This huge expanse
of nothingness from which the Nullarbor Plain derives its name could become a major source of energy for the country.
You might have been wondering where I've been after these last few weeks
of nothingness from the ol' FU machine.
If from nothing bursts forth something, it's the very existence
of nothingness from whence there could be....
Not exact matches
Neither can the lakes and rivers and bays and streams and creeks flowing
from the vast oceanic sea
of Nothingness be denied.
From the outer reaches of Spatial Nothingness and even far into the innermost depths of all Atomized Nothingness Realms, God's Holiness Spirit will forever dwell apart from and forever within us al
From the outer reaches
of Spatial
Nothingness and even far into the innermost depths
of all Atomized
Nothingness Realms, God's Holiness Spirit will forever dwell apart
from and forever within us al
from and forever within us all...
Few can match Job for pure misery, a man who went
from immense personal wealth and happiness to utter
nothingness in a matter
of days, and fewer can match him for stony faith — a resolute, steely trust that God had an answer, even if that answer didn't really make sense
from an earthly perspective.
Nothingness flows within all materialized things
from the biggest
of stars to the very smallest atom.
Without a model
of quantum gravity, it is IMPOSSIBLE to describe the initial state
of the universe, or even be sure if it really was a singularity, let alone «coming into existence
from nothingness» (not that we even have an example
of «
nothingness» to compare to.
As for the watch problem, its so hypothetical it's really not worth much more to pursue because you are right, I think it highly imporbable a watch would appear
from nothingness, and since that has never in the history
of the universe as we know it, to have happened, to discuss what I would do in that event is moot.
Why aren't atheists ever swayed into belief by WLC's meanderings about his hypothetical «uncaused caused» (named god) which is made
of nothing but poofed everything into existence
from its
nothingness?
Which is to say that the path which the individual life must take is one
of growth
from nothingness to being, by attempting first to understand that one's life situation is ambiguous; second, by opening oneself up to the creative God - power within oneself and waiting for its revelation, however gradually it may come; and third, by acting upon its discovery.
Nothingness is predicted by simple mathematics and the beginning
of the universe came
from absolutely nothing, like a proton popping into existence.
The humanist witness
of his fiction is to testify, negatively, that neither art nor life can be made
from nothingness.
Philosophers often throw around the phrase ex nihilo, meaning «out
of nothing,» to argue
from a logical standpoint that nothing can only give rise to more
nothingness.
During this short time, we don't have the apparatus to fully understand God, but many
of us see the fallacy
of believing in things like the «big bang» theory where ordered things come
from nothingness.
Don't expect others to necessarily believe it, but for me, being thrown out into
nothingness (in my tortured mind) and finding myself rescued
from out
of the
nothingness is something not easily forgotten.
If God were to «let go»
of creation, it would back into the
nothingness from which it came.
If God will raise us
from death to a new life
of fuller communion with himself then this will be sheer miracle: God's re-creative Word affirming us in the moment
of our utter
nothingness.
Nevertheless, the modern artist, by inverting or reversing our mythical traditions, has disclosed a totally immanent mode
of existence banished even
from the memory
of transcendence, and created a comprehensive vision
of a new and total
nothingness which Blake named as Ulro, or Hell.
And Whitehead can summarize his own reformed subjectivist principle as follows: «that apart
from the experiences
of subjects there is nothing, nothing, nothing, bare
nothingness.»
Not only is the mutable world separated
from its divine principle — the One — by intervals
of emanation that descend in ever greater alienation
from their source, but because the highest truth is the secret identity between the human mind and the One, the labor
of philosophy is one
of escape: all multiplicity, change, particularity, every feature
of the living world, is not only accidental to this formless identity, but a kind
of falsehood, and to recover the truth that dwells within, one must detach oneself
from what lies without, including the sundry incidentals
of one's individual existence; truth is oblivion
of the flesh, a pure
nothingness, to attain which one must sacrifice the world.
If your brain is merely a minuscule portion and intermediate result
of a guideless process
of self - existing particles that just happened to unpack themselves
from an unexplained singularity and arrange themselves into various integrated systems
of matter and life
of increasing complexity over billions
of years, which will ultimately disorganize and dissipate into
nothingness, why should any value be attached to your thoughts, or to your existence?
I'm waxing quite Eastern here, I know, But that, I would say, is the nature
of God's presence in the fallen world: his image, his bride, the deep joy and longing
of creation, called
from nothingness to be joined to him.
Can science explain the entire process
of evolution
of human being starting
from the beginning
of nothingness in the universe?
Just the one
of were we created by a God or did we arrive here
from nothingness?
As for the «No serious attempt to explain an acausal event» I will leave you with a, albeit paraphrased, quote
from Stephen Hawking: «The very notion
of nothingness necessitated the eventual creation
of everything.»
That's as simplistic as I can so write CK... For before the Holy Spirit became flesh and bones, Chaos ensued and immeasurable amounts
of Big Bangs began to multiply within great distances
from each other... We are aware
of but one Big Bang and I am in sorrows that our astrophysicists can not rightly fathom the plausible conditionings that permeate the theoretical potential for immeasurable amounts
of Big Bangs leisurely being born / established within the Holy Spirit and / or Spatial
Nothingness...
After excoriating the «
nothingness»
of the Reagan and Bush years, she writes: «But the recoil
from nothingness has left a space that, just possibly, could be filled in by a new faith that government can help people's lives.
Finally, they market their new «Slyence» as a convincing Religion
of truth and order, which by chance exploded and evolved
from the No - God
of random
nothingness.
You also might realize that the vast majority
of those
of us with «deep psychiatric issues» (your words) have no problem at all with atheistic beliefs (and they are beliefs — you are choosing to believe the universe sprang
from nothingness, which is no less absurd than a benevolent creator).
It is now believed that the Hebrew word is an adaptation
of a foreign one meaning god; and so we see how the Hebrew mind operated in relation to this matter:
from foreign god to
nothingness — they were intimately one and the same!
If indeed we can have within us the evolutionary steps starting with cosmic creation —
from nothingness into everything that IS, to open up to the part
of our hearts and minds that experience this is to reestablish our connection with the oneness
from which we came.
I thought that the apprehension
of nothingness came
from out
of time and circumstance, a lightning bolt
of truth that had nothing to do with the day before, the house I lived in, my family, and my age.
In a Christian book
of the second century, the Shepherd
of Hermas, the first commandment is rendered: «First
of all believe that God is one, who created and formed all things, who called everything
from nothingness into existence, who, Himself incomprehensible, comprehends all in Himself.»
Can you Redhead fathom the moorings (I am not securing any vessels at the time, although I am sure my uncles fishing boat is pulled up on the beach)
of absolute
nothingness (yes, I am currently studying dark matter but that is not
nothingness) where
from all material meanderings (to meander is to be in a constant change
of path (like religions) currently are, I am not religious and I do not meander as I see it as a waste
of time when traveling
from one place to the next.)
Is the
Nothingness you mention
from the human perspective
of things we can not see
of God?
The anxious self can make its own self - gratification the sole object
of desire, or sensuality becomes a convenient means
of escape
from the self's agony through the obliteration
of feeling, the plunge into
nothingness.
If you get rid
of your individual self with all its shortcomings and doubts by utmost self - effacement, you free yourself
from the feeling
of your own
nothingness and can participate in God's glory.6
Eros is the power
of God to bring being
from nothingness; tragic love is providential care for a cosmos immersed in inevitable suffering and conflict.
Profoundly established in the centre
of its own
nothingness, it can be assailed by naught that comes
from below; and since it no longer desires anything, what comes
from above can not depress it; for its desires alone are the causes
of its woes.»
According to the excellent phrase
of André Neher,
from his fine book on the prophets, a gulf
of nothingness separates the new creation
from the old.5 No Aufhebung can suppress this deadly fault.
Ultimately Whitehead articulates what he calls the revised subjectivist principle: «that apart
from the experiences
of subjects there is nothing, nothing, bare
nothingness» (PR 167).
From the very smallest and lowest crevice to the most high chasms, the Sea
of Nothingness is the Holy Spirit
of God.
The religious visions
of mankind have usually pointed toward something or someone that saves the world
of nature and
of human experience
from vanishing into a total
nothingness.
At best, Meister Eckhart's idea
of the divine
Nothingness, or Jacob Boehme's notion
of the Nonground (Ungrund) in God may serve as bridges
of understanding
from a Christian experience
of the transcendent to a Buddhist one.
You are comfortable accepting your faith in the scientific method and the laws that we recognize in science to be capable
of one day answering those questions about origins «evolving»
from «
nothingness».
Or, phrased differently, being was experienced as the passage
of all things
from future possibility into the
nothingness of the past through the narrow juncture
of the always disappearing present; and so the thought
of being had not yet been separated into a stark opposition between temporality and eternity.
In my comment a couple
of days ago I went through a thought experiment concerning the third possibility above and arrived at the following — if existence just is, then it was not created (either
from God or out
of nothingness) and therefore it has always been here (remember I'm talking about all
of existence, not a conceivably lesser object like the universe).
Instead
of shying away
from the conclusion that
nothingness is the only possible content
of the New Jerusalem, Altizer embraces it.
When we have deduced what we deduce by our reason and
from study
of visible nature, and then read what we read in His inspired word, and find the two apparently discordant, this is the feeling I think we ought to have on our minds» not an impatience to do what is beyond our powers, to weigh evidence, sum up, balance, decide, and reconcile, to arbitrate between the two voices
of God» but a sense
of the utter
nothingness of worms such as we are;
of our plain and absolute incapacity to contemplate things as they really are; a perception
of our emptiness, before the great Vision
of God....