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Ancient Warrior's avatar

> I’m so proud! I’m losing a subscriber per day. At the end of the year I’ll probably only have my 30 faithful Hens left!

Quality over quantity every day.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

My Warrior friend:

Heraclites 500 BC

Every Citizen Soldier

“Out of a hundred men,

ten shouldn’t be there and 80 are just targets.

Nine are the real fighters,

and we are thankful for them because they make the battle.

But the one,

the one is a warrior

and he brings the others back.”

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Ancient Warrior's avatar

I must ask the question, is it human nature to be slaves?

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

The question must be asked.

When we step back to consider the big picture we find that the highest form of Magi, Witches, Sorcerers, and Alkymysts conspired to BREED a population of whatever we started out as, to become the most pathetically malleable globs of protoplasm in the history of biology.

So...

Perhaps not to start with - but now, they are irredeemable.

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wörterbuch's avatar

Magi, witches, sorcerers, and alkymysts conspired......Jeremiah 11:9 And the LORD said unto me, a conspiracy is found among the men of Yoodah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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JAired's avatar

Cluck.

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Eva's avatar

Delight to be one of your newish hens, chick, bird …and no flu in sight!

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Steven's avatar

>At the end of the year I’ll probably only have my 30 faithful Hens left!,,,

Well, although you write some of the most depressing Emails that are pretty lively even for a devout pessimist, I have no plans on unsubscribing even though Gmail has a balloon that shows up on your letters that boldly says unsubscribe as I mouse to your offerings.

Further, I am not a hen, but a cock...

Oh, it seems that the lowly shotgun is a reasonable deterrent for the window smashing house entering drones

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

Thank you for recognizing my qualities that Darkness was a bit too cheery for me.

I had no idea that Goog Hell employed such unsubtle prompts to get rid of me. Mostly it has been cowardly shadow banning over all of these years.

Little Red Hens has been a generic phrase over all of these years and we even have a fellow named Rooster. I've been meaning to write a 'children's book' to even out the weight of the labels.

Good thing they want to Dis Harm everyone so that the Slaw Turd Bots can take everyone out without any resistance.

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