Diddling

[the_swordsman46]

Well well. LiveJournal. AhemIt's early morning. Seriously, I am nocturnal. On numerous occasions this summer I've taken dawn as my cue to retire. I just want to take a few weeks without any time-sensitive obligations and operate entirely on my natural clock

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my disagrees

[mr_vashoom]

the flux of up and down in the universe is the balance. the flux of imbalance creates overall balance. that's why people need religion and can't get over stuff because they don't see things on the grand level.

also in terms of energy, there is balance there too. every calory you take in is used. every action you perform expends energy. when you die, you are still doing the same thing. like, in life you take in and expel energy to change your environment, but you do the exact same thing in death. someone burns you and adds more heat to the air, or maggots get into your coffin and eat you and your energy allows future generations of maggots to live. energy is never destroyed, there is always balance, and death is not the opposite of life, it is included in the defition of Universal Life. that's my mantra anyway.

Re: my disagrees

[the_swordsman46]

Agreed. It's a balanced system of imbalances, because it's all insular: no matter what happens, the net-energy of the universe remains unchanged.

I guess that's true, a body can still circulate energy after it dies. But that's sort of different...every inanimate object has a certain amount of potential energy, more or less depending on what it's made of (is it edible, is it flammable, etc.). But keeping a body alive requires a certain amount of kinetic energy, more energy than we can take in, and eventually that imperfect absorb/expend ratio catches up with us and we can no longer live.
And, like you say, energy expended is not destroyed. It simply passes a new keeper until it's expended again. It circulates.
I also agree death is certainly not the opposite of life. I think it's an inevitability of life, due to the circumstances of the universe.