The Ungodly Truth In the beginning or, rather, just before the beginning, there existed a single super-uber-consciousness, the mother of all mothers, the sum of all censoriousness that would ever exist in the universe.

Yet all that intellectual energy existed in a single point in non-space, in non-time.

It wouldn't work of course.

And it didn't. The mother of all mothers did the only thing a super-uber-consciousness bursting at its singularity could do. It blew up in the most awe-inspiring explosion ever, an explosion so powerful it created space and time. An explosion that blew the consciousness herself into ripples of intellectual energy that gave philosophical meaning to the Universe.

Some 13 billion years later, scientists on a planet they called Earth (at least if they were English speaking scientists) named that explosion: "the Big Bang". However, they would puzzle for some time about the mysterious energy created by those ripples of intellectual energy streaming across the Universe. They knew it existed. But they didn't understand it. So, they called it "dark energy".

And that, my friend, is the meaning of our existence. We are tiny pieces of shrapnel of the exploding mother of all mothers.

But fear not. One day you will die. Your brain will come spluttering - or perhaps screeching - to a halt. And your consciousness will slip out of space and time - into non-space, non-time, which exists before the beginning of time and after the end of time, but not while time herself is ticking away.

And here's where it gets interesting. Not only will your consciousness return to the singularity of non-space, non-time. So too will every other consciousness that once existed/exists/will exist in every being on every planet in the Universe.

All of these consciousnesses - including yours and mine - will join together in the singularity, creating a super-uber-consciousness; the mother of all mothers, the sum of all consciousnesses. The result will be more than the poor singularity can bear. It will never work.

It won't.

The super-uber-mother-of-all-mothers-consciousness will blow up in the most awe-inspiring explosion... and so on... ad infinitum...

And, that my dear friend, is the cycle of existence in our Universe. It is an ungodly cycle that shall repeat itself for all of time, yet only happen once.

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