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- And before you have time to blink an eye, - the Doctor completed, folding his arms over his chest, - only the Garamanov universe remained. Small, frightened, power-obsessed Garamans. All the same, all irritable, all blaming each other for what happened.

“I booked tickets for us a few weeks ago. At least that's what I was just told at the checkout. So it's best to make sure that this is the case. Remind me then to go back in time and buy them, okay? The universe could explode if I don't.

And I just want to put you first. And you, you are my universe and me.

“The universe will be torn to shreds, the planets will bleed and the stars will be shattered,” Missy winked at Yayani. - My usual Sunday morning.

“I would like to go home, Doctor. But not at the expense of your life. From what I've seen, the universe needs you more than Brisbane needs me.

“I would like to go home, Doctor. But not at the expense of your life. From what I've seen, the universe needs you more than Brisbane needs me.

- Aggression, Doctor? I'm starting to like you. I love this fight between us. We'll play with you again, Doctor. When you are better prepared. When you are a Time Lord and not a simple Gallifreyan student. Oh yes Doctor, everything Rallon knows ... knew ... is now a part of me. I thank you for helping me to find a form, my own form. For many years I moved from body to body, not longer than a century. But now, with the help of Rallon, I can play and manage for ages. Or at least until this universe dies and I go to the next one.

“Which I sincerely doubt,” came his last words.

- If we are caught, we will admit our guilt. But in any case, even if we are caught, it will shake them up a little, bring confusion into their comfortable world.

- This is what I am trying to explain to others. The universe is one big headache, no man in his right mind would want to subdue it. You can't even sell it, because whoever buys such a colossus ...

Today, in answers to the question "Why does something exist and not Nothing?" thinkers were divided into three camps. The "optimists" argue that there must be a reason why the world exists, and that we are quite capable of discovering it. "Pessimists" believe that there must be a reason why the world exists, but we can never know for sure - perhaps because the part of the world available to us is too small to find a reason, or because the reason lies outside of what is available to the human mind, which nature has created for survival, and not for penetration into the inner structure of the cosmos. And, finally, the "deniers" insist that there is no reason for the existence of the world, and therefore the question itself does not make sense. Let's assume you are an optimist. What is the most promising approach to the mystery of being? Traditional, who considers a god-like essence to be a necessary source of the emergence and existence of all things? Or a scientist who uses the ideas of quantum cosmology to explain how the universe made its leap, emerging from the void? A purely philosophical approach that tries to deduce the reason for the existence of the world from abstract reasoning about values or from the absolute impossibility of non-being? Some kind of mystical approach that seeks to get an answer through insight? Nowadays, all these approaches have their supporters and, at first glance, seem to merit attention. Indeed, only by examining the mystery of being from all possible sides, we can hope to find some kind of answer.

Of all the possible answers to the mystery of existence, perhaps the most exciting would be the discovery that, in spite of everything, the world is the cause of itself. This version was first proposed by Spinoza, who boldly (albeit somewhat indistinctly) argued that everything that exists consists of a single infinite substance and all separate entities, both physical and mental, are only temporary changes of this substance - like waves on the surface of the ocean. Spinoza called this infinite substance "Deus sive Natura" ("God or Nature"). According to Spinoza, God and nature cannot be separate from each other, because then they mutually restrict each other. Therefore, the world itself is divine: eternal, infinite and is the cause of itself, and therefore, deserves from us respectful and reverent treatment. Such a metaphysical understanding of the world, according to Spinoza, leads to "intellectual love" for it - the highest goal for man and the maximum approach to immortality.

What we call art is considered by the universe as a route. Where this route might lead, none of you know.

Where did our universe come from? Does not the very fact of its existence indicate the actions of some higher creative force? When a believer asks an atheist this question, he usually gets one of two answers. In the first case, an atheist can say that if we admit the existence of such a "creative force," then we will have to admit the existence of another such force in order to explain the presence of the first, then the third, the fourth - and so on, ad infinitum. In the second case, the atheist will answer that even if some "creative force" exists, it is not at all godlike. Why should the First Cause be a wise and kind being, and besides, interested in all the details of our thoughts and our sex life? The root cause does not have to be reasonable.