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 9th Nov 2007 06:00
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| Darkness and void was all that existed except for the Creator and a tiny sphere. At the unspoken will of the Creator the sphere exploded, so powerfully it is beyond the mind of man to comprehend. Gasses and matter blasted and expanded rapidly at indescribable speed, creating and expanding what is now called the Universe. Hot spheres numbering in the billions of billions spewed out in all directions, some singular, others beginning to form in billions of elliptical patterns, now known as galaxies. Many galaxies collided, destroying billions of spheres and creating new hot spheres and new galaxies. These entities are today called stars. Billions of years passed. Of the billions of galaxies, one, with which we are most familiar, formed in a pattern, containing billions of stars, and like most other galaxies, had a dense cluster of stars in the middle with arcing arms extending out in a pattern not unlike a hurricane. It is now known as our Milky Way galaxy. It had avoided being altered or destroyed through a catastrophic event even though a large number of its stars had collided and were destroyed during its formation. Out almost at the very tip of one of those arms, a singular star, now known as our Sun, had remained untouched throughout all of these cosmic collisions, and began to cool. Galaxies continued to expand and collide, stars continued to explode and hot debris began to accumulate. Some of that debris began to be attracted to stars by gravity, some to our own Sun. By pure happenstance, several pieces of debris began to orbit around our Sun. Billions of years passed. The debris began to cool, some remaining as spheres of gas, others as hard as stone, still others a combination of both. As fortune would have it one particular piece of debris, the third from our Sun, avoided destruction with others plummeting through it's vicinity and began an elliptical orbit around our Sun at an extremely fortunate distance; close enough to be eventually warmed by its rays, yet far enough away not to be burned to a crisp or immediately drawn in and destroyed. At this precise distance, an atmosphere was able to slowly form around this piece of debris, and as hydrogen and oxygen combined into molecules, water began to settle in its vast ripped surface, becoming the home we now call Earth. Asteroids and other debris constantly bombarded its surface until the atmosphere became thick enough to burn and destroy most which entered it. Through all the vast epochs of time, the Earth never encountered an object large enough to alter its orbit, send it careening out into deeper space, or destroy it completely. One day, elements, molecules and other matter somehow combined, and again, with its fortunate precise placement relative to the Sun, what we now know as life was formed. Much early life was destroyed by the then extremely harsh environment of the earth, but life persisted stubbornly, combining, changing and evolving. Millions of years passed. Larger creatures began to form and some life began to exit the seas and inhabit the land. Eventually even larger and larger creatures were formed and giant monsters known as dinosaurs ruled the land for millions of years. One day a large asteroid hit our Earth with incredible force, precisely large enough to send billions of billions of particles into the air, which were dense enough to blot out the sun's warming rays from the surface of the Earth. Luckily, it was not large enough to alter Earth's orbit, or destroy it's atmosphere. Without the rays of the sun to create warmth, plant life began to wither, die, and not reproduce. Without this key sustenance the food chain was broken, all life began to die. The dinosaurs and much other life became extinct, but life again persisted, allowing other less ferocious creatures to emerge, take control, and populate the land once the particles in the air began to settle. Time passed Without delving into religious vs. scientific arguments, let it be said that around this time human beings eventually appeared, and began to mate, each man with millions of sperm possibilities, uniting with one of hundreds of eggs produced from female ovulation. The human population began to expand over millions of years, men and women creating newborn children with the absolute correct uniting of one of millions of sperms with the absolute precise egg of the absolute precise woman. The timing and selection of mates had to be perfect. A large percentage of the offspring died at birth or soon after, due to the harshness of the environment. The remaining humans continually lived and died, some producing offspring which also produced offspring and the intricate selection process repeated itself over and over and over again as generation after generation lived, reproduced, and died. Groups of humans were formed and combined into larger groups, fighting wars for food, water, and other life sustaining materials. States, then nations formed fighting even more terrible wars. Those wars, along with disease and pestilence often wiped out entire populations. Time passed. [b]
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9th Nov 2007
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| Inspired Author  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Illinois Posts: 416
|  Re: What Are The Odds ? Excellent story. Very romantic, full of thought and obvious love. Thanks Cocoa for this enjoyable read. |
 
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| Inspired Author  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: In the cream Posts: 1,191
| Re: What Are The Odds ? Another beautiful story, cocoa! I don't even know where to begin, but you have put into words the meaning of true love. It is so often hard to describe, but you have done it in such a tender, romantic way, speaking to a true romantic's heart. Beautiful...just beautiful, cocoa. |
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| Chat Moderators  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Dover , De Posts: 1,392
| Re: What Are The Odds ? That was so beautiful Cocoa .... thank you |
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| mindspired Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 0
| Re: What Are The Odds ? Wow Coca that was great. I'm going now to read "A Debt of Honor" I think I've read you on LL. Right ? |
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18th Feb 2008
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| Inspired Author  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: New England Posts: 939
| Re: What Are The Odds ? Love in context. That last page was as good as it gets. "An instant in time" is right! Any philosophy professor I know would have to give this and unequivocal "A!"
__________________ "Its not easy, being green...but green's the color of Spring...it's beautiful, and I think it's what I wanna be." (Kermit the frog) |
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26th Aug 2008
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| Inspired Author Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Jacksonville, NC Posts: 43
| Re: What Are The Odds ? Cocoa, amazing story as was Debt of Honor. Look forward to more |
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