The World as I see it.

Still hot on the trinity trail is the concept – Mind, Body and Soul. Another example of accepting without questioning. I accept the existence of Body. I also accept the existence of Mind but I do not accept the existence of a Soul as well.  Body and Soul or Body and Mind is all there is. Stop and think about it, what is the difference between Mind and Soul?

Explanations will be highly cherished.

I have seen, done and heard a lot of stupid things in my time but the OSCAR definitely goes to this young man.

  A lonely man is £16,000 poorer after sending money overseas to two women he fell in love with over the internet, in the hope they would join him in the UK .

I gave up my lunch break to write this simply because I just could not resist – I mean, how can anybody? I was shaking my head in disbelief as I read each line.  In this day and age of Identity theft, cyber-crime and all other shenanigans that result in innocent people being fleeced via cyberspace, this donkey was stupid enough to trust something he met on-line simply because he was promised love. [Let’s face it; we all know he was hoping to get some nookie and by this account, he must have been very desperate!!]. I thought we had all wised-up to these types of pranks.

I remember way back at university, when some students used to spend all weekend in the computer rooms chatting day and night. On Monday mornings, they would talk about it and laugh and share funny stories on how they pretended to be some “Hot Swedish blonde” and some far-away sad old men would lust after them. In fact it used to be a competition to see how much attention one would get in chat rooms. I don’t blame them. What else do you expect from students far away from home seeking some weekend kicks?

But this miserable old man takes both gullibility and stupidity to new heights. He is not student and has an elderly mother to look after and still falls for the cheapest trick in the book…

David Hodgkinson’s borrowed money from his elderly mother and re-mortgaged his home in Margate, Kent, but neither woman showed up at the airport.

Now, he gets on-line, exchanges lines of text with someone claiming to be whoever, this mysterious person expresses undying LOVE, Mr Sadness personified falls head over heels, Miss smitten asks for £10,000.00 to cover travel and visa costs and donkey sends the money!!! If it was his own money it would have been bearable. But no, he borrows poor old mummy’s money. Not only that – it happened to him more than once!!!

Mr Hodgkinson, who is a full-time carer for his 86-year-old mother, turned to online dating after he became fed up with being single. He first struck up a relationship with Natalia, from Russia , who he met through a dating website. He sent her more than £10,000 to pay for her travel and a visa so she could be with him. He went to meet her at Heathrow Airport four times, but she never arrived. He then turned to a Christian dating website and met Amada, from Senegal . He sent her £6,000, but was again left waiting in the arrivals lounge of the airport.

Four rimes he went to meet this girl at the airport! Where do we get people like this from? This so-called “Natalia from Russia ”, only God knows if she is in fact female. I bet good money that she is some crook looking for some moo-moo to swindle. On the other hand, I should not be too hard on this guy because he is lonely, has “past it” and not exactly blessed with good looks unlike me. That might explain his repeated failure to hear those deafening alarm bells ringing when in the first instance Natalia was nowhere to be seen at the airport!!!

People like Mr Hodgkinson deserve no sympathy. I urge all Natalias out there to even ask for more money next time. If someone can be that gullible then the Natalias out there are providing a service by trying to educate the Hodgkinsons of this world. His mother is elderly and has been left to pay-off his love-debts. To show how sick this man is, he even has this to say…

                “I feel no ill in my heart. I did really love her,” Mr Hodgkinson told the BBC.”

Something tells me that nothing has been learnt here.

What I read this morning in the metro knocked me for six.

On page 11, Ross McGuinness reporting - £8m Salsa Row. The article began…

Yes, you are reading correctly, the woman agreed to pay £8 million for salsa classes. But then again this woman is not your average Tracey or Sharon. Her highness is no other than Mimi Monica Wong, the head of HSBC’s private banking in Asia. Well as it turned out, her highness could not cut it on the dance floor and the dance instructor had a bit of a loose lip on him.

Another ridiculous thing about this episode is that these lessons were supposed to last for, wait for it, EIGHT YEARS, and paid £4million up front.

How stupid. Even I want to live forever but booking something like salsa lessons for eight straight years and paying £4m for it - c’mon. This woman is 61 for crying out loud. If she was 16 and had very rich parents who wanted to get her ready for the world championships, then I would understand.

Anyway, the short of it is…

…The tutor was so rude that she took him to court asking for her money back. As I said, how stupid. If you are willing to pay £8.3 million [£4m up front] for salsa lessons over eight years, you obviously have more money than sense.

It is not a new thing for me to totally denounce the existence of a god - today, tomorrow and all the days that follow. Every body accepts Newton’s laws of motion. Likewise phythagoras’ logic that in a right-angled triangle, the square of the length of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the lengths of the remaining two sides. So why is it Allah [Islam] for some, Jehovah [Christians] for others and [Hindu]Hinduism for others also. The need to believe in such stories of creation is natural. But every then and now someone takes his/her belief a bit farther than the average Joe does.

This belief was perfectly demonstrated by this nutter from Kiev. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060605/od_nm/ukraine_lion_dc_1].

I am not considering this as solid demonstration of the non-existence of a Supreme Being but I consider it up there with the best of I have seen so far. Anybody ranting and raving about any god in such a manner obviously has got a loose screw somewhere but that - I am afraid - is what it takes to prove the existence of a god. Why can’t a Supreme Being’s existence be demonstrated in public as opposed to the numerous “personal revelations” that we hear all the time?

Mind you what I find interesting about this nutter is that he has an inquisitive mind. There is doubt in his quest - bless him.

When I was a wee one, I learnt that if you play with fire, you gonna get burned. Believing in a god tends to make perfectly rational people forget certain facts. The lion did what lions do shame about his friend in the sky.

I cannot believe I am writing about this but I just could not resist, a big flaw in my character – apparently. From the London Metro, Friday, 02 June 2006, page 3, [Sarah Hills reporting] I gather that my favourite BBC breakfast Host – Kate Silverton – had to apologise for her taste in clothing after the eye-catching blouse she wore on Thursday 1^st June 2006, on the show put viewers off their morning Cornflakes. God give me strength!

I cannot believe people can be so trivial and trifling in their sensitivities. I haven’t got the skills nor the time to embed a picture of Miss Silverton in her “so-offensive” blouse but the picture above tells you who I mean in case you don’t already know. The very lively blouse with green and yellow psychedelic patterns with a matching scarf was considered so loud by some dimwits that they actually complained to the BBC. These up-to-no-goods felt compelled to complain while the likes of me were listening to hear the latest developments in the Middle East. The Middle East has always been a hub in terms of world news, but some people managed to get so disturbed by this young, attractive and definitely going-places presenter’s outfit that they complained. They are very lucky they did not get me at the other end of the hotline. After talking to me, they would have had things to complain about.

With Palestine being crippled for adopting so-called western Democracy, Iraq on the brink of civil war and USA deciding if or when it is going to attack Iran - following their decision not to give up their “nuke” plans , some fools, in these times of destined global unrest, have the conscience to complain about my favourite’s news reader’s outfit. *** *** ***** ***!

That is all I can say to them.

It reminds me off an old African saying, “Oku na-agba fada, i na-aju ma ona-agba afaonu ya”!