The God Who Speaks Chaos

We've structured our world so that you can negotiate with the future. And i don't think that we would have got to the point where we could do that without having this idea to begin with. There's a spirit of tradition that enables you to act as if the future is something that can be bargained with. We know that you can sacrifice something valuable in the present and expect that you're negotiating with something that represents the transcendent future. That's a mad amazing human discovery like no other creature can do. To note that you can bargain with reality itself, and that you can do it successfully, it's unbelievable....