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create_destiny) wrote2006-02-06 02:12 pm
create_destiny) wrote2006-02-06 02:12 pm
I Fought the Law of Thermodynamics and the Law of Thermodynamics Won
I've been reading a tome on the natural history of California. I just finished reading a portion about the laws of thermodynamics. It's the second law of thermodynamics that's blowing me away.
Energy can be converted from one form to another, but transformations are never completely efficient.
Disorder (entropy) tends to occur during energy transformations; therefore to create order or put things in a precise arrangement, requires more energy than can be reclaimed later.
I'm thinking this law must also apply to spiritual matters. Like God can pour his grace into us all the live-long day, but we can only convert 1% of this grace into anything fruitful.
Perhaps this explains why, after years of spiritual struggle, all that came from me was a pea-sized grape that quickly withered and fell to the ground where ants fed upon it until they were drunk with joy. A handful of drunk ants. This is my spiritual contribution to the universe. Christ was crucified for a handful of drunk ants.
Fuck. Hopefully I can use the law of thermodynamics as a justifiable excuse on Judgment Day.
I'm at least going to use it as an excuse to not clean the house today.
Forgive me.
Energy can be converted from one form to another, but transformations are never completely efficient.
Disorder (entropy) tends to occur during energy transformations; therefore to create order or put things in a precise arrangement, requires more energy than can be reclaimed later.
I'm thinking this law must also apply to spiritual matters. Like God can pour his grace into us all the live-long day, but we can only convert 1% of this grace into anything fruitful.
Perhaps this explains why, after years of spiritual struggle, all that came from me was a pea-sized grape that quickly withered and fell to the ground where ants fed upon it until they were drunk with joy. A handful of drunk ants. This is my spiritual contribution to the universe. Christ was crucified for a handful of drunk ants.
Fuck. Hopefully I can use the law of thermodynamics as a justifiable excuse on Judgment Day.
I'm at least going to use it as an excuse to not clean the house today.
Forgive me.
There are drunk cockroaches too
Re: There are drunk cockroaches too
But, the law of thermodynamics is responsible for the fact that only 1% of the solar energy that falls on a green plant is converted to food and only 10% of that energy is incorporated into the animal that eats it. There is a lot of energy lost in this conversion. Not God's "fault" but perhaps a result of "the fall."
And if this happens in the natural world, perhaps it also happens in the spiritual world--God's grace being his uncreated energies and us being leaky vessels of that grace.
Re: There are drunk cockroaches too