Earth
'The Earth is an object lesson for the apprentice gods. "If you really screw up," they get told, "you'll make something like Earth." - Carl Sagan, Contact
"A deaf, dumb and blind idiot could have made a better world than this." - Tenessee Williams, interview, Esquire, September 1971
"…that a God like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his work, and declared everything to be good - that will not do at all!" - Arthur Schopenhauer, Supplements to the World as Will and Idea, pub. A.D. 1819
"Of all that was attempted this side of nothingness, is anything more pathetic than this world, except for the idea which conceived it? Wherever something breathes there is one more infirmity; no palpitation which fails to confirm the disadvantage of being; the flesh horrifies me: these men, these women, offal that moans by the grace of certain spasms…each moment is merely a vote in the urn of my despair." - E.M. Cioran, A Short History of Decay, pub. A.D. 1945
"This world… was only the first rude essay of some infant Deity, who afterwards abandoned it, ashamed of his lame performance; it is the work only of some dependent, inferior Deity; and it is the object of derision to his superiors; it is the production of old age and dotage of some superannuated Deity, and ever since his death, has run on at adventures…" - David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
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Planet Earth? Some tragic mix-up with the cosmic zip code. That’s how those angels just living in the neighborhood a notch below Pleroma Row St. ended up scrawling “return to sender” on my monad mail & returned me to Archon Express. They’re totally pissy little devils about their job, the company is run by some C.E.O. who I’ve heard is totally psychotic, blind as a bat, and dumb as a post, and he’s been charged with embezzlement too. So, I got overnight expressed here…