aye, it’s only a bug. Only. How would you like it if someone said that about you? But you are different, yes. You are a person, you know what you are, you think about things, you experience the world and yourself and others, you remember, you anticipate. Do bugs do these things? Do they immagine, hope, feel emotions? We do not rightly know. Yet, even so, is it not terrifying to contemplate that your heart, You, would kill something just because it was inconvenient for you?
“Oh look, it’s an ant on the counter.” *Smash*
Have you ever looked at those searching antenas in the moment before your finger comes down out of the sky in a flash and cuts off all that bug knew. Have you ever thought of how sudden and unexpected that ending was? Have you ever looked at your finger and realised that it has the power to separate things from this world forever? Have you ever considered and trembled at the thought of such a thing happening to you? The idea that suddenly, for no reason other than your existance slighty bothering someone, it might just be stoppped, eliminated, without a thought or care or pause or remembrance, without a moment even to realise it is happening. Have you ever looked at your heart and realised the darkness of that impulse within you.......I don’t like it - Smash! Have you ever considered what it might do? If you believed other things were bugs as well? Have you remembered, and shuddered, that it happens all the time? That people believe even people like themselves are only bugs.
To the bugs, we are like gods. Remember the Romans gods? Whose intrests and petty whims upturned the lives of humans below without their asking? How greatly do your petty whims upturn many little lives that do not even understand your existance. Is that your right? Are you a god? Over what? What in this world truely belongs to you? Perhaps it is our gift and right to herd the sheep, the beetles, the bushes of this earth. Even so, do we know where our will should stop? Over what it has precedence, and over what it does not? Do we have the grace to consider what is under us? Or do we act only upon our whims? And even if it is our right to do so......is it truely right? Is it good? Is it best? Is it, perhaps, only through giving up our right voluntarily that we become something more? More than an act of fate, a ‘force of nature’ if you will. Will we interact with, consider, what is under us? Do we recognise that there may be something over us, even as we are over the bugs? Will we pay attention to the interaction of what is above us when it reaches down into our lives?
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Wonderfull.... I don't think
I'll kill a bug again.
Ah, yes. I actually enjoy learning about all creatures, bugs included (though my current kick is cephalopods). I like knowing the way they work and how they work and all the amazing and interesting things they do.
However, this does not stop me from removing them from conflicting environments, or, when such doesn't work, taking rather extreme measures to make sure they stay away. After all, God did place people above all creatures, and quite honestly, a lot of them aren't particularly healthy to live in close proximity to, including a very large number of bug species.
I marvel at the idea that my existence could end at any minute without any warning or without my say. I look forward to finding out what will come afterward. Of course, if by some sorry fate there is nothing, I don't suppose I'll be worried about my "untimely" demise at all.
aye, I agree.....we are above them, and it can be healthier.....these thoughts certainly don't prevent me from killing bugs or removing them from my vacinity, but the idea that that same impulse can be directed toward other things does give me pause...and if I hesitate before killing a bug to think about that, or even give one mercy from time to time I think it's healthy ^.^
"and if I hesitate before killing a bug to think about that, or even give one mercy from time to time I think it's healthy ^.^"
I think there are at least some saints and philosophers down through the ages who would agree with you. So no, not a bad idea to at least pause and think about it.
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