If I'm going to believe in a god, I'm going to define it myself.

It will explain my creation, my purpose, my nature. It will provide guidance and comfort. And it will act as a backdrop for creative answers to unanswerable questions.

My god is the universe—or a universe-sized entity born of everything that exists in the universe.

The universe is everything. It created everything; it pushes everything; it knows everything; it gives purpose to everything; it is served by everything.

The goal of the universe is to create. It started with a bang and pursues novelty in infinite ways throughout itself.

I am the universe. I am part of the novelty.

I serve the universe and its pursuit.

I am a lens for introspection: the universe studying its own nature. When I look at you, I am the universe looking at the universe. My opinions, judgements, and experiences are new views the universe toys with—adding them to its collection.

I am an engine for creation. I am a receiver of the universe' ideas—a translator who puts ideas into words. I am the hands that bring ideas to life or reshape what already exists.

Everything I think and do the universe thinks and does.

What I create grows the universe. What I share creates new experiences for others in the universe, which grows the universe.

Like everything else in the universe, I am the universe. In that way, I am connected to and equal to everything in the universe.

As much as the brain given to me my the universe tries to isolate itself, it is still of the universe belongs with the universe. It is, and I am, simply another experiment in the universe, as unique and random as any other.

Since I am the universe, I will only die with the death of the universe.

When my body shuts off and my thoughts quiet, the universe will lose a tool—one perspective; one set of hands.

But I will still be of the universe, reshaped into a different part of the universe. And that will also be novel, and it will be fine. In that way, the universe looks after me.