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in any natural process there exists an inherent tendency towards the dissipation of useful energy.

#entropy

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“Greeks don’t believe that God will like us better because we work hard, or because we deny ourselves pleasure. We prefer to believe that God wants us to go to the beach and admire the view. That contemplation of all the Unmoved Mover’s works is the highest form of moral activity there is. It’s the only way of understanding him.”

Phillip Kerr

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Crimes are committed when men take an idea that seems like a good idea and then can’t think of enough good reasons why it might not be a good idea.”

Phillip Kerr

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The eastern side of the square was higher than the western and was dominated by a set of marble steps that led up to the parliament, as if you might have to make some kind of effort getting to democracy.

Phillip Kerr

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And give me an answer in the morning. But don’t leave it any longer than that. Like the saying goes, the morning has gold in its mouth.”

Phillip Kerr

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There’s no sense in putting this off and hoping it will go away. The devil’s favorite piece of furniture is the long bench.

P. Kerr

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Consider

The chief disciple of Iyäsus Mo’a, Täklä Haymanot (‘Plant of Faith’), was a formidable ascetic, said to have spent a considerable proportion of his life standing on one leg in his monastic cell, feeding on one seed brought by a bird once a year. When the other leg atrophied away, God rewarded the monk with an array of wings. 55 We can take these stories as a shorthand indication for a religious leader with an intimidating arsenal of power.

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So here I am

In the er with my mom.

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Also spracht

Anything that is a measuring device cannot be a law of physics. Time is our way of measuring entropy. It is not be be included in the category of that which defines the physical world.

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I'm just sayin

Without us, there ain't no time. There's just is. Unmeasured is.

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If you can pronounce live either (or either for that matter) live or live, why can't you do the same with hive?

Uh, cuz hive, unlike live/live, only as a noun. I expect you might hear, in some English dialect, a jolly tar cry out, Hiv (short i) ho! But it would be spelled heave. You're welcome.

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Thot

I spect when I die I will find is.

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A relatively interesting definition

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. A. Einstein

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Locksley Hall

When I was young I thought man lived in hope of achieving more Now I'm older I tend to think man lives in fear of extinction.

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Another thought re: big bang

What if the Big Bang is actually an eruption of a new member of the multiverse. From whence it erupted is the big q, though, in'it? Is there a "metaverse," in which individual universes (we're gonna hafta rename it. Sic marketing on that) are incubated? Do individual universes grow like stars: from swirling gases and dust that eventually form enough mass to create the embryo that nourishes the mass until finally the light comes. If so, what's the analog in the metaverse that can coalesce as gas and dust do in our universe? And what's the analog for "mass?" From whence arises the "stuff" begat by the Big Bang? As interesting as that is, I think it's more interesting to figure out the analog 'twixt the instant (however that's defined) a star becomes a star and when an embryonic universe has achieved a state when it becomes self-sustaining. What does that tipping point look like? For that matter, that instant when collections of disparate things become a greater-than-the-sum thing bears a not-necessarily analogous (yet similar enough to note) similarity to other tipping points important to us humans, to wit: when life becomes life and, in humans at least, when conscious snaps on and I become me. So, in summary: 1) Does our universe erupt into existence much like a star does? If so--meaning we accept that metaphor--what's the "star stuff" (yea verily, 'tis Carl) that makes up a universe? 2) What does that moment of transition from one state to another "spontaneously" look like?

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Deja vu

A glitch in the multiverse; a peek into the metaverse.

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The best marketing people

Are those who grew up seeking approval.