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"I don't know. Maybe they just oughta leave it the way it is. Kind of a shrine to all the the bullshit in the world" is what Doug Roberts said after his tower infernoed.


I reckon I'll leave my 10,000 there as just such a shrine.


Or perhaps leave it as a symbol, a gesture perhaps to a united world.


The four zeros representing the four quarters of the globe when flattened on the top and bent round a bit.

The figure one applied to an ideal one world, no firsts, no thirds, just one's.


So I'll let the 10,000 remain as a contemporary totem, inviolate, pristine that current and future generations may draw inspiration, not to say succour from the power of its messages and its humble creator.


Farewell.

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Aaaah crap. If only I'd seen that coming.


Hubris? Or just plain old being a daft sod, undeserving of guru status.


Sometimes, the opportunity to make a cult of oneself changes/hinges on the smallest of occurrences.


Supposing Joseph had said to Mary, "look I don't care, and I don't want to know his name, let's just put this behind us and the kid never need know".


Or if Buddha had looked more like Larry David than his 'fat f@ck' manager Jeff Greene?


How different might be the world today?


So it looks like I'm not as much of a cult as I thought I might be.


So I'll carry on heading for 20,000, in which case I could likely as not unite the world in half the time. Maybe.


Never mind, there's always going back to the Song Game thread and making up songs and groups 'til I get caught out again.

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