“Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. (James 1:16-17)”
Source: Holy Bible: New International Version
“In some universes, all possible pasts funnel towards a single fixed ending, Ω.
It you are of millenarian bent, you might call Ω Armageddon, If you are of grammatical bent, you might call it punctuation on a cosmological scale.
If you are a philosopher in such a universe, you might call Ω inevitable.”
Source: Conservation of Shadows
“God creates the world out of itself, out of “nothing”. God is not a conscious superbeing that creates the world. God is an astonishing hive mind, composed of countless individual mental cells (monads), which dialectically come to consciousness of what they are through their mutual interactions.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Mathematicus: How Mathematics Explains Reality
“I no longer thought about the fire under us and the endless cold above us, nor about how thin this crust is which divides the fiery porridge from outer space. I only felt that the night was dark and full of life, of snails and moths, of growing plants, and I knew that there were trout and frogs in the brook. Sometimes the frogs here croak all night long, in a great chorus.
There are bats and owls, and deer roam the neighboring forests.
The flowers have closed. From the hospital there was not a sound. All was silence.
Then a great golden tone rose through the night, and it was followed by new tones. The nightingale had begun, and now filled the world with its abnormal voice.”
Source: Kruttårnet
“Hardly has the universe stretched its wings to span
When it gathers to egg once more”
Source: Forgetting: impressions from the millennial borderland
“Retrograde time is forward time which has passed the turning point; then as it turns back it is freighted with the load of accumulated knowledge. It is information rich. Logically, then, in its retrograde tracking, it would divest itself of its knowledge: teach rather than learn, so that when it arrived at the other end, it would be information poor, even info empty.”
Source: The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
“Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!”
“Although you don’t know it, you simulate the Big Bang every time you dream. A dreamworld is a world created from nothing by a single monadic mind. The dreamworld explodes out of nowhere, through nothing but the power of thought. Also, you can bring this world to an end when you conclude the dream. You carry out your own Big Crunch.”
Source: God Is Mathematics: The Proofs of the Eternal Existence of Mathematics
“The Big Bang, the shattering of the cosmic mirror, is an involution event (a higher state gives rise to a lower state), while the Big Crunch, the reconstitution of the mirror, is the culmination of evolution (a lower state gives rise to a higher state).”
Source: God Is a Hive Mind: The Cellular Divinity
“Whenever they are given the choice, some people choose a bath over a shower; they, too, would like to do their bit to waste water.”