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On consolation Duncan Tertius-Froude 4 December 2025 Post #88 http://tela.network/forum/88/ " The good news isn’t good unless the "bad news" is bad. […] The world, the flesh, and the devil are working very hard to conceal or blunt the bad news. Sick? There’s a pill for that. Aging body? There’s a nip-and-tuck. Lonely or worried or restless or afraid or heartbroken? There’s shopping and sex and bourbon and YouTube. Anything, anything rather than facing the bad news that I will, that I must, sicken and die and decompose and be forgotten from the face of the earth because of my inheritance of Adam’s curse, and my complicity in that same curse by my sins. […] There is something deeply, cosmically wrong with the universe, and without the intervention of a deity, my final end is utter, total erasure and senility and death and rotting and oblivion. "Remember your last days." writes Sirach. "Remember death and decay." " - Kelly Scott Franklin, 'The Bad News', in The Lamp Magazine, Issue 31. https://thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-31/the-bad-news