Rom 1 reply, 55b: A poem on why there is something rather than nothing

A reader has passed in the following poem, which I have permission to post under the author's name, as provocative -- and certainly not politically correct! -- food for thought:

WHY SHOULD I BELIEVE ANYTHING?

By Billy Hall

 

Why should I believe in anything? 

Because I cannot believe in ‘nothing’!

For, logically, to believe in ‘nothing’ is

To believe in ‘something’ recognized as ‘nothing’.

 

Therefore, whether considered ‘measureless’ scientifically

Or even ‘meaningless’ semantically, the truth realistically

Is that ‘nothing’ is an impossibility in a world of infinity

For in such a world even concepts have perpetuity.

 

Therefore, logically it cannot then be denied,

Any claim of belief in ‘nothing’ is a claim of falsity;

Such a belief, definitely, contradicts rationality,

And so deserves ridicule except if claimed for fantasy.

 

Yet, there are religionists who claim belief in ‘Nirvana’;

An acclaimed achievement of profound ‘forgetfulness’;

Which adherents of such ‘deathlessness’ also call ‘nothingness’;

Such belief truthfully must be declared at best ‘foolishness’!

Worth the pause to ponder, whether or not you agree in whole or in part or not at all. END