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Campfire fairy tales

Life is absolutely meaningless;

What happens in the future sucks;

War, famine, and death.

Death to every living person,

     everybody dies,

     just not all at once.

Soon, maybe a lot of people will die,

     and soon, maybe families will sit by a fire

     warming their bones and cooking their food

     after the nuclear holocaust: the survivors,

     those who fear death more than the horror

     of living in a destroyed world, or maybe

     they see something that convinces them

     that life is good, maybe they aren't in the know,

     no education in history, biology or astronomy;

     they think of geology as evidence of God because

     of their rock collection - these eternal treasures,

     much like their souls; in order to protect

     their neanderthal consciousness from fire,

     that dreaded eternal fire, they first must survive it.

Eat, drink and be merry.

Carpe diem!

Author's Note

http://www.gettyimages.com/event/stone-age-csi-neanderthals-extinct-from-human-disease-629265835#illustration-of-neanderthal-man-in-a-cave-circa-30000-bc-picture-id50692157