“Somewhere in the multiverse, you are loved. Somewhere you are hated. Somewhere, you are loved by everyone. Somewhere, you are hated by everyone. God exists, and He does not; the same is true for Allah, and Buddha, and Zeus, Odin, Cthulhu, and the Green Lantern. Somewhere, you are Wonder Woman’s arch villain. Somewhere else, there are no villains, because perfect goodness has found its expression as a mathematical absolute. You cry, and you do not cry; your tears move millions or are forgotten forever.
“And somewhere else, namely here, you are exactly who and what you are. You are loved by those that love you, and you may or may not love them in return. You believe in God, or do not believe; you think that there are other universes, or think that this universe is all that ever was and ever will be. This is the universe you are stuck with. Love it. Hate it. It’s all you’ll ever know.
“And what about goodness? What about justice? Can you live with the idea that in some places, at some times, pure evil has dominion, and good has been forever banished? Are those universes plausible? Or are they phantoms, highly improbable, like the vanishing cracks of a broken teapot?
“Think on this: the ultimate question, “why is there anything?” is perhaps unanswerable, mostly because it requires us to speculate about the unknowable. The fly knows nothing about what’s outside the bottle; Scarlett O’Hara knows nothing about Margaret Mitchell; Plato, in his easy chair, knows nothing about the world as we know it today; the falcon cannot hear the falconer; and you know nothing about life in the fractal part of the æther. And so too, if God exists, we know nothing of him/her/it/them. We know what is before us, what can be observed, measured, quantified, understood. We can speculate all we like; we can even draw inferences from some of our observations, but in the end we can never be sure.
“All we can do is be 51% sure.
“And have faith that in 51% of the universes, goodness prevails.”
From my book Why Is There Anything? which is available for download on the Kindle.
Many Worlds Theory 
Santa FINALLY bought me a Kindle… but now i can’t work the damn thing. I want your book, but for the life of me i can’t even see where the “buy now” option is on the Amazon page 😦
Hmm. It appears they’ve changed the page. I see that you can still get it with 1-click (button on the right) or by adding it to your wish list. I’ll see if I can figure it out.
I figured it out by going to a different page… I bought it, it went to my PC app (I don’t have WiFi here), but for the life of me i can’t figure out how to get it to the Kindle. I will harass the call centers in Mumbai when i have a moment.
Hey, congratulations! The book looks great, and anything that begins with a dialogue between Brutus and Achilles is bound to be brilliant! Well done. I’ll pen a review when i get through it. That, of course, might be a while… until at least i can breathe life into the ereader.
Let me rephrase that last comment: anything that IS a dialogue between Brutus and Achilles is brilliant!
I’m seriously enjoying it, despite reading it on my computer.