Scorched Earth | Page 2

Walter D. Petrovic
through endurance while new thoughts
explored their cravings and their urges. They knew their pleasures and their joys.
Man was the life and death that followed. The thoughts that served him well in
understanding his infinite life had set him to prey upon his own kind and in falling from
his cosmic grace, he found mortality through his love for woman.
He cleaved only to her. He obeyed and honoured only her. He permitted his gift to fail
him for a suggestion that there was more to life than the bliss of a simple and peaceful
being.
There was more than long life and contentment in a world of fruitful abundance, to use at
their slightest whim. Yet, all this was to pass away from sight when they allowed their
manners to fail them. Whims of habit overtook them and tore them from the eternity of

the Universe and its Grand Thought. The Grand Thought that no longer would care for
them, but indeed set them onto a path of struggle for survival.
Impatience reigned on a tiny speck of universal dust. The Earth suffered from that day
when curious questions began to jab at its Heart, and to tear into the very atoms that
insured existence. Life was aware of impending mortality and that life, which called itself
Intelligent and Humanity, had turned its struggle to live into one of greed and
self-fulfilment.
Millennia passed, witnessing countless struggles between the intelligent human beings
who warred over arid and barren parcels of land which could be traversed by foot in a
fraction of a day.
Love was locked out of the hearts of men, and hate was to ravage the civilized. Hate and
greed tempted all whom were alive to hurt their own kind, and to hurt their stellar home,
as well. Through six thousand years, minds and souls searched for truth but turned their
hearts away, from the few which had come to help them. They allowed their violations to
stain and bloody their souls. They carried on as if nothing could touch them in life, or in
death.
Mankind took command of everything and like maggots devouring rotting flesh, grew in
knowledge and in material things until the very essence of life itself was at their
command.
It became an unsure and frightening time in the Earth's history. Mankind had now
realised that the total destruction of everything that they knew, and craved for, could
happen within minutes. It was destruction that they, themselves, could cause through the
slightest whim ruled by hate. Through pangs of anxiety, the Earth itself spewed forth fire
from its bowels. The land shook and called its children, that circled close to her, to come
and fall to her bosom and to cry with her.
Even the Earth, the mother, waited anxiously for the Idea and the Essence to intervene.

GINN-JULY 2011
A MOVEMENT TO FINALITY
The Twentieth Century was ravaged by bloody wars and more people lost their lives than
in all the wars and all the murders that took place since the dawn of history, and the
ancient account of the first murder.
Paranoia reigned on the Earth. Great multitudes scurried about in panic searching for
shelter and trying to live without substance or material things. Individuals watched the
great Nations rise up against each other 3/4 pulling in all smaller nations to fight beside
them, thus perpetuating the global conflict. Twice were such great wars. Many smaller
wars were the same, though thoughts in such conflicts were suppressed by being called
"police actions!"
Tensions formed between all peoples.
Politics, economics and retarded beliefs set the course for the world to crumble.
Latent barbarism that peeked through the veneer of intelligence and civilisation was set to
push the world to its final conflagration. Then, at the verge of bloodshed and misery,
nature itself began its assault. Dozens of man named Apollo Asteroids, which circles the
Earth, had been moving closer and closer over the millennia, unseen by the naked eye.
Ignored by the stupid and the intelligent alike, these rocks fell to the Earth in great fury,
blasting the entire surface of the great home.

False prophets cried to the people to repent of their sins, for God had come. They hid
themselves in shelters and in mountains afraid of mortality, to be punished for being
hypocrites while hoarding and hiding great wealth for use in later times.
When all was done great cities were laid waste and disease moved across the land and
seas to visit all people. A billion individuals perished in the cosmic catastrophe. A billion
more dropped dead from the diseases that could no longer be controlled.
When normality finally returned those who remained alive united to rebuild the planet.
People of absolute opposing views on Politics, Religion
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