Even Death is not Nothing.

Even death is not nothing, atoms will live on in a kind of Nietzschean eternal recurrence.¹⁶ The agnostic or atheist with such a view has more of a chance for eternity (his atoms) than the believer who has a metaphysical flutter on whether his behaviour will end him in heaven or hell.

Even death is not nothing, atoms will live on in a kind of Nietzschean eternal recurrence.¹⁶ The agnostic or atheist with such a view has more of a chance for eternity (his atoms) than the believer who has a metaphysical flutter on whether his behaviour will end him in heaven or hell. 

We are Here Because Non Existence Cannot Exist.

Nothingness or non-existence cannot exist. In this strange realisation we are confronting an anomaly, a single part of our thinking that does not fit in with the rest. In the use of meaning, the meaning that otherwise defines all things in all languages, a non-existence cannot be described. Nor can it be imagined or conceptualised. It cannot be signified, or resembled, or symbolised. By its own definition, a non-existence cannot even be inferred with any logical coherency. I am saying this to mean that the term non-existence does not belong as a member of any language. Its use is a contradiction in meaningfulness.

All attempts to define non-existence, even as the absence of existence or as the negation of being commits a fundamental semantic crime. It is true that the words absence and negation, or existence and being, each have real syntactic meanings, but when placed together they express a radical contradiction, since they attempt to define with meaning a non-something which by definition cannot have meaning at all.

It is the existence and being of the universe that creates meaning; only existence allows for there to be meaning, just as only meaning allows for there to be existence. At the heart of the matter is that total nothingness isn't a possibility. Non-existence by its own definition cannot be. Therefore there is no alternative to existence. So our earlier time line into the past to search for the beginning of existence can never reach any point of origin. There is no such precipice as the one imagined. If we look into the past we might find a point where our space-time begins from some timeless singularity, but any attempt to find an ultimate beginning from nothing is doomed to fail. All this inevitably has consequences for our foundational thinkers, those who desire originality, and indeed for any notion of the originality of self or how that self might perform.