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echo: philos
to: DAVID MARTORANA
from: WILLIAM ELLIOT
date: 1997-12-30 03:37:00
subject: Nothing

 >>> David Martorana on "Value Measures" 
 WE> Just how does a nihil compare with the nirvana?
 DM> I don't know myself that they can be compared.
Nirvana is a state of mind of no activity.
Metaphorically is also a heaven or refuge.
What's a nihil?  Mirvana is a place in space. -)
 
 DM> I don't believe we refer to the same kind of "nothing",
 DM> not that they're different ?
Mathematicians recognize a null set which is the set of all things that don't 
equal themselves.  They then show that there is just one such null set.
... Angels are extraterrestrials 'cause they're out of this world.
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