"ZERO IS 1"

I missed my 8 year blogiversary.  Eight years.  Crazy, huh?

So today we were driving home from IKEA and we ended up behind this car with the license plate "ZERO IS 1" and I was really intrigued.  So intrigued that I tried to get up next to the car so we could check out the driver.  About a mile later he -- turns out it was an older guy with a pony tail -- got in the turn lane and we pulled up next to him.  Fortunately his window was down, so I had Pete ask him what it meant.  His response -- "The origin of everything we are."  Then he said something about it not being related to math and that it was complicated, and the light changed.  He drove off, as did we.

So, I'm still not exactly sure what it all means, but Pete and I discussed it a bit more and decided it was probably related to some eastern religion or philosophy.  After googling for a bit, I'm thinking it might have to do with Buddhism and the idea of emptiness.

Any ideas?

Comments

[Rose]

It sounds like computer language to me, all zeroes and ones, but if he said it wasn't math.....who knows?

[Norma]

I can't wrap my head around it, but my daughter, a philosophy major, would probably love to puzzle it out. Heh.

Happy blogiversary!

[--Deb]

Happy blogiversary!

And, my first thought is some kind of computer/binary thing.

[Donna]

My first reaction was the same as Rose's but then I sometimes refer to my oldest grand as "our binary baby" because he was born 11/01/01. 8 years of blogging is very impressive. Not too many bloggers are still writing interesting posts that long. Congrats on being one of the few!