Gorog, since you like spiders. . .

I used to catch Rattle-Snakes and Copperheads and Water Moc's in my younger days but the only good Spider is a "DEAD" Spider. Got bit by a Brown Spider in Ohio when I was about 6 or 7 in a very bad place and walked bow legged for about a week or so and since then I have killed any Spider I see or can get to with a spray can.! I don't mess with catching Snakes anymore because I finally saw what they can do and now all I do is mess with "CATS" * more or less.! They don't bite but they sure cost a lot of $$$ in the long run.* LOL {my 02 cents cents worth}
 
Funny, I could have sworn I already mentioned the spider silk cloth already, but, whatever, thank you for bringing it up, Quiggifur, it is much appreciated. I hear you Gladiator, its hard to appreciate spiders when they traumatize you at a young age. However, I MUST disagree with you, they are very beneficial predators, and, fortunately, no matter how many spiders you kill, there will be five to replace them. I can't change your mind, though I cringe every time you kill a spider, because if there WERE'NT any spiders left, then we would be swamped by an inundation of insects, no lie. Besides the fact that spiders are, proportionally, amongst the top natural predators on the face of the Earth, (human's don't count, because, without our fabulous brains, we'd be absolutely extinct, real quick) which I think is pretty cool. I can understand your prejudice against arachnids, heck, I got several ticks on very special places myself, but I believe it is better to like something than to hate something, especially when it comes to something so very NOT useless. Even though bees take a perverse pleasure in flying into my ear and buzzing away when I don't like loud noises *shudder*, I don't hate bees, nor do I think they should be dead, NOR do I rejoice when I hear that bees are suffering from Colony Collapse Disorder, which is killing them off rather efficiently. I'm not trying to hate on you, Gladiator, I'm just TRYING to say (rather longwindedly) that I don't like it when people boast about how they kill a favorite animal of mine, in a thread dedicated partially to me. I hope you don't take offense, because it was not my intent to cause offense, believe it or not. I'm very, very sensitive, perhaps, but, I believe you are very much wrong to wantonly kill every spider you see because of one bad spider in your childhood. Okay, that's all I got. Peace. And please, if you can't help killing spiders, then don't boast about it here. Thank you.
 
Gorog said:
Funny, I could have sworn I already mentioned the spider silk cloth already...
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You did, but it's one thing to hear it mentioned, and another thing entirely to see it, I think. I can't remember ever seeing such a beautiful golden color in a cloth before. A poor choice of words on my part though, since it wasn't really another interesting thing, it was more of an elaboration.
 
Oh, that's quite alright, it's not like I patented the cloth or anything, more like I parroted it. And, yes, you are more than correct, a picture is worth A THOUSAND words, (actually, probably more sometimes). Speaking of pictures, I want everyone to see exactly why huntsman spiders are the true killers (in the insect world, of course, their venom cannot permanently harm us), not slow moving, fragile tarantulas.
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Do you see the way the legs are all huge at the basal region and sideways? That=enormous agility, speed, and versatility. Top that if you can, fellow spider afficianado's (I did not spell that right, seeing as Bladeforums is giving me a big squiggle under it), though jumping spiders or Salticids are very impressive too. And if you are at a loss over whether spiders are ugly as all get out, in between, or beautiful, then check this one, it might convert you to either side :)
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Peace everyone, and respect everything living, please!
 
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You know something I've noticed?

USUALLY, guys that like spiders dislike snakes, and people who like snakes generally don't like spiders.
 
Very interesting. Was that possibly directed at me as well as Gladiator? I'm not offended, it's just that I like spiders AND snakes. Although you did say USUALLY, so, whatever. Could this possibly be a metaphor that you just used, Punishment? I don't know. Peace.
 
Around me we get an interesting variety: Banana, crab, wood, wolf, brown widow, black widow and brown recluse are a few of them. I sure as hell am not rushing out to get one as a pet though.
 
I'm not asking you to like them at all, all I plead for is some respect. Spiders, to me at least, would be a rather unusual pet, because their brains are probably too miniscule to have the capacity to reciprocate affection, heck, my dog is too dumb for that! Yeah, so respect our furry, hairy, leggy, fangy 'friends' and they will hopefully not bite you. I personally can't stand the way huntsman spiders move so FAST, its downright terrifying, like the arachnid is pointing a gun at me or something, but, nonetheless, I love them for their beneficial nature and such like. Yeah, respect was all I was asking for Pmwc78. By the way, be very careful around the black widows and brown recluses. You might already know this, but, nonetheless, I'll warn you, they are highly venomous. Okay, thats all I got. Peace.
 
Ajan Brahm (Ajan means "teacher" in his Theravada tradition) tells in his lectures of his years practicing meditation in the jungles of Thailand prior to becoming a Buddhist leader in Australia. He was often tormented by mosquitoes in the jungle when other more experienced monks were not. Perhaps because he was a tasty white guy and the local mosquitoes thought of him like an exotic foreign restaurant. One day his teacher, Ajan Chah, suggested he think of the mosquitoes that were bothering him as Ajan mosquito.

It's an interesting change of perspective.

Sometimes I still swat the bloodsuckers.
 
Yeah, that is an unusual take on the problem mosquitos pose. I think people are going to wipe out mosquitos entirely, because hardly anyone takes the time to realize that almost everything in nature, even that brainless monster that is daring to suck your blood with its hateful elongated mouthparts, is useful. I hope I am wrong, because just wiping out every population of mosquitos worldwide would have a vast impact on the food web, but I nonetheless believe that those who don't self educate, or don't care enough to do so, will just obliterate them from the face of the Earth, simply because they dare to perpetuate their species by utilizing different minerals in the blood of animals, including humans. It is unfortunate, but necessary that humans do not waste their time, and their future, trying to upset a balance that is already skewed vastly in our favor. If only there was a guardian, a sentinel or watcher, that was immortal, incorruptible, unsusceptible to emotion and other strong yet petty things, and all powerful, that could lay down the law to us instinctively me-first, too-smart-for-our-own-good humans, and have the muscle, (not to mention the unlimited, universal energy creation ability) to quell any uprising, stop any rebellion, and keep us content with our lives. But that would be a utopia, and where's the bloodshed, the suffering and agony, where is the horror, destruction, and the few moments of fun we all cherish to our graves, in that? The fact is, people will not allow themselves to be governed by natural law and order, so there will always be monsters and aberrants hiding in human flesh and blood, there will always corruption, greed, hate, fury, and all the sins of the world WILL be perpetuated either by reproduction or mutation, so that this world will NEVER be natural until an unnatural calamity sweeps us all off the face of the Earth in ultimate extinction. Fortunately, that means there will always be a need for self defense, so knives, guns, bullets, and their ilk, will ALWAYS be in 'fashion'. So we get to keep our knives. YAY!!! Even me, and my tiny little 'Guppy' multitool from CRKT, the singular knife to my repetoir! So, the point of this huge mess I typed was, think twice when you go to smoosh a bug or a mosquito, for they do have a use in life. Well, peace everyone, cause its dinner time in Delaware. Bye.
 
It's like looking in a mirror... You should try to think less. You probably won't be able to (I've been trying for years, and I still haven't been able to improve much), but even the effort is useful.
 
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Uh...what? I don't quite get what you're saying, Quiggifur. Is it possibly in reference to my main point? Peace.
 
I mean you remind me so much of myself it's crazy; Looking at that big wall of text you just posted is like looking at something I would have written myself, even if it isn't exactly my opinion. No two people are exactly the same, so maybe you don't perceive/experience problems with thinking too much, but I know I do, and I have a good feeling that you might benefit from trying to quiet your mind down. Just a suggestion.
 
Howard Wallace said:
Breaking into paragraphs makes text more readable.
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That, and breaking up the unusually long sentences (with included parentheses). I'm a fan myself, but most people, for one reason or another, aren't. It's nice to meet another ridiculously-long-sentence-aficionado.

"If only there was a guardian, a sentinel or watcher, that was immortal, incorruptible, unsusceptible to emotion and other strong yet petty things, and all powerful, that could lay down the law to us instinctively me-first, too-smart-for-our-own-good humans, and have the muscle, (not to mention the unlimited, universal energy creation ability) to quell any uprising, stop any rebellion, and keep us content with our lives."

God, I love it.

Here's another one:

But of all there were none he liked so well as those of the famous Feliciano de Silva's composition, for their lucidity of style and complicated conceits were as pearls in his sight, particularly when in his reading he came upon courtships and cartels, where he often found passages like "the reason of the unreason with which my reason is afflicted so weakens my reason that with reason I murmur at your beauty;" or again, "the high heavens, that of your divinity divinely fortify you with the stars, render you deserving of the desert your greatness deserves."

-or:

In short, his wits being quite gone, he hit upon the strangest notion that ever madman in this world hit upon, and that was that he fancied it was right and requisite, as well for the support of his own honour as for the service of his country, that he should make a knight-errant of himself, roaming the world over in full armour and on horseback in quest of adventures, and putting in practice himself all that he had read of as being the usual practices of knights-errant; righting every kind of wrong, and exposing himself to peril and danger from which, in the issue, he was to reap eternal renown and fame.

-and with significant risk of being called a nerd:

"Lord King," Mandorallen said in his resonant voice, bowing to the throne, "gladly do I greet thee and the members of thy court, and dare to call ye all kinsmen. I presume to bear thee warmest greetings from their Majesties, King Korodullin and Queen Mayaserana, monarchs of well-loved Arendia, for, doubtless, as soon as I return to Vo Mimbre and reveal that those who were once lost and are now joyfully found again, their Majesties' eyes will fill to overflowing with tears of thanksgiving, and they shall embrace thee from afar, if needs be, as a brother, and, as great Chaldan gives me strength, shall I presently return to thy magnificent city with missives top-filled with their regard and affection which shall, methinks, presage a soon-to-be accomplished reunion--may I dare even hope, a reunification--of the dissevered branches of the holy blood of sacred Arendia." (technically two sentences, but without the preface it doesn't make so much sense).
 
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I just walked into the kitchen to get a stapler.

By the time I got there I forgot why I went there. I knew there was some reason. I was talking to Red Flower on the phone. She helped me out.

"Are you hungry?"

No.

Finally I remembered why I was there.

At my age, by the time I get to the end of a long sentence, I forgot what the beginning was about.

Oh well, at least I don't worry much.

I forget about the worrysome things after a minute or two.
 
Thank you for clarifying, Quiggifur, and yes, I have IMMENSE difficulties with trying to contain my thoughts. There are a whole heck of a lot of people who would not find my verbosity to be their cup of tea, and thats quite alright, seeing as I find their quick-to-judge, quick-to-prejudice ways not in my interest either. But, that does not mean I despise them irrationally, which, unfortunately, is a common theme in todays society, irrational hatred.
Even rational hatred is abominable. Why hate at all? But, I realize people do how they do, and there is nothing I can do about it, save for asking for some tolerance and acceptance instead of 'raid' and similar vitriole. Peace.
 
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