Musings of a Dumb Ass

Musings of a Dumb Ass Ah time......... you fascinating devil you............ Time is something that's always been my companion in reality. I've always been aware of it. With me it's been a little like a roadtrip. If you're driving you know it's going to end at some point, and if you're riding, you don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something that will never come into view again. But is time the same for everything? I think not. Einstein says that time is a fourth dimension as it meanders through the other three. But is it possible that time is much more complicated than our simple minds can deduce? As things of life journey alongside us on our trip through mortality they're not on the same schedule of longevity as we. Why is this? If they were, life as we know it probably couldn't sustain itself. Why? For one thing, warm blooded animals we consume wouldn't grow and reproduce in numbers great enough to provide us with food. Chickens now hatch and grow to maturity in a matter of weeks ready for slaughter. If it took 15 years for a chicken to get big enough to butcher Kentucky Fried Chicken and Tyson's would have a real problem. Then there's the simple housefly with an average 17 day lifespan. What if it lived the same 80 years we do? I've wondered for a very long time if in fact the fly does in fact live 80 years, but sort of in a different zone. When it dies, if it's managed to avoid its natural predators, the swat, and the chemicals we use to kill it, and dies a natural death, its body is as worn out as an 80 year old human at natural death. But our body has only been aware of a 17 day time passage as the fly was born, grown to adulthood, to old age, and finally death, even as many of us barely experienced a pay period at the factory. Whatever we can't explain away in fact we dress up with theory. If we can't come up with a credible theory we pass it off to supernatural or throw it into the bucket with things that God decides that we can't comprehend. I wonder if there are many dimensions of time entertwined in some way with our journey that we are locked in to, even as we can look at those traveling in another lane? So interesting..... So fascinating....... So formidal..... So complicated...... But so was the wheel, and look how simple that is now. We figured that out. Maybe we can figure this out too..... if we have time............