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the archive(s):
issue no. 5:
Ontology of Skepticism (i, ii) / Ella McCrystle
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Humans are unbelievers, harpooners of benevolence in fields of amity. While we rejoice at the idea of mankind, verisimilitude is another matter. In tenements of Baltimore, MD, USA -- Charm City -- one is more likely to be murdered by the caliginous phenomenon than kissed. Caught breaths splash caught blood into caught criminals with influenza or worse -- housed in penitentiaries [ or the suburbs. ] In these relations we may, but don't usually, see God. Though we would like to believe even our poorest kin whisper His word.
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Watching Dr. Phil, AnyGirl decides there cannot be a god of any possibility. This begins the fragmenting of humanity into particles of disbelief, blinking like the lights at Bethlehem Steel. She pulls smoke through lungs, stares at the murky harbor and a limb surfaces -- fingers reaching as if to ask for one final principle of credence in humanity's grace.
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