The universe and its design is often one of arbitrary horror.
Or sit they girt by laws unknownWhereto the senses serve as bars __ith fire of unrecorded starsThat light a heaven not our own?(__he Testimony of the Suns_)
The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror
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Or sit they girt by laws unknownWhereto the senses serve as bars __ith fire of unrecorded starsThat light a heaven not our own?(__he Testimony of the Suns_)
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The universe has become not only conscious and aware of itself but capable in some respects of choosing its path into the future--though all three, the consciousness, the knowledge, and the choice, are dispersed over a vast crowd of beings, acting both individually and collectively.
In the words of Lynne McTaggart: "Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turns the possibility of something into something real. The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observes it.
Perhaps the universe is a big fat consciousness and the matter is just an illusion.