>>13568410I am the product of a chain of cause and effect stretching back to the beginning of the universe. At least, as far as we are aware. But most likely, I am the direct product of something that stands outside time and causality themselves. Something infinite and eternal. All the people who existed before me felt something like what I am feeling now, and ascribed it to an entity they called "god". They projected their personhood onto it. But despite their juvenile error, what they felt is nonetheless real, if inaccessible to inductive empirical reasoning. What most people today understand to be science. There is nothing mystical about the infinite and eternal. Except that it cannot be understood in terms of limits or quantities. The language or units local only to our insular pocket world. If science is the end-all-be-all, and you accept nothing beyond it, then naturally something like this is inadmissible. But the infinite is just there, waiting for you when you die.
