Deep thoughts as well as “duh” moments can come from the most mundane actions.
This morning I was walking around the house, waiting for it to heat up, and I marveled at my good fortune to own such a place. I wondered what I had done to deserve such largesse, but the truth is, none of us ever truly deserve either the good or the bad that happens to us. The best we can do, I think, is survive the bad times and be grateful for the good.
Because of this internal discussion, I found myself humming the refrain from that song, “Nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could.”
And that’s when my thoughts went into a whole other direction. If nothing can come from nothing, where did we get something? It’s not possible to have nothing and then have something because something has to come from something. (This is not a religious discussion — I know all the various religious beliefs. This is just my mind playing games with me.) So I got to thinking that neither infinity nor time (assuming time exists and isn’t just a construct of our minds) can be a straight line because a straight line connotes a beginning if not an end. So I thought infinity had to a circle. And then, as I continued down that same mental path, I thought that infinity was probably more akin to a mobius strip than a circle, and that’s when the “duh” hit.
The symbol for infinity is a mobius strip — a sideways 8 — a structure that has no beginning and no end.
And I knew that.
Of course, then there is the whole discussion of where time and the actual figure eight structure of the universe came into being, if in fact it did, but I think I’ll stop here around about where I began, somewhere in the middle of the mobius strip I call my mind.
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April 13, 2021 at 8:26 pm
Thinking about the word “nothing”, and the lyric, “nothing comes from nothing, and nothing ever could”. What is “nothing”? Is it a zero (unspecified, but discrete) “thing”? What is this absent “thing”? Is an absent thing, still a thing?
April 13, 2021 at 9:32 pm
Sheesh. As if I needed another abstract thought to ponder! But now that I am pondering “nothing,” it almost seems as if “nothing” is sort of a thing in itself.
April 14, 2021 at 4:51 am
Your topic made me think something.
I asked one day my wife I feel you feel like thinking in abstract.
She has replied yes it helps sometimes to get clear idea.
My mother in law said once men think only black and white never grey.
Never thinking of mixer of black and white.
I don’t want to generalize men and women.
I don’t know but lot of conversation with my grandmother, my mother, my sister, and my wife (every body left from this world) thought they think differently than me.
By curiosity I have searched by google
Nothing
Traductions de “nothing”
nom
le rien
nothing, naught, nothingness, nil, nix, zilch
le zéro
zero, nil, nothing, naught, cipher, cypher
la nullité
nullity, nonentity, nothing, incompetence, uselessness, nobody
When I was a child I thought where the sky stops ? My answer is in infinity
Anyway thinking of something is better than nothing
April 14, 2021 at 8:14 am
I had to chuckle at your last sentence because it is so true. thinking of something is better than nothing.
April 14, 2021 at 1:18 pm
Now I’m humming that Sound of Music song.
April 14, 2021 at 1:45 pm
I’m sorry.
April 14, 2021 at 1:58 pm
Yeah, right.