Beautiful.

Immediately I see a early morning, early season fall day, the kind of day that will fall somewhat short of summer heat, but still warm up, but with a nip of fall, crisp, but not yet related to temperature, more the notion of a chill played out in the dew on your bare skin. Plentiful high clouds mostly covering the azure sky.

Yeah, I guess I have no reason to think time stops universally, likely it stops for me at the cessation of life providing processes. Obtuse is one correct word I suppose, hidden agenda is another. 😒

How does entropy accommodate form?

I assume that entropy ensures that eventually all matter in the universe disassociates into constituent parts, with dissimilar atoms equally spaced from each other across the entire universe, all imbued with some equal distribution of energy in the form of uniform heat slightly greater than absolute zero. Any body or form is order, and order of any kind takes energy to maintain, as it is a concentration of matter and energy, as you kindly stated, the second law of thermodynamics states that higher orders of energy and organization necessarily diffuse over time to lower areas of energy and order until equilibrium is obtained. Such is entropy.

No, I was hoping to converse with personal understanding. I think trading other people’s understandings and perspectives of scientific theories and laws is trite.

One of us is misunderstanding? Let’s assume it’s me. With time, the entire universe will be formless, and temperature uniform, yes? We insulate, we build, we pump, and we create gradients of thermodynamic inequality at great cost, for a short time, but ultimately the moment our efforts stop…..pea soup at a few Kelvin above absolute zero. Do I have it wrong?

Lol, there is only equilibrium, and temporary, effortful, futile, struggles against it.

So a PCR test is actually very effective at identifying any difference in genetic code, what it isn’t good at doing is identifying viral infection and disease. PCR can be used to determine if you have been exposed to a specific pathogen, but exposure does not equal infection, and infection does not necessary equal disease. Make sense?

I think about people from the past too, and remember interactions in great detail. I suspect we’re unusual. Unrelated, I drove barrel truck for a bit. If I lived in west Texas maybe I’d drive again…it was fun to think about, I enjoyed working with all the contractors.

I think not all the vaccines were of the same formulation. Some doctors in central America found lots of graphene oxide in their batches, not found as far as I know in US doses.

I’m sorry, it’s harsh. It’s probably better to embrace it now and seek fulfillment in other places than to live as I did with misplaced belief. I ardently hope you find a true friend and partner to travel through the decades ahead with. My experience is that most friendships are opportunistic, best case symbiotic, but always susceptible to the loss of utility and function.

I would be getting proportionally bad at managing my weight.

You know, I’m older now. I have over 10,000 contacts in my address book, associations spanning thirty years, four careers, businesses, etc. Three years ago I stopped reaching out just to see what would happen. All I can say is, prepare for the day you will be faced with the reality that no one cares if you are alive or dead. Maybe your spouse, maybe your kids if you play your cards right, but most days, we’re all alone, swimming in a sea of fanciful illusions.

Well, there is a lot I could say here, but it wouldn’t help either of us. As my mother used to say, I’m glad your faith “brings you peace that transcends understanding.”

You know, sometimes I like the expensive ones, often with fine Scotch Whisky and Belgian chocolate, but the pipe tobacco Black and Mild wood tips have a fantastic flavor bouquet.

Right now, super lazy, but I’m gathering constitution to go clear some land like a late summer thunderstorm on the distant horizon, getting taller and brighter, and heavier, and darker all at the same time. Crack! Down come the trees!

You can keep it up. I quit in 2002, still going strong. I can even enjoy a cigar once in a while now with no lingering craving.

Sounds like an awesome plan. I sure wish people would listen, but I’m sure I’m ignorantly marching toward some ICU somewhere clueless about my current choices. What we don’t know eh?

Or labia as the case may be….lol.