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I'm very simple. As far as I'm concerned there appears to have always been something - that's where the only evidence lies so far. Still, as far as I can remember, there was nothingness before my earliest memory of sitting in a pram scribbling on a wall by the front door. Before then is a blank whi...

We know that we are; but we don't know what that is. If we knew what that is, it would be like going to watch a movie for the second time, you would know what's going to happen; and that is impossible to know what is going to happen next. What does it mean that I can watch a movie for the second ti...

The Absolute Impossibility of Nothingness - ever Tautological nonesense. Nothingness can contain no possibility, and "ever" is also content so its addition to the end of the sentence is at best redundant, at worst compounding the tautology to contradiction. All possibility is but cannot b...

We know that we are; but we don't know what that is.

If we knew what that is, it would be like going to watch a movie for the second time, you would know what's going to happen; and that is impossible to know what is going to happen next.

Nothingness cannot be known...Except in relation to Everything.

What is Everything?.... cannot be known either, except as concept, as language is dual by nature.

The paradox of duality is unavoidable, as the concept of oneness is inconceivable.

Any questions?

Is Consciousness Memory? Yes, of course it is! Since all that which we are aware/conscious of, are of PAST events, then consciousness can only be MEMORY. That which we experience in the ‘present’ moment is actually a ‘past’ event. Much like viewing the sun at sunset. What we see is 8 minutes old. T...