Nice piece, and nice moral to the story, but it doesn’t take a broader perspective. Ethan, you’re too cautious. Human knowledge advances with those who advance bold weird misunderstood and often rejected theories. Einstein’s work was not welcomed with open arms, nor the ideas of many revolutionary scientists, sometimes only recognized for their work after their death.

I agree with the comment from S. P. Nova, Infinity and Eternity are left out of your piece. My belief is that there is a key distinction between existence and experience (of part of existence). In order to explain our reality, all you need, fundamentally, is two opposing principles: nothing or zero, and everything or infinity. Those are the only two things that exist for all eternity, but they cannot be experienced. However, if you blend these two in a certain way, then you can have a limited experience of everything, based on certain rules for experiencing it (what you would call the “laws of physics”, which are merely artificial limitations applied to infinity to be able to “do” something within it, or experience a part of it).

God could thus simply be seen as pure infinite self-aware consciousness, which only exists for all eternity but cannot experience itself other than by setting artificial limitations to its infinite consciousness. Do the mental exercise: try to simulate what experiencing everything infinitely fast would “feel” like. Since infinity is infinite in all of its attributes, this includes the fact of experiencing everything infinitely fast or instantaneously. In other words, experiencing everything at once is the same as experiencing nothing at all, since for every experience there is an opposite experience in infinity (in math, it’s like trying to experience +1 and -1 at the same time, in terms of vibrations/energy, it’s like superimposing two vibrations of opposite phase, in human terms, it’s like dying while being born, eating while vomiting etc…)

You could say that we are God’s or Infinity’s strategy for experiencing itself, and the only reason for suffering is because you cannot remove anything from Infinity. God doesn’t “want” anything. An eternal infinite being has no “wants” or desires. Its like if you could play a game with infinite lives and infinite time. You know that no matter what, you’ll end up “evolving” perpetually. But the “actors” or instruments which are required for the experiencing of yourself, they might have a subjective “will” or desires to stop the pain or suffering. Our role, in this reality, as far as I can tell, very much agrees with your conclusion: we are here to help infinity co-exist with itself. We are basically like a sorting algorithm, making sure that all that exists, co-exists in harmony with itself. It’s as if we were designed to keep +1 and -1 from superimposing.

Anyways, there is much more to say, but I’m not even sure you read the comments people leave here… In any case, the following decade will see some tremendous changes, because as far as I can tell, we are indeed headed towards a “rapture” of sorts.

If you ever want to open up to a fresh perspective: https://medium.com/@marma.developer/my-spiritual-journey-light-story-6-the-final-push-d94de28c1b92?source=---------24------------------