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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago

It sounds rather more like the first one... for spiders.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Spider Jesus? That's gonna be one funky cross

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Star of David.

[–] NorthWestWind 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The 5-dimensional cross

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I don't know why Spider Jesus would be 5D, but I'm on board with it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

And one for you, and one for you, and one for you - hey, anybody got anymore wood?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Spider Christians that use the spider cross on something might be mistaken for Red Hot Chili Peppers fans.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

At first I didn’t think it could get more disturbing.

Then it did.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But God is a beetle, isn't he?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

No...

...

...t anymore. :-)

[–] Anticorp 9 points 1 month ago

I for one welcome our new spider overlords.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

At first I thought the OP was asking how they could fertilize the eggs, lol

[–] courgette 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are some species that can "self-fertilized". I don't know about tarantula, but we have observed a race of shark, where a population of only female was able to have newborn (without changing sex like snails)

[–] problematicPanther 3 points 1 month ago

Life, uh, finds a way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Now I will have nightmares about tarantula penises.