This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

I am the thought you are now thinking.

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform some delicate operation to lower your gullibility, otherwise leaving you alone? If you believe this, you are pretty gullible, and should perhaps consider such an operation.

In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.