Thread:Second soup/@comment-3075077-20170124195855/@comment-27944130-20170126230751

Good question.

I'm an atheist. I was in an argument with a room full of Christian students once about whether or not the universe had to have a cause. In order to argue my point (that it didn't need to have one), I modified an argument I found online and created a hypothetical object called "The Box", inside which nothing needed to have a cause - hence, this Box allows for the existence of an uncaused universe, and is a functional substitute for God. No need for angels, a Bible, or any of that. It's just a box.

Then I found this wiki and realized that everyone was creating larger and larger -verses to constantly try to one-up each other. I created the Box in an attempt to get everyone to stop; "look, guys, nothing surpasses this one". Of course, nobody really seemed to care. :P