Something that can mislead an already misled world into
total nothingness.
In perishing, occasions are not consigned to
total nothingness but are granted a kind of «immortality» as elements in the experiences of subsequent occasions and groupings of occasions.
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.
Likewise, it is easy enough to list the conditions requisite for
total nothingness: each thing which now exists would cease to exist and no thing would be replaced by anything else.
It is important to remember here that we need not argue that
total nothingness is a possible state, only that Hartshorne has not shown that it is not a possible state.
That would mean there is only one state that could not be known by the perfect knower —
total 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.
Not exact matches
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!
Total surrender to a God who loves us will result in our being lifted up and rescued from that
nothingness simply because he loves us beyond anything we can imagine, BUT, we do have to test that fact, in our human frailty.
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.
Presence in the first sense is opposed to
total absence or absolute
nothingness, while in the second sense, it is opposed to partial or provisional absence of a present reality.
To the apocalyptists this world was fit for nothing but
total destruction, and the golden age would come only when this world had disintegrated into
nothingness and a new world had been created.
Whether or not we can imagine such a concrete possibility, Mahayana Buddhism provides us with an historical model of the
total union of a negative and a positive nihilism or of a
nothingness or emptiness which is simultaneously empty and full or nothing and everything.
He envisages the eschatological
nothingness as a «
total and primordial bliss» rather than a contentless void.
This call to «
nothingness» as a call to
total service is not a loss of self; it is not a denial of personal gifts, desires, or well - being.