Shakespeare famously observed that “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.”FN:1I write today to familiarize you with the lesser-known but equally valid Bedsworth’s More Realistic Corollary to Hamlet’s Uncharacteristic Ray of Sunshine, which says, “There is a randomness to the universe that can blast our ends to smithereens no matter how carefully we’ve shaped them.”
In other words, no matter how you define Him/Her/It, whether your deity is an anthropomorphic personal God, a Deist disinterested Creator, or a Cosmic Force of unknowable form or dimension … whatever it is, He/She/It likes to have a good time.
