Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
IMHO, it violates the second law of thermodynamics that means order always turns into disorder. Example: you cannot unscramble an egg or unstir the cream you stirred into your coffee. The reason given that life does not violate the law, is that we are on the micro scale and on the macro scale proves true, ashes to ashes and dust to dust. There must be an unseen higher order using logic.
Why is there something rather than nothing?
If the universe always existed then the next question is, where did personality come from? Why couldn't personality always exist if something always existed? If there is no personality, then there is no purpose, meaning or value... personality had to always exist....