Pony Open Thread: “Nothing is an awe-inspiring yet essentially undigested concept”

We start, then, with nothing, pure zero. But this is not the nothing of negation. For not means other than, and other is merely a synonym of the ordinal numeral second. As such it implies a first; while the present pure zero is prior to every first. The nothing of negation is the nothing of death, which comes second to, or after, everything. But this pure zero is the nothing of not having been born. There is no individual thing, no compulsion, outward nor inward, no law. It is the germinal nothing, in which the whole universe is involved or foreshadowed. As such, it is absolutely undefined and unlimited possibility — boundless possibility. There is no compulsion and no law. It is boundless freedom.
^{Charles S. Peirce, “Logic of Events” (1898)}

Link to more thoughts on nothing

heh. nothing. people playing with ideas and words. nothing as blank canvas. as freedom. maybe they were all just confronting death and convincing themselves it’s just another portal and that there is something in nothing.

i’m not sure. i lost a good friend on saturday and i can tell you, my first reaction was not, hey cool, dude, now you have boundless freedom…

but maybe that’s what made me look it up… the idea of nothing. to see if it is like the desert, something that looks empty and dead but in fact is a miracle of life.

so that’s my pony for today…