Spider-Men (some thoughts)

Humans are Spiders, and their thought is the silk.

Spiders do not exist in the world from which they draw their sustenance. That is, they don't "catch" others of their kind, except the really retarded ones perhaps.

Spiders build their Webs into which falls suitable prey - all those hapless followers of their attractive scent, shine, sound, smell, movement etc., emanating from the Spider's Web.

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In reality, humans bear much more resemblance to Spiders than they do to Primates. Spiders are unique in nature - no other creature creates similar webs of silk in which to capture prey. Humans are unique in nature - no other creature creates similar thoughts of language in which to "capture prey" - though, due to just that language, both these words have slightly different meanings. Thus, Humans are "Spider-Men", spinning their conceptual webs around themselves Alone, perched there on some quivering thread, a mere strand or filament but of extreme "stickyness". These neural threads, which humans call thoughts and ideas, concepts and theories, facts and fallacies, are spun out across time and space as "truths" and "lies", to form even larger Webs of Influence, capturing even more humans, just like Spiders do.

Spiders catch insects and humans catch followers. What happens NEXT - after the capture - is the only thing of which humans differ with spiders (well in this impromptu flight-of-fancy). Spiders kill the captured for food, but humans "kill" their followers for attention. This neuro-electrical frequency of vibration (attention) acts like a cyclonic vacuum cleaner, the more dominant thoughts cleaning up the more submissive thoughts.

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Tenuous is one's connection to the many stories out there, encircling the globe, some as old as our species is old. Religion is such a story, most being older than old, with many characters, plots, sub-plots, side-plots, and filler, lots and lots of filler. But that connection is also as strong as any spider's silk - the strongest tensile strength fiber in nature - and in Men it is really stronger than strong. Sometimes a spider's prey gets free. In the case of most humans, once caught by some religion, they are caught for life, and the connection becomes stronger - although in this 21st century, that is becoming less so, thankfully.

These fibers of neural connections are like nuclear strong-force fibers of speech, bits and pieces of language (words) weaved together by the "Hand/Mind of...", well, ...nobody really knows, for purposes nobody really knows, and like a nuclear web of interacting forces, nouns, verbs, punctuation, and all the many other parts of speech, create a neural web capable of strongly attracting millions of the otherwise quite unsuspecting, across time and space. Like flies to the spider, and moths to the flame.

The thing about spiders and flies, is that spiders do not have to go looking for flies - that's what the web is for. Flies, on the other hand, go looking for it, like a lover seeking its beloved - that's what the spider is for, to provide a suitable landing place, which for them is usually final, and permanent. And spiders have perfected their attraction almost as well as humans have perfected theirs. But humans can do MUCH MORE than spiders, including taking over this little blue planet in only about 250 years!

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the scientific stuff: here
this message is simply my ad hoc spin on part of that story.