Musings of a Dumb Ass

Musings of a Dumb Ass...... Tonight I spent some time reading about goings on with clouds of gas and star burnouts and just things in general that go on in outer space. The activity that caught my eye was something the Hubbell telescope picked up within the constellation Pegasus. Space and time has always been a subject that could captivate me very quickly and tonight was no different. Of all the things a person could find interesting, space and time must be the one that is the most out of reach. Because no matter how hard you try to understand, its relative importance in your life is out of reach even beyond your wildest imagination. So why would anyone get hung up on something so irrelavent that no part of it can possibly affect your life as we understand life? I really can't answer that myself, even though my brain gets into a wad just wanting to grasp even a little of how it works and what it means if anything, always leaving me frustrated. In our present form I think humans are crude at best and incapable of logic thought as it applies to us and what heights it is possible for us to reach. We haven't yet learned to get along with each other, which is and always will be the greatest stumbling block to the greatness of the human race. We are dishonest even when it would be to our advantage to be honest. We are illogical much of the time even when logic is right before us and identifiable. We lie when the truth would be much more comfortable in the long run and will sell innocents down the river to save face. We will grasp at what we believe although we may not completely believe what we believe, and will defend stupidity down to the bitter end rather than consider that another way might have been much better. We are judgemental, selfish, and greedy and in the final analysis are all for sale, we're just not sure how much we want. We demand answers and explanations for most things but will accept untruth in the place of what is real, unable to simply view it as it is. A friend once told me he thought mankind was in its infancy and if it could survive into puberty without destroying itself chances were pretty good it would continue into maturity and achieve things even too great to imagine. I'm inclined to agree. Light travels at about 186,000 miles per second. A light year is the distance that light would travel unimpeded at that speed, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It is 300 MILLION light years to the constellation Pegasus. What difference does it make what's going on there? None, I suppose. While I'm lost in thought about the constellation Pegasus and the activity within it, my life is being affected by people who yet ride camels and chase sand lizards, and we just can't quite figure out who the bad guys are. Hmmmm.......................................