For Sunset Shimmer, the first Saturday of the month was always special; it's the day Twilight visits from Equestria for a cup of coffee and an intellectual conversation. Today, the conversation takes a more existential turn.
Warning: Really boring, since it’s more philosophical than story-based. Also, uses some advanced wording, but I tried my best to keep it simple.
If anyone knows who made the cover art, please message me or leave a comment! Someone sent it to me, and I just had to use it!
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Very interesting story looking forward to reading more of your work.
A rather thought provoking story even if it is about nothing.
Follow me down a rabbit hole if you’d be so kind.
Everything is something even voids have gasses and sub atomics, but what about at the quake level the Infinitesimal level thre are gaps that only have magnetic and atomic force feilds. Therefore there is always something if only an action. Furthermore on a macro level , based on human persecution there’s always something. An empty container still has definition for example if I where to have someone deceive an empty box , they wouldn’t say there was nothing to describe , but instead they would pick other factors such as size and color to describe it. And if by chance you had a perfectly clear container in a perfect void it would still be a container.
Sorry I come from a speech and debate background so I can argue nothing philosophy all day everyday.
Hope this gave you some counter points to think on.
Welp, that made me think.
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First of all, I must take a moment to applaud you for your excellently written and thought-out comment. It was a true pleasure to see someone put real effort behind their ideas, unlike many of the nitwits I interactive with on a daily basis.
Second of all, literally two hours after writing and publishing this, I developed a similar think-piece; it is currently nonsensical scribbles in my notebook. However, your point on human perception (I believe that's what you meant, correct me if I'm wrong) was new. I hadn't thought of this from the perspective of nothing exists because we classify it as something, even if that was a minor thought in the think-piece.
When I showed this to my flatmate, he asked me to ask you if you thought of this, and I quote:
"If 'nothing' exists because we classify it and describe it, what about things we cannot? For example, let's say extraterrestrials exist; we don't know what they look like, and cannot accurately describe them, so do they count as 'nothing'?" I have my own thoughts, but would greatly appreciate it if you would be so kind as to share yours.
PS: I also come from a speech-and-debate background! *internet high-five*
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Great! That was my goal all along!
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Thank you so much! I thought it might interest some people!
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Thanks a lot! I have like, 3 different stories that I'm writing at the same time, so you can expect something soon!
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I’d classify this as the god argument, or the faith argument, I know this can be devisive , so I’m going to be blunt so as to not need many exchanges on it. I really don’t enjoy theological flame wars. (As an aside, the crusades wher, a terrifying example there of *buh-dun-tssz*)
A thing without proof , is , in essence nothing. Er go if it cannot be measured or quantified in some way it is ,to be blunt, at best a superstition and at worst .... well , a topic of great unrest, and conflict. ( I would like to submit news articles here ,but feel it unnecessary at this point.)
Now to answer your roommate,
If I may be so bold as to give a personal opinion on the matter, there is something to be said for faith and it’s ... mystisisims, it brings People comfort and hope, and can even help found communities. But it can also ,when viewed as a method of Order or Law, loose much of that comfort and instead becomes a strict adherence program where one person or one set of people hold all the keys. And anyone who opposes them are to be seen as the enemy or at least the unclean.
So it is for those reasons I almost always write Con articles for arguments of faith.
But one more thing as a brain teaser , what difference does the presence of a higher power make , must man be subservient to such for there to be peace or is it not within man, themself, to make peace, why must we rely on such a figure to...
“give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our truspasses as we forgive those that truspass against us”. Sorry I’m fresh off watching plays of the original bioshock so I have some Rand’ian philosophy still swirling about.
*internet high fives*