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But like, treatment (in particular mindfulness training) is built around letting thoughts and feelings just pass, without action, without judgment, and it makes a strong case that feelings and thoughts are entirely neutral. I have had incredibly upsetting intrusive thoughts. But none of them define me, its what I do with them that makes me who I am! Actions can be harmful, but thoughts and feelings which never get acted on...Aren't. Not even a little bit.

And well, once you go through this treatment, you realize how much of society is built around hating people for their thoughts and feelings rather than the effects of their actions. And I just well and truly wish that people wouldnt. It actually speaks a lot to a persons strength of character if they have thoughts and feelings which, if acted upon directly would be harmful...but choose actively instead to seek help, be better, find safer outlets for thoughts and feelings. In fact, I'd say all of them are much less harmful than anyone who spreads hate based on "thoughtcrime" mentality.

My hubs and I were chillaxin' on the bed, staring up at the spider-mansion in our window, and I kid you not we both watched a big ol' spider amputee rescue a fly that got caught in the web! It even fought off the other spiders in the mega-web to keep them away from it!!!

The amputee (missing its front left leg) was the biggest spider in the web. There were two other large spiders and a smaller spider sharing the web, and they all looked like the same species. (See image of the amputee under the cut; idk what species they are.) At first we thought the spiders were all fighting each other to see who would get to eat the fly. The big amputee drove away the other spiders, and at first it looked like it was spinning the fly up into a little web-trap to eat. But no! Instead it was freeing the fly from the web!

The fly took a few steps on the window & chilled out for a while. I imagine it needed time to recover & figure out where the heck it was & how to get back to the open air. While it was resting, the small spider approached it... and the amputee shot right over and drove it away! The fly made a little more headway along the window, and when the small spider approached it next, it was to shoo the fly away from that part of the web! And the amputee didn't rush over to intervene this time!

At one point I got the image in my head of this fly being like a moose that wandered into a hunter's lodge. The amputee seemed way more concerned with making sure the fly didn't wreck their home than with scoring a meal. x) I did notice a bunch of old gnat-sized husks deposited in one corner of the web, so maybe flies are just too big for them to eat? Idk, someone with experience in spider behavior please help me out here! :D

!!! SPIDER PICTURE UNDER THE CUT !!!