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            People used
                to say: to
                have everything is as though to have nothing, or: to
                want everything
                is as if to want nothing, or: to be everywhere is like
                to be
                nowhere... And so on. The list of such sayings could be
                really long:
                to see everything is like to see nothing, to have heard
                everything is
                as if to have heard nothing, to know everything is as if
                to know
                nothing... Is it really so? Who knows... An overwhelming
                majority of
                sayings of that sort is very imprecise, this one as
                well; not only
                due to the phrase „as though” or „as if” or „like”;
                although this phrase is very often omitted and not
                uttered at all and
                we say simply “to know everything is to know nothing”,
                it is
                present in our minds, and its presence indicates the
                similarity of
                the situations being compared, not their sameness. While
                we can not
                say that two things are more or less identical because
                they are
                either identical or they are not, we can easily say that
                two things
                are more or less similar. This is clear and obvious,
                however obvious
                things and matters also need profound analysis, since
                their
                obviousness is a very nasty trap so dangerous for our
                awareness and
                carefulness... And, interestingly, not everything can be
                combined in
                such a way. For example: to have eaten everything is as
                though to
                have eaten nothing. Even if we emphasized as
                though,
                this
                sentence would sound bizarre. Perhaps the source of
                bizarreness
                is the fact eating is something concrete, of a binary
                nature, 0-1,
                not abstract like being, knowing or having (possessing)
                are.
                Well, in fact we don't know what to be, to have or to
                know really
                mean – but we know very well what to eat means. It
is
                    also very interesting whether the reversed saying
                    would bring the
                    same or at least similar message: to have nothing is
                    as if to have
                    everything, or: to know nothing is as though to know
                    everything...
                    And so on. Certainly, many a reversed saying would
                    surprise us with
                    its oddity, even craziness, also with troublesome
                    acuteness. 
              Let's
go
                bravely forward and further.
              To be everywhere is as if to be nowhere. If so, then: to go everywhere is like to go nowhere. What means that everywhere is nowhere. Or, everything is as if nowhere. Does it mean also that nowhere is everywhere? This I don't know. But I know that somewhere (under, over, above, before, behind or nearby) all other domains should be listed: the existing and used ones, the existing and not used ones (if there are any), the non-existing which might exist and be used... And so on. Practically this would mean to create the set of two-letter and three-letter combinations. And four-letter combinations, too. The fact many of them were not attributed to any domain existing now, did not mean such situation would last for ever. Nobody knows how many and what domains will appear – if .xxx means right now pornographic websites, .yyy could mean puritanic websites. And .unl combination could mean websites unlike all the others. For example. And so on. But, if: to write everything is as though to write nothing, while: to write nothing is as if to write everything, I wonder what we can expect clicking .AOD combination.  |