The white flashed back into a red ball in the southeast. They all knew what it was. It was Orlando, or McCoy Base, or both. It was the power supply for Timucuan County.
Thus the lights went out, and in that moment civilization in Fort Repose retreated a hundred years.
So ended The Day.
Tag: war disaster apocalyptic nuclear-war
It's called the Infinity Effect.
Edward M. WolfeTag: energy power infinity funny apocalypse gullibility effect disaster apocalyptic radio catastrophe mirror disasters catastrophes post-apocalyptic mirrors battery nuclear silly nuclear-bomb batteries in-the-end wolfe gullible apocalipse edward-wolfe b-o-b bug-out-bag carries-energy energy-company first-strike mushroom-cloud particle-wave power-company power-outage transistor transistor-radios transistors
When the great ship containing the hopes and aspirations of the world, when the great ship freighted with mankind goes down in the night of death, chaos and disaster, I am willing to go down with the ship. I will not be guilty of the ineffable meanness of paddling away in some orthodox canoe. I will go down with the ship, with those who love me, and with those whom I have loved. If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant. I make my choice now. I despise that doctrine. It has covered the cheeks of this world with tears. It has polluted the hearts of children, and poisoned the imaginations of men. It has been a constant pain, a perpetual terror to every good man and woman and child. It has filled the good with horror and with fear; but it has had no effect upon the infamous and base. It has wrung the hearts of the tender; it has furrowed the cheeks of the good. This doctrine never should be preached again. What right have you, sir, Mr. clergyman, you, minister of the gospel, to stand at the portals of the tomb, at the vestibule of eternity, and fill the future with horror and with fear? I do not believe this doctrine: neither do you. If you did, you could not sleep one moment. Any man who believes it, and has within his breast a decent, throbbing heart, will go insane. A man who believes that doctrine and does not go insane has the heart of a snake and the conscience of a hyena.
Robert G. IngersollTag: fear imagination belief evil god eternity death heaven hope mankind dogma conscience hell horror aspiration poison chaos disaster doctrine orthodox gospel insane tyrant minister meanness damnation preach clergyman
A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to call the God of Nature. Now we are convinced that Nature is as cruel as the Bible; so that, if the God of Nature did not write the Bible, this God at least has caused earthquakes and pestilence and famine, and this God has allowed millions of his children to destroy one another. So that now we have arrived at the question -- not as to whether the Bible is inspired and not as to whether Jehovah is the real God, but whether there is a God or not.
Robert G. IngersollTag: nature god atheism deism cruelty disaster jehovah theism
Not having ice cream,” she proclaimed, “is the culmination of all disasters!
Brandon SandersonTag: tragedy disaster ice-cream
You can never be too far away from a disaster, because there is no disaster-free zone in this entire universe!
Mehmet Murat ildanTag: disaster
There she stood, hiding; the mother without child, the voiceless woman full of anger. Her smoked nails hammered her evaporated heart snivelling in the grotty kitchen of disaster. Her face, depleted, cauterised. Her eyes wheezed shame at what she knew would happen to her daughter, again and all over again.
Laura GentileTag: child shame mother anger disaster face
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.
Gore VidalTag: harm humanity atheism useful islam disaster judaism monotheism confucianism educational-system ethical-system virulent-god
People from the past, have a tendency to walk back into the present, and run over the future.
Anthony LiccioneTag: past future present enemies disaster past-lives family-members disown old-friendships people-from-past
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