On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

[featherynscale]

Notes from 4 a.m. Sunday morning...

It's odd the things that comfort - the second law says that the universe tends toward disorder. Entropy, dissolution are the end result of everything. So you don't have to worry about whether or not something will fall apart. You can say with certainty that it will, the only question is when.

All things are transitory - there is nothing to fear. Fear itself is transitory, as we learned from Dune - I will permit it to pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past, I will turn my inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
But not for long.

Immanentize the eschaton? Check.
Bring on the Kali Yuga? Check.
End of the world as we know it? Check. And I feel fine.

Comments

Immantentize

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

What an odd word, from a woman who mocks the use of the word "priestess" as a verb...

No fair to post things that make me have to look things up on a Monday morning. On the other hand, it's nice to have something to consider other than whether I ought to clean that oatmeal up myself or let the dog do it.

Low glam,
Saff

[kcwitch.livejournal.com]

smiling and nodding pretending to understand is a good thing for me right now. :)

[damonite.livejournal.com]

Dear Ms. Kimberly,

Keep writing stuff like this. Fight Club references are always a welcome addition.

Love,
Mike.

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

Which second law?

"The relationship between an object's mass m, its acceleration a, and the applied force F is F = ma. Acceleration and force are vectors (as indicated by their symbols being displayed in slant bold font); in this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the direction of the acceleration vector."? (Newton)

I was going to add Einstein's second theory, and then the second commandment and attribute that second rule to (God), but the firewall is killing me so just rest assured that this would have been a funnier post if I had more energy today.

On a side note, Ask.com gave me some weird results when I asked for a list of the twelve commandments. I could have sworn that there were twelve. Then I remembered the History of the World. It was fifteen, then Moses dropped a slab and it became ten. Silly me.

[zylch.livejournal.com]

Have you ever read Stoppard's Arcadia? It's about sex, death, and literature -- and entropy! Not a long play; it'd take maybe a couple of hours to read once, but definitely rewards several rereadings. I have a copy if you're interested.