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  testament 2

   • barends
     25/10/1996 00:00:000 UTC

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     testament 2

     The eternal city began to fall

     into decay in 3100 when

     the decay of civilization was more than well underway.

     Fighting had broken out in

     the main power in the world the United American states that in 3070 had

     become the

     associated states of America because many had seceded from the union and

     wished a more

     economic association than political union The concept of association was

     created by Prime

     minister Paul Warescek of the peaceful state of Wyoming.

     The commonwealth and papal protectorate of Boston being the only

     catholic state in

     the American union and only hold out to association was seeking a more

     political alliance

     to the holy see. Boston's biggest reason for succession was over the

     United states use of

     matter teleportation devices that the Pope had condemned because the as

     he stated in his

     400 address to the world wide web, "the soul cannot be transported." The

     few Protestant

     faiths left accepted transportation stating that the soul was present

     universally so the

     conversion of atoms to energy and back only moved the expression of the

     soul and where the

     expression was so was the soul but they had no explanation for how it

     traveled to

     meet it's host. meanwhile the city of Rome was filling up with pagan

     monuments as a protest to

     it's denunciation of matter transportation. Junk and even human remains

     were

     appearing randomly throughout the city. The Vatican counsel had

     discussed jamming

     transmissions into the city but then citizens might be dispersed into

     the electrosphere

     on transportation to and from the nearby states and murder was still a

     sin.

     Massive matter transportation devices were present in Rome only to clear

     the debri

     but could not keep up with the influx. The transmission of weapons was

     not possible

     as all energy devices were neutralized during transmutation so

     materialized nonfunctioning..

     The counsel was to meet at 5 am GMT to discuss the situation

     but was postponed because the holy father had not finished a meeting

     with john

     McAdam the governor of Boston. John Sat sweating in his chair while his

     eminence

     rapped his pen on the desk to emphasize the more prominent parts of his

     argument

     the gist of which was that negotiations between Boston and The Wyoming

     government

     could not happen because any such communication could lead to decay of

     Boston's

     moral stance in the papal states and relegate it to the liberal category

     of papal states.

     After the Holy father had all but destroyed his pen John arrose to

     address the pope.

     "Your eminence the people of the commonwealth agree and have-not and

     will-not begin

     any discourse with the State of Wyoming but the members of the

     commonwealth are

     concerned that the church may condemn the citizens of the new

     association and this

     condemnation may cause discord within the commonwealth because the

     peoples of the

     common wealth still consider the citizenry of the association to be

     their brothers."

     The Pope recorded the statement and slowly tapped his pen against the

     marble trim

     on his desk after a moments contemplation he spoke slowly "we are

     considering

     that in counsel this morning I have postponed the counsel until this

     meeting has finished

     and in consideration of what you have just said I think Condemnation

     would be

     illadviseable John you may return home with my assurance that no

     condemnation

     will come from the church against the people but the association is

     still under condemnation not

     by the church but by God."

     John closed his personal recorder and thanked the father he stood to

     leave

     but his eminence casually signaled him to remain. John please think

     about this

     personally I want your opinion and not just the opinion of your house of

     commons

     I want to here a single persons voice and not that of the masses just

     what do you think about

     the situation the madness the anarchy and everything that steams by us

     everyday."

     John had never thought of the pope actually having a personality

     separate from the

     church so this instance of humanity set him back and nothing came to

     mind so much so

     that he had no real answer, the best he could do was offer to call him

     after he had time

     to consider the question. with that he excused himself from the audience

     and passed quickly

     out the door. John had always been brought up to think of an audience

     with the pope as a great

     formal occasion and now he was startled to realize that it could be a

     conversation with a real thinking man and not a discussion with god but

     now how to proceed do

     you just pick up the phone to the most important man on earth and say

     you think that we should just move the faithful off the planet and start

     again.

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     I wrote this a number of years ago it's not good enough to publish but

     I thought some of you might like to read it it is a kind of wierd

     idea of the future.

     Bill