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>uncreated and eternal?
"I found the cause to be a duplicate UUID in our user database. To the layman, this may not seem shocking.
The version four UUID (Universal Unique Identifier) contains 122 randomly generated bits, and if they are supplied by a cryptographically strong source of randomness, the odds of a duplicate are 1 in 5.3 * 10^36, an unfathomably large number, effectively infinite to anyone bound to the earth. One is tempted to blame the random number generator in this case, or some kind of faulty cache, or an initialization error; but these IDs were generated years apart, on different hardware, by different libraries—no, such a thing cannot be explained merely as a software defect.

I am not a superstitious man, and it may be hard to attribute any significance to what is literally an artifact of a random number generator, but in the face of such an astronomically improbable event, one cannot help but wonder what machinations lie behind that face."

"If we consider the paradigm case of holy writ, letters and books which are considered to be one and the same substance of God, as the author of the Gospel of John maintains, we might consider the oddity of Hayy ibn Yaqzan, whose name meant “Alive, son of Aware” and whose true story is recounted in the 12th century historian Abujaafar Ibn Tufayl’s Philosophus Autodidactus. As all Muslims know, the Koran was revealed to the prophet Muhammad in the 7th century by the angel Gabriel, but this case is less remarkable than the story of Hayy, who was himself born “spontaneously” into the uninhabited wilderness."

"A more mundane, and more unsettling possibility, is that we are the chance recipients of messages intended for other audiences entirely, messages that echo through space to ensure consistency across incomprehensible distances.
And perhaps all great works enter into the world from the vast outside. Sometimes, they are whispered to us by voices that are benevolent, or merely alien."

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