"The truth is a terrible thing, but not compared to falsehood" Jordan Peterson

My best friend calls me a postmodernist pineapple-- I'm still not sure what he is, but there is an isness to it all. 

When we say "it's raining" what is the "it" we speak of? Nouns need verbs only as a rule of our English language, verbs keep verbing without any words being spoken.