dhw: 2) Your remark raises an interesting issue. Religious people often go on about how we need their God, but they rarely consider their God's need for us. What would he be without humans (maybe ETs as well?) to worship him, puzzle over him, question him, pray to him, doubt him, please him, anger him, entertain him? Just an infinite expanse of bored energy.-I agree, no bored. Connected to us.