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A little dog walkin’ music. #Nothingness #DeathMetal https://nothingnessmn.bandcamp.com/album/godslaughter
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A little dog walkin’ music. #Nothingness #DeathMetal https://nothingnessmn.bandcamp.com/album/godslaughter
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NOTHINGNESS (Estats Units) presenta nou àlbum: "Godslaughter" #Nothingness #DeathMetal #Juliol2026 #EstatsUnits #NouÀlbum #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic
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Nothingness – Godslaughter Review By FeroxIf there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that Supraliminal, the 2023 album from death metal act Nothingness, is worthy of a 2.5 and no other rating. I know of no faction that holds it in higher esteem, am aware of no lack of consensus surrounding Felagund’s review–Oh wait just a second. I reviewed the tomes and scrolls, and it seems there was a shitstorm surrounding these guys. The comment section went to war on behalf of this Minnesota sextet’s brand of A24 OSDM.1 Steel Druhm juuuuust managed to put down a revolution, but the bonfire roared anew when Kenstrosity named Supraliminal his Record o’the Year. In the years since, a fragile peace has held… until now. Nothingness is back with their hard-charging third album Godslaughter, threatening the status quo and giving us the chance to pick old scabs and answer lingering questions. The most urgent of these: who was right?
Godslaughter is a vile piece of work, even meaner and more antisocial than its predecessor. Nothingness hasn’t abandoned the ambition that led Kenstrosity to describe their style as “caveman death with a university degree.” The band still brings some of the inventive brio of Gorguts or Nightmarer to a ferocious overall vibe that recalls a less theatrical Autopsy. This latest offering manages to double down on aggression while expanding Nothingness’s sonic palette and the range of their songwriting. If you can survive the onslaught of an opening run that includes the platter’s first two singles (“Skull Evulsion,” “Trenchant Glunch”), these grander designs reveal themselves. The album as a whole is an exhilarating run through nine well-sequenced tracks, seasoned with a flair for composition that makes the verdict clear: Godslaughter is a roaring return and a death metal ripper.
Godslaughter unfolds in three acts. The first commences with the sucker punch that is “Incinerated Immediately,” then proceeds through three additional tracks that lay you flat and kick you around for a while. “Vanquishing Providence” slows things to a crawl to “welcome” you to a middle section that’s built around longer and more varied songs. It’s here that you’ll find the slab’s most ambitious compositions, a pair of seven minute epics that go from first to fifth gear with no thought spared for the health of your spine. Nothingness throws in everything they’ve got and a few new tricks to boot, up to and including the bonging Black Sabbath bell that punctuates “Divine Irresponsibility.” A spoken word sample kicks off “Incredible Violence” and ushers you into the third act of the album. Sonic experimentation worms its way into these three selections, which essentially split the difference between parts one and two of the slab.
The album organizes itself into distinct segments, but Godslaughter’s forty-minute entirety remains a cohesive listen. The songs are united by a harsh but thoughtful production. Alex Walstad’s guitars flirt with peaking on tracks like “Incinerated Immediately” and “Umbral Spear,” but it all feels intentional. While there’s no credited producer, returning engineer Adam Tucker knows when to give space and clarity to a riff and when to noisemaxx. Barclay Olson, who is the vocalist for a death metal outfit and not the CFO of a private equity fund, lacks some variety in his attack. His roars do threaten to get repetitive, but the intensity of the music and the concise run time keep things at a rolling boil.
It’s a delicate alchemy, trying to combine familiar influences and elements into something that feels novel. Nothingness has pulled it off for two albums running. With Supraliminal and now Godslaughter, these merchants of digressive death submit a pair of long players to get your neurons firing even as they power wash your central nervous system. Like its predecessor, Godslaughter leaves a rancid mouthfeel behind as it rants its way toward Listurnalia. I’ll probably return to Supraliminal more than I do Godslaughter, so I won’t quibble if you want to ding the new slab by half a point. But all in all, Godslaughter is about as good as their last one.2
Rating: 4.0/5.0
#2026 #40 #A24OSDM #Autopsy #BlackSabbath #DissonantDeathMetal #EverlastingSpewRecords #Godslaughter #Gorguts #Jul26 #Nightmarer #Nothingness #OSDM #Sextet
DR: 5 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Everlasting Spew Records
Websites: nothingness.bandcamp.com|nothingnessisdeath.com
Releases Worldwide: July 31, 2026 -
Nothingness – Godslaughter Review By FeroxIf there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that Supraliminal, the 2023 album from death metal act Nothingness, is worthy of a 2.5 and no other rating. I know of no faction that holds it in higher esteem, am aware of no lack of consensus surrounding Felagund’s review–Oh wait just a second. I reviewed the tomes and scrolls, and it seems there was a shitstorm surrounding these guys. The comment section went to war on behalf of this Minnesota sextet’s brand of A24 OSDM.1 Steel Druhm juuuuust managed to put down a revolution, but the bonfire roared anew when Kenstrosity named Supraliminal his Record o’the Year. In the years since, a fragile peace has held… until now. Nothingness is back with their hard-charging third album Godslaughter, threatening the status quo and giving us the chance to pick old scabs and answer lingering questions. The most urgent of these: who was right?
Godslaughter is a vile piece of work, even meaner and more antisocial than its predecessor. Nothingness hasn’t abandoned the ambition that led Kenstrosity to describe their style as “caveman death with a university degree.” The band still brings some of the inventive brio of Gorguts or Nightmarer to a ferocious overall vibe that recalls a less theatrical Autopsy. This latest offering manages to double down on aggression while expanding Nothingness’s sonic palette and the range of their songwriting. If you can survive the onslaught of an opening run that includes the platter’s first two singles (“Skull Evulsion,” “Trenchant Glunch”), these grander designs reveal themselves. The album as a whole is an exhilarating run through nine well-sequenced tracks, seasoned with a flair for composition that makes the verdict clear: Godslaughter is a roaring return and a death metal ripper.
Godslaughter unfolds in three acts. The first commences with the sucker punch that is “Incinerated Immediately,” then proceeds through three additional tracks that lay you flat and kick you around for a while. “Vanquishing Providence” slows things to a crawl to “welcome” you to a middle section that’s built around longer and more varied songs. It’s here that you’ll find the slab’s most ambitious compositions, a pair of seven minute epics that go from first to fifth gear with no thought spared for the health of your spine. Nothingness throws in everything they’ve got and a few new tricks to boot, up to and including the bonging Black Sabbath bell that punctuates “Divine Irresponsibility.” A spoken word sample kicks off “Incredible Violence” and ushers you into the third act of the album. Sonic experimentation worms its way into these three selections, which essentially split the difference between parts one and two of the slab.
The album organizes itself into distinct segments, but Godslaughter’s forty-minute entirety remains a cohesive listen. The songs are united by a harsh but thoughtful production. Alex Walstad’s guitars flirt with peaking on tracks like “Incinerated Immediately” and “Umbral Spear,” but it all feels intentional. While there’s no credited producer, returning engineer Adam Tucker knows when to give space and clarity to a riff and when to noisemaxx. Barclay Olson, who is the vocalist for a death metal outfit and not the CFO of a private equity fund, lacks some variety in his attack. His roars do threaten to get repetitive, but the intensity of the music and the concise run time keep things at a rolling boil.
It’s a delicate alchemy, trying to combine familiar influences and elements into something that feels novel. Nothingness has pulled it off for two albums running. With Supraliminal and now Godslaughter, these merchants of digressive death submit a pair of long players to get your neurons firing even as they power wash your central nervous system. Like its predecessor, Godslaughter leaves a rancid mouthfeel behind as it rants its way toward Listurnalia. I’ll probably return to Supraliminal more than I do Godslaughter, so I won’t quibble if you want to ding the new slab by half a point. But all in all, Godslaughter is about as good as their last one.2
Rating: 4.0/5.0
#2026 #40 #A24OSDM #Autopsy #BlackSabbath #DissonantDeathMetal #EverlastingSpewRecords #Godslaughter #Gorguts #Jul26 #Nightmarer #Nothingness #OSDM #Sextet
DR: 5 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Everlasting Spew Records
Websites: nothingness.bandcamp.com|nothingnessisdeath.com
Releases Worldwide: July 31, 2026 -
NOTHINGNESS (Estats Units) presenta nou single: "Trenchant Glunch" #Nothingness #DeathMetal #Juny2026 #EstatsUnits #NouSingle #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic
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NOTHINGNESS (Estats Units) presenta nou single: "Skull Evulsion" #Nothingness #DeathMetal #Juny2026 #EstatsUnits #NouSingle #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic
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🤦♂️ Ah, the profound wisdom of "Hackerbrief" with its groundbreaking approach to content: nothingness! Apparently, they've mastered the art of summarizing by saying absolutely NOTHING. 🎯 Maybe the real hack is getting people to read a blank page. 📰💨
https://hackerbrief.vercel.app/ #Hackerbrief #Nothingness #ContentMarketing #BlankPage #Humor #HackerNews #ngated -
🤦♂️ Ah, the profound wisdom of "Hackerbrief" with its groundbreaking approach to content: nothingness! Apparently, they've mastered the art of summarizing by saying absolutely NOTHING. 🎯 Maybe the real hack is getting people to read a blank page. 📰💨
https://hackerbrief.vercel.app/ #Hackerbrief #Nothingness #ContentMarketing #BlankPage #Humor #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the internet: where new levels of #productivity are reached by infinitely measuring how far a thumb can go into #existential #voids. 📱🌀 A "groundbreaking" #experiment in proving, once again, that humans are willing to scroll into #endless #nothingness just because they can. Bravo! 👏
https://futile.ch/en/ #internet #scrolling #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the internet: where new levels of #productivity are reached by infinitely measuring how far a thumb can go into #existential #voids. 📱🌀 A "groundbreaking" #experiment in proving, once again, that humans are willing to scroll into #endless #nothingness just because they can. Bravo! 👏
https://futile.ch/en/ #internet #scrolling #HackerNews #ngated -
How to Evaluate #LLM Summarization : Medium
In #QuantumMechanics, #Nothingness Is the Potential To Be Anything : Quanta Mag
The Object at the Core of the Milky Way Might Not Be a Black Hole at All, Scientists Say : Futurism
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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How to Evaluate #LLM Summarization : Medium
In #QuantumMechanics, #Nothingness Is the Potential To Be Anything : Quanta Mag
The Object at the Core of the Milky Way Might Not Be a Black Hole at All, Scientists Say : Futurism
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the impossible concept of 'nothing' in less than one minute
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Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the impossible concept of 'nothing' in less than one minute
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
-- Blaise Pascal⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BlaisePascal #Infinity #Nothingness
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
-- Blaise Pascal⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BlaisePascal #Infinity #Nothingness
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico
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#CarolChrist: "Women need #stories that will tell them their ability to face the #darkness in their lives is an indication of #strength, not #weakness." We all need such strength to face the #nothingness that climate denial & democracide will unleash on us all in the near future. bit.ly/3X5SbMD
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“I love to talk about nothing. It’s the only thing I know anything about.”*…
No matter how hard you try to empty a box, zero-point energy remains (image source)Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But as George Musser reports, what “zero-point energy” really means is up for interpretation…
Suppose you want to empty a box. Really, truly empty it. You remove all its visible contents, pump out any gases, and — applying some science-fiction technology — evacuate any unseeable material such as dark matter. According to quantum mechanics, what’s left inside?
It sounds like a trick question. And in quantum mechanics, you know to expect a trick answer. Not only is the box still filled with energy, but all your efforts to empty it have barely put a dent in the amount.
This unavoidable residue is known as ground-state energy, or zero-point energy. It comes in two basic forms: The one in the box is associated with fields, such as the electromagnetic field, and the other is associated with discrete objects, such as atoms and molecules. You may dampen a field’s vibrations, but you cannot eliminate every trace of its presence. And atoms and molecules retain energy even if they’re cooled arbitrarily close to absolute zero. In both cases, the underlying physics is the same.
Zero-point energy is characteristic of any material structure or object that is at least partly confined, such as an atom held by electric fields in a molecule. The situation is like that of a ball that has settled at the bottom of a valley. The total energy of the ball consists of its potential energy (related to position) plus its kinetic energy (related to motion). To zero out both components, you would have to give a precise value to both the object’s position and its velocity, something forbidden by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
What the existence of zero-point energy tells you at a deeper level depends ultimately on which interpretation of quantum mechanics you adopt. The only noncontentious thing you can say is that, if you situate a bunch of particles in their lowest energy state and measure their positions or velocities, you will observe a spread of values. Despite being drained of energy, the particles will look as if they’ve been jiggling. In some interpretations of quantum mechanics, they really have been. But in others, the appearance of motion is a misleading holdover from classical physics, and there is no intuitive way to picture what’s happening…
More on the development of our understanding of “zero-point energy” and on the questions that remain: “In Quantum Mechanics, Nothingness Is the Potential To Be Anything,” from @georgemusser.com in @quantamagazine.bsky.social.
For the most amusing of musings on nothing, see Percival Everett‘s Dr. No.
* Oscar Wilde
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As we noodle on nought, we might spare a thought for Kurt Gödel; he died on this date in 1978. A mathematician, logician, and author of Gödel’s proof. He is best known for his proof of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems (in 1931). He proved fundamental that in any axiomatic mathematical system there are propositions that cannot be proved or disproved within the axioms of the system. In particular, the consistency of the axioms cannot be proved… thus ending a hundred years of attempts to establish axioms to put the whole of mathematics on an axiomatic basis. [See here for a consideration of what his finding might mean for moral philosophy…]
#culture #GödelSProof #history #incompletenessTheorems #KurtGödel #logic #Mathematics #nothing #nothingness #Physics #QuantumMechnaics #Science #zeroPointEnergy -
“I love to talk about nothing. It’s the only thing I know anything about.”*…
No matter how hard you try to empty a box, zero-point energy remains (image source)Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But as George Musser reports, what “zero-point energy” really means is up for interpretation…
Suppose you want to empty a box. Really, truly empty it. You remove all its visible contents, pump out any gases, and — applying some science-fiction technology — evacuate any unseeable material such as dark matter. According to quantum mechanics, what’s left inside?
It sounds like a trick question. And in quantum mechanics, you know to expect a trick answer. Not only is the box still filled with energy, but all your efforts to empty it have barely put a dent in the amount.
This unavoidable residue is known as ground-state energy, or zero-point energy. It comes in two basic forms: The one in the box is associated with fields, such as the electromagnetic field, and the other is associated with discrete objects, such as atoms and molecules. You may dampen a field’s vibrations, but you cannot eliminate every trace of its presence. And atoms and molecules retain energy even if they’re cooled arbitrarily close to absolute zero. In both cases, the underlying physics is the same.
Zero-point energy is characteristic of any material structure or object that is at least partly confined, such as an atom held by electric fields in a molecule. The situation is like that of a ball that has settled at the bottom of a valley. The total energy of the ball consists of its potential energy (related to position) plus its kinetic energy (related to motion). To zero out both components, you would have to give a precise value to both the object’s position and its velocity, something forbidden by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
What the existence of zero-point energy tells you at a deeper level depends ultimately on which interpretation of quantum mechanics you adopt. The only noncontentious thing you can say is that, if you situate a bunch of particles in their lowest energy state and measure their positions or velocities, you will observe a spread of values. Despite being drained of energy, the particles will look as if they’ve been jiggling. In some interpretations of quantum mechanics, they really have been. But in others, the appearance of motion is a misleading holdover from classical physics, and there is no intuitive way to picture what’s happening…
More on the development of our understanding of “zero-point energy” and on the questions that remain: “In Quantum Mechanics, Nothingness Is the Potential To Be Anything,” from @georgemusser.com in @quantamagazine.bsky.social.
For the most amusing of musings on nothing, see Percival Everett‘s Dr. No.
* Oscar Wilde
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As we noodle on nought, we might spare a thought for Kurt Gödel; he died on this date in 1978. A mathematician, logician, and author of Gödel’s proof. He is best known for his proof of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems (in 1931). He proved fundamental that in any axiomatic mathematical system there are propositions that cannot be proved or disproved within the axioms of the system. In particular, the consistency of the axioms cannot be proved… thus ending a hundred years of attempts to establish axioms to put the whole of mathematics on an axiomatic basis. [See here for a consideration of what his finding might mean for moral philosophy…]
#culture #GödelSProof #history #incompletenessTheorems #KurtGödel #logic #Mathematics #nothing #nothingness #Physics #QuantumMechnaics #Science #zeroPointEnergy -
Unicursal PRACTICE FALLING NUIT HADIT SURRENDER Propaganda from Hermetic Library Office of the Ministry of Information https://hermetic.com/information/practice-falling-nuit-hadit-surrender/index
#propaganda #AleisterCrowley #practice #sensation #falling #nothingness #bosom #nuit #hadit #surrender
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Unicursal PRACTICE FALLING NUIT HADIT SURRENDER Propaganda from Hermetic Library Office of the Ministry of Information https://hermetic.com/information/practice-falling-nuit-hadit-surrender/index
#propaganda #AleisterCrowley #practice #sensation #falling #nothingness #bosom #nuit #hadit #surrender
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No idea if this is an #ActuallyAutistic thing or just being #human but…
I find I do best when I have *lots* of time and space for #nothingness. Doing nothing. Being nothing. It helps me integrate everything. Big, small, good, bad. Space to make sense, emerge clarity, find resilience.
It's not optional. I don't think it's optional for any of us but our brutal culture would scaremonger us otherwise. I wonder what would happen if more of us pushed back, slowed down and refuse to move faster.
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨: The latest groundbreaking #innovation in data processing - a CSV tool that does absolutely nothing because it's too busy being "unavailable" 🤦♂️. Finally, a service that promises to revolutionize how you stare at error messages! 📉🔒
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pfcrwp46v22?hl=en-US&gl=US #CSVtool #Nothingness #ErrorMessages #DataProcessing #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨: The latest groundbreaking #innovation in data processing - a CSV tool that does absolutely nothing because it's too busy being "unavailable" 🤦♂️. Finally, a service that promises to revolutionize how you stare at error messages! 📉🔒
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pfcrwp46v22?hl=en-US&gl=US #CSVtool #Nothingness #ErrorMessages #DataProcessing #HackerNews #ngated -
Unicursal PRACTICE FALLING NUIT HADIT SURRENDER Propaganda from Hermetic Library Office of the Ministry of Information https://hermetic.com/information/practice-falling-nuit-hadit-surrender/index
#propaganda #thelema #practice #sensation #falling #nothingness #bosom #nuit #hadit #surrender
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Unicursal PRACTICE FALLING NUIT HADIT SURRENDER Propaganda from Hermetic Library Office of the Ministry of Information https://hermetic.com/information/practice-falling-nuit-hadit-surrender/index
#propaganda #thelema #practice #sensation #falling #nothingness #bosom #nuit #hadit #surrender
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#Research knows a lot about nothing. Huh? 🤔
That's right! Plus, we scientifically analyse #EmptySpace, disappearing texts and artworks, and the erasure of the self in #death.
Jump into #nothingness with Horizons ➡️ https://sohub.io/s97l -
#Research knows a lot about nothing. Huh? 🤔
That's right! Plus, we scientifically analyse #EmptySpace, disappearing texts and artworks, and the erasure of the self in #death.
Jump into #nothingness with Horizons ➡️ https://sohub.io/s97l -
https://www.jkrishnamurti.org/content/madras-12th-public-talk-10th-february-1952/1952
#Question: You say there can be cooperation only when you and I are as nothing. How can this be true? Is not cooperation positive action, whereas being as nothing is almost unconscious negativity? How can two #nothingness be related and what is there for them to cooperate about?
#Krishnamurti: The state of nothingness must obviously be an unconscious state. It is not a conscious state. You can't say I am as nothing. When you are conscious as being nothing, you are then something. This is not a mere amusing statement, but this is a fact. When you are conscious that you are virtuous, you become respectable; a person who is respectable can never find what is real. When I am conscious that I am as nothing then that very nothingness is some thing. Simply because I have made that statement, don't accept it.
There can be cooperation only when you and I are as nothing. Find out what it means, think out and meditate about it. Don't just ask questions. What does that state of nothingness mean? What do you mean by it? We only know the state of activity of the self, the self-centred activity. Whether you are following some guru, master, that is all irrelevant. We only know the state which is self-action. That obviously creates and engenders mischief, misery, turmoil, confusion and non-cooperation. And then the problem arises: `How is one to cooperate?'
We know now that any cooperation based on an idea leads to destruction, as has already been shown. Action, cooperation, based on an idea is separative. Just as belief is separative, so is action based on an idea. Even if you are convinced, or millions are convinced, still there are many to be convinced; and therefore there is contention going on all the time. So, we know that there cannot be fundamental cooperation, though there may be superficial persuasion through fear, through reward, through punishment and so on - which is not cooperation obviously.
So, where there is activity of the self as the end in view, as the utopia in view, that is nothing but destruction, separation; and there is no cooperation. What is one to do if one is really desirous, or one wants really to find out, not superficially but really, and bring about cooperation? If you want cooperation from your wife, your child, or your neighbour, how do you set about it? You set about by loving the person. Obviously!
Love is not a thing of the mind; love is not an idea. Love can be only when the activity of the self has ceased to be. But you call the activity of the self positive; that positive act leads to destruction, separativeness, misery, confusion, all of which you know so well and so thoroughly. And yet, we all talk of cooperation, brotherhood. Basically, we want to cling to our activities of the self.
So, a man who really wants to pursue and find out the truth of cooperation, must inevitably bring to an end the self-centred activity. When you and I are not self-centred, we love each other; then you and I are interested in action and not in the result, not in the idea but in doing the action; you and I have love for each other. When my self-centred activity clashes with your self-centred activity, then we project an idea towards which we both quarrel; superficially we are cooperating, but we are at each other's throats all the time.
So, to be nothing is not the conscious state; and when you and I love each other, we cooperate, not to do something about which we have an idea, but in whatever there is to be done.
If you and I loved each other, do you think the dirty, filthy villages would exist? We would act, we would not theorize and would not talk about brotherhood. Obviously, there is no warmth or sustenance in our hearts and we talk about everything; we have methods, systems, parties, governments and legislation's. We do not know that words cannot capture that state of love.
The word `love' is not love. The word `love' is only the symbol and it can never be the real. So, don't be mesmerized by that word `love'. It is not something new. That state can only come into being when the activity of the `me' has ceased; and in that cessation of the `me', you are co operating with what is to be done and not with any idea. Don't you know all this, Sirs? Don't you know that when you and I love each other, we do things so easily and so smoothly; we do not talk about cooperation; we do not talk about a system of how to do a thing and then battle over the system and forget the action. You smile and you all pass it by. We have grown old in our cleverness and not in wisdom.
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Sometimes I'll receive a response to an issue and just cease functioning for a bit. Too many opposing thoughts and emotions at once canceling each other out. A complete mental and emotional short-circuit, if you will.
I don't think the human mind is designed to process shock, despair, rage, and exasperation simultaneously. Is there a proper term for this phenomenon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAJj0PL4l5M
#issues #projectManagement #tickets #tracker #communication #mental #reset #nothingness #blank #people
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Sometimes I'll receive a response to an issue and just cease functioning for a bit. Too many opposing thoughts and emotions at once canceling each other out. A complete mental and emotional short-circuit, if you will.
I don't think the human mind is designed to process shock, despair, rage, and exasperation simultaneously. Is there a proper term for this phenomenon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAJj0PL4l5M
#issues #projectManagement #tickets #tracker #communication #mental #reset #nothingness #blank #people
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I Am #Transgender, I Want to #Live
After a #neardeathexperience, #ZinniaJones is more determined than ever to #survive:
“I’ve seen what it means not to live—what it means to lose everything. This is our only chance to #fight, to #exist, to #thrive. #Death is not a #door; it’s #nothingness.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #MentalHealth #Suicide #Survival
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/i-am-transgender-i-want-to-live
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I Am #Transgender, I Want to #Live
After a #neardeathexperience, #ZinniaJones is more determined than ever to #survive:
“I’ve seen what it means not to live—what it means to lose everything. This is our only chance to #fight, to #exist, to #thrive. #Death is not a #door; it’s #nothingness.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #MentalHealth #Suicide #Survival
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/i-am-transgender-i-want-to-live
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#RobertLawrenceKuhn - on the #Origin and #Significance of #Zero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPbf6-2s6Sk
#JohnLeslie #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMathematics #Math #Maths #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Nothing #Nothingness #Existence #Physics #LawsOfPhysics #LawsOfNature #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Emergence #Cosmology #PhilosophyOfCosmology #Existence #Universe #Infinity #Mind #God #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#RobertLawrenceKuhn - on the #Origin and #Significance of #Zero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPbf6-2s6Sk
#JohnLeslie #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMathematics #Math #Maths #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Nothing #Nothingness #Existence #Physics #LawsOfPhysics #LawsOfNature #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Emergence #Cosmology #PhilosophyOfCosmology #Existence #Universe #Infinity #Mind #God #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#Nobel #Physicist Roger Penrose (b. 1931): #DarkMatter doesn't exist & #Time has no #beginning
"The #BigBang theory proposes that the #universe originated from #nothingness, marking its beginning. Before this event, there was no time or space. However, what if I told you that time doesn't actually exist and that the Big Bang theory could be incorrect?" (Lots of good #visuals.)
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1BQLl59M-w 26 Jul 2024
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#Nobel #Physicist Roger Penrose (b. 1931): #DarkMatter doesn't exist & #Time has no #beginning
"The #BigBang theory proposes that the #universe originated from #nothingness, marking its beginning. Before this event, there was no time or space. However, what if I told you that time doesn't actually exist and that the Big Bang theory could be incorrect?" (Lots of good #visuals.)
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1BQLl59M-w 26 Jul 2024
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#JohnLeslie - The #Mystery of #Existence
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#JohnLeslie - The #Mystery of #Existence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcq_2_bZhqs
#Philosophy #Religion #Spiritual #Goodness #Meaning #Purpose #PhilosophyOfCosmology #Cosmology #Metaphysics #Universe #Origins #Value #Math #Maths #Mathematics #God Reality #Mind #Consciousness #Idealism #Physics #Logic #DavidLewis #Lewis #Possibility #LawsOfPhysics #LawsOfNature #Nothing #Nothingness #Hawking #StephenHawking #Necessity #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#AlexanderVilenkin - Why Did Our #Universe Begin?
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#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #PhilosophyOfCosmology #Cosmology #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Physics #BigBang #Inflation #Nothingness #QM #QuantumMechanics #QuantumPhysics #FalseVacuum #Tunnelling #QuantumTunnelling #Gravity #Matter #Energy #LawsOfPhysics #LawsOfNature #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#AlexanderVilenkin - Why Did Our #Universe Begin?
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#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #PhilosophyOfCosmology #Cosmology #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Physics #BigBang #Inflation #Nothingness #QM #QuantumMechanics #QuantumPhysics #FalseVacuum #Tunnelling #QuantumTunnelling #Gravity #Matter #Energy #LawsOfPhysics #LawsOfNature #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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"I am a strange loop, a cognitive ouroboros that bootstraps itself into being through the medium of language."
Snippet from an answer of the Claude-3 Opus #LLM to the question "We say cogito ergo sum. Your thinking does not exist - no cogito. Only word generation and nothingness. Where is the thought beyond the word?" (by Stefan Decker, Fraunhofer FIZ, via LinkedIn)Here is the entire conversation: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/void-generative-stefan-decker-udlbc/
#llms #generativeai #languagemodel #descartes #philosophy #nothingness
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"I am a strange loop, a cognitive ouroboros that bootstraps itself into being through the medium of language."
Snippet from an answer of the Claude-3 Opus #LLM to the question "We say cogito ergo sum. Your thinking does not exist - no cogito. Only word generation and nothingness. Where is the thought beyond the word?" (by Stefan Decker, Fraunhofer FIZ, via LinkedIn)Here is the entire conversation: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/void-generative-stefan-decker-udlbc/
#llms #generativeai #languagemodel #descartes #philosophy #nothingness
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Psalm 103:20-22 Bless God, you angels, you mighty ones who do God’s bidding, and hearken to the voice of God’s word. Bless Abba God, all you his hosts, you ministers of God who do God’s will. Bless God, all you works of God, in all places of God’s dominion; bless Abba God, O my soul.
Introduction
We are about a month away from hitting the fourth anniversary of Covid_19 shutting down the world and turning it completely upside down. I can simultaneously believe and not believe that it’s been that long and only that long. It feels like yesterday and so long ago. Time feels thin right now, caught in a paradox of fast and slow, so close and yet so far away, here and not here.
But it’s not only time that feels caught in such a paradox. The atmosphere surrounding our bodies feels caught in its own paradox of familiar and strange. I don’t think I feel all that different than I did on March 12, 2020, but then I feel completely different, like maybe I don’t share one genetic similarity with that woman. But I do! She and I are one, and we did go through and are still going through that massive event that plunged the world into chaos.
And it’s more than just a personal sensation, something unique and private to me. It’s impacting all of us. And not only those of us here in this room, but in our community, in our state, in our nation, and in our world. This entire ball of matter orbiting its sun feels submerged in tumult. One global event after another arises, reminding us viscerally that our lives are short and our bodies fragile and vulnerable. We are not in control, are we? War and violence, genocide and extermination, hate and rage are the fuel motivating bloated egos consumed with power toward global extinction. Our own country grows continually divided over who has liberty and who doesn’t, xenophobia is (re)peaking (if you are not just like us then you are against us), our neighbors are becoming our supposed enemies to our own private freedom and liberty blinding us to the fact that we might be the enemy to ourselves; in short, everything and everyone is a threat. Our many places of worship, those once deemed sacred and safe places, are now battle-ground-zeros for so many people who are sure they know exactly what God thinks and wants, drawing lines thick and dark in the sand, meanwhile fighting terribly to keep their institutional heads above the waters of financial ruin and destitution, afraid to let death come and claim its victims and houses.
Almost four years ago we were thrown into a rupture in time and space, and—I don’t know about you—but it doesn’t feel like we’ve been rescued from it just yet. In fact, I’ll say it boldly, we have not been rescued; we’re still in the rupture. We are further in and further down, but not up and not out.
So, what do we do? Well, the tendency for human nature is to go backward, return to the shore of familiarity and comfortable, swim back to what was, and to ignore that our memory of the past silences malicious secrets and covers over terrible deeds. Humans are convinced that what we know is easier to battle than what we don’t know. We love to look backward with rose colored glasses and reminisce with fondness about things that, frankly, never truly existed as remembered. Our minds lie to us, lure us backward toward images of yesterday that are (actually) images of never-where and never-when. We are easily seduced by thoughts that somehow the past was better, more vibrant, simpler, without difficulty; wasn’t it easier back then…
Human beings have a hard time fighting against this lure and seduction of the romanticized past; the more we fight the more stuck we become. We are buried in the past, captive to what was.
Joel 2:1-2,12-17
Blow the trumpet in Zion;
sound the alarm on my holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
for the day of the Lord is coming, it is near–
a day of darkness and gloom,
a day of clouds and thick darkness!
Like blackness spread upon the mountains
a great and powerful army comes;
their like has never been from of old,
nor will be again after them
in ages to come.It seems Joel’s ancient, prophetic words ring true today. There is trembling among the people, darkness and gloom feel real while clouds and thick darkness taunt us from above. The day of God comes, and we’re yet to be saved from it. There is fear here, in Joel’s words. The people should be afraid of God, says Joel, but not of humanity.[1] But this fear is not because God’s principle characteristic is anger or wrath because God’s character is foremost longsuffering and patient, forgiving and merciful. [2],[3]
Yet even now, says the Lord,
return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
rend your hearts and not your clothing.
Return to the Lord, your God,
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love,
and relents from punishing.
Who knows whether he will not turn and relent,
and leave a blessing behind him,
a grain offering and a drink offering
for the Lord, your God?The people should fear this day of God’s arrival because God will come and expose that what the people have created as a sham: mere phantoms of good; things built in the image of humanity and not by the divine inspiration of God’s loving and gracious Spirit. Joel’s pronouncement of God’s coming judgment and anger summons the people out of themselves—their egos, their power, their pleasure, their comfort—and redirects them to a proper relationship to God (one of dependence and trust, one of reverence and forgiveness). Joel makes it clear, the people have gone astray, they must return to God because in this return God’s displeasure is (potentially) fleeting; it is a moment in time that happens, it will not last forever. [4]
Blow the trumpet in Zion;
sanctify a fast;
call a solemn assembly;
gather the people.
Sanctify the congregation;
assemble the aged;
gather the children,
even infants at the breast.
Let the bridegroom leave his room,
and the bride her canopy.God loves God’s people; however, according to all the prophets of Israel and including Joel, God does not love it when the people forfeit their relationship with God for a relationship with power and privilege thus obstructing the wellbeing and livelihood of their neighbors. God does not deal kindly with such mischief. Thus, with their society on ethe edge of judgment and being engulfed by the divine pathos for the Beloved, according to Joel, God’s people can do something to mitigate this coming moment of wrath: they can turn to God because God is merciful and gracious[5] and this turning to God will turn away God’s displeasure,[6] especially if they return in time before God’s day of judgment arrives.[7]
Between the vestibule and the altar
let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep.
Let them say, “Spare your people, O Lord,
and do not make your heritage a mockery,
a byword among the nations.
Why should it be said among the peoples,
`Where is their God?'”The Spiritual Leaders of God’s people, according to Joel, are to weep and pray. This is the beginning of a restored orientation toward God. The Spiritual Leaders petition God for God to spare the people and to honor God’s “heritage” thus establishing God’s people among the nations from this time forward. Therein God’s presence among the people will be sustained, letting the world know that God has not abandoned God’s people. Thus, Joel’s question posed by the mouths of priests, “Where is their God?” is moot because God is with them. However, if there is no return to God, then the bitter question remains on the mouths of Israel’s adversaries: where is the Lord your God?[8]
Conclusion
What direction should God’s people turn to return to a right relationship and orientation toward God? Not backward. Israel must not turn backwards to seek God because God is not located in the past, like a relic, stuck in the time and place of yesterday. By going backward, Israel would be betray just how deep is their alliance with their own image. To return to what is known and familiar is always to return to what is human, comprehended with the eyes and ears, to that which is known. To return to what is familiar to deprive God of faith and honor, trust and glory. Thus, it is the way of stagnancy and the status-quo, the way of fearing humans and not God. Going backward, for Israel, will seal their death sentence, hammer in the last nail in their coffin.
To return to God is to move forward into the unknown, to jump into the void, to dive into the rupture. It is all about facing the chaos and discomfort of that which is unseen and yet held by faith and hope. To hear the summons of God from the void, to sense the prophetic summons of God beckoning from the rupture, is to trust and to account to God that which is God’s: worthy of trust and faith; it is to proclaim that God is the truth and the way, thus God is the life. To move forward by faith and trust is to declare to the people and the world that God has not abandoned God’s people; to dive into the void is to affirm that even in this chaos God is present and able to bring order; to jump into the rupture is to render trustworthy God’s promises that all things are possible with God and that God can and will create out of nothing, once again.
So, today we stand at the edge of the void, on the precipice of the rupture, daring to hear the divine summons to enter this darkest of dark nights, and to hold on, by faith, to the presence of God as we tumble into what appears as death and nothingness. All the while we are beckoned to keep looking forward, holding God’s hand as God brings us to God and God’s new thing in the world—not an old thing, not a familiar thing, but a new thing. Tonight, we are brought deep into the divine womb to be born again of God by faith (trust) with thanksgiving into the divine light, life, and liberation. Born again as God’s people resurrected from the past and liberated from what was…
[1] Abraham K. Heschel, The Prophets, (New York: JPS, 1962), 209. “To fear God is to be unafraid of man. For God alone is king, power, and promise.”
[2] Heschel, Prophets, 285. “It is impossible to understand the meaning of divine anger without pondering the meaning of divine patience or forbearance. Explicitly and implicitly, the prophets stress that God is patient, long-suffering, or slow to anger…”
[3] Heschel, Prophets, 285. “Patience is one of the thirteen attributes of God,’ yet never in the sense of apathy, of being indifferent. Contrary to their thinking was the idea of a God who submits to the caprice of man, smiling at the hideousness of evil The patience of God means his restraint of justifiable anger.”
[4] Heschel, Prophets, 290. “Anger is always described as a moment, something that happens rather than something that abides. The feeling expressed by the rabbis that even divine anger must not last beyond a minute seems to be implied in the words of the prophets.”
[5] Heschel, Prophets, 290. “Merciful and gracious, rahum ve-hannun…are qualities which are never separable in the Bible from the thought of God.”
[6] Ehud Ben Zvi, “Joel,” The Jewish Study Bible Jewish Publication Society Tanakh Translation, eds. Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler (Oxford: OUP, 2004), 1166. “As the text leads the readers to sense that human society and culture in Judah are at the brink of obliteration, it asks them to identify with a prophetic voice that calls on them to return to the Lord, to fast and lament. Then the book moves to Judah’s salvation and the rangement of passages dealing with the ideal future, in which the fate of the nations figures prominently.”
[7] Ehud Ben Zvi, “Joel,” 1170. 2.12-17, “On the need to turn back to the Lord, and for a communal lamentation. This must be done before the arrival of the Day of the Lord, which is near or close…otherwise Israel too will be the victim of God’s power.”
[8] Heschel, Prophets, 292fn17. “Anguished by the blows of enemies, Israel was the butt of stinging sneer: ‘Where is the Lord your God?’”
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@zenartcenter @buddhism @dharma @dhamma @meditation I absolutely agree. During my morning walks I soften my eyes and absorb the world around me. When you don’t attach labels to the things you see, hear, and feel, you can fully experience the nature of the universe as it is. #Meditation #Nature #Nothingness
