"It'd be a more comforting thought if the local - not laws of causality, those don't change, the surface rules - if the local rules didn't say that prophecy was shattered for gods and they could no longer apply-a-god-amount-of-optimization-power-at-me-such-that-my-path-was-extremely-overdetermined. Which means, first of all, there might be a big probability of a bad ending, even if on net that's outweighed by probabilities of better endings; and second, that it likely wasn't gods in the first place. Maybe delegates from Good and Evil and Lawfulness and Chaos all signed on; I doubt they wrote the contract, even my own god."
"I don't think we're supposed to think about the gods when we're together, I think we're supposed to work things out for ourselves. The more we do that, the less optimization they have to apply and the less they get to determine our futures using values that maybe aren't exactly our values. I wonder if that's, like, the literal opposite of that 'faith' Pilar was talking about, based on the sound of the word. It doesn't translate into Baseline."