But only if one does not give up after failure can he open himself to this insight, within which is found a creative power working through life, bringing
it out of nothingness toward Being.
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.
The fairytale you may believe in (evolution) says that non-living matter poofed
out of nothingness and created life, really?
On the same concept of a god pulling
himself out of nothingness, then there is an equal valid point that the BIG BANG started on it's own.
2) If god created this universe in the beginning, THEN, HE pulled
himself out of nothingness and then started creation!
And it is through the power of the same word of God that we may anticipate the fulfillment of history's promise
out of the nothingness of every apparently hopeless situation.
So tend to lean towards the Universe popped
out of nothingness.
«It must be held that the Son was created,
neither out of nothingness nor yet out of any substance, but that He was begotten or born out of the Father's womb, that is, out of his very essense.
The notion that life arises
out of the nothingness of nonexistence and moves toward the nothingness of annihilating death is a nihilistic conceit.
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.
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).
According to Luria, the world came into being when God created it ex nihilo,
out of nothingness.
I reject hope in the sense that I believe
that out of Nothingness we have come and to Nothingness we will return.
Free to play casual games games seem to pop up
out of nothingness every few days, constantly grabbing at the wallets of...
Then,
out of that nothingness, a Russian appeared.
The most dynamic, immediate work, though, is that of Julie Born - Schwartz, whose mixed media installation «I had an expectation that it would fade» creeps off the wall and across the space, its disembodied arm taking agency as it claws
out of nothingness.
«Making an image appear
out of nothingness is magic.»
Having appeared
out of nothingness, the warrior departs the scene in the same way, riding away into the snow, unguided and aimless.
Since we have agreed that I accept (at least provisionally, as far as the powerfully augmented eye can see) an expanding Universe and am therefore clearly religious about physics and mathematics and reason if nothing else, can you explain to me how God isn't something and yet is capable of things like sentience, action, choice, design, starting off Big Bangs
out of nothingness — all things that seem to involve a remarkably high degree of material complexity and organization (not to mention time, and space and energy)-- not to mention various Amazing Powers to make an entire Universe poof into existence out of nowhere with just the right rules to work out to become (in very small part) me some 14 billion years later.
Not exact matches
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.
It is illogical to think the universe sprang into existence on its
out of pure
nothingness - and yet what other «natural» altneratives are there?
You say «it is illogical to think the universe sprang into existence on its [own]
out of pure
nothingness.»
This rejection
of uncreated and hence necessary principles fits with the doctrine that the existence
of finite actualities is strictly contingent, and that they were created
out of absolute
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.
This account
of creation, which holds that God created all things ex nihilo, does not explain whether or not God was a part
of the
nothingness out of which creation appeared.
We use the afterlife as a way
of believing there is something after death, that death can \» t be IT as a light bulb burn
out and darkness,
nothingness.
The only way
out is to go with the flow to the depths
of inner space where one's synnergy (spirit) does beckon one home inside the body (Temple), the KIngdom
of the Gods made manifest by GOD & the Holy Ghost whose
Nothingness does hold all the elements together whether they are
of such smallness or ever so great, for The Holy Ghost is but
Nothingness, the great divider and essences in voids
of the VOIDS between the Inner and Outer Spaces.
In my scientific suppositions I have proposed that their were once immeasurably unknown amounts
of Big Bangs spread
out uniformly upon the great vastness
of spatial relativisms that is
Nothingness itself... Such a theory regarding unknowable amounts
of Big Bangs spread
out uniformly upon the great vastness
of continual
Nothingness just may well be the missing mathematical linkage for explaining the hindering smallness
of celestial issues that has confounded many astrophysicists who endeavor to seek a mathematical formulary in order to rationalize a theoretical understanding
of the celestial cosmos...
Yes: man is in fact nailed down — like Christ on the Cross — to a grid
of paradoxes... he balances between lie torment
of not knowing his mission and the joy
of carrying it
out, between
nothingness and meaningfulness.
The self
of the twentieth century is a voracious nought which expands like the feeding vacuole
of an amoeba seeking to nourish and inform its own
nothingness by ingesting new objects in the world but, like a vacuole, only succeeds in emptying them
out.
Now, says Bultmann,
out of the void
of nothingness comes the Word
of God spoken through Christ, telling us that we are forgiven for our sin if we acknowledge our condition and accept the message.
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.
Just one person like myself that has experienced the living God
out of the millions that have had conversion experiences far outweighs nothing and
nothingness.
It is through the word, however, that God creates the world
out of chaos or
nothingness.
Where were we when the Firmaments
of the Celestial Universes were born
out of the Seas
of Nothingness?
Out of an ocean
of nothingness with fearful struggle, the work
of man rises slowly like a small island....
To believe that a quantum vacuum appeared
out of the void
of nothingness because
of the laws
of quantum mechanics demanded it does not solve the question why there is something rather than nothing.
Friday afternoon I hopped on Amtrak with my stuffed Tigger in my hand and listened to my CD player, hoping to drown
out the noise
of nothingness.
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.
There is only one way
out of the ironies and the ambiguities
of the human condition: return to God's
nothingness, the radical non-being
of God and death.
God created the world
out of his own
nothingness through an act
of self - diminution not unrelated to the idea
of God's kenotic emptying
of himself to which Dr. Altizer alludes.
That is why I saw Captain Ahab's «Promised Land» as return to the
nothingness out of which he had come.
Unfortunately for Oxlade - Chamberlain, his teammates only succeeded in working the danger
out of that situation as they nodded and passed it into
nothingness within the opposition's area.
The idea that the universe simply appeared
out of nothing is difficult enough; trying to conceive
of nothingness is perhaps even harder.
I'd be remiss if I didn't point
out some
of the research on the obvious drug - free ways to avoid withering away to
nothingness.
There's one generously devious note with Roy, who screws over an infirmed friend
out of desperation and perhaps spite, but that revelation comes toward the end
of the picture, leaving the rest
of the film to linger on
nothingness.
A meandering, overlong death march towards
nothingness, the latest from the American auteur is a showcase
of a man who's more than worn
out his welcome, who has drip - dried every ounce
of juice from the same re-wrung fruit but still yet splashed it up on the screen like a car wreck.
Neither words nor photos can substitute the feeling
of looking
out over Zion Canyon, its vast
nothingness squeezed between immense, monolithic red walls.
Among the very large works are BK - 002 (2006), image above, BL - 060 (2005), a twelve - foot wide blue ballpoint pen work on canvas that suggests the solid mass
of a hill suspended above or dissolving into
nothingness, and BL - 071 (2005), a similarly massive work that offers up another motif common to Lee's works on canvas and paper — a field
of seemingly vibrating forms appears
out of an expanse
of markings.
I love how the grid emerges
out of virtual
nothingness.