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'##::::'##:::'#####:::'########: VIVA LA REVOLUCION! CERDO DEL CAPITALISTA!!
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##:::: ##:'##:::: ##: ##::::::: THE HELOTS OF ECSTASY PRESS RELEASE #387 !!
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#########: ##:::: ##: ######::: ZIEGO VUANTAR SHALL BE MUCH VICTORIOUS! !!
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##:::: ##:. ##:: ##:: ##::::::: "A Goat Named Abel" !!
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##:::: ##::. #####::: ########: by -> Kreid !!
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..:::::..::::.....::::........:: 12/28/98 !!
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hello. kreid here. this is a story i wrote several years ago.
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it's one of the first short stories i wrote, just after i decided to try
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to take my writing seriously. mogel found it and i told him to put it
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in hoe. it's not a bad story, i think. but... whatever. enjoy it.
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--(not likely)------------------------------------------------------------
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once, in a not-too-distant past, there was a goat named abel.
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abel was a decent goat, he respected his elders; but he had his sins.
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mostly sins of the mind, of course, abel kept to himself... but his
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thoughts were bad. his thoughts were dangerous.
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abel questioned god. how does god feel about the modern goat,
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with all this medicine and technology? why are we worshipping a concept
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invented by ancient man-- a society that knew nothing about their own
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environment?! abel didn't know whether to feel proud or guilty for all
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his insight. did other goats think like me? am i going to hell for
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these thoughts?
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abel just didn't know. sometimes he didn't even care, with all
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the pressure his free will gave him. "you know," thought abel one day,
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"most goats probably think like me. i'm not all that wise. i shouldn't
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feel guilty for thoughts that come naturally too me. fuck this." and
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with that, abel gave up his fear of god. "fuck god. fuck everything."
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abel's mind was made up. no more believing ridiculous lies. if
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something sounded awkward, he would QUESTION it.
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abel's life went uphill from there. he no longer thought he was
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smarter than everyone else... and he socialized with the other goats, he
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conversed with them intelligently. he spent his life as a young adult
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collecting knowledge, and the town's goats loved him. life was good.
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as he reached middle age, he became a teacher. he took in some
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younger goats as students, and made them wise. he taught the goats to
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think. but the older goats didn't like this thinking business. abel
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was becoming a bad influence to the youth of his town, and the
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government wouldn't stand for it. abel's dangerous wisdom had come
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back, and he was in trouble.
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on abel's 60th birthday, he went to the legendary tin can oracle
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on mount spoon. after a few minutes of waiting, the can greeted him.
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"who goes there?" asked the can.
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"it is i, abel the goat."
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"what question shall you ask me, abel?"
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"i wish to know who the wisest goat on earth is."
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"THERE IS NONE WISER THAN ABEL!" the can boomed.
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abel was shocked. was he really the wisest goat on earth? he
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did not think of himself as wise at all. "no," he thought, "this
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cannot be true. the oracle is mistaken."
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so abel searched the land, to solve this riddle. "there must be
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someone who is wiser than i," thought abel, "and i will find him." but
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abel could not find a single wise goat in all his searching. he went to
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many prophets and politicians who thought they were quite wise, but the
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perceptive abel disproved their wisdom. as abel found, the ones that
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thought they were most wise turned out to be most dense.
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with that thought, abel realized the truth of the oracle. "if i
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am the wisest goat on earth," he thought, "then wisdom must be the
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realization that no one is wise in comparison to god." he paused for
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a moment. "yes. that must be the answer."
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so abel was an enlightened goat. he was finally at peace with
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himself and his wisdom. and he taught more, but not for long. during
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his searching he had humiliated many politicians and powerful goats.
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the people were jealous of abel's wisdom. and that was his downfall.
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he was tried a week later and sentenced to death for corrupting
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the town's youth. when asked to suggest an alternate sentence, he
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chuckled and said, "i propose a fee of one penny." the crowd of goats
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booed, and he was bound in chains for the rest of the day. when a young
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goat snuck up to him that night and offered for him to escape, he
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rejected the offer. "by living in this town, i agreed to live by its
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laws," said abel, "trying to evade its law would be wrong. i would be a
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hypocrite for doing so." a tear was shed and the young goat waved
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goodbye to abel.
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the next morning, he was approached with a goblet full of poison
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and told to take a sip and then leave town to die. abel smiled, drank
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deeply, and walked out the town gate into the burning desert. his body
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was found the next morning, ten miles from the town, dead... with not a
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trace of sorrow on his withered face.
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!!========================================================================!!
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!! (c) !LA HOE REVOLUCION PRESS! #387 - WRITTEN BY: KREID - 12/28/98 !!
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