To a non-philosophers, the title above might look confusing or senseless. But philosophy as a discipline looks senseless to non-philosophers (or those we call layman). The discipline requires you to think beyond your limit, to stress yourself to the point where you have no other possible answer to any question on your head.
The beauty of the above topic is that it looks similar to the skeptics view about God which was later rejected by Rene Descartes and other notable scholars who felt skepticism was wrongly founded
The skeptists doubt the existence of God and argue that we cannot know anything for certain. This view was rejected on the ground that:
a) The skeptists cannot doubt the fact that they are doubting
b) The skeptists know that we cannot know anything for certain
These are enough to show the inconsistences in their claims.
I have also theorized on the idea that even nothing is something. This I argued using Jim I. Unah’s book where he argued that the idea of nothing connotes something on the premise that God created everything from nothing. So nothing from which everything was created logically implies something.
Now to the topic, assuming all the years you’ve spent on planet earth accumulating knowledge turned out to be nothing (like a waste). That is, all you thought you knew were nothing and in reality you know nothing. Is this nothing something? That is, the fact that you know nothing, does it still count as something if you consider yourself with someone who has no idea of this your ‘nothingness’? That is, would you consider those who did not go through this ‘waste’ process of nothingness to be on the same level with you?
If you weigh all you went through to accumulate all you called knowledge which turned out to be nothing, would you see it as something considering what you did to get it?
Perhaps, you can actually call it something if we are to go by the idea of even nothing is something. Again, if we look beyond the nothingness of the knowledge you accumulated, the fact remains that you have something (which is nothing) that no other person has.
So in the end, your nothing still amount to something because you have nothing which no one has. Even in life, many people become something from nothing. This suggests that we as human beings move from nothingness to 'somethingness'. Logically, nothing is that which something came from and it is the foundation of every 'somethingness' that is out there.
Do you agree with me that if all you know is nothing, that nothing is itself something because something is only something because it came out of nothing!
Thanks for you time. Your boy @smyle the philosopher.