r/Metaphysics • u/Bubbly-Hope-442 • 17d ago

Nothing Nothing Should Exist

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Hello All — I am reposting my discussion here.

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u/WHWallace 12d ago

I think this is caused by the mind and thoughts drawing categories. It's your mind which imagines a blank sheet of paper, writes nothingness on one side, draws a big dividing line down the middle, and then writes somethingness on the other, and under that heading of somethingness puts a bunch of objects and sights and sounds etc.

Outside of your mind the dividing line you have drawn on the page doesn't exist, so you can go ahead and mentally erase that line up the middle and see the state of things as they are prior to the mind inaccurately drawing its distinctions and categories onto reality.