WTF??

We live on this infinitesimally tiny, small speck which seems ideally suited to life, but which is bizarrely suspended in the midst of a vast humongous chasm of virtual nothingness, utterly inhospitable to any life. If something created this, then why on earth did they make it like this?

There again, the idea the Universe just came into being by happenstance is even more bizarre. The fine-tuning of the constants of nature so that any life at all can exist, even if only on earth, cannot be explained by blind chance.

Moreover, the bizarre nature of the Universe extends way beyond fine-tuning. The fact that reality exhibits patterns that can be elegantly described by mathematics — by equations we can scribble down! — is also utterly bizarre and not something that one ought to expect in a randomly existing Universe. And what of Quantum Mechanics where reality appears to mould and shape itself depending on how we choose to observe it? Is this not also bizarre?

And then there's the fact that life allegedly arose on Earth due to a long series of extremely improbable events. All of which had to take place before the Earth had any chance of developing complex life, least of all that human beings would eventually evolve. Yet here we are...

Our lives and the Universe are ultimately mysterious, not only stranger than we imagine but perhaps stranger than we can imagine. Certainly, I don't think this reality is what people naively suppose it to be. Indeed, it appears to be a put-up job. 

I do think, and indeed feel, that there is some ultimate reason for our existence and that we both existed before conception and will exist after death. But I do not pretend to know what such a reason might be. Possibly ... nay … even likely the reason for our existence, the existence of everything, is beyond our ken. We live in the midst of profound mystery.

I sometimes wonder if we're all being observed by intelligences outside of our reality. Maybe something akin to the Truman show. Perhaps to see how we react to this bizarre situation we find ourselves in. Who knows...