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Washing The Apple of the Earth

The truth of humanity is not something the vast majority of humans are willing to accept, let alone even consider. To deny that truth, we therefore create mythologies that glorify us as the sole concern of the gods, and religions that demand their "beliefs" are the only real "truth,"  and anyone who denies this will not only be killed as a heretic, but can expect to spend eternity in a "hell" that makes the Texas Chainsaw Massacre look like the Mickey Mouse Club.

Civilization is largely a sheepskin, in this sense, whose wool is pulled over our eyes, to hide the fact that man is not merely a wolf to man, but to every other thing on the planet, and even the planet itself.

Imagine you had an apple, for example, and upon that apple you saw growing spots and blemishes that crusted over the skin of the apple. From this, you would probably conclude that the apple is rotting.

Now imagine you are a "god," or some "being" that is much larger than ourselves, that looks at the earth as if it were that apple. Of all the different bacteria contending on that apple, the only one that creates encrustations within which it lives and works, the only one that uses technology to prey upon all the others so disproportionately and in such unsustainable excess (a good deal of which is simply done for sport), and the only one that gladly murders itself by the millions (and with its weapons, it will one day be billions) for the sacred nature of its "beliefs" and it's own identity, are humans.

The great flood, in this respect, was just 'god' washing the apple.

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