Today in class we discussed Nietzsche's approach towards nothingness. I think I interpreted his beliefs incorrectly. At the end of his discussion, Nietzsche says, "This man of the future, who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism...this Antichrist and antinihilist; this victor over God and nothingness-he must come one day" (96).

Nietzsche isn't advocating nothingness or emptiness. He is advocating a third something. I have no inclination what this third something may be, nor am I positive Nietzsche has a clue as to what it might be either. We are trapped. Man of the future will be able to break free. He will not be filled with conventional faith or with a body of emptiness. Maybe the emptiness will be filled with his own ideas and faith in something new. Emptying oneself may be a start in attaining the attributes of this man of the future. The question is, what is the man of the future filling himself back up with?