so this random thing came to my mind. if people say they have nothing, then that is something they have, soo do they have nothing or do they have something. my brain cant handle the pressure!

 

Uh, technically no one ever has nothing left to do, there's always something to do?

 

but if you CHOOSE not to do anything, then theres nothing to do... sooo

 

But you're still breathing and thinking therefore still doing something.

 

but what if you dont count it as doing anything?

 

Then it isn't doing anything to you?

 

but breathing does do something to you, but what if you dont count it as actually doing something?

 

No, I mean then it doesn't count to you. This is about the simplest and easiest explanations, I think we're good ;w;

 

In my opinion, you are never "doing nothing", it is just an expression that people use when they are not doing anything significant.

 

OOO i get it nowwww

 

I think 'significant' is the key word here. When people say they have nothing, they mean nothing relevant to the discussion or whatever you are doing. If you are playing monopoly and land on a hotel, that will empty your bank, whereupon people will say "I have nothing" even if they have properties and houses on them.

Even before you are born, you are doing something (floating around, etc) but we don't think of that as doing something.

 

When they have nothing, they have nothing (in general) BUT you have a nose, clothes, family, teeth, etc.which is something that you do have. lol I hope this makes sense

 

But the question is theoretical. So if u have nothing than that something is still nothing.

 

Once, after a really busy week, I was looking forward to Friday night so I could just sit back and do nothing. Friday rolls around, and I start freaking out about something that I had to do; something was in my schedule for Friday and I didn't know what it was. Halfway through the night I realized that I had actually just planned to do nothing, but forgot about it, so I remembered that I had "something to do" but in actuality that something was nothing.

So to answer your question, yes, nothing is something.

 

Nothing is a lack of something. Therefore, nothing≠something.

 

But the concept of nothing in and of itself is something.

I guess you could say you don't have something/anything, but just the definition of "have" implies the next word is a "something."

 

The usage of the word "have" is only due to the English language not having other words to describe this specific scenario.

 

This question is a catch 22 in itself.

For example, if God can do everything can he make something he can't destroy?

Whatever u answer is and would be a problem from within the question.

 

Well, yeah... but he is posing the question in English, which means it's susceptible to the English interpretation. It's all just word play.

tru

 

'nothing' in what sense? If they have nothing to talk about except telling you that they have nothing, or if they have nothing in their possession etc.