Why Is There Anything?

It seems it would have been a lot easier if the universe simply never existed.  There would be neither good nor bad, no wars would have been fought, and sickness and death would not be an issue.  For Christians Jesus would not have had to die, God would not have had to be upset with Adam and Eve nor Noah's generation, and would have avoided all the problems he had with the Jews.

When you think about it a lot exists.  The universe is large, much larger than one can imagine.  Our Milky Way galaxy has billions of stars and there are billions of these galaxies.  Now that is big.  Some physicists says there are multiple universes so this means even our entire universe is relatively insignificantly in the overall scheme of things.  Now doesn't that make me feel little.

This stuff has either existed forever or else was created.  Well, it is not even that simple.  Because time only begins to exist inside a particular universe when it is created.  Before it is created then as physics indicates time does not exist.  I know, what does that mean?  That means if time does not exist then cause and effect does not exist and so even the notion of creation is illogical.  Something can not be created unless time flows.  What happened before our universe existed?  For our universe the answer is literally nothing in the most literal sense, no stuff, no space, no time, no nothing.  Then the Big Bang and stuff existed including time, so from our perspective inside the universe time began from nothing.  Does that make any sense?

So things do apparently exist.  We can not be absolutely sure about the nature of this existence because we can only judge things through our five senses which are then filtered through our individual biases based on our experiences.   Yet, it does appear things  exist and it appears that I exist.  It even appears that you exist too.  You could be a figment of my imagination but that would be very narcissistic of me.

This is where the subjective, less than logical side of me awakens and says there must be more than just what my simplistic empiricism indicates.   If this must I can perceive with my limited view then what must I be missing in the larger picture.  I am limited by my five senses, by my entrapment in the this 3D universe, and my extremely short life span.  What other realities must I be missing?