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My math teacher said today that everyone kept forgetting to "show all work" and jokingly threatened to assign an essay on the word "all" if we did it again
Tomorrow, I am anonymously posting this essay on his door
(it's still unfinished)

    Within the deeply complex and diverse layers of human psychology, culture and spirit, there is but one word that encompasses everything in it. Could there possibly be a better way to sum of the entirety of life and the universe except in a quiet monosyllable, “all”? Yet the whole world is dependent on these three letters. Everything that ever existed, ever might, ever will, ever could have, ever should have…it is there, when you say “all”. Every dream and hope and prayer and wish in the world…those exist in a simultaneous instant, when you say all. The vastness of space and time—hopelessness and agony and truth and justice—every world and universe and living thing—past and present and winter and summer—every philosophy and every belief—every person and word and thought—that is to say, every single thing in the vice of reality: that is contained in this phenomena. The nature of this word is nearly beyond human comprehension, but hearken, it does indeed exist. So great is its almighty power that it actually contains itself. Nothing escapes the realm of “all”—even “nothing” is but a concept and it must kneel before it.
    The word “all” is sometimes defined as “Used to refer to the whole quantity or extent of a particular group or thing.” This is, in reality, false. All is everything and everything is all. Thus, one must draw the conclusion that when one is told to “show work on all problems,” then one must solve every problem known to humankind. However, this in itself poses a problem. For instance, if we are to assume this particular “all” to mean “all math problems,” one must consider the famed Zeno’s paradox. “One cannot ever reach a destination, because in order to reach the destination one must first cover half the distance to the destination. Since there are infinite halves, one will always have another half to cover and therefore will never reach the destination.” Now, having read this, and realizing that math is not in fact completely reliable, we must ask ourselves a question. How can one solve this problem, then, or indeed any math problem? The solution to that question is a problem in itself that must be solved, because it falls under the category of “all”.
    “All” is a significant part of our culture due to its connotations with that which is infinite. Indeed, it has never ceased to fascinate us since our earliest days: “Ancient cultures had various ideas about the nature of infinity. The ancient Indians and Greeks, unable to codify infinity in terms of a formalized mathematical system approached infinity as a philosophical concept.” Then it can be said that “all,” too, is a philosophical concept—something that goes on and on forever. Conversely, some sources have listed “all” as a limited word, one only pertaining to specific instances in speech, whereas the less cynical view it as limitless. An amateur might say its boundaries grow eternally as the amount of things in existence, but there are multiple problems with this. Our first conflict emerges from the fact that infinity is forever and everything, and therefore there cannot be “more of” infinity. The only way infinity, and all, can truly exist is if everything already existed since the beginning of time. More cannot be added—for everything already existed, always existed. As a logical result, we must come to the conclusion that everything is predetermined. And yet, in addition, there is a second conflict. There was never a beginning of time. Infinite cannot commence. It simply is. It cannot stop, pause, slow, start—no. However, it does all the time, because it is everything and so does everything, always. We must assume that everything must be occurring at every moment, or else it would not be infinite.
    This brings us to our last, and perhaps most foundationally shaking, insight: there is no such thing as chronological sequence of events, or time, or anything. “All,” while containing “nothing,” is essentially nothing. Allow me to explain. As we saw evidence of in the paragraph previous, everything is occurring at every moment. So, then, how can any form of chronology exist? Everything is always; it is always there; always everything. We can then realize that the world as we see it does not truly exist. The human’s limited interpretation of reality only exists in said human’s own mind, and perhaps differentiates between consciousnesses. If no form of reality can logically exist, and so, everything that occurs is only within the mind, then it could very well be that this “reality” interpretation is different to everyone. Everything that occurs (or at least occurs from the human perspective) is merely a personality-biased explanation invented by the consciousness. Thus, because everything, “all,” is a human invention, nothing truly exists. In order to believe that “all” exists, we must also accept the inevitability that “all” cannot exist because if it does then by reasoning nothing exists.

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Uh yeah I'm having too much fun maybe

Last edited by Wickimen (2012-10-18 23:18:58)