Zeb Glittering wrote:

The Universe exists because the truths from which all the
Universe's amazing phenomena derive require nothing for their
truth - not even a Universe in which to be true. They are
indestructible and inescapable simply because as a whole they
contain no contradiction. In essence, some truths that we have
thought of as abstract are not so abstract after all because,
taken together with truths we have yet to discover, they have
very concrete consequences. That is why the Universe exists.

That stuff does bad to you man...

Mike