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The Pear Tree Prophecy

The Thing Trapped In Time

By DaMaGePublished 3 years ago Updated 2 years ago 5 min read
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The following account is from a future time sent back in hopes that it can be stopped. Do not let anything in this selection come to pass.

In the future a society exists where everyone lives a bleak life. Where nature and man are totally alien to the life on this planet. A future where the smell of a campfire is lost, and technology has ravaged the planet. Most of humanity has moved underground and the few human outposts are under the surface of the Earth. We tried colonizing the moon and Mars but for some reason people just do not seem to get along with each other.

Now, instead of pills, you get injections for everything. Every year, three or four vaccines are distributed, while people get sick five or six times, and no one notices that we are culling the weak. Our young are given remote injection devices at birth. And now you can get alcohol, cannabis, opiates, cocaine and even meth in single use doses. They are given by doctors for stress and pain to keep the poor down in the dumps of the cities digging for recycled goods to quench their cravings and vices. Doctors prescribed aspirin and antacids in a lucrative deal to make over the counter drugs more expensive in order to cure rare diseases or create new ones.

Bat has become a global delicacy as it was domesticated after nuclear wars turned some farmlands into wastelands. Chickens survived where grains could still be grown but cattle went extinct due to death rates from cesium laced grasses. The global population fell to one-eighth and religions clung to the idea that it was really three-fourths. But those that made it through it still talk about the walking dead that developed cancer from the blasts.

Creating an open flame, Eve's gift from Prometheus, was banned to free everyone from sin. Only the elite control fire and allow those who want it to pay for it.

Water is also paid for and costs more than gold now. Governments use it to pay their debts and soldiers to protect it. The Arctic and Antarctic ice shelves were tapped twenty years ago for water and are nearly gone. The Arctic has become the new Riviera, while Iceland, the term for Antarctica, became a new world that was decimated by human migration. Only Puffins and a newly discovered Atlantic Penguin are left of the once numerous faunae as corporations tapped its resources and fed its crews. A good food source when times get rough.

China and India, the two superpowers left after Europe went to war with the Americas, bounced back the fastest since eastern cities were hit in each, causing less destruction of farmlands. Several cities in Europe including Moscow, as well as Western cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver and Kansas City, took out the breadbaskets of the world, meaning the world could no longer hold billions of people. The meek had truly inherited the Earth.

Oddly, the farmlands of the Pennsylvania Dutch, including those that traveled west, caused a revival of leaving behind technology. This left North America vulnerable as their pacifist ways allowed a foreign invasion physically for the first time, as they were economically invaded decades ago.

As you can see, we are technologically superior and can send messages to the past. We left the names out so that people with those names don't force any of this to happen similar to how 1984 was interpreted. That message failed and was forced on us by evil rich men to control your life, something we hope to prevent.

Perhaps we can wake you up today to the plights of your future. A place where cell phones are smelted for their raw elements and children are subjected to harsh conditions on the surface just hoping to find food.

Underground, the rich use hydroponics to grow medicines and foods they sell to the poor. They use solar, wind and water, except at the seven geothermal plants that feed energy to the entire planet using the Tesla Harmonic Towers near each one. But the lines of old are still in use, buried underground inside of tubes since storms prevent transmission, similar to radio and television antennas.

Vehicles underground use tube and rail technology. Some electric cars exist but the industry has only built up because cars from junk yards were used in demolition derbies or just to race across old 66, designating the last drivable road in the United States and following the old highway system, a road that no longer exists.

As separation into smaller groups led to corporate warlords that bought up the cities and hired smaller armies based on a similar ideology, the United States became a theocracy controlled by Hindu, Buddhist and Christian dogmatic institutes like the Pennsylvania Dutch, Amish, Methodist, Lutheran and Pentecostal. Everyone else was exterminated or permitted to cross the Panama Canal into Venezuela as the religions of the East fought against the Atheistic Chinese States. They only permitted Catholicism, Judaism, Animistic, Shamanic and Tribal religions. That is the only war that occurs and that is the explanation used to fight wars over fresh water and fertile soil.

The reason we have sent this is because several decades ago we were given a choice at peace, and we turned it down. Maybe we should have taken South America's Treaty of Peace while we had a chance. Look for the Pear Trees growing in every capital.

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DaMaGe

I'm a Scientific, Philosophical, Artistic Atheist, that writes science fiction, political, and fantasy with a flair of science and logic that opens other people's minds to new ideas. Enjoy!

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