
Beyond the wall
Still sounds like Being to me......
I've nothing to add to what I said. We were asked for definitions, and I contributed some.
I'll shut up now.
DayRaven
Beyond the wall
I wasn't getting at you. I just wanted to know what you meant by ownership was all.
Mine, yours. His, hers.
Whose. Ownership words.
"I am the subject of awareness," defines "I" to fill out the other definitions given.
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
Nothing just means the absence of something.
How about 'Nothingness'?
Some mystics talk about the Deism or God abidiing beyond all things, in the nothingness.
This stretches beyond myself...... I stop at Model Boats Mag, but, you know........
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
I don't know much about Deism - is it similar to pantheism?
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
Very different.....
Basically .....in as much as the Deist presence (encompassing all) is either unconcerned about us or not holding us in any special level of importance ....... the Theist presence (encompassing all) holds humanity in special interest.
Now hold on to your hat......!
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
Thief
Rogue Theologian
See what?.....your own self?.....as in self aware?
So a being unable to say....I AM!......is not a being?
Ouroboros
Coincidentia oppositorum
This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job.
Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done
(source: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, And Nobody - humor and jokes about life but it's an old joke)
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job.
Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done
(source: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, And Nobody - humor and jokes about life but it's an old joke)
DayRaven
Beyond the wall
Hey I just write this crap.
Think of this; an object is qualitative to the thought directed upon it.
Only things that can speak are beings?
Hmmm. An "object" may be a "subject" thinking it's own version of "I am" or other self-awareness that we cannot perceive...and directing "objective" thoughts upon us....how would we know?
DayRaven
Beyond the wall
Panpsychism is the belief that mind permeates all matter. To some extent, then, a rock or a pencil contains mind "stuff" but, of course, not of the same nature as a human.
That's a very animistic point of view; not really familiar with panpsychism, guess I'm going to have to go do some reading.
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
Years ago I had several odd experiences where it felt like I was picking up "memories" from the landscape, rocks and things, specific visual images. It might have just been an over-active imagination, but it felt real at the time. And no, there were no mushrooms involved.