but that's just it, bugs don't have the mental capacity to know that their life has been saved. Nor does a human being necessarily have the mental capacity to see their own life being saved on a cosmic scale. Nonetheless, after contemplating the bug metaphor, would you not hope that whatever cosmic forces ruled your own life would be beneveolent enough to refrain from killing you out of sheer laziness? What other reason is there for killing the bug as opposed to taking it outside? Laziness. It's easier to end another living creature's life than save it. And in what respect can you say one life is worth more than another's?

I find it difficult to kill a bug anymore.

I definately think Al should invent a 13-sided die. Just because it would be very cool.

And, anonymous, I don't think that bugs have the mental capacity large enough to conceptualize a god. I think things like suddenly being moved outside just happen and they just continue along. Actually sounds kinda nice, if you ask me.

Go Al! Do it!

By the way, what's with all this 'judgemental' business over dice? What if you stumbled upon someone rolling an electric 10000 sided dice that constantly changed numbers on all sides? What then? WHAT SAY YOU!?! JUDGE ME DAMN YOU!

Oh, I do think an electric die would be neat to have. You can roll it yourself and watch the electric version spin as well! Then, maybe without you knowing, when you spin that die, you spin your life.

EDIT: MWA HAHAHAHAHAHA...HAHAHAHA.... Good afternoon.

All this talk of dices has given me a idea, I think I should put my mechanical engineering degree to use and make the worlds first 13 sided dice. It might be a tad on the physical impossible side but if it fails maybe a quatum singularity will be created instead.

bah... way to see right through me Alison... way to take the fun out everything :)

I am

An insect crawls along your kitchen floor. You take a sheet of paper towel and place it in front of the insect to crawl upon. You release the insect outside.

WHEN YOU ARE AN INSECT, WHO IS YOUR GOD?

huh? in my sleep-muddled state, i'm pretty sure you're ribbing me, Beck, but the only response i can think of, at this juncture is "gwah?"

besides, isn't obtuse an angle? i'm not sure i'd prefer being acute, so obtuse is okay with me for now.

um... yeah, I was debating pointing out the speed at which I was rebuffed, and decided against it, but I'm always up for being disproved like that.

and not that I'm trying to imply any judgement here - honest, no matter what you think - Albert, I have not actually ever played D&D, so I did not know about the ten-sided die. I never suggested we ought to not accept the possibility of a ten-sided die existing, nor that any other strangely large-number-sided die was impossible, I just wasn't aware, in my own personal experience, of a ten-sided one. I do know that Scattergories has a 20-sided die, I never doubted that... I just didn't know about the ten-sided one.