This universe does not appear to be the work of a humanoid sentient deity to me, unless it has a very perverse sense of humour.

And another, which I find a little scary…

I have often found it a good exercise to try and enter the paradigms of people I meet who hold extreme views and to keep taking those views a little further with each turn in the conversation until a positive feedback leads us into realms where the absurdity of the original premise becomes apparent.

…but I like the goal of discovering a core of absurdity.