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Started by Adios, June 18, 2008, 01:12:58 PM

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a large spider web on my front porch. I was going to have a knee jerk reaction and remove it but I realized it was a knee jerk reaction and didn't. It turns out observing spiders at work is a very rich text of beautifully written life lessons. After some consideration by the spider (assumption) she picked a spot to build her web. It has cover, light at night and an ample food supply. It is beautifully crafted and well constructed. She is patient and motionless as she waits for her prey. Once an insect is in the web she is lightening fast as she poisons it and wraps it up. She has to be sometimes. Some insects struggle very little trying to escape and are summarily eaten. Others struggle mightily and actually escape. Some put up a good fight and are eaten anyway.

As I watch this process in utter fascination it occurs to me we as primates are not so very different from the insects. If we had souls I wonder how many of us would have had ours eaten by now. The web we are trapped in has been beautifully crafted and well constructed. Could it be that it is comfortable and seems a good time to rest from flying around all the time? If it does then we are not aware of the danger lurking just out of sight and we will be devoured.

This brings another thought to mind. Do we have the desire and strength to struggle and fight our way to escape? Then what? Back to mindlessly flying around? Probably, it's what we do after all.

I'm going back out to watch so I can learn to struggle and fight.

P3nT4gR4m

Spiders are icky - go watch something proper, like oprah or clouds or shit  :argh!:

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Adios

Quote from: SillyCybin on June 18, 2008, 01:16:42 PM
Spiders are icky - go watch something proper, like oprah or clouds or shit  :argh!:

Watching Oprah would make me puke on the clouds and cause acid rain to fall on you.

AFK

I think it's really easy to succumb to stagnation.  I think our long, and getting longer, lifespans has only enhanced and strengthened the inherent apathy that exists in humanity.  I think a large chunk of human-kind, collectively, are like the procrastination college student who just gets by.  Just kind of float along until it becomes absolutely necessary to act.

I think of the current energy crisis.  Why don't we act now?  I mean REALLY act now?  Bush has just put the onus on Congress to allow off-shore drilling.  And indeed I'm sure many will echo his call.  Because like you say, it's easy to just mindlessly fly around, then to make an effort to find new territory.  We have the minds and technology to move on to the next energy source now, but there aren't enough flies that can and will avoid the tempting web of fossil fuels. 

I think more of us need to be observing the spiders and the spider webs, and really learn the lessons that lie within. 
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

P3nT4gR4m

Human beings are dumb creatures. They may be capable of intelligent thought but most of them won't unless there's a weapon of some kind pointed at their head and, as soon as it's gone they'll go straight back to deferred mental process as soon as they think they can get away with it. Thinking makes them tired.

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
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Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

Adios

Quote from: R.W.H.N? on June 18, 2008, 01:32:04 PM
I think it's really easy to succumb to stagnation.  I think our long, and getting longer, lifespans has only enhanced and strengthened the inherent apathy that exists in humanity.  I think a large chunk of human-kind, collectively, are like the procrastination college student who just gets by.  Just kind of float along until it becomes absolutely necessary to act.

I think of the current energy crisis.  Why don't we act now?  I mean REALLY act now?  Bush has just put the onus on Congress to allow off-shore drilling.  And indeed I'm sure many will echo his call.  Because like you say, it's easy to just mindlessly fly around, then to make an effort to find new territory.  We have the minds and technology to move on to the next energy source now, but there aren't enough flies that can and will avoid the tempting web of fossil fuels. 

I think more of us need to be observing the spiders and the spider webs, and really learn the lessons that lie within. 

Excellent point. Here in Kansas we had a big fight over whether or not to install wind generators to provide power. Now I fully support wind generators, other than a speck of farmland they cause no damage. the wind passes through, spins the vanes and power is made. Nothing is harmed or fouled. The other option was coal plants. The opponents of the wind generators main objection was the wind generators would spoil the landscape and look ugly. Ahem. HAVE YOU EVER FUCKING BEEN TO KANSAS?????????? Their argument was the coal plant would do LESS harm to the environment..........! Ahem. ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID??????
Here's what I think it really all boiled down to.

Point 1) I think they would have gotten jobs at the coal plant ao taking care of number 1 took priority.

Point 2)  ZOMFG!!!! It's something DIFFERENT!!!!!!!

We now fortunately have wind generator fields and they are producing perfectly clean energy.

The opposition is and will remain firmly caught in the spiders web.

P3nT4gR4m

Every time the subject of people and how dumb they are, comes up I realise that they are, in fact, the best argument for fascism you could ever hope to hear

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
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Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

Triple Zero

Quote from: R.W.H.N? on June 18, 2008, 01:32:04 PM
I think more of us need to be observing the spiders and the spider webs, and really learn the lessons that lie within. 

save time: put a spider in your navel!
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i like spiders i have a spiderweb on my porch (not as pretty or mystical as yours ) . when i find a spider in my house i catch it and throw in the web to see if it sticks ... so far none have gotten stuck ..  spiders may all be spiderweb proof??
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Adios

Quote from: triple zero on June 19, 2008, 05:48:25 PM
Quote from: R.W.H.N? on June 18, 2008, 01:32:04 PM
I think more of us need to be observing the spiders and the spider webs, and really learn the lessons that lie within. 

save time: put a spider in your navel!

I guess I really shouldn't try to contribute.

AFK

poppycock.

I really enjoyed this one, it made me think. 

I say moar, bobdamnit, moar.   
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

Adios

Quote from: R.W.H.N? on June 20, 2008, 03:46:46 PM
poppycock.

I really enjoyed this one, it made me think. 

I say moar, bobdamnit, moar.   

Thank you.

Quimby

Have you all seen the delectable film sean of the dead? It is such a great picture of humanity up until the point when they knock the "drunk chick" onto the poll.. Anyways, for some reason this thread brought that to my mind.. bravo indeed... encore
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i liked this, Asshat :)