Consider the impasse of a one-God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can't go anywhere, since He is already everywhere. He can't do anything, since the act of doing presupposes opposition. His universe is irrevocably thermodynamic, having no friction by definition. So, He has to create friction: War, Fear, Sickness, Death, to keep his dying show on the road. ✨ Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales (A One God Universe). Studio album by William S. Burroughs with The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, September 28, 1993.
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