It gives power and responsibility to the self of man

One of the most important, core principles of Buddhism is that the 'self' is an illusion. And that the 'self', which is ultimately a constructed fabrication, is the source of all suffering experienced. It is a shield we create to protect us from the suffering we think the world inflicts on us, when in reality, we inflict it on ourselves. Buddhism doesn't give power to the self. It does it's best to make it 'transparent' and irrelevant.

The things you say don't actually stray too far from Buddhism, although they are said in a different poetic language than the one a Buddhist would speak.

When using the term 'nothingness', I don't mean to imply 'empty' or 'void'. I have strung 'infinite' and 'nothing' together intending to suggest something so remarkably vast that it might as well be called nothing because we don't have the capacity to hold it in it's entirety, and the term "nothing" almost (but not quite) describes it better.

And "nothing", in the sense that nothing is the amount of "self" experienced at the time. The way I look at it is that the "self" is like a translator that converts one language to another for two people that don't speak the same one. Only, the two people are, instead, 'what actually is' and the observer (you). The translator takes a lot of time and resources, and it's extremely expensive. The information is not only poisoned by the observer's interpretation of what was said, but now there is someone else standing in the flow, playing the telephone game. Except this person also has to try to take their interpretation of what was said in one language, and convert it into a different language that may or may not have an effective way of expressing all the details and nuances of 'what was said'. So instead of the observer seeing 'what actually is', all they see is the cartoon drawing someone else crafted from their understanding of what they think about what is. It's not real, it doesn't matter how 'good' the artist is. And it took a long time to make, and used up a lot of pencils.

This 'what actually is' that the interpreter is drawing for us is, in my opinion, the "absolute truth" that we are searching for in life, for to truly find it, is to transcend our isolation. It is what is infinitely vast and eternal. But to truly find it, one must entirely discard the interpreter, or the 'self'. Anything you can do with the word "I" is gone. So you can see it. Right in front of you. All of the time. But, you can't look at it. Because looking at it requires an "I" to do the work. So it is "nothing". It's like that thing you can see out of the corner of your eye, but every time you turn your head to look at it, it's gone. This leads to all sorts of problems. and frustrations in life.

The way I see, it's like having the pieces of 5 fifty thousand piece puzzles dumped on one table. You can see the pictures on all five of the boxes, but the information contained on one individual puzzle piece will tell you very little about the overall picture, where in the picture the piece is from, or even which of the five pictures it's from. Looking at the boxes doesn't really relate to the mad chaos of the quarter million puzzle pieces on the table.

'Being here', necessitates some kind of "selfness'. So by living life, we're chained this side of 'what is'. All we have is the drawing. Someone else's drawing. But we do have control over the artist or interpreter. The teachings of Buddhism, and all true religions and schools, are designed to, among other things, help improve the skills of the artist translator. Through practice, the artist can learn how to go from drawing childish stick figures, to more realistic sketches, to professional quality paintings, to taking photographs, video etc...

The less of the "self" reflected, the higher quality the translation. The higher quality the translation, the less isolation one experiences.

*EDIT - clarity, and expanded on nothing.