Originally Posted by JustASimpleGuy

Here's another way to look at it. It's all well and good to be the Absolute - God, Brahman, Sat-Chit-Ananda, Unified Field, whatever - resting in Its silent and blissful reverie for googolplex aeons, however at some point even that supreme contentment gets old so It decides a different perspective is in order, perhaps a googolplex different perspectives.

Problem is if It retains knowledge of Its inherent identity and nature in all the different forms that kind of defeats the purpose of the exercise, so along with projecting Itself as the multiplicity it also veils Itself from Itself. It gets to experience Itself from uncountable perspectives and beyond that It gets to also experience Itself rediscovering Itself uncountable times.

The joke is not only on us but it's of our own making, the ultimate inside joke. LOL!