TIME AND NOTHINGNESS: Re-visiting the Philosopher’s Prime Question...

In man’s ultimate quest for wisdom, a constant puzzle which has remained unsolved has been ‘the origin of the world’, or rather put in a narrower sense, ‘the beginning of humanity’. For knowledge sake therefore, many high profile and backyard debates, these in an equally infinite proportions, have come and gone. The question of ‘Origin’, instead of answering one question, has surprisingly led to too many which as of now have proved too much for even the modern man. One of those questions is the age-long philosopher’s mind-aching problem: Why is there Something instead of Nothing? The greatest and

the most enlightened minds in history have attempted this question, and as well come up, not with the answer(s), but with more puzzles which may or may not lead to the answer. In all these, the entity called Time takes it all; Time has remained constant and its essence unaffected and unchanged. The bodies of the first proponents of this question (which I will refer here as the Fundamental Question) has long decayed in the graves, but the question itself has remained incorrupt. Why is there Something rather than Nothing? Could we attempt to solve this riddle now and also end up like the thinkers of yesteryears? Or should we let the dead bury the dead and so accept the looming failure at such unrealistic task? How assured are we of this unavoidable failure thereof of man into this quest of quests? The attitude we should put up, is it that reminiscent of the great intellectual cowards, or is it simply the U-turn normally ascribed to the Sages of all time? Whichever step we choose to take, it is always obvious, maybe not to the ordinary mind that, ‘abandoning the quest to unearth the age long mystery is not tantamount to the eradication of the problem’. The only antithesis to any given problem is a solution; and so flight ceases to be an option. Allons-y then!
To talk of Origin presupposes Time, for nothing which has a beginning exists outside the periphery of Time; and nothing which exists in time can bear the attributes of the eternal. The attributes of the Eternal does not involve ‘Origin’ since there is no beginning to eternity {the beginning which is the first in the tales of origins}; neither will there be an end to it, since every end points to its corresponding beginning. Philosophers, all had attempts in defining Time, but almost all, or rather, all too have met with some dead end. Are we to follow that path and hit the same snag; or are we to save us the stress and invest our Time on something else? Here, Time is in question; not because it has ceased being authentic, but for the mere fact that it has, so to say, held knowledge to ransom. Yet not beyond the bounds of reason is Time found, but within the threshold of creation, with its other ally called space. Time is created just as man is created. For man, was time created, though right before the advent of man. This follows common reasoning since, if man preceded Time, then man would no doubt be eternal; but he is not. However, because Time was made for man; and not man for time, then it is there to SERVE the needs of man. Man is a master to the entity called Time, but is it odd that man has yet to unearth the full meaning of Time?