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 for me, arithmetic is the root of everything, God is a mathematician, and the many wonders that spring from mathematics are his many children, and our entire universe is one of them as well, and we are children of Him and also of our universe

even if the universe is actually something else, we cannot think about it except as some form of arithmetic

logic itself is an arithmetic that is based on that whole nasty infinity zero singularity countable problem as well

if i can't think about it, can i know it?

even if it exists, if i can't know it, i don't actually know it so it may as well not exist

if it has an impact on me, then it must have a flux into substance somehow and thus it can be known, if it is observed long enough... even if all you see right now is entropy, that is entropy in THIS time scale that you have KNOWN, you can't be certain and thus it is an infinity and a nothing that is a beautiful singularity that you have no way of knowing