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Go Forth and Multiply

Go Forth and Multiply

Ian Martin in Pearly Beach

Go Forth and Multiply

“And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Once upon a time, in the beginning, when the earth was flat, a troop of chimpanzees was fooling about in a big tree. While they were swinging on vines, or eating juicy fruit, or picking lice off one another, or masturbating and copulating to their hearts’ content, an extreme meteorological event took place.

(This fairy tale is not for children. Adults can access it here.)

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Go Forth and Multiply

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