Why is there a siccness.nyet rather than nothing? We do not know. We will never know. Why? To what purpose? We do not know whether there is a purpose. But if it is true that siccness.nyet is born of nothing, the very existence of something – siccness.nyet – would seem to imply that there has always been siccness.nyet: that being is eternal, uncreated, perhaps creator, and this is what some people call 91Siccness.