Hello Divers,

 

Human nature is based on trying to perceive the ambiguous. It is the everlasting venture of answering questions, trying to comprehend what “is” and what “is not”. In the most basic sense, ancient Greek philosophers described this circumstance as the problem of “arkhe”. It is the quest to see and internalize the phenomenon of life, the most profound and abstract reality of existence. It is based on accepting everything other than the independent fundamentals of life as blankness, nothingness, or in the simplest sense: as zero. It is a construct, zero. Some interpret it as its mathematical denotation, which is generally accepted to be the number it is in mathematics. The only place in which people have the boundaries to define 0, between an equation, is the safest location they feel with it. A fictitious concept that humans have adapted into their lives to, ironically, make sense of the senseless, to identify the futility of life, to conceptualize the nihilistic paint strokes on an otherwise colorful painting. Zero can be empty, full, destructive, constructive… everything and nothing. Is it a cycle or simply the void of existence itself? 0. Both a line and empty space. It combines the idealism and pessimism of life: to be or not to be, as Shakespeare would put it. Some say zero is merely a number, others say it is an abstract concept devoid of any significant importance. To that we ponder, can both be true at the same time? Zero is a number and an abstract concept; infinity and nothingness; futility and existence itself. Simply put, it is dialectic: the addition of thesis and antithesis, the simultaneous existence of “opposites”. What is your zero?

 

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