The Old Ways Die Hard.....NOT!

A High Shepherd speaks


TEMPLE COAL-BORG (artist's rendition). Recent excavations have
uncovered what we believe to have been an ancient temple of the
B.C. years; one which worshipped the sun and its immense heat,
through the manufacture of mechanical coal (hence its name).

It was a time of darkness and of chaos. The B.C. years were a catastrophe! People were abnormally fixated upon death; this manifested itself in their religions. No wonder the suicide rate kept rising.

We, on the other hand, have a far more healthy focus. OUR religion is obsessed with life! And as everyone knows, the suicide rate has dropped almost to nonexistence!

That we once relied upon religions based on what happens after death: it's sick! Heaven and hell. How preposterous.

It is LIFE which should be revered.

With the Great Dolly's birth, the secret of life was revealed!

The golden artifact in the center is believed
to have been connected with their worship of the sun.
Through the formulation of the cee-process, it is now possible to put off death for as long as possible! If you die, say, in a car accident - no problem! Your family can simply call up the nearest Cloning Lab and have them take your recent cell-sample out of storage. Presto, chango - there's a new YOU. The only difference is that you might possibly lose a week of memories, since brain-scans are only taken on a weekly basis. And the good part: since your cell-sample was taken months ago, your chronological age is actually younger!

You can see why the old, archaic ways of religion didn't work any more. The whole notion of "being saved", as one religion put it so aptly, became rather distasteful. Thinking about what happens after death, and trying to ensure the best possibly afterlife....

Looking back, it seems rather a trivial, not to mention morbid, thing to do when there is so much more life to live, and so much more time in which to live it!

Who cares about the afterlife?
Who wants to meet it?

NOBODY.

We only have one chance to live.
We must stretch it out for as long as possible.

It is now an age of prosperity, my friends.

We owe it all to the Great Dolly,
who stands not for death like the Gods of the B.C. years,
but for life.


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Last Modified: 5/4/98
Wendy Elizabeth Kemp