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This reading is speaks directly to my nihilistic disposition. When things seem hopeless, it is of comfort to realize that in the entirety of our existence - as we understand it - the universe is finite. Nothing matters! This is an excellent reading to wrap up a quarter of unpacking theorist’s concepts that are at times just as far removed from our practice as the reality of our suns super nova. I take great comfort knowing – knowing in the sense of our version of space-time knowledge etc. - that my mistakes never even register as a speckle in the space-time continuum; The mistakes of our entire generation make no difference. The net effects on this entirety effect no noticeable change. So why not try? Try to cause an effect! You have nothing to lose, as failure is the inevitable. If I am wrong – which I often am – then you are only empowered in this nihilistic view that the world of matter cannot continue and that our idea of existence must be a purely cerebral state – one that does not rely on this bio-machine. I am not a nihilist (anymore), I’m an optimist with a nihilistic disposition. Only through accepting that nothing matters and nothing can sustain meaning – the same way that the sun cannot sustain our lives – I am liberated from the positional guilt of being part of a damaged system. Knowing that the human race will end, and with it the problems that humans have created, brings me to a place of hope, a hope for humankind. If we have nothing to lose – as I truly feel we do – then we can begin to deal with these enormous problems facing us as culture, as well as individuals. This may lead to a self savior movement, in which, owning our mortalities, we would be able to realistically address issues that go beyond generation, individual. This outro-spective is exactly the thinking that needs to happen if we would ever be able to conceive of a life without body.