Well, in MNOLG Makuta says "I am nothing, and nothing cannot be destroyed" or something like that, and I kept saying it in my head and I've found something that I think is either a flaw in the storyline or.. just me. Ok, this is it...

Instead of saying it like Makuta says it, say "I am nothing, and nothing cannot be destroyed". I mean, like 'nothing can't be destroyed', so it means nothing can't be destroyed so 'everything can be destroyed'. understand or is that too confusing?

Yeah I understand but Makuta was lying. He is evil he was trying to intimidate the toa. Nuju told Takua there is no such thing as nothing all things are in flux. No it wasn't an error, Makuta is just evil.

QUOTE (Comet Ball Traitor @ Mar 21 2003, 11:51 AM)

Yeah I understand but Makuta was lying. He is evil he was trying to intimidate the toa. Nuju told Takua there is no such thing as nothing all things are in flux. No it wasn't an error, Makuta is just evil.

Ok, so, maybee I'm right, but maybe you'r right... I just don't know!!! P.S. I'm glad you could figure out what I was saying!

Well if you know the first Law of Physics is that "Matter can be created nor destroyed" So Makuta is right. That is the basic law of science. So LEGO is just using science.

QUOTE (Comet Ball Traitor @ Mar 21 2003, 11:51 AM)

Yeah I understand but Makuta was lying. He is evil he was trying to intimidate the toa.

Yeah, he was trying to make them scared.

Yup, just big talk from the cock of the walk. Or, in a different parlance, he was taunting them.

Also think of it this way (I think it was either T-Hybrid or Mahalis who said this):

If Makuta is nothing and the Toa destroy him, what do they have left? Nothing. So nothing is still there.

"Nothing" in this case is taken to be a noun, and the phrase:

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You cannot destroy me, for I am nothing

If you look at the serious English-language side to it, it is a double negative, therefore completely changing the meaning of it to:

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You can destroy me, for i am something.

If Makuta said that then it wouldn't sound very "villainy".

QUOTE (Comet Ball Traitor @ Mar 21 2003, 11:51 AM)

Yeah I understand but Makuta was lying. He is evil he was trying to intimidate the toa. Nuju told Takua there is no such thing as nothing all things are in flux. No it wasn't an error, Makuta is just evil.

Hey CBT, I'm suprised at you. I ought to tell Makuta!

I don't think the Tol can distroy Makuta. He may beat him, or maybe the power of light distroys the spell Makuta placed on Mata Nui.

P.S. I don't think Makuta would like me to walk around there. I might distroy him!
P.S.S. If I told makuta, he'd probaly take that as a compliment.

This topic contains some interesting (and confusing) views concerning that line: "You cannot destroy me, for I am nothing...". My most improbable theory was that nothing meant a figment of the imagination, which can be destroyed easily (or not). Just look at Nova and Hikaru from Magic Knight Rayearth, I think it's something like that...

Makuta IS nothing. Think about it: he is Nothing. Nothing is not something, becuase its nothing. You can destroy something, but not nothing. Er..... kinda difucult to understand. Here: Nothing IS something, but you can't really call it somthing, since it is nothing. Their is like no word for it, so you just have to call it 'Nothing', without thinking it is something. This is pretty much impossible to explain..... anyone understand what I am saying?