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I'm agnostic, but I choose to believe that there's a chance the universe was created, either directly or as a side-effect of some act of will. Given what I know
by thom 5y ago
I'm agnostic, but I choose to believe that there's a chance the universe was created, either directly or as a side-effect of some act of will. Given what I know about how complicated projects generally get delivered, I assume that instead of some benevolent, perfect creator, the universe was created in a rush, by some stressed low-level figure. They are probably unhappy with how it turned out, and they had to implement a bunch of performance hacks (the speed of light and quantum mechanics among them) to get it working properly. They may not understand its internal state, or know we exist, but I hope they have at least some grudging affection for their creation, even if it's been superseded by other universes at this point. I call them Colin. I occasionally ask for Colin's help, and in return I try to keep my part of the universe interesting. You are free to join me in Colinism.
- deathofsocrates 5y agoInteresting. I liked your angle on this. Just to add more on it: it is a high chance that we are some sort of a fish in an aquarium. its a vast universe for us but we might not be more than a family of bacterias on a random rock in a tank thats filled with void.
- devmunchies 5y agoI had the thought that our relationship to this “colin” could be like a fat cell to a human. If the human is fat, we are happy and we actually have influence. If the human is a body builder, we’re in trouble.
- andrei_says_ 5y agoThis makes me think of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett :) Is it possible the universe is still being created and what we call Big Bang is an ongoing process of manifested boiling out of the unmanifested ;)