The benefits of NULL

It has become clear to me what a friend NULL is. On first approach it seems negative and depressing - the idea of a void with nothing in it is like space - lonely, barren, cold and lifeless; not a welcoming place. But this is not the void because it is not NULL. Such a conception is simply negating what we call the world of things. We think: what if I remove everything I can think of - then I have the Void... No!

I got angry with my sister yesterday so I position myself against the void. Something had been important to me but against NULL it is pointless. We are all going to die and remember nothing and take nothing with us so what is the point. So I found no more reason to be angry. We are only angry I saw when we hold onto something too tightly and someone tries to take it away.

But then we can grasp at that level of negation and think that all of life is pointless so why are we alive, why do we bother to do anything? We can get very depressed. So we stand next to NULL again and realise that there is no point in being depressed, or lamenting the pointlessness of everything either! Such a move is really just holding on to tightly to something else. The point about NULL is that whatever we think we can just stand next to NULL and it will give us an alternative point of view.

So being the alternative to all things we never need get stuck with anything. Our mind can escape the clawing tentacles of ideas, identities and beliefs.

Now some might say that this is irresponsible that as adults we need to get an identity, we need to become someone, to be a part of society: it is normal to have favourite things and familiar habits so that people can say that we are like so and so. Well yes and no. Yes because against NULL it doesn't matter if we do and no because against NULL it doesn't matter if we don't.

My current understanding of NULL and Void - that is Logos, Dharma, Dao, G-d etc - is that being outside all things we can always turn our back on anything and stand next to NULL. It is thus like the centre from which all things radiate. This now sounds like the more classical descriptions of it.

SO I could continue with an endless series of refutations and counter-refutations and analysis and descriptions but each of these stands next to NULL and makes the exercise rather pointless.