Constantly when it comes to certain issues I am accused of overreacting. I think that in my own little world, it's more like certain people are underreacting. I'm a Pagan, I love nature, I whorship nature and above all else I respect it. Afterall it was here before me and with all hope remaining it'll be here after me. In so saying this, any time I see a creature..big or small being tormented strictly because the tormentor can just irks the hell out of me like nothing else.

Now, like many people in the world, I am scared of spiders. I respect them however because they are powerful symbols in my faith. Not to mention they are a living breathing thing and therefore deserve to be respected for that alone. They feel fear and feel pain much like people do though we are not one in the same. It upsets me when people take that for granted and think that its okay to torment it.

What brought this on is simple. It was a simple assignment on observation in class. That majority of class forgot about it because we weren't getting graded, but we were supposed to bring in something from nature to observe. A guy in my group..we'll call him Mr. Wings went outside and got this really pretty flower from beside the building. This was perfectly acceptable..except there were some bugs inside..several ants and one tiny little green crab spider. The ant were quickly squashed but they decided to observe the spider instead of the flower.

Now observing an animal is one thing..poking at it and pushing it around with your fingers and flower stem is another. It's tiny little body was being beaten up by them and all they could say was "Whats the big deal? It's just a spider!"  The big deal is..that it's a living thing and you're hurting it because you get enjoyment out of it. The big deal is that I'm upset about this and you feel the need to taunt me because of my beliefs. The big deal is that you have no respect for life that has been here since the dawn of time.

They never look at the bigger picture. They claim to be god fearing christians and yet they treat their gods creatures with little to no respect. That to me screams Hypocrit! Now in a previous blog I mentioned that I am not a vegitarian and that I feel that if a wolf can eat meat then so can I. What makes Humans different from wolves, is that wolves don't hunt because it's fun, they don't torment their victims. They kill, they eat, they survive. Humans hunt because they want a prize, they have no intention of eating what they kill. Now I'm saying this is everyone..this is just a generalization. Humans are the only creatures that hunt and kill because it's fun. I don't have an issure with killing things, I know ants and roaches and even spiders are going to get killed..it's sad, but I understand..however don't torture them first. If you're going to kill something..do it quickly. There is no need for it to feel pain.

If we torture a cat, dog, or some kind of furry little creature that someone thinks it beautiful or cute, it's call barbaric and there are laws against it. But where is it considered okay to torture living thing? When it's small and crunchy? When it has no fur? When it has more then four legs and doesn't go meow or woof?

Maybe I am overreacting..after all it's just a spider right?