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Entropy - (verb) Lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder. This among others is a definition of the word 'Entropy.' For people such as myself, was are dillitante science buffs, it describes the end state of the Universe, a kind of 'heat death' where all the possible energy has been used up and what is left is so dissipated and utterly chaotic that all chance of further 'physical processes - the kind of things which lead to: you, me, gas giant planets or mars bars are no longer possible. A depressing state of affairs one would no doubt hazard, but as it isn't likely for an utterly exhausting length of time to even contemplate there isn't any need to worry just yet.
I mention entropy as it is the title of this mini-blog. Actually part of the title: 'tidy that entropy' to unravel it being the full thing. It's a kind of weak joke. Sort of like "entropy - the obsessive compulsive's deadliest enemy." Not particularly funny but hey I'm winging it here !
Dysteleological Physicalism, now there is a mouthful you have to admit. What the Monty Python team would have called, "Woody words !" but, 'woody' or otherwise what does it actually mean ? Well 'dystelological actually refers to a philosophical viewpoint that existence has no 'telos'. Now 'telos, which is Greek or specifically derives from ancient Greek for end or purpose. In a constrained sense it was used by philosopher's such as Aristotle. Teleology, the study of purpose or design in natural occurrences is pure Aristotelian philosophy. As Christianity explains life, the Univers and everything in a telological sense, i.e. as having an end or purpose in order to achieve a specific goal -The New Jerusalem, the early Christian philosophers like Aquinas loved Aristotle's teleological accounts and incorporated them into a synthesis of his and Christian thought known as Scholasticism.
The last bit, Physicalism holds that everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties; most definitely not a Christian viewpoint. And the reason I raise this ? Easy, it's Friday night and I'm bored. Besides, it's interesting in an obscure kind of way, don't you think ? Oh, well in that case I'll stop rambling on okay ?
I mention entropy as it is the title of this mini-blog. Actually part of the title: 'tidy that entropy' to unravel it being the full thing. It's a kind of weak joke. Sort of like "entropy - the obsessive compulsive's deadliest enemy." Not particularly funny but hey I'm winging it here !
Dysteleological Physicalism, now there is a mouthful you have to admit. What the Monty Python team would have called, "Woody words !" but, 'woody' or otherwise what does it actually mean ? Well 'dystelological actually refers to a philosophical viewpoint that existence has no 'telos'. Now 'telos, which is Greek or specifically derives from ancient Greek for end or purpose. In a constrained sense it was used by philosopher's such as Aristotle. Teleology, the study of purpose or design in natural occurrences is pure Aristotelian philosophy. As Christianity explains life, the Univers and everything in a telological sense, i.e. as having an end or purpose in order to achieve a specific goal -The New Jerusalem, the early Christian philosophers like Aquinas loved Aristotle's teleological accounts and incorporated them into a synthesis of his and Christian thought known as Scholasticism.
The last bit, Physicalism holds that everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties; most definitely not a Christian viewpoint. And the reason I raise this ? Easy, it's Friday night and I'm bored. Besides, it's interesting in an obscure kind of way, don't you think ? Oh, well in that case I'll stop rambling on okay ?
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