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Book III
Posted on FreeRepubliccohed They laughed when I stocked up on canned goods, they laughed when I stocked up on aathering Sahed at Noah And, as with Noah, they co at my door as the flood rolls in Sorry This is why I was building an ark while you were doing drugs and watching reality TV
I appreciate all of the prayers and expressions of concern from you over the last week (for those of who you don’t know, I live not three miles outside of Outbreak Ground Zero in [Undisclosed]) But we are safe because we have prepared We have food to last a year We have water frouns, and everyone in our family is trained to use them
On the day of outbreak, one of irlfriend ca hair, covered in tattoos, track ns of HIV infection A pro-Atheism bumper sticker on his car
He wanted to shack up with us, eat our food, drink our water, sleep under our protection while the pestilence and depravity ran rampant outside I pulled him aside by his scrawny arm and said:
"What can you do?"
He looks at me with that slackjawed look and says, "What do you mean, dude?"
"I mean what can you do? Can you shoot a rifle accurately at fifty yards? Do you kno to gut an ani net and clean what you catch? Can you fertilize a garden? Or purify water? Can you repair a s? Can you wire an electrical outlet? Repair a roof when it leaks? Set a broken bone? Can you make your own clothes? Field strip and clean a rifle? Reload ammunition from spent brass? Disinfect and sew shut a wound?"
Of course he said he didn’t kno to do any of these things
He had spent his life playing video gas and had probably fathered five welfare babies, de the whole time that I pay for their health care When a pipe leaks, he calls the landlord (at best) or (more likely) just lets it leak Let the next tenant find out the floorboards have rotted and that every wall is covered with hts for anirocery store display counter S on our soldiers when they return ho terrorists because she lives obliviously in a little cocoon built froine there’s ato destroy the world But so rocket ship to get people off the planet They don’t have room for everybody, but you want a seat on that ship Now, your having a seat et one Space is li at the door? What case would youa seat on that rocket ship at the expense of another person? What can you offer that would justify the food you would eat, and the water you would drink, and the medicine you would use?"
He said to me, "I don’t know, dude I don’t see no spaceship here"
And I said, "What you didn’t realize was that you were always in that situation Only the spaceship is planet Earth, and your creator built it for you And you had your whole life to make your case for why you should be allowed to stay Instead, you did drugs, and played video ga off without you"
That boy walked aithout a word
Maybe I’ll see hi the diseased and the starving, running from the riots and the chaos And I will say, "You had your chance All your life those ‘crazy’ preachers were trying to tell you that the day of reckoning was conore it Now it is too late"
This is the way it should be There are two kinds of people in the world: producers and parasites When a society gets too many parasites, we need the disaster, the tsunami, the earthquake, the war, the flood, the disease to wash away the garbage, to rinse the safety nets of the slugs that use them as a ha, the faithful and the capable will be left behind to rebuild, and renew huhed at me when I stocked up on food and fuel and a now?
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