'I think that before we made humanity, we broke the mould.' (LC)
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'... I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people...' (GO)
It is embarrassing to know that one is a god of a world that only exists because every probability curve must have a far end ... (COM)
... HEX knew that its creators were infinitely cleverer than it was. And great masters of disguise, obviously. (SODW)
Other theories about the ultimate start involve gods creating the universe out of the ribs, entrails and testicles of their father.* There are quite a lot of these. They are interesting, not for what they tell you about cosmology, but for what they say about people.
*Gods like a joke as much as anyone else. (LL) No one would like to be told that they came from a universe created quite by accident and, moreover, by the Dean. It could only cause bad feeling. If you were told you were meeting your maker, you’d want something better. (DW)
'Do you know, humans think the world was made by a sort of big human?'
'Get away?' 'It took a week.' 'I expect it had some help then,' said Dorcas. (Dig) CREATION IS NOT A THING THAT GODS, IT IS SOMETHING THAT THEY ARE. (Strata)
Creators aren’t gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It’s men that make gods. This explains a lot. (LC)
We might find out why mankind is here, although that is more complicated and begs the question ‘Where else should we be?’ It would be terrible to think that some impatient deity might part the clouds and say, ‘Damn, are you lot still here?' (LC)
"Some people” – and here the creator looked sharply at the unformed matter still streaming past – “think it’s enough to install a few basic physical formulas and then take the money and run. A billion years later you got leaks all over the sky, black holes the size of your head, and when you pray up to complain there’s just a girl on the counter who says she don’t know where the boss is." (E)
... raw matter is continually flowing into the universe in fairly developed forms, popping into existence normally in
ashtrays, vases and glove compartments. It chooses its shape to allay suspicion, and common manifestations are paperclips, the pins out of shirt packaging, the little keys for central heating radiators, marbles, bits of crayon, mysterious sections of herb-chopping devices and old Kate Bush albums. (E) ... fossils were well-known on the Discworld, great spiralled shells and badly-constructed creatures that were left over from the time when the Creator hadn’t really decided what He wanted to make and was, as it were, just idly messing around with the Pleistocene. (ER)
... fake fossil bones put there by a Creator with nothing better to do than upset archeologists and give them silly ideas. (LF)
People think that it is strange to have a turtle ten thousand miles long and an elephant more than two thousand miles tall, which just shows that the human brain is ill-adapted for thinking and was probably originally designed for cooling the blood. It believes mere size is amazing.
There’s nothing amazing about size. Turtles are amazing, and elephants are quite astonishing. But the fact that there’s a big turtle is far less amazing that the fact that there is a turtle anywhere. (LH) |
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