Nothing...or Something
Quote of the Day: "You better step out of the shower because i gotta flush" - - Ross
I am sitting in the hallway of HSS before class, my last class let out 30 minutes early, and decided to just do a blog. Perhaps this will be a blog about nothing but isnt nothing really something? As I wrote that last sentenced, i figured out what my blog is going to be. It is going to be about nothing which i have figured out is really something. Truly it is a paradox; that is quite ironic in and of itself.
This subject of nothing brings me to the wonderful show of Seinfeld. It is a show that is about nothing. Yesterday, Jerry asked Elaine what she did last night. Elaine replies nothing. Jerry says you had to of done nothing. Elaine says she literally did nothing. She sat in a chair and just stared all night. Jerry in turn says that is really nothing. But nothing is really something. She sat down and stared.
I propose that when one says he or she did nothing that they really did something but that something is that which is nothing. Nothing in the sense that we did what was boring. We are giving value to something with the word nothing yet nothing implies no value. It is a paradox, or as my brother would say, a "pair-of-ducks."
Some of you may wonder what is a paradox or how is it a paradox. A paradox is a "tenet contrary to recieved opinion; a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true; a self-contradictory statement that at first seems true; an argument that apparently derives self-contradictory conclusions by valid deduction from acceptable premises (Merriam-Webster)." Now you should see that the statement that you did nothing may seem true but in fact you did something in which you apply the value of nothing because you take it as boring—a paradox.
Things brings me to the question, is every paradox also irony? Perhaps that is a question for another day, as class is about to start.
Quote the Shea, NeVeRmOrE
I am sitting in the hallway of HSS before class, my last class let out 30 minutes early, and decided to just do a blog. Perhaps this will be a blog about nothing but isnt nothing really something? As I wrote that last sentenced, i figured out what my blog is going to be. It is going to be about nothing which i have figured out is really something. Truly it is a paradox; that is quite ironic in and of itself.
This subject of nothing brings me to the wonderful show of Seinfeld. It is a show that is about nothing. Yesterday, Jerry asked Elaine what she did last night. Elaine replies nothing. Jerry says you had to of done nothing. Elaine says she literally did nothing. She sat in a chair and just stared all night. Jerry in turn says that is really nothing. But nothing is really something. She sat down and stared.
I propose that when one says he or she did nothing that they really did something but that something is that which is nothing. Nothing in the sense that we did what was boring. We are giving value to something with the word nothing yet nothing implies no value. It is a paradox, or as my brother would say, a "pair-of-ducks."
Some of you may wonder what is a paradox or how is it a paradox. A paradox is a "tenet contrary to recieved opinion; a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true; a self-contradictory statement that at first seems true; an argument that apparently derives self-contradictory conclusions by valid deduction from acceptable premises (Merriam-Webster)." Now you should see that the statement that you did nothing may seem true but in fact you did something in which you apply the value of nothing because you take it as boring—a paradox.
Things brings me to the question, is every paradox also irony? Perhaps that is a question for another day, as class is about to start.
Quote the Shea, NeVeRmOrE
posted by P. D. Shea at 11:54 AM
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You're a paradox.
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