{"id":2053,"date":"2026-06-27T14:37:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T14:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2026-06-27T14:37:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T14:37:46","slug":"walking-along-a-canadian-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=2053","title":{"rendered":"Walking along a Canadian road &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Walking along the northwestern Ontario gravel road, I was\u00a0assaulted by insects that tried to bite me,\u00a0set up shop in my hair, and get into my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=2051\">HOAs And Western Civilization: From Karen To Rambo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was struck by a thought as I witnessed the quick and violent deaths of several insects via dragon flies and birds.<\/p>\n<p>That my wife and I were walking in bear country made me ponder a potential confrontation of that nature, too<\/p>\n<p>Most animals do what most animals gotta do: catch and tear each other apart to live. Whether the fauna at hand be insects, birds, reptiles, fish, or mammals, it is a brutal \u2014 and often very short existence.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=2048\">Supreme Court rules that \u2018temporary\u2019 means temporary, \u2014 and the left has a cow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So does the apparent meaninglessness of bugs&#8217; lives, along with their inability to perceive that meaninglessness \u2014 and, in many cases, to feel pain or experience fear in the same manner that humans do \u2014 actually prove that humans are different, superior \u2026\u00a0<em>because<\/em> they <em>have<\/em> been given the ability to perceive (and feel) these things?<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me a clear tell that we have been given this ability by the God of Genesis. (Moreover, we wonder about our own creation, and that of the universe of which animals are not aware.) 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