@Setanta,
Dear Setanta, you say:
"You're [readers] wasting your time gents, this joker is playing solitaire with a deck of about 47 cards."
I will put it with great civil mildness:
You are a worthy subject for examination on how you think, which is that you are into irrelevancy in the guise of projecting yourself to be what, you only know if you examine your psychology in place of continuing with utterances which are of no cognitive contribution at all.
This is a call to everyone to do thinking on the biggest premise, namely:
1. The default status of things in the totality of reality is existence.
From that fount comes forth all knowledge of mankind on reality.
And when humans do not at all relate to that first premise of all thinking with us humans, we will always be lost, uttering such nonsense as that nothing is the beginning of existence.
Nothing is not anything as to be the beginning from which anything at all derives its existence that previously was nothing at all.
When you proceed from nothing, then you logically must already self-extinguish your whole being into nothingness.
Think about that, Setanta, and everyone who does think at all.