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A Prayer for Annihilation Lord, I place at Your feet a sincere prayer for the utter annihilation of the human species, for having been raised among them, I find their extinction to be an acceptable loss in the overall accounting of the well-being of this planet. You need not be lonely once we are gone, for this Earth is full of the glories of Your natural wonders, many of which will once again thrive in the absence of humanity's interference. The harvesting of the rain forests shall cease. The slaughter of the fish of the sea and the beasts of the land shall not be missed. Our poisoning of the skies and the waters will recede, it is said, in ten thousand years, the blink of an eye in Your eternity. From Your celestial vantage point, You can watch this blue marble return to a pristine state. You can observe the cruel and mindless progress of evolution produce another thinking species whose pinnacle of achievements lies in their propensity not to think at all, or, worse yet, to act against their own best interests. So, Lord, I, for one, look forward to the coming annihilation. My parting advice to You is, when the dirty work of cleaning house is done, not to waste too much time on nostalgia. |
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A Prayer for Annihilation David Keffer Knoxville, TN October 10, 2014 |