[sykhi]

I met Raymond at a conference in the early 90s. I was an undergraduate in math then. We talked about philosophy, religion, and mathematics. Just the two of us. The next day he came up to me and said that he invented a religion for me.

God has a number in mind. If the sum total of good deeds minus bad deeds exceeds this number then everyone goes to heavan. If not then everyone goes to hell.

Then he said to me, “Imagine, something you do could send everyone to hell.”

[Entangled]

God's number is zero and no matter what we do that sum will always be above zero. As we are programmed in our DNAs to survive, sustain and multiply, the average outcome will always be positive no matter how many bad apples. If to the contrary, we were programmed to self destroy, we would've been gone long time ago.

[sykhi]

Raymond just made up a religion for me. It was not meant by him to be serious. Our perceptions of reality appear to be very different.