Musings of a Dumb Ass

Musings of a Dumb Ass January 17, 2006............. Are we significant? In the grander scheme, if there is one, does us or anything about us have any value or meaning? I've been reading about the solar system, and without fail everytime I do that I get bogged down with the enormity and the hugeness of everything except us and the little circus we call civilization on our little perch hurtling through the nothingness of something so big we lack imagination enough to actually open the door of reality and understand anything about what significance is for our being. I certainly don't have any answers, but I have lots of wonder. We are an incredibly arrogant species. We have only scratched the surface of our own intelligence and brain power and in doing so we insist on putting parameters on the boundaries of our thought process that hampers us from evolving into the kind of thinkers that could broaden our understanding about our significance, our possibilities, and how to take advantage of our universe, or come to the conclusion that we actually have no significance in the universe and are just a bunch of matter riding through space and time on our rock destined to war with each other, play ridiculous mind games and be content to have the best toys to kill each other with and spend our lives pursuing what we percieve as power over everything we touch and everybody we see. From our vantage point as residents of this planet we could be termed as unorganised and ill behaved with no unified direction as a species. The living conditions, comfort, and educational level is so varied over the globe that it is impossible to have a unified effort to understand us and what our possibilities are, or even more important what we could be. We are hamstrung about whether or not there's a God, and if there is, who knows the most about Him, and how do you communicate ? We have no foundation that respects what we know about our timeline that meshes with the basics of any manmade religion and we will fight to the death when two competing religions make a challenge for power over the other. While a portion of our world lives in what can only be described as comfort and plenty, a greater portion live in starvation and oppression. Those in comfort and freedom quickly attain an understanding of the rules necessary to function in their world and work to better their future while the bottom portion of the unfortunate are scratching for lizards for breakfast and not thinking beyond the day they're in and don't care about the significance of anybody or anything except where's another lizard. All in all, if there are intelligence of anykind observing us from afar, they would have to view us as a species trying to come together as a whole, that is in it's infancy. If we are able to reach puberty in our evolvement as a species without destroying ourselves as a civilization, then one day as we survive on our perch hurtling through the great expanse of nothingness, we might figure out if we are significant......... or not.............