[6:53:30 PM] Starfish monster 2.0: That explains it all.
[6:54:20 PM] Starfish monster 2.0: The main problem in cosmology is that it's exceedingly difficult if not impossible to determine the exact origins of the universe, or even its ultimate extent, or eventual fate.
[6:54:40 PM] Starfish monster 2.0: There is a virtually infinite number of conceivable possibilities.
[6:54:54 PM] Starfish monster 2.0: Uncertainty is just built-in to the nature of the universe. It's ingrained.
[6:55:23 PM] Starfish monster 2.0: I've even gone so far in my considerations as to conclude God itself, if it were real, could not possibly prove it was actually God, for example.
[6:55:32 PM] Starfish monster 2.0: It would never be able to prove it wasn't in some kind of simulation, for instance.
[6:55:35 PM] Starfish monster 2.0: We discussed this earlier.
[6:55:44 PM] Starfish monster 2.0: Theists often don't consider these things. They don't think about it this far.
[6:55:57 PM] Starfish monster 2.0: Which is understandable, I suppose. Uncertainty and contradiction bother people.
[6:58:21 PM] Starfish monster 2.0: One thing I find perennially interesting is that, to some extent, we are the universe realizing its own nature.
[6:58:38 PM] Starfish monster 2.0: Others have noted something like this before, of course.
[7:06:42 PM] Starfish monster 2.0: When I talk about fate, I pretty much mean there is ultimately only one sole trajectory the universe is going to take, in the end. Whatever that path might be, that's its fate.
[7:07:06 PM] Starfish monster 2.0: There's only one truly possible cosmic trajectory.
[7:10:00 PM] Starfish monster 2.0: By the way, the whole thing about something always existing can be pretty mind-boggling, as they say. There almost seems to be a part of certain human minds that resists that very idea, as if it's somehow inconceivable or too trippy to fathom.
[7:11:39 PM] Starfish monster 2.0: Simply put: It just is.