A really big question

[Randyvine]

My previous reply was after I finished reading all 14 pages. This reply, is specifically to your op. I have pondered something along this line when I am in the woods and a tree ant falls on me. Most of the time it just keeps on walking and walking and walking from limb to core to limb. I have sat there and wondered, "does this guy feel like he is walking across my arm in about twelve seconds, or does he feel like he has been walking for  twenty minutes relative to his size and its relation to the distance. I see a few feet of distance, does he see a mile? How come he fell of the tree, but as soon as he touches my body he does not want to leave? Is it wondering why the ground is so warm (my skin)?

I once was a bit too intoxicated and watched a mosquito larvae in a bucket for like two hours. It looked like he was going to fly away soon out  of that metamorphosis and I did not want to miss it. Eventually the substances wore off and I got distracted back into the now and stepped away for a task that I do not recall. Only after like another few hours did I even remember that I was observing it earlier, so I went back. Too  late, the little rat bastard took off and left his shell  behind. And then my mind went towards the concept of an angelic spirit rising out of our dead corpses when we pass. While that thing was underwater, that was it universe and its entire understanding was within that realm. if it has any thoughts or philosophical concepts of its own in that macro universe of it, how does it explain what is about to happen?? Once it goes airborne, it is dead to everything in that universe that it once knew, and knew it. It left behind a husk, but it was not dead. What it discovered after must be quite the sensory overload no?? Or have we developed enough machines to know exactly what that creature with its own machine measurable electrical pulses within it could have been perceiving? To its co-habitators it is just dead matter left behind of what they used to know. 

I do not even look at living entities the same way I used to anymore, it is kind of hard to do so when I realize how little humanity even knows about itself, or its real history. Do certain sciences actually produce understanding, or simply an arrogance that fulfills a supremacist mindset? I just find some similarities to the evolution of water borne parasitic and non parasitic organisms and some peoples concept of life after death somewhat intriguing. Are the skeeters a midge fly's down there going "Dan man, cant wait to get my wings and become an angel in heaven." Then his conspiracy theory buddy is like "Woah woah dude, have you not heard?? The up there is full of giants and monsters and sickly creatures that want to devour you or make you life hell.  No way man you I hope when I die they just put me in another body right down here" 

We going to be flying around as energy in space, but what if that world is equally as vicious and predatory as all others? Yep, I did not ground myself for long enough. I got to go back outside now. cya!

Hey World,
Thank you for the awesome post. Glad you made it back to us from that
skeeter dimension. You have no idea how much I hate them. I swear
I could be in a room with thirty other people and one mosquito. I'll get
bit thirty friggen times and not anyone else will be defiled. No exaggeration.

[worldstarcountry]

Hey World,
Thank you for the awesome post. Glad you made it back to us from that
skeeter dimension. You have no idea how much I hate them. I swear
I could be in a room with thirty other people and one mosquito. I'll get
bit thirty friggen times and not anyone else will be defiled. No exaggeration.

Yes mosquitoes can be rather frustrating. Sometimes I would sit at the porch table with neighbor talking the latest current events. Skeeters would show up eventually. I let them get comfortable and take that first plunge,and then just calmly place down the tip of my finger ending it. If it's a busy night, I begin to start a field of them. Rows of five. Neighbor is talking about stuff, and soon I have at least a dozen casualties. My record was thirty five lined up in seven rows of five. Normally they stop after about eight. The first time my neighbor took notice he was trying to understand what I was doing. I explained, and yes this was my logic at the time, I said that many times when people think they are surrounded by dozens of mosquitos, it is often only about five or so. Too many folks flail around keeping them agitated and they can never effectively eliminate them efficiently. So I just figured I would be calm every time and just get them when I know I can, which is usually right when they go for a drink. I don't even need to move swiftly most times. What I observed after a few instances of adjusting my behavior into this routine is that after I started doing this a few times, they would eventually stop. I still am unsure if I just got most of the ones that spawned in the most recent cycles, or if they are learning. One thing that makes me think they learn is one night chatting with the neighbor.

He was just laughing calling me a war criminal, but then got serious and asked why I always do it. First off, I have compulsive ticks and once I get going sometimes I just cannot stop. My brain just gets locked into a tedious task and refuse to quit unless or until I can declare mission accomplished or thereabouts. The other thing I told him was they eventually leave me alone. 

In fact, more than one occasion my count was pretty low before they began to ignore me. But then they would go after him. It was kind of funny he would get pretty uncomfortable and yell at the collective mass. I told him just get systematic with them and they eventually stop. This is what leads me to believe they are learning in whatever way they do that sort of thing.

I honestly have not thought too much on it, but recalling now this year and last, I do not really get bothered by them much outside anymore. If I find a stagnant water in a bucket or planter, I always grab a syringe and extract the larvae. They drive the fish in my nano aquarium wild. I just leave the syringe there in the water hanging and allow gravity and their instincts to escape do the work. The fish go wild, it ends up looking like a shark feeding frenzy the way they start behaving. Very healthy natural food sources.

I don't notice City of Tampa has been deploying those mosquito control spray trucks for the past couple of seasons though.

Eh, I guess that was all off topic anyways.