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I was going to ask a handyman to repair that, unless it’s termites or ants.
This pillar is about 11 years old, and is supporting the front patio of a rental house. It sounds hollow like the others ones, although none of the others show any exterior sign of degradation at all (for now).

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2070 AD
The squad of the EATERs (Extraterrestrial Annihilation Troops for Earth’s Restoration) prowled the remnants of what had once been a jungle- a fully flourishing ecosystem, with life bouncing and frolicking at every instance; but now destroyed by those vicious things that had been set upon the Earth. It had been the EATERs greatest mistake-not having destroyed the vicious race earlier. But now it had come to this-only 3 survivors remained, and it was impossible not to kill them.
Though their ‘body covers’ had been heavily evolved and modified to sense their kill, the EATERs still relied heavily upon their primitive senses. The team wanted to take it nice and slow; relish the moment when those destroyers were brought to justice. And as they sped past the vast horizon of black, their decision went from being less foolhardy to more rational. The anger escalated within them, and their faces turned red upon seeing it.
The Earth had changed. Not a minor change. A drastic one. The only colours remaining on it were black and brown. The ground was infested with garbage- ranging from rockets remnants to spectacle rims to God knows what. The skies weren’t spared either-They weren’t blue anymore; the huge pieces of metal floating only accentuated the morbid black colour of the sky. The last drops of water vaporised into thick smoke. The trees were no longer green-in fact; there were NONE to speak of. A few brave mushrooms remained, only to be gnawed at by the desperate cockroaches that were scattered everywhere. They were the favourite animals of the EATERs; the cockroaches were supposed to be survivors, but no! The EATERs were overwhelmed with guilt when they saw this.
The perpetrators of thus huge sin deserved a punishment. Justice had to be done. But who, who would shelve out justice? God? But was there a God? For if God existed, would he have allowed such a great wrong to happen?
And this question was answered soon enough, for as the EATERs turned around the corner, they saw the three Extra Terrestrial beings huddled together. A simple prayer escaped their lips-‘God, save us.’
“There is no God” answered one of the EATERs, removing his body cover simultaneously. An ethereal light radiated from his body. The others, around 13 of them, followed suit, removing their body covers too. All of them emitted the similar unearthly light.
“Jesus?! Yahweh? Brahma? Confucius!! BUDDHA? Who are you people?” screamed one of the extra-terrestrial beings, the beings who called themselves ‘human’.
“Let’s kill them and be done with this” growled Shiva in response.
“I think they deserve to know the whole truth! They managed to evade us for so long, and it’s a special accomplishment, being the last survivors on the Earth!” echoed Mary.
All the other ‘Gods’ laughed in unison, a laugh that left the ground rumbling.
Finally, Allah started to explain.
“After the Big Bang, the first living organisms appeared on a planet 20.4 light years away from your Earth, a planet which we call Kasitra, and you call Gliese 581 d.
The first living organisms were us; the all powerful species which had the power to do almost anything and everything in the universe. We had, and we HAVE powers which would shake the very core of your existence on the Earth.”
“2 million years passed, but nothing new happened. Our existence seemed like a burden now; unfort
unfortunately, immortality can sometimes seem like a bane. So, we decided to abandon our planet and shift to a new one. And that’s how we discovered Earth.”
“Earth was beautiful beyond words. It was like Pandora’s Box, our existence didn’t seem dull anymore. We lived upon the Earth, shared its resources, and led a fruitful life, until one day, Kasitra called us back.”
“We didn’t want to leave Earth, but nor did we want to disappoint poor Kasitra. So, we decided we would not let either of them happen. Their existed many different ‘races’ of our organisms, and each race thus decided to make something anatomically similar to their bodies, but of course, limiting their powers”
“And thus, humans appeared on the Earth for the first time.”
“PANSPERMIA! THAT LIFE WAS SEEDED ON EARTH FROM ANOTHER PLANET! HA, I WAS RIGHT!!” shrieked one of the humans, who incidentally happened to be Dr. Smith’s son.
Allah shot him a filthy look before continuing-
“We invented other life forms too, so as to aid t
“We invented other life forms too, so as to aid the humans to magnify the Earth’s splendour. Humans existed like we did, and we visited the Earth every 200 years to see how they were doing. That’s how the Earthians know quite a bit about us.”
“When we came in the year 2012, we knew something wasn’t right. You all had COMPLETELY destroyed our beloved planet, our dream planet which we unfortunately had to abandon. And that’s when we took the decision to exterminate the human race.”
And with this ominous announcement, the thirteen pounced upon the remaining three.

THE END

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I stood in a field behind my mother’s house, barely 10. My hair blew in the light breeze. My hazel eyes wide and intent. I stared at the squirrel. Remembering every little detail. From his brown eyes, to his bushy grey tail. He sat there, staring at me.
“Come.” I said, firmly. His eyes went wide. He lifted a paw.
“You’re doing good.” A voice startled me. I turned to see my older sister, Alanna looking down at me.
Her hands on her hip.
“You don’t have to be mean for the animal to listen to you.” She looked up at the mesmerized squirrel and raised a hand.
“Come.” She said, loudly. The squirrel stumbled to Alanna. His eyes glazed over and wide with excitement.
‘See, Alyssa, you’ll get it.”
My family was not normal. They all had special talents. My mother, a soft, kind woman. She was tall with long, jet black hair and big grey eyes. She could control the earth beneath us. She was an “Elemental.” My father, a firm and menacing man. You wouldn’t want to be caught in his gaze. His dark eyes dared you to challenge him. His gift was reading minds. Something called “Mind- Whisperer.”
My sister, Alanna could talk to animals. Her kind and gentle postures said she’d never hurt a fly. Animals loved her and she loved animals. She was called, “Animist
My gift had yet to come. I didn’t know what gift I wanted. Whether, Elemental, Mind-Whisperer or Animist. Maybe, I would get a super special gift. No one in my family had heard of.
I soon regretted that, when someone wanted my gift. He would do anything to get it….

Do you think it’s good? What are some ways I can make it better?
@Sarah: I have read that. This is my take on it.
@Marisa: I never said my book was great and I want it praised. Instead of putting my idea down, you could help to make it better.

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(i took a photo of a dead one but dont know how to upload it to a question)

its about 4cm or 1.5inches long

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75 million years ago, there was an alien galactic ruler named Xenu who was in charge of 76 planets in our part of the galaxy, including our own planet Earth, whose name at that time was Teegeeack.

All of the planets Xenu controlled were over-populated by, on average, 178 billion people. Social problems dictated that Xenu rid his sector of the galaxy of this overpopulation problem, so he developed a plan.

Xenu sent out Tax Audit demands to all these billions of people. As each one entered the audit centers for the income tax inspections, the people were seized, held down and injected with a mixture of alcohol and glycol, and frozen. Then, all 1.4 trillion of these frozen people were put into spaceships that looked exactly like DC8 airplanes, except that the spaceships had rocket engines instead of propellers.

Xenu’s entire fleet of DC8-like spaceships then flew to planet Earth, where the frozen people were dumped in and around volcanoes in the Canary Islands and the Hawaiian Islands. When Xenu’s Air Force had finished dumping the bodies into the volcanoes, hydrogen bombs were dropped into the volcanoes and the frozen space aliens were destroyed.

However, Xenu’s plan involved setting up electronic traps in Teegeack’s atmosphere which were designed to trap the souls or spirits of the dead space aliens. When the 1.4 trillion spirits were being blown around on the nuclear winds, the electronic traps worked like a charm and captured all the souls in the electronic, sticky fly-paper like traps.

The spirits of the aliens were then taken to huge multi-plex cinemas that Xenu had previously instructed his forces to build on Teegeack. In these movie theatres the spirits had to spend many days watching special 3D movies, the purpose of which was twofold: 1) to implant into these spirits a false reality, i.e. the reality that WOGS know on Earth today; and, 2) to control these spirits for all eternity so that they could never cause trouble for Xenu in this sector of the Galaxy. During these films, many false pictures were implanted into these spirits, which resulted in the spirits believing in all the things that control mankind on Earth today, including religion. The concept of religion, including God, Christ, Mohammed, Moses etc., were all an implanted false reality that to this very minute is used to control WOGS on earth.

When the films ended and the souls left the cinema, they started to stick together in clusters of a few thousand and remained that way until mankind began to inhabit the earth. Today on earth all the spirits of these aliens have attached themselves to our bodies and are the root cause of the false reality that all but Scientology’s OT 8′s on earth experience. It is the job of all Scientologists to remove this false reality from the world by auditing each and every space alien spirit and human on earth to CLEAR not only this planet but the universe. For those who oppose Scientology and stand in their way like the LMT and all Scientology critics, Scientology promises to do away with them “quitely and without sorrow”.

I have calculated that on average, each person on planet earth has 2,314 of these Body Thetans (BT’s for short), Hubbard’s term for the alien spirits, causing you and all mankind to be constrained by Xenu’s false reality. The average cost for Scientology to OT 8 is a mere USD 360,000, meaning that each BT only costs USD 155.57 to clear. Now that is a bargain if there ever was one.

Hubbard never said the overall cost to the planet would be cheap, but let’s examine it. The planetary cost equation is as follows: 1.4 trillion spirits times USD 155.57 equals a mere USD 2,104,550,960,000. Just think about it — USD 2.2 quadrillion — shit, that’s enough to keep Rear Admiral Miscavige and Marty in casino chips for a long time.

As for Xenu, the Loyal Officers of the Marcab Confederation finally discovered how evil he was and overthrew him. He is now locked away in a mountain on one of the planets and kept in by a force-field powered by an eternal battery. Several of Xenu’s relatives can often be found on ARS.

Do they???????????

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