Random Thought Train
I'm just sitting at my desk on a random Friday trying to balance my time between working and internetting when a random status update by my friend Nikki caught my attention. In it was a picture of the most vicious-looking centipede. I left my little 2 cents of a comment on how nasty it looked and how I've always been scared of centipedes and kept it moving. But then I started on a thought train. "Why do centipedes scare you so much?" "I don't know. They're gross. They have like, a gajillion legs." "So? They cant hurt you. You are several thousand times larger than a centipede." "Yeah, but they're just gross." "SO they deserve immediate death because you perceive them as ugly?" I couldn't really think of a retort to that. Now I do realize that they can bite and I don't think I would ever just allow one to keep on truckin' if I just happened to see him on my ceiling. But it got me thinking a