Does it fit in? Your questions sorted?
... just hang on - before you say anything silly: who said that the Universe, it's Creator and his message must fit into your small head?
And this is a crucial philosophical point: if the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything were to fit into your head, would it not disqualify itself* the very moment it did fit in?
The very question is bigger than you, so how much more the Answer must be.
*unless it is actually 44.
(But then - yes, I know: you just can't kill the philosopher in me... - does 44 fit into our heads? What is 44? And how do we know it? Vico said - brilliantly and falsely** - that you only understand what you make. We may have made, say, mathematics - because it's not from nature*** - but did we make what we made it with and what we - to the degree we do - understand it with?)
**even if we assume we made history (which is only partly true, because part of history is our interaction with the inanimate universe and we certainly didn't make it), who**** made us?
***but did we really? Discover seems a better word, of course and maths will remain a mystery to humankind just as trigonometry will remain three of them - sines, consines and tangents - to me.
****'What' would be a fallacy: 'what' cannot make, 'what' can be a tool or material only.
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