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The Paradox of This Enigma

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Try to figure out this riddle before reading the ending.

The paradox of this enigma

I am an enigma...

I am a paradox...

What am I?

Here's a clue...

I am used to put out fires...

but I burn too...

you can't see me but I exist...

you can't touch me but I'm real...

I am liquid, but I'm a gas too..

I am a river but you can't swim in me

I am H2O but...

you can't brush your teeth with me

what am I?

I am...

not a naturally occurring substance

I am... an anomaly

I am a man made

paradox that should 

not exist but I do

I am...

water contaminated

with methane gas.

Methane gas sometimes

is released into the groundwater

contaminating it. 

Now gas companies and

their conglomerates will tell you

that it is not true that

fracking the earth is 

not causing the problem

and what is new?

polluters not taking responsibility

for their actions! 


I know!

amazing right!

Meanwhile homeowners 

cannot drink their

tap water and rivers are dying

all over the world.

All in the name of independence

to be self sufficient

in regards to fossil fuels.

Just one more  evident

demonstration of how

poorly humans 

are managing this planet.

Soon, very soon, 

they will have to pay

not with money

but with their lives.

This is not a threat 

just speaking truth.

See Revelation 11:18

where God says he

 "will bring to ruin those ruining the earth"

what a glorious day that will be!

John Derek Hamilton
April 25,2016

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