The weekend was rather dull, as Trev was out of town. Hence, no gaming. At any rate, Saturday night we had a freak power outage, leaving our complex darker than it has been in my experience. This is actually a good thing, in my mind, as it enabled me to do some serious stargazing. That, and my neighbors thought I was a corpse. At any rate, I did some more thinking.
I've always been puzzled by the fact that humans are afraid of the dark. I mean, darkness is essentially harmless. Night has always been associated with evil and terror and all of that stuff. As I lay on the grass thinking, it occurred to me that perhaps it is because the blindingly obvious truths of the day are no longer obvious. All truths must be grappled with under the cover of night. And, at the same time, we see farther and deeper at night than we could during the day. Think about it. During the day, the farthest visible object is 93,000,000 miles away (the sun). At night, we can see things that are 93,000,000
light years away, namely stars. Furthermore, we aren't just peering into space, but also into time itself, as the things we see are really the echoes of a distant past. That star 93,000,000 light years away could be totally dead for all we know. And yet, we can still see it. Maybe our fear of the night is because these deep truths remind us that we are so cosmically tiny and insignificant. Or maybe I'm mixing metaphore with fact. Doesn't matter. Just thought I'd get that out there.
In other news, Justin and I hung out last night watching the Unex Report. It was miracles, this time, which is slightly less interesting than Aliens, ghosts, and monsters. Sorry. God just isn't as cool as UFOs.
