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Originally Posted by My Paper Heart
It's like how black isn't really a color, it's the absence of color.
I never thought of emptiness this way but that makes so much more sense. (That, and also the concept of a void doesn't make sense to me. It's me being uber literal with the meaning of the word: A void is nothingness but if it was actually nothing then it wouldn't even have a word to explain it.)
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Oh, but black
is a color — just try pairing a black suit with a black shirt, a black tie, black socks and shoes: Impossible because of the many shades of black. I know of no earthly substances that can be seen without the reflection of light or that produce illuminance.
Oh, I think that languages are full of words that things that name nothingness. Don’t think of ‘void’ so stringently! Even space — outer space where there be dragons — we’re now discovering isn’t the void that we believed it to be 1-years ago!
(And then there are fools like me who, hearing the word void, think first of contracts.)