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A Little Caveman Reasoning

I have always liked the hollow dark, the cave, the sealed carcass of the night, the lightless womb of the closed seed. You said you were human, and I laughed until my belly shook the earth. I Imagined your bones cracking from the heat of a great fire. I ground my teeth with the ash of a few brittle words. "No one is 'human', we are alien seeds replanted, into a fertile blindness. Humans are the shells, the pods, the skin of a reality they have yet to realize or reveal. The garden, what you call 'soul', is a transplanted being, it lives concealed, within that alien you. Keep that garden, hidden from any who would, proudly claim to be remotely human!"

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Date: 3/2/2024 10:53:00 PM
Great stuff Eric - I love to ponder all possibilities at once, so heaven, nothing, reincarnation, alien hybrid, ghosts - are all simultaneously as likely. They certainly don't feel like ridiculous ideas anyway. Thanks for sharing
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Eric Ashford
Date: 3/4/2024 9:42:00 AM
Thanks Dilly, the impossible is often the most possible conclusion. We are not human. "Ye are Gods" Tims to leave the cave! Much appreciated you reply on this Best E.
Date: 3/2/2024 1:23:00 PM
An interesting write, indeed!
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Eric Ashford
Date: 3/2/2024 1:40:00 PM
Hi Kim, thank you for this response. Appreciated. E.
Date: 3/2/2024 11:46:00 AM
WOW, Eric, this is fantastic, I shall FAVE it as it must be kept, tended, allowed to grow, to fuel the imagination and make me think again about all that I "think" i know.....
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Date: 3/2/2024 1:43:00 PM
Thank you, John, often the sub-conscious mind throws us a bone of truth! When we for a few moments resist clinging to this objectified world and mine of ours. Thanks for the warm response and kind review. Best E. By the way have fixed the typo!

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