your opinion.

[AutomaticGal]

which picture would you use to represent everything? i mean. what of, what place, whats in the picture, whats happening.. how would it represent everything?

personally... for me to represent everything using one picture it would be of a silhouette of somebody on a mountain looking with her arms spread out like wings looking down upon the world at her feet. ... looking at everything....

what do you think? what are your ideas?

[Buenchico]

Someone recently posted a suggestion that AB should have a philosophy section. If there was one, I'm sure your question would belong there, rather than here ;-)

As a graduate mathematician, heavily into nihilism, my representation of 'everything' would be a simple circle, drawn onto a white background. A circle is 'all encompassing' because, for any given perimeter, it has a greater area than any other closed loop. Also, because it appears on a white background, there's nothing outside it which isn't already inside it. (i.e. any white point outside the circle has a similar white point inside it).

Chris

PS: I've got two questions about your image of 'everything':
1. Why is the silhouetted figure female? Surely an asexual figure would be more 'all encompassing'?

2. Doesn't your picture leave the silhouetted figure as external to 'everything'? If so, 'everything' is incomplete because it doesn't include the figure itself.

[China Doll]

I love Chris's circle idea; if I went along that line of thought I would just change it to the number 8 as I think I once heard that was a symbol of infinity.

However my first thought when reading your question was a calvin and hobbs strip. Calvin is starring up at the night sky at all the star and stating that he is 'significant.' The final panel is him stating 'said the speck of dust.'

I think that does it for me.

(I did try to google the image but I'm rubbish at that sort of search).

[heathfield]

To further Descartes idea, unless you yourself exist, you cannot perceive life, the universe, and everything. So because you exist, for you, everything else does.
This makes Roaldo's mirror a very good suggestion.

[informashun]

painting by munch that got nicked.
the scream is awesome.