Not exact matches
So the next time you have the opportunity to reach for the magic rectangle in your pocket or purse -; consider mastering the skill
of staring
into nothingness.
Instead
of allowing the wood to rot
into nothingness, the company is going outs
of its way to reclaim the wood and change it
into something consumers can enjoy in their homes.
Dreamt
of dreams by a dreamer dreaming the physical
into being firstly as a state
of randomized forces echoing throughout the
nothingness voids is a plausible beginning toward materialized existence.
It is illogical to think the universe sprang
into existence on its out
of pure
nothingness - and yet what other «natural» altneratives are there?
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 all...
You say «it is illogical to think the universe sprang
into existence on its [own] out
of pure
nothingness.»
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.
It is the absence
of relational communion whose summit is Eucharistic Communion, a descent
into the despairing punishments
of nothingness.
Do we perpetuate our human existence until the end
of time, when all
of mankind's achievements will be forgotten and perish
into nothingness?
As this love and hurt, our relationships and accomplishments, vanishing
into the
nothingness of the grave.
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?
Nothingness is predicted by simple mathematics and the beginning
of the universe came from absolutely nothing, like a proton popping
into existence.
You'll almost certainly dodge that question by claiming he has always existed, so if that's the case, what suddenly prompted God to create a universe filled with over 100 billion galaxies containing a trillion trillion stars after spending an eternity extending
into the past existing alone in an absolute void
of nothingness?
@Vic: For the sake
of argument, let's suppose the universe was created by an all powerful being who had existed for an eternity extending
into the past in emptiness
of the
nothingness that was before he got bored and created the universe with its 170 billion or more galaxies and trillion trillion stars.
For without said
nothingness all things materially made would fall
into a matted oneness being ever crunched and made environing a solicitous felt great weight
of total abandonment!
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.
His word, the utterance
of a thinking Mind and a deliberate Will, illuminates the dark abyss
of nothingness, and calls
into being things that are not.
If God were to «let go»
of creation, it would back
into the
nothingness from which it came.
If we conceive
of the Word or Spirit as moving more and more fully
into the body
of the profane in response to the self - negation
of God in Christ, then we can understand how the Christian God gradually becomes more alien and beyond, receding
into a lifeless and oppressive form, until it finally appears as an empty and vacuous
nothingness.
When all evil and
nothingness pass
into the faceless epiphany
of a total Antichrist, then the ultimate ground
of chaos will be dissolved, every inherent sanction for all alien and compelling demands will be removed, and every opposing other will stand revealed in a lifeless and vacuous form.
Already we have seen that faith can name this movement as the metamorphosis
of God
into Satan, as God empties himself
of his original power and glory and progressively becomes manifest as an alien but oppressive
nothingness.
Melville and Hawthorne were able to turn their own defeats, their own experiences
of nothingness,
into great art.
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?
Each individual spirit, in nearly all these worlds, attained at some point in life some lowly climax
of awareness and
of spiritual integrity, only to sink slowly or catastrophically back
into nothingness.
This huge, blue planet is in existance just so we can be born, live, make a living, have a baby, then die... no connection, no spirit, no soul, no more appreciating the beauty around us, no more being astounded at the improbabilities, no more being amazed at the wonders
of life... because none
of that has any meaning any more, it's just a bunch
of junk that happened accidently... who cares, we're just all going to fade away
into nothingness... become one with the dirt, because we are actually no better than the dirt... I don't know about you, but I'm depressed now... but then that's what's great about our country, you can choose to believe or... not... in this... country... that has... no particular meaning... in the grand scheme
of thngs... oh, yeah, that's right there is no «grand scheme
of things»... so never mind.
In the above - mentioned person - and - rock discussion in which he rejected the superiority
of the person's nonstone capacity for «inclusion»
of the stone in his field
of thought and action, Professor Nishitani maintained that Zen
Nothingness (sunyata), because
of its indeterminate character, could include both the person and the rock in a «loving» relation, in which (1) each party could relate to the other in the true meaning
of «love,» without let or hindrance; and (2) at the same time respect the true identity
of the other being without coercing it
into any preformed, or prejudged, relational framework.
In this instance God is not exemplifying what Whitehead calls «the principle
of contemporary independence» (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 96); rather, he is treated as an exception to this principle invoked to save the collapse
into nothingness of the past.
Recent thought has it that ours is a world in which death, the passing away
of life beyond being
into nothingness, is an ultimate horizon.
Common to all these thinkers (with the exception
of Marion) is an attempt to make
nothingness or the continuous disappearance
of life
into the void the precondition for morality, rather than an obstacle in its path.
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.
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.»
1) Define
nothingness 2) Using words not in common vernacular as often as you do has only one
of two purposes: a) To attempt and confuse people
into agreeing with you; b) Self - gratification in a perceived superiority in vocabulary.
1) Define
nothingness 2) Using words not in common vernacular as often as you do has only one
of two purposes: a) To attempt and confuse people
into agreeingwith you; b) Self - gratification in a perceived superiority in vocabulary.
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.
Before settling
into a truly atheistic worldview you will have to experience the Nietzschean madman's sensation
of straying through «infinite
nothingness.»
And everybody we love is going to be swallowed up
into that pit, which might be a pit
of nothingness.
But what ultimate meaning does personal existence possess if it exists for a mere three - score years — or perhaps by reason
of modern medicine, four - score years — and then passes
into sheer
nothingness?
It believes the fact
of coming
into existence, and has thus succeeded in over - coming within itself the uncertainty that corresponds to the
nothingness of the antecedent non-being; it believes the «thus»
of what has come
into existence, and has consequently succeeded in annulling within itself the possible «how.»
Christians believe that death is not a terrifying passage
into nothingness but rather a transition
into a glorious eternity in the presence
of the risen Lord Jesus.
But the classical mystical forms
of Yes - saying are interior expressions
of the metamorphosis
of a profane emptiness and
nothingness into a sacred totality, a totality
of bliss drawing all things
into itself, and thereby negating their original and given form.
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.
Try a little Nair...) loses and disappears
into the annuals
of nothingness?
Since God's brain touches His Thoughts, then the thought
of sin would have,» vanished away
into nothingness at the smallest touch
of God's blazing holiness.»
Other people who call themselves liberals timidly put forward a lukewarm unispired plan to change it, which they defend very ineffectively despite having control
of both houses
of Congress and the presidency, and let the timid bill get diluted
into wormy
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.
If there were no God, all our works would be as meaningless as the ground
of nothingness out
of which they arose and
into which they would otherwise sink.
The market ideology wants us to believe that the world is profane — life consists
of buying and selling, weighing, measuring and trading, and then finally sinking down
into death and
nothingness.
At most, all he could do was point to temporality, the ceaseless flow
of beings out
of nothingness and
into nothingness again, and then — in a gesture that often seems as much one
of hopelessness as
of «piety» — point away toward the mysterious Ereignis, the «appropriating event,» that somehow brings this about.
The question
of why existence instead
of nothingness is fine, but there's no automatic answers just because most people have been brainwashed
into the religion / god
of their culture.
This would be that point prior to as you said «At any point in the cycle
of nothingness of eternity, something will happen to change it
into something to initiate time».