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Life is about survival and nothing else.

If a complete lack of anything were the case, then there would not be anything; however, there is something and so a lack of anything could not have been the case, and so that notion is out and done with. Nothing’ cannot even be meant, much less have any properties or be productive, and so even any notion of it is forever squashed. So, Something had to ever be, it having no alternative, with no option not to be, with no opposite, and with no possibility of it coming from the impossible ‘Nothing’. The Something, then, is eternal, in that it is uncreated can never go away. It is Permanent as the Causeless Cause of what comes forth of it, which can only be temporaries. The Something cannot be still and unmoving, for then naught could have become as the temporary happenings that we take as something. ‘The impossible Stillness’ thus gains single quote marks, akin to its relative of ‘Nothing’, neither one able to be.

Happiness, fulfillment, satisfaction etc.

Yoo lost me there. I don't know what your talking about.

Lol

I don't know what cessation is.

No! Answer my question. Why can't the body be you ? Yes.

Why can't the body be "you '?

If there is no self then who typed that message?

Liberation from suffering.

Why not? I totally believe infinite self-understanding is possible.

What a nonsense answer.

As expected.

@Fearless_Bum what happens after death? Just a straightforward question.

Maybe. Could be the opposite too. Who really knows?

@Raptorsin7 Unknown. Death for me represents the unknown. And the unknown is scary.

just came across a quote which I think may be useful for thinking about matter and nothingness, and where 'something comes from, or continues to exist: 'All matter is created out of some imperceptible substarum. This substratum is not accurately described as material, since it uniformly fills all space and is undetectable by any observation. In a sense it appears as nothingness _ immaterial, undetectable, and omnipresent. But it is a peculiar form of nothingness, out of which all matter is created' (Richard F Plzak, 'Paradox East and West'. This seems to me to capture the big question of where matter comes from initially. Any thoughts

@Raptorsin7 I'm scared shitless of death. So terrified of it. I don't know how to face it or embrace it. @Fearless_Bum how do you know that death is the ultimate relaxation?

Yes its related to death. I have anxious thoughts about death.

We can use the phrase "the absence of everything" to refer to the absence of everything, can't we? However, the thought experiment of trying to arrive at nothing(ness) by removing everything in succession becomes illogical at the final step: …The last thing is removed, and then there is no thing (nothing) anymore. For the removal of things is a temporal process, and the expression "and then" presupposes a temporal order or structure in terms of before (earlier) and after (later) that would contradictorily continue to exist even after everything has ceased to be. The very idea of there being nothing after there being something, or of there being nothing now is self-contradictory, because there can be no time when nothing exists, or a time after or later than all the times when something existed. There aren't any possible temporal relations such as temporal posteriority between nonbeing and being; so the process of removing things from the world couldn't possibly result in an absent world, but in an empty world at most. And, of course, an empty world or spacetime (* is still something rather than nothing—like an empty canvas. (* "empty" in the sense of "devoid of, unoccupied by matter and energy")

Not possible. Something always existed. That's the only logical possibility.

Well, there has to be a Fundamental Existent, X, because nonexistence cannot be. Thus it is mandatory and it is all there is, as the simplest partless and continuous state. There's no 'empty' or 'Nothing'.. As an a blank slate. It's always something. Even if we agree to call it "nothing". It's still not a zero.

Accept your suffering. That's the only way out. Everyone is going to suffer at some point in their life. That's inevitable. no matter what you think, you are going to suffer. For years. You'll feel insecure and weird and dull. There will be a war inside you that will sometimes lead you to the brink of madness. You'll be hopeless, not knowing what to do. You will want to go back to a normal life, and find that it's impossible. And you'll have to live with the terrible fear that you are completely wrong. You'll be lost between two worlds, belonging to neither of them. Maybe for a long, long time. And the message is that it's ok. It's a okay to suffer sometimes. This is the truth and nothing but the truth. Feel free to love me or attack me. I don't care. All I care about is spitting some raw truth.

What reasons do you have to go on living? What gives your life meaning and purpose?

@Iesu I don't understand what you are talking about.