Nothing has changed since
the last weekend of
August 1978.
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Wait! Unless you read that sentence with the emphasis on
"has changed" and not on "nothing", you'll miss what this is
about.
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Prior to
that weekend,
I would diminish the impact of a hostile or dangerous event,
situation, or circumstance by saying "This is nothing!".
Prior to
that weekend,
I would trump someone's bragging by saying "That's
nothing!". Prior to
that weekend,
if you asked me what was bothering me, I may have replied "It's
nothing!". Prior to
that weekend,
if something was the very best in its category, class, or
genre, I would say "There's nothing like it!".
Prior to
that weekend,
the worst thing you could say to me, the most
insulting thing you could ever call me, the most
disparaging thing you could ever say about me was
"You're nothing!".
Since
that weekend,
I've distinguished the nothing as spoken in all of the
above situations isn't nothing. The nothing as
spoken in all of the above situations is nothing as a
something. The nothing as spoken in all of the
above situations isn't nothing as nothing: it's
nothing as a something. Nothing
as a something isn't nothing.
True nothing is clearly (and obviously) nothing as nothing.
Since
that weekend,
I've distinguished it's nothing as nothing which is
truly awesome - magnificent is more like it.
NOTHING
Werner
Erhard
asserts we're convinced if we peel back the layers of our lives
like an onion, if we peel back one layer, then we peel back another
layer, and then we keep on peeling back layers and layers all the
way down to the last layer, we're convinced we'll get
to a core, we're sure there's a kernel in
there, and we're totally convinced that core, that kernel is what
gives meaning to our lives. We're totally convinced
that core, that kernel is in fact the substance of our
lives.
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