September 10, 1999

I was thinking about what I wrote last time and I figured I'd follow it up with another of its kind so it's like a conclusion.

More words on how something comes from Nothing? Nothing IS Something…depending on how you see it. What is a Void? Does it exist? Yes. The Void is not Nothing. The Void is something that REPRESENTS Nothing.

So does your inspiration come from the Nothing? or from the Void? Well, if one represents the other, then the answer is: both…in order for the Void to be there, the Nothing has to exist. And if it exists, you can draw inspiration from it. THE VOID CANNOT REPRESENT SOMETHING THAT DOES NOT EXIST.

In other words, what the TERM Nothing entails and what it actually IS are two different things. Nothing means empty space...non existing...but if it doesn't exist, it cannot be represented. Well, Void represents Nothing. Therefore, Nothing exists and it is Something.

Another thought. If the Void represents the Nothing, what does the Nothing represent? Non existence? Yes? then non existence DOES exist and therefore is not a NON-action. The fact that it can be represented, the fact that it can be conceived in the mind...makes it exist. So...does everything exist? If everything conceived in your mind can exist, then what about what CAN'T be conceived in your mind? Is that non existent? No. Because you are thinking about it all as a WHOLE right now. So…everything exists.

Now...we all know you can't have something without an equal opponent. Good and evil, up and down, etc…one makes the other unique. By this rule, you can't have something that exists unless you have something that does NOT exist. Well, if we just proved that everything DOES exist, and nothing is NON existent, there's only one side to the equation, and it's canceled out.

So now NOTHING exists? If everything that exists is canceled out, then no…NOTHING exists. But then again we're faced with a one-sided equation that cancels itself out. This just proves that existence is in a constant state of flux. Everything you see and touch and conceive both exists and non-exists and they do them both in perfect harmony. Each side of the equation is constantly canceling out the other and in turn is canceled out only to repeat the cycle.

The cycle: Existence cancels out non existence. This is done first because we proved that everything exists. We have our one-sided equation and it is canceled out. So now NOTHING exists. Once again we have our one-sided equation and it is canceled out. Once again everything exists and the cycle repeats and it repeats again.

How long does it take to complete one cycle? Think of the smallest conceivable fraction of time which of course is impossible because fractions are numbers and numbers are infinite. It takes an infinite amount of time to complete.

Because the human brain is incapable of such brief calculations, we would never know when infinity would stop and when it would begin. And since it's US that generally would be keeping score (in a sense), we can say that everything exists and non exists all the time.

By that rationale, everything is itself AND its opposite all of the time. Everything is clear and opaque. Everything is large and small. Everything is bad and good. Everything is all of these things at once. The same goes for Nothing.

This includes time as we proved above…it takes an infinite amount of time to complete a cycle? Infinite as in going on without end. So either it's going on forever, or taking the shortest time possible which is IMPOSSIBLE because all time is INFINITE!!! It gets smaller and smaller forever therefore, whether it is more time or less, the end is never met. THE END IS NEVER MET.

Everything is and is not. Everything takes the perceived shortest and longest time possible. Nothing is ANYTHING and ANYTHING is EVERYTHING. There are no opposites. The only opposites that are perceived to exist are the images given to us by our eyes. Our eyes do not have minds. Our eyes cannot tell us what is there. We KNOW what is there we just have to choose to believe it.

Our eyes are lenses. Telescopes have lenses. Telescopes give us false information on the beauty of distance. Cameras have lenses. Cameras give us false information on the beauty of size and texture. Our eyes have lenses. Our eyes give us false information on the beauty of what is actually THERE. We cannot find out what is there through the material senses. And since we have nothing BUT our material senses, we will never truly experience the beauty of what it is to BE. The most we can do is know it is there. But we will never get there.

YOU WILL NEVER GET THERE. ART WILL NOT BRING YOU THERE. MUSIC WILL NOT BRING YOU THERE. PEOPLE SECRETLY KNOW THIS AND THEREFORE CHOOSE TO NOT MAKE ART AND TO NOT MAKE MUSIC. THE FACT THAT YOU WILL NEVER GET THERE IS THE SHORT RUN. THE SHORT RUN IS WHAT MAKES PEOPLE THINK THEY HAVE NO INSPIRATION. WE HAVE INSPIRATION AND WE RECEIVE IT IN THE LONG RUN. THE LONG RUN IS THAT WE MAKE ART AND WE MAKE MUSIC AND IT BRINGS US TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT WE CANNOT BE. AND HOW WE CAN APPRECIATE WHAT WE CAN BE.

we do not need to look any further. we are already there. The end for now . . . nice day for somethin' . . .

Words of Wisdom: "I don't have any wisdom."