Eggs and the Value of Completed Systems

I've heard that due to the spherical nature of an egg shell, were equal amounts of pressure to be applied simultaneously to it (by grasping it with the fingers from both top and bottom) it would never break, regardless of the amount of pressure exerted-->> The value of something whole and complete.

Similarly you see in science the stability of the noble elements (elements whose valence shells have a completed set of electrons) over their counterparts, even those elements who are "greater" by being further down the chart. Nevertheless, the completeness of the nobles makes them infinitely stronger than the others.

And so i come to my point. The existential paradox of "יש לי כל", man's drive for the "all", the "whole", the klall/kol; when he is tragically fundamentally merely a פרט . How? Through כלה, ( kol ) the infinitely valuable state of a completed system or organism. In that noble state of kol one does not covet nor lack or want even of the elements that are greater than he, for he is complete and in that completion he shares and accesses the ultimate "kol". Thereby displaying the beauty of Tiferet.

Death or Ru Ru?

Could just be that i'm in a pessimistic mood these days but saw this joke in Dan Stone's book on Drexel Burnham "April Fools" and really captured the thought. Namely, that with some choices in life you've lost before you've even begun, you just don't know it yet:

Two professors were captured by a tribe of natives deep in the Amazon. The tribal chief turns to the first professor and asks "will you choose death or ru-ru?".

The first professor figuring to take his chances with the curious ru ru is thereupon taken by the tribal men, beaten to point of unconsciousness and thrown to a pit of savage tigers who quickly tear him apart limb from limb and kill him. His remaining body is raised up from the pit and thrown onto the floor to the horror of his colleague.

The chief then turns to the other professor and asks the same: "Death or Ru Ru?" to which he quickly and emphatically replied "Death. Absolutely Death".

"Fine", said the chief, "death it is."

"But first.... a little Ru-Ru. "

:-)