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Timmy Taes's avatar

Rufus, Your meal sound excellent. The old saying is, "Kill a chicken to scare the monkeys." Monkeys would terrorize African villages. They would grab small dogs, even infants, and eat whatever the villagers had.

So, when the monkeys were screaming in the trees outside the village ready for their next raid, a villager would grab a chicken and a knife. He'd take the chicken out in front of the monkeys and cut off the chicken's head. The headless chicken would then run around scaring the feck out of the monkeys. They never come back.

Thomas Merton was assassinated by the CIA in Thailand in 1968. The monastery where he came from in the USA covered it up by not doing an autopsy and hiding the photos of the crime scene.

I stay calm by avoiding people and the TV. I stay up until dawn sitting in the dark drinking beer and doing absolutely nothing but thinking.

I also protect my psyche by not giving a shit if the human race survives or not. I don't have any grandkids. I have no skin in the game.

But I wish you well, Rufus. You are a good man.

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JP Spatzier's avatar

Thanks 😊

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