Self Half Life
I woke up some time between going to bed and leaving it, and the thought that immediately came to me was "self half life." Since it was the thought of a fogged and somnolent mind I may rue sharing it. But it suggested some spiritual application, so here goes.
In pharmacology we were taught about half lives - the amount of time it takes for a substance following first order kinetics to diminish by half it's concentration. (It's like the scenario with a frog that aims to travel a stated distance by hopping half of the remaining distance each time.) When a substance behaves according to a given half life, the concentration after a number of hours 't' is equal to the original concentration (Co) divided by '2' to the power of time/half life [C(t) = Co/2^(t/half life); is there an equation editor for blogger?]. Hence, the shorter the half life the sooner the substance is cleared out of the system.
The shorter the "self half life" the sooner there will be less of me, and less of me should mean more of God (self = carnality in this case). At my death my carnality will enter zero order kinetics (where elimination occurs at a constant rate unrelated to the amount of substance present) for an infinitely short time and will vanish completely.
In pharmacology we were taught about half lives - the amount of time it takes for a substance following first order kinetics to diminish by half it's concentration. (It's like the scenario with a frog that aims to travel a stated distance by hopping half of the remaining distance each time.) When a substance behaves according to a given half life, the concentration after a number of hours 't' is equal to the original concentration (Co) divided by '2' to the power of time/half life [C(t) = Co/2^(t/half life); is there an equation editor for blogger?]. Hence, the shorter the half life the sooner the substance is cleared out of the system.
The shorter the "self half life" the sooner there will be less of me, and less of me should mean more of God (self = carnality in this case). At my death my carnality will enter zero order kinetics (where elimination occurs at a constant rate unrelated to the amount of substance present) for an infinitely short time and will vanish completely.

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