Is Nothing Something?

The concept of “nothing.” It is pawned off as simple and absolute, so much so that it is even a fundamental part of first grade mathematics. One plus one equals two, but one minus one equals zero. Suzy had one apple and it got eaten, therefore Suzy now has no apples. Facts go in, answers blurp out. Simple right?
Yet simple it is not. How can one truly possess nothing? For if one possesses nothing he possesses the something comes with the emptiness of possessing nothing. The word “nothing” is absolute; it leaves no room for compromise. How is it possible for us to manipulate this void that exists due to its own nonexistence? There is always something, even if that something is emptiness itself.
So is “nothing” actually something? Yes. For us as people this gives us comfort; it gives us security; but most of all it gives us hope. There is hope in the knowledge that nothing can be truly impossible. Despite how improbable the desired outcome may be there are a myriad of ways to shape the paths that will hopefully lead to that outcome. However, this hope is purely subjective to the person to whom it belongs, as one man’s hope may become another man’s horror. For example, Hitler hoped to create a “master race” and he acted on that hope, yet the world recognized his dreams as a horrific set of events and chose to oppose them.
The only absolute truth is imbedded within God. Even in the bible Jesus says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). If there is no absolute truth than morality becomes subjective as the world knows it today. One man’s right becomes another man’s wrong. Why should someone abide by a law if that law does not agree with him or her? After all if there is no God then there is nothing to lose by living lawlessly. This brings about the point that the concept of morality derives from religion, as the world would never have progressed so far if no one had moral obligations. God-given morality is a fundamental set of rules that gives a firm foundation, allowing people to be civilized.
Nothing is very much something. If someone has “zero” of something then they still have the emptiness that accompanies “nothing.” Space is the embodiment of “nothing;” it is a literal void where nothing is located and therefore it becomes a vacuum for things which are something. Even though this vacuum is technically made up of one gigantic “nothing,” this “nothing” is very much something that has physics attached to it, and therefore exists in its own nonexistence. What we as people derive from this concept of “nothing” remains up to ourselves, and depending on how it is received it can be a part of what defines the core of the philosophical aspects of our lives.