How do you mean """greater than humans""???? If by ""thing"" you mean something greater than a human being, spiritually we might find it, in "faith", religious and otherwise. If that "great thing" exists,it has to appear,show its face, and if is greater than us humans,""in all aspects"", then we have to accept it, as "superior being" to us in all aspects of our lives.
If you had friends (obviously you don't have,and maybe thats your choice in life,NOT to have friends), is more likely some of those friends,could be willing to help you,in your hour of need.
I had such an experience when she suggested it. So i asked her ."why you want to be adulterous". Her reply was. "because he seeing another woman."" In other words "Tit for tat".
RE: The Irish empire....
In most times ""ignorance is bliss""