There's this centipede in my basement that I put outside.
I'm stuck wondering if I helped or hurt him, ultimately.
A while ago, there was a small centipede in the basement's bathroom. I left the light on for him, and remember debating with myself if by doing that I am helping it to find it's way around, misleading it and guiding it in the direction it least needs to be going or an unhelpful direction, or if by leaving the lights on and using electricity, the pollution which resulted from creating that electricity would harm more natural life than if I had left the lights off.
Now I am wondering if I should have moved the centipede outside or not.
If it had found it's way inside, perhaps it was driven by a reason, or it naturally came here, and was thus naturally intended to be here, by no intention at all, but by whatever rules govern naturality. Or lack of rules and laws.
When I was trying to scoop up the centipede, I think I damaged it's little antenae things which were located at what I thought to be its front, by the direction it was traveling, unless they travel backwards, or it does not matter what direction they travel, or they have no point of reference to determine what direction they are moving in relation to themselves.
If I did, it may have been a hurtful thing to have placed it back outside, where it is now a damaged individual which may be more easily preyed upon.
Though, left inside it may have starved or been stomped by a family member of mine.
Did I disturb the flow of naturality by stepping in at all?
Perhaps that there is a house here is a huge disturbance in the natural ways of this place.
It is just as likely that the idea of naturality and likelihood and all other ideas are worthless and completely irelevant to the natural world, and that human thought should not be applied to the nature we observe, or that our ways of thought are inescapebly entwined and part of naturality, and we truly have no conscious control over our actions.
Or, our conscious actions are unnatural and harmful and were not intended to occur and arise out of our once natural state.
There's a centipede crawling around in the grass outside right now, anyway, I'm pretty sure.
Posted by errorairora
at 4:38 AM EDT