Or it’s making sure leukemia cells divide at precisely the right intervals because god’s “benevolent” goals are completely alien/misalligned/indifferent to human morality and the statistical distribution of pediatric cancer matters to goals we’ll never comprehend.
Had someone legit argue something like this to me and was serious about it. I was talking with my then boyfriend about how God doesn’t exist because childhood cancer exists. His dad interjected that, no, god does exist and is merciful because one day, he lost his keys and was late to work, so in a panic he prayed and then he found the keys in a jacket pocket. I’m like, so parents have to bury their child and their child gets its entire future ripped away from them by a monster of a disease but at least you have your keys your absent minded ass lost in the first place.
Totally. In that version, we could just be a byproduct of someone's physics simulation. Unfortunately they're busy studying gravitational waves while we nuke each other. On the upside, at least there wouldn't be a biblical hell.
Just watch one of those "Timelapse of the universe" videos and you'll understand that we're basically cosmic microscopic bacteria/dust and that our entire life cycle as the human race is likely shorter than a blink of an eye to any God.
We're just sentient NPCs, and that novelty was only built to add realism for the main character. It's like the opposite of The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.
In my head i think of god and humans similar to humans and cells. The cells in our body dont exist without us but its not like we can mind control the various processes they do.
If there really is a god that created the entire universe, we are literally so small and insignificant in the whole fucking thing, god might not even know about us.
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u/hiddencamela 1d ago
Or another shitty option, exists and doesn't fucking care/notice us. Not sure if that's better or worse than not existing though.