Nothing
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If not for you, there would be nothing for you.

Before you, there was nothing for you other than the
predecessors of what you some day would become,
but you certainly knew nothing of such things until
you arrived and but for the interaction of all that came
before you, the you that is you would not be.

After you, well, as most of the sleeping night, your
consciousness is absent, so is your likely fate but
I hope you'll live pleasantly forever, in a natural way,
I just don't expect that's your fate.

Notice a theme, here? All that is surrounds you and
you are a part of all that is. Before you were here,
you knew not, while you're here you have periods
known as sleep in which nothing and you are one
from your perception yet even while here, almost
all of that which is unknown and unexperienced
by you, and after your conscience being is no more
in this plain of existence, all you now know and all
you once were will return from whence it came, in
this dimension, and the you of the now has but hope
of a continued pleasant and natural existence, if you
desire to have hope.

In all of that, you might notice the natural is ever
present. If you can notice nothing, you exist. If
you cannot notice nothing, nothing does not exist
to you in that now.

You are a natural part of a natural world and that
which you call you is a part of all that is and all
that is cannot be grasped by the human mind.

Why is there something or anything? You cannot
handle the answer because it entails every aspect
of every entity of every bit of every instance of
now - in other words, you are unable to grasp the
answer because the answer is unfathomably far
beyond the totality of that which is you, the totality
of every processing aspect of your human brain.

If you were enhanced to the 'n'th degree, capable
of perceiving/grasping all that is, you would so 'not
be you' as to make such a journey futile as it would
be the death of you.

Know what you can know, in a natural way in a
natural world and know that therein resides the
answers that you can grasp. Beyond that, whatever
that limit is, shall forever be the unknown and the
mysterious.

If you call the unknown, the mysterious, the nothing,
god, you have merely reduced the unfathomable to
a meaningless word which can only be grasped by
placing it in a box and setting limits for it based on
human imagination/desires/fears/needs.

In other words, you've taken nothing, defined limits
and parameters and responsibilities and tasks for
nothing based on human imagination/desires/fears/
needs, and ended up with what you started with in
the first place, nothing.

In reality, nothing constructed into a concept called
god is nothing but a reflection of humans if you wish
to spin the nothing into something humans can grasp,
but which has all the relevance, in reality, of nothing.

Not to say that the pretending that nothing is something
called god isn't one of the most powerful imaginations
to ever plague humankind.

Most of human psychology (and close to all of human
psychosis) is derived from within the human compulsion
to create something where nothing, in fact, exists.