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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> Ned Latham wrote:
> >
> > The Starmaker wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm 'proposing'
> > > (i have to use the word "proposing" cause it's their lingo)
> > >
> > > I'm proposing that you Look beyond the Big Bang.
> >
> > It's impossible to look "beyond" a not-thing.
> >
> > Ned
> 
> you usually consider things and then reject, but you were given "a
> not-thing" to consider, there's nothing to consider..your mind is blank
> by someone
> who told you, don't consider it, there nothing there.
> 
> I'm sure they looked for you and found...nothing.
> 
> If you ask a little kid, "What are you doing?" and he responds
> .."Nothing."
> 
> Or your girlfriend asks you "What are you thinking about?"...and you
> tell her "Nothing." ...
> 
> we all know what "Nothing." means.
> 
> But you failed to look beyond...



Was it Einstein who said "I just want to know what's on Nothing's mind,
the rest are details."

or, "Nothing does not play dice with the universe."


A rose by any other name...