Baadam,
   Have no doubt in your    mind that we will not reduce ourselves to the
level of personal attacks in this forum.
    I know that a person of your caliber, after examining further, my use of
nothing    will situate its contextual usage. Every body is something, as you
said. Your reference to the word nothingness, a familiar theme of Sartre (l
'etre et le neant} which I did not mention in my article is perhaps a spill
of your erudite familiarity with this subject. So to that extend every is
something or nothing.
    But remember what Kotchi Baram said (I know you do ):NIT DU DARA ADI NA
DARALA WAYE NIT DU DARA.Beings are nothing, the material world is something
but we are nothing. Remember the biblical phrase dust to dust ...
      In the holy Quran we are told to work as hard we as if death will never
come our way but to also worship as if death is going to knock the next
second. These are all reminders of our nothingness.
     But another critical mind like yours could argue further and say no. Do
not tell me that the legacies of great minds like say,Mohammad,Jesus,Socrates
and Cheikh Oumar Fuuti Taal mean nothing. These people who died long ago yet
their legacies live! Then this other critical mind will even argue further
and say that there are people who are more something than others: those who
left no legacies
    So the whole usage here is contextual and I know you know that. The
issues you raised here are beyond the scope of this forum. And in this part
of the world we now find ourselves we have little time to engage in the
luxury of intellectual debat because we have to give so much of ourselves to
earn our daily bread.
    So baadam more than your brother I am your kaaw and we will never ever
polemicize our exchanges in this forum.
    Mi salminii ma.

       Gelaaye.(kaaw ma)

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