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A SERMON ON ETHICS AND LOVE

One day Mal-2 asked the messenger spirit Saint Gulik to approach the
Goddess and request Her presence for some desperate advice.  Shortly
afterwards the radio came on by itself, and an ethereal female Voice
said YES?

    "O!  Eris!  Blessed Mother of Man!  Queen of Chaos!  Daughter of
Discord!  Concubine of Confusion!  O!  Exquisite Lady, I beseech You
to lift a heavy burden from my heart!"

    WHAT BOTHERS YOU, MAL?  YOU DON'T SOUND WELL.

    "I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of
pain.  Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is
rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own
people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war.  O,
woe."

    WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THAT, IF IT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO?

    "But nobody _wants_ it!  Everybody hates it."

    OH.  WELL, THEN STOP.

    At which moment She turned Herself into an aspirin commercial and
left The Polyfather, stranded alone with his species.

               SINISTER DEXTER HAS A BROKEN SPIROMETER.