We shall drink to life's confines, to life's pearly end, which is the nothingness of death, not the perpetual pansiness of Heaven!" Ronny The Bear is more buddy cop than buddy, introducing himself as a "pot-of-coffee-by-day, bottle-of-wine-by-night type of guy" ("Triple that and you've got me," Harry replies).
No one blames him, or only partly, for the strange nothingness which is ENO's new Lucrezia Borgia, his first go at directing opera.
It is this activity, at quantum mechanical scales, that banishes nothingness and which is thought to have given birth to the universe.Mr Close surveys 3,000 years of thinking to arrive at the modern solution to the question of where everything came from.
Thus they have step by step wiped out the affects claimed God to be the opposite of the evil, i.e., reality to consist in the negation of desires and affects (which is to say precisely in nothingness).
This accords well with the conception of ayin (nothingness) in Jewish mysticism, which is positively saturated with divine reality (Matt, 1997).
By way of radically emptying ourselves, we can touch that which is the radical origin of self-emptying, the absolute as an essentially self-negating absolute nothingness.
What is ultimate is the emptiness which is revealed as their basis, for all things are empty, and yet, once this truth is realized, it is as individuals and societies that nothingness is expressed and revealed.
Hence, the fundamental philosophical question of the onto-theological mainstream of the West is, "What is being?" On the other hand, the counter-question which the Kyoto School finds in the East is, "What is nothingness?" In place of an ontology, first philosophy in the East is more often a "meontology": a philosophy of non-being or nothingness.
"Death is nothingness," Hecuba declares amid all her sorrows.
In this sense, betweenness is nothingness, and nothingness is betweenness.
