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OutOf Place
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Out of Place – A NovelPhilip ShepherdChapter 1When does one’s life really begin?Is it thrust upon us at the very moment the winner of the sperm marathon leaves his brothers and sisters behind and victoriously breaches the walls of the egg? Or, does one’slife not really dawn until that exploding mass of fertilized cells grows complex andindividual enough to utter a cry outside mom’s all embracing womb?And beyond that basic question, what exactly is contained within that wriggling mass of cells that makes each of us, us? Is it just our DNA; or is there a Soul lurking back their  patiently biding its time until the body dies and sets it free? And if it is there… well,where the heck did it come from? Was it somehow created along with, or as a part of the body? Is its very existence firmly rooted in our flesh until the last gasp when it finallyrises or sinks according to its own nature or some sort of Divine reward? And why is itheld accountable for all the crazy things we did along the way; unless it was running thewhole show all along? Or maybe we are just Soul living out countless lives until wefigure out how to come into harmony with something greater than ourselves.Then again, isn’t it perfectly plausible to believe that we are just what physical scientiststheorize we are: A highly organized, electrical bio-atomic structure whose main aim inlife is to spread its own DNA? And enthralled to that aim, we live through this short span
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of pain and pleasure; copulating and raising children until some organ clogs up, getscancerous or simply ceases to function. The sum total of our bewildering existencecontained within the ravaged glory of this one lifetime, our final destination being:oblivion. Our only hope of existence beyond the shores of this life being the sentimentalstory that someone we left behind still remembers us as our DNA travels on.Or maybe we are just some long-term experiment by aliens. Superior beings who willsomeday return; most probably just before we are about to blow ourselves up with our doomsday weapons, or shift the global climate so dramatically that we destroy ourselvesand most of our planetary companions?Maybe Eve was really a space alien on vacation that fell in love with the hunky, brilliantEarth ape, Adam, tempting him with a technological power that was far beyond hisemotional capacity to handle; thus setting in motion this whole crazy spiral of unbalanced, brutal human existence.Eric pushed himself away from his computer. Pulling off his reading glasses he beganrubbing his scratchy eyes. Why couldn’t he stop thinking about all of this now? He hada marketing budget to cut. He looked at his watch. It was nearly six. He needed to getthis done and have it turned in to his boss’s Administrative Assistant before he left. Hestretched and rolled his head trying to relieve the ache in his back.
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