Creation, boredom God, a burp, a fart, and the universe

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All creation has arisen out of one thing- boredom. The God which we are and don’t know it was so bloody tired of nothing ever going on that God invented a whole cosmos simply to relieve that divine, eternal torpor. And that’s why it all seems meaningless- because just as a person might sit doodling on some scrap paper at the kitchen table, while occasionally looking absently out the window to watch the day go by, so anything done out of boredom has no purpose except as a jumbled mad miracle. And it’s now about time for us to accept our initial, fatuous arbitrariness, and get on with some purposeless jubilation.

Only when we have regained the capacity to live without reason will we meet the universe at its quintessence; to not understand, to not expect it to make sense, to realize that it is all implausible, marvelous, incomprehensible, and.... to accept.

God burps, the Cosmos farts, and a universe incapable of itself is born.

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These fragments are taken from unpublished writings by Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.