I study ancient religions too! Well...Buddhism, Shinto and Daoism anyway, in their ancient forms. Just one word of caution, if you are trying to study current religions, you really should seek out teachers in the different sects of that religion. It seems no matter what the religion there are always a good hundred takes on the same verse of scripture.

If I could talk to some of those old master, well...I would. All I'm saying is, you have the opportunity, so you should take it. ;).

sure, overall it is a nice experience to read what everyone over in the eastern side of the world practice. I do think you are right and learning from someone who knows it is probably best but I like to interpret it myself. I don't follow or practice any one religion in particular, I kind of pick up things i Like about certain religions and just kind of combine them all together in my philosophy of life.

Like I said I have just started reading it, so I don't really know much about it. What I do know is that the whole jihad on the spiders comment was purely meant as a joke, sorry if it offended anyone.

guess i took it too seriously lol

Back to the spiders...
They just might get a taste for more -- perhaps already have. :cool:

well I am not sure if they are there anymore. It has been almost two weeks and I have not seen any spiders, unless they are ninja spiders hiding in the shadows. My friend and neighbor has a couple of cats, I may just borrow one of hit cats one day to see if they hunt any of them down.

The nice thing about cats is that they are nocturnal predators, so they go to work while you sleep (ideally). They might not actually eat the things crawling around in your home, but likely if they spot something moving, they'll jump on it and pull it into dozens of smaller pieces. As with anything, your mileage may vary from cat to cat. I would put my money on a younger, skinnier cat being a more effective home sentry.

The downside, there's always a downside, is that you may end up with the cat attacking you if you don't wake up early enough in the morning to feed it.

Well the funny thing is my neighbor, who is also a long time friend of mine, has three cats. We joke and call him the crazy cat lady. I used to be roomates with him some years back and his oldest cat, buster, was living with him at the time. That was back around year 2000ish. I moved into the adjacent apartment complex almost a year ago, and buster still remembers me and knows where I live. He will come and break into my house if I have the back door open and the screen door shut. He knows how to grab the screen door and pull it open with his claws.

I joke around and call his cats a band of gypsies because they break into my apartment and try to steal my stuff. One morning another one of his cats was in my apartment, and I had no idea how he got in. I think he snuck in when I was taking out the trash and then hid until I fell asleep. When I woke up the next day he was purring and meowing for food. Which threw me off b/c I don't own any pets.

I found these paper things online that attract spiders and other bugs with scent (pheromones?) and it traps them on it and kills them. I may buy a few of those.

Ha, that's a funny story!

Wait, maybe the spiders are getting in when the cats open the screen door.

The spider paper sounds great! Let us know if it works.

Are you finding webs in your ceiling corners?

Nope the spiders I have caught are hunters and stalk their pray, so no webs. There are webs in our basement where our laundry facilities are though.

Is this a good picture of the culprit?
http://pecanspiders.tamu.edu/species/rabidosarabida.htm

yup thats the culprit. Caught one in my shower and caught one hauling across my floor, I mean he was moving a ludicrous speed. Killed them both, looked them up online.

AFAIK, they are the ones that bit me. They are aggressive and not harmful really but the spider bites wasn't the problem, it was the infection. Anyways I am healing up pretty nicely, and the bite just looks like a bruise now instead of a giant golf ball on my arm.

Here in Southern California, I deal with Black Widows. Luckily they stick to outdoor sheds and not come inside. But they are still creepy gals. I was bitten once in my cable installer days--not pleasant. Most spray poisons just make them mad and they scurry about. This also does not deal with their egg sack. So I came up with a clever solution. I spray them with spray adhesive. The adhesive causes them to get caught up in their own web, so that slows them down. I then take a stick and wrap them up in their own web like cotton candy. I keep wrapping until every egg and trace of web (with momma and dead daddy) is on the stick. I then toss it in the trash.

The idea that spiders transmit MRSA infections is a myth. MRSA often colonizes the skin. People are unaware that they are colonized. But some MRSA is invasive and will enter the skin without any apparent break in the skin integrity. Most likely, you infected yourself by scratching. While you may have been bitten by a spider or another insect (I rarely see multiple spider bites), the insect bite is unlikely to have caused the infection. More likely is that the organism entered the skin via scratching.

Spiders are getting a bad rap for MRSA infections, and they likely have no contribution in the causation of these infections. The imagination can provide a lot of rationalization for most anything.

Yeah I pretty much already said that earlier in the thread. I do not believe that the spider bite was the root cause. Like I said the bite that got infected was on a place of my forearm that got lots of contact with my everyday activities.

I know it was a spider bite because I have gotten many over the years. I have a few scars from spider bites that have caused necrosis of my skin. I think I either just taste good to spiders, or the bite me after happy hour to get a bit tipsy.

I am sure the bacteria just used the spider bite as a way of entering the blood stream. I had gotten three bites that week, and only one of them flared up with an infection. From what I have read about MRSA, is that it just chills out everywhere and is transfered by contact but will only effect you once it has penetrated your skin.

Landsakes, that looks just like Uncle Jeb, who came over with Ziggy Stardust from...

But its the best way to avoid conflicts... such a talks about politics or religion is the easiest way to rise a conflict :)

Quality of the Community
 

Precisely! It’s also a good way to ensure that MacOSXHints has one of the highest content/post ratios of any such help and discussion forum on the Internet. Which is why I value this place so much.

And the fact is, even when discussing topics that necessarily touch on politics (such as The Environmental Thread, The Structure of the Internet, Privacy/Encryption issues, etc), almost everyone shows the necessary restraint.

That avoids overheating – and makes for some wonderful discussions!

Policy is one thing, but that truly says a lot about the quality of the community. :)

With gratitude and best regards,
ArcticStones

ArcticStones, if there ever was a moderator on the edge, it's you :).

I think your use of the word "discussion" is key to how this forum works. I'm not necessarily keen on "debate" as it normally leads to argument, which in my mind translates to "stupid people throwing around their uninformed opinions". (You know, like I'm doing right now :D.) I much prefer factual, or logical, discussion.

The power of thoughtful posts...
 

Thanks for your kind words!

Speaking strictly for myself, I can point to more than one occasion where thoughtful posts have led me to change my opinion on various issues. There really have been a lot of worthwhile exchanges here! And I also notice that reflective posts tend to draw thoughtful responses – across the board.