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    Default Water is the only perfect thing in the world

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    But, for a certainty, back then,
    We loved so many, yet hated so much,
    We hurt others and were hurt ourselves...

    Yet even then, we ran like the wind,
    Whilst our laughter echoed,
    Under cerulean skies...

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    Most water lacks fruity flavouring. Juice is the only perfect thing in the world, especially in crystalline popsicle form.

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    What do you think of love, Gilly?

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    Cranberry juice is the great healer.



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    I hear the water in Lake Erie is awesome.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Saturn View Post
    What do you think of love, Gilly?
    Somewhere between cocaine and a good book.
    But, for a certainty, back then,
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    We hurt others and were hurt ourselves...

    Yet even then, we ran like the wind,
    Whilst our laughter echoed,
    Under cerulean skies...

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    If water is so perfect, then why does it allow for the imperfection known as hydronium?

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    So does that mean every human is 2/3 perfect?

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    I tend to think that either nothing is perfect or everything is. Depends how you look at it.

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    Well if you look at things from such an 'eagle-up' view, where everything just looks like a black dot, then it's bound to look perfect. But also really boring.

    Like here's you waaaay up in your thoughts, and here's all of the universe in one tiny period:

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    The Universe does indeed look perfect from this perspective. But also looks boring. Eventually you're going to want to come closer and see what lies underneath the label and perfection.

    So therefore, yes *everything together* is perfect, because existance itself is perfect, all together there is no fight or contradiction, all of nature as one. The more you zoom in, though, the more you have to be comfortable with imperfection, and the predator/prey cycles of life.

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    But things on small scales are easier to control, and are thus more likely to approach perfection. The "big unit" or whatever is only perfect because it is perfect by definition, because it could not possibly be any other way; perfection is attained by control and precision, which only happens in total alignment on a small scale; otherwise it takes too much energy to maintain.
    But, for a certainty, back then,
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    We hurt others and were hurt ourselves...

    Yet even then, we ran like the wind,
    Whilst our laughter echoed,
    Under cerulean skies...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gilly View Post
    But things on small scales are easier to control, and are thus more likely to approach perfection. The "big unit" or whatever is only perfect because it is perfect by definition, because it could not possibly be any other way; perfection is attained by control and precision, which only happens in total alignment on a small scale; otherwise it takes too much energy to maintain.
    But the universe already works according to precise laws - just not laws that we wrote. Doesn't this precise adherence to the natural laws render it perfect?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Brilliand View Post
    But the universe already works according to precise laws - just not laws that we wrote. Doesn't this precise adherence to the natural laws render it perfect?
    Yeah that's kind of what I said, but it also makes it kind of a copout, because really it couldn't be any other way, given whatever initial circumstances, etc.
    But, for a certainty, back then,
    We loved so many, yet hated so much,
    We hurt others and were hurt ourselves...

    Yet even then, we ran like the wind,
    Whilst our laughter echoed,
    Under cerulean skies...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brilliand View Post
    But the universe already works according to precise laws - just not laws that we wrote. Doesn't this precise adherence to the natural laws render it perfect?
    From some limited perspective yes, but most anthrocentric (or for that matter, ethical) perspectives would not accept the universe as perfect so long as natural disasters and such occur, to say nothing of the troubles of human beings, who consistently obey natural laws but are not consistent on almost any others.
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    Nothing is perfect.... ENTROPY MUST BE MAXIMIZED.... the SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS MUST BE OBEYED!

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    Yes, for that it can creep.

    Seriously though, I really like water. When I was a tiny child, one of my favorite activities was "washing dishes" which sounds utterly ridiculous to me, until I realized that "washing dishes" meant "playing with water and cups," which sounds magnificently fun.

    On the other hand, water also makes up tsunamis.

    But yeah, water is an easy thing to make hay out of. ha ha.

    Yes, there are pockets of lesser entropy, and that is what we would call perfection on the microlevel, but because of the dualism of being, the macrocosm is both perfect and hell. Happiness lies in the election of the consciousness (there's nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so). This is just much more difficult than the self-help books would suggest.
    Not a rule, just a trend.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HaveLucidDreamz View Post
    Nothing is perfect.... ENTROPY MUST BE MAXIMIZED.... the SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS MUST BE OBEYED!
    Maybe the second law of thermodynamics is part of the cycle that's part of the whole of everything that is perfect?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joy View Post
    Maybe the second law of thermodynamics is part of the cycle that's part of the whole of everything that is perfect?
    Maybe what I wrote was me not being entirely serious

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