Musings of a Dumb Ass

Things that make my thought process numb.........

How we've circumvented responsibility and changed the definition of it....
Our Government has altered our thinking so totally we no longer have the power of logical thinking we once had. For instance, insurance. When I was young, if you had an accident and was uninsured, if the person you hurt or had loss or damage of property filed for court action, a lawsuit would present you with all sorts of penalties and tie up your pay and assets for a very long time up till forever plus a very real possibility of going to jail.
After lobbying became the norm and criterion for doing business in the state legislature, it became the law that all automobiles have liability insurance. I know we've been propaganded for so many years that virtually everyone agrees this is the way to go. But no one noticed the stream of attornies and Doctors who came into their own through this, and also the costs of services in any insurance funded activity whether it is property replacement or injuries, have went through the ceiling and are completely ridiculous and out of controll.
On television the airwaves are clogged with advertisements for drugs the pharmacuetical manufacturers want you to ask your Doctor for, then followed by advertisements from Lawyers offering to sue the manufacturers if you've been prescribed certain drugs.
No one ever asks how much anything costs in health care because no one actually believes they're paying for it. You're paying for it all right, you're just mostly to ignorant to realize it.
Most who retire on Social Security truly believe they've payed for it, but in reality you become an eager participant in one of the most hopeless pyramid schemes ever devised by reasonable people. When you look at Medicare/Medicaid anyone with brains should realize such a plan as that will not only bring social security tumbling down, but will decimate the country in a few more years, all with us believing we deserve such services.
If we had real figures compiled in a way the average person could truly understand, I think we'd find more than 80% of our population recieve either a stipend or service value far in excess of what they've paid for in whatever time they spent in the workforce in a normal lifetime. Sadly no one would look at it in such a way, but it would be true.
End result? Nothing will change except government will grow, and benefits and services will expand even while those who stole their way to richness continue on unchallanged and politicians will keep on being what they are.
Runaway inflation by Christmas '09......followed by more unemployed.... Mark your calenders

Musings of A Dumb Ass

Humans have never been quick to embrace new ways of thinking.
Nicholas Copernicus believed the stars did not rotate around the earth as the church and most people believed. He died in relative peace in the late 1500's suffering only by being looked on as crazy by most. But a Pollock named Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600 for supporting Copernicus' theory that the earth was what was moving around the heavens. Of course it didn't help him by saying he thought Jesus was probably a magician and certainly not God or anything that resembled God.
Then along came Darwin with his theory of evolution and he's still ridiculed by many even though his theories have proven to be correct and a roadmap of what will be.
There's so many examples of narrowmindedness one could fill thousands of pages describing them. In the end we would still be narrowminded and unable to truly consider 'out there' thinking, even though at some point what was 'once out' there may be recognised as fact and change the way we live and think about things.
Having said all that, now I can get to what I really want to say, and it's about 'time'. Anyone who visits this page more than a couple of times know I am fascinated at time and its properties and its effect on our lives and the world we live in.
After a near collision at night with a deer standing on the centerline on the highway, it struck me odd why an animal with perfectly good eyesight would watch something approaching and only move at the last second. Why not move 10 seconds before it gets there?
It is likewise for most animals in the wild. Why is it that way? Could it be that time is different for them? That their time and distance judgement is altered by a different time value? Would this also explain the varying life expectancies for different creatures? The lowly housefly has a normal life expectancy of seventeen days, which at the end is as worn out as an eighty year old human. Would a different time value and speed also explain the suddenness of the fly's movement? Is that why we can't run as fast as a fox? Or a deer? But we can easily keep up with the big turtle that lives 150 years, and probably any other land based creature that lives 80 years. Does this open a possibility that many of the unexplained dimensions that we cannot identify but through math we know exists, are actually dimensions of time in paralell that all somehow interact with each other?
Anyone who might happen on this page and wonder about my sanity..... don't bother. I'm nuts..... there's other 'stuff' that bothers me too..........