09.10.08
Posted in People, Sex at 8:23 am by Anthony
I spotted her the moment I entered the bakery area of the supermarket. It wasn’t difficult really, because, apart from her, there was only two other humans present, a married man of about 35 and his child.
The man was pushing a trolley but shopping was the furthest thing from his mind as he continuously tripped over his drooling tongue, totally captivated by her beauty and potent sexuality.
Shopping was also the furthest thing from her mind as she reveled in her power, she was a sexual predator who had made a killing and she was extracting the full price that was due to her.
My arrival broke the spell, the man returned to his shopping after calling to his child, who had wandered off to inspect a delectable display of cream cakes. She immediately turned her attention to me.
It didn’t matter that I was at least 38 older than her. It wasn’t about age; it wasn’t about hunting for a mate, it wasn’t even about sexual attraction. It was simply about a ravishingly beautiful creature that had only recently blossomed into womanhood, a creature that was testing her new found powers, a creature who was beginning to realise the full extent of the potent powers she possessed.
She was a Gothic Goddess – a perfect body mounted on high heeled shoes, jeans so tight that they could have been painted onto her. Jet black shoulder length hair that just fell short of her beautiful but skimpy top, a top that only partly covered her black lace, red trimmed bra. Pale, flawless skin, dark eye makeup and exquisite bright red lips that were just beginning to pout in my direction.
I quickly realised that I had to act immediately. She was purposefully heading in my direction, determined to ensnare the intruder whose intervention had allowed her previous victim to escape. I instinctively knew that if I wanted to win the coming battle I had, at all costs, to avoid looking at her, I had to behave as if she didn’t exist.
For her, it was simply unacceptable that a male of the species who had drifted within her sphere of influence could ignore her presence. It was critical for the continued confirmation of her newly discovered womanhood that all males should pay homage to her beauty and power.
The battle lines were drawn.
I immediately took evasive action and headed for the apple tart display. She paused only for a moment before following, stopping close by to poke around at some doughnuts.
I steadfastly focused on the tarts and cheered inwardly when she moved away – I had won. But my victory was short lived. As I turned I realised that her move away was not surrender but merely to set up an ambush.
As I stood, helpless, she approached with one of those yellow warning signs used by supermarkets to alert customers that the floor has just been mopped - Now, I was about to be mopped.
She very deliberately bent over and placed the sign on the floor and in the process allowed me a clear view down her top. Like a rabbit caught in the full glare of headlights, I stared transfixed at the perfect shape of her exquisite breasts as they firmly supported her lace bra. My stare lasted about two seconds; believe me, that’s a long time for a 56 year old man to be looking down the top of a woman aged about 18.
I had won at the tart display encounter but she had most definitely routed me in the wet floor sign ambush – The score was even.
After collecting my thoughts I changed tactics by moving out of the bakery area and over to the pizza counter – an organised and honourable retreat, so to speak.
I knew she was following, not by direct sight but by observing her reflection in the chrome counter. In an instant she was standing so close to me that an observer could be forgiven for assuming that we were a father/daughter couple out enjoying a bit of shopping.
She made no attempt to order, she was only interested in extracting her due homage.
I ordered a pizza from the shop assistant and despite my senses being enveloped by her alluring perfume I continued to act as if she wasn’t there. I looked up, down, to the right, but never for a moment turned my head to the left where she waited patiently to receive my surrender.
She knew that within moments my pizza would be ready, that I would be walking away, leaving her defeated. I smiled inwardly as the shop assistant placed my pizza on the weighing scales, the last act before the deal was done - I was confident of victory.
But, once again, I was ambushed. The goddess leaned right over, looked directly into my eyes and asked the most ridiculous question – How much do you think your pizza will cost?
There was no avoiding such a direct approach; I was forced to look at her, to acknowledge her presence. But my response was calm and measured, I showed her the price on the pizza that the assistant had just handed to me and remarked that it was good value.
The score was still even.
Walking away, I was acutely aware that I could still lose. I instinctively knew she was still standing there, waiting for me to look back.
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09.09.08
Posted in People at 5:32 pm by Anthony
I watched a really interesting news item the other day.
This guy went out on the street and handed out postcards with his name and address. The card invited people to write down their secrets and post them to him. It was an amazing success; he’s still getting thousands of replies every week. He only gave out a limited number of cards and only in the American city in which he lives but he’s now getting replies from all over the world.
It’s a really good idea and seems to have helped an awful lot of people. Have a look here to see a Utube clip of the man behind the idea and read some secrets. I found this one the most intriguing.
“Everybody that knew me before 9/11 thinks I’m dead.”
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09.05.08
Posted in Religion at 7:57 am by Anthony
God was on trial on BBC 2 the other night. In a very interesting drama prisoners in Auschwitz, who were scheduled for the gas chamber, put God on trial on the charge that he had broken his covenant with his chosen people by allowing such barbarity to take place.
The trial was interrupted from time to time to show us a group of modern day tourists visiting the death camp site. The tourist group included young and old and, I think, a survivor of Auschwitz.
Although, as I say, the drama was interesting and God was found guilty in the end, it really was nothing more than a propaganda piece in favour of the hypocrisy and stark contradictions present in all religions.
For example; one God defender, when asked why the horror was allowed argued that it was a plan by God, that it was a punishment for human wrongdoing. It was even suggested that Hitler and his Nazis were created by God to carry out his plan, that they were his tools.
Later, a prosecution witness asked if God was all powerful why did he allow such horror to occur. Effectively, the same question as above but this time there was a completely different and contradictory answer.
Free Will; He gave us free will to make our own choices and we choose to do evil. In this case it wasn’t God’s plan; it was simply bad human behaviour over which God had no control.
This is completely illogical. Apparently, we are to accept that God made humans in such a way that they were unable to stop themselves from doing wrong and then devised a plan designed to punish them for doing wrong. Even worse, he ruthlessly punished and destroyed those who had committed minor or no crimes at all, like small children.
Towards the end, when the Nazis came to take the men away to die, we saw the most anti God character break down and plead for help – he was told by the (serene) pro God side to pray.
The impression given was that those who challenge God are only confident in their beliefs when they are safe from the immediate fear of death. This is a dishonest portrayal. Many humans who have no belief whatsoever face torture and death with great courage.
On several occasions throughout the drama the pro God side stated that Hitler would die, the war would end but that the Torah, God and his chosen people would live on. This, I believe, was the central message the writer of the drama wanted to convey.
No matter what happened here on earth, no matter how mysterious and unjust God’s actions seemed to be, no matter what suffering the innocent were forced to endure – All would be well in the end so long as humans retained their blind faith in God.
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09.03.08
Posted in Politics at 6:55 am by Anthony
I have to say that I’m puzzled, very puzzled by the sudden return of the Cold War between the West and Russia.
There’s no mystery about the first Cold War, it was clearly a stand off between two different political systems - Communism and Democracy. The Soviet Union lost that war and has since enthusiastically adopted Western democracy and the previously much hated capitalist system.
So why the stand off? I think it can be put down to the age old problem of human tribal conflict. Effectively, the Russians do not yet feel they are a part of the ‘Western tribe’. They still see themselves, with much justification in my opinion, as a tribe that is still under serious threat from the Western tribe.
A couple of years ago I wrote an article about such tribal conflicts and the urgent necessity for global unity, in other words the evolvement of just one global (human) tribe, as a means of avoiding such conflicts.
The manner in which humans have conducted political and military affairs throughout history changed forever at 5:30 a.m. local time on 16th July, 1945 near Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA.
This was the historic moment when the first nuclear device was exploded. The event marked the single most important development in the history of human endeavour. For the first time, man had devised a weapon that had the power to annihilate the human species.
Over the ages, war has played an integral part in human activity. It has been used as a mechanism to resolve territorial, religious, political and dynastic disputes. Indeed, since the beginning of recorded history only 268 years have been free of war.
From earliest times, when tribe butchered tribe using spear and club, to modern times, when tribe threatens tribe with nuclear holocaust, the basic principle remains the same – to protect tribal interests principally through maintaining dominance over opposing tribes. It is this primitive instinct of using power and violence to protect tribal interests that is the wellspring of all human conflict.
To illustrate how this principle is continuously repeated in history, we need only analyse the short period, historically speaking, from the beginning of World War One in 1914 to the end of the Cold War in 1989.
Imperialist ambitions coupled with intense nationalism set the stage for the 1914-18 war. The realignment of the Balkan territories caused by the gradual decay of the Ottoman Empire was the spark that lit the fuse. The carnage of this war, made possible by modern technology, should have alerted Europeans to the need for a new way to resolve tribal differences.
Instead, the unfortunate but understandable human predisposition for revenge resulted in the imposition of a harsh treaty on Germany that sowed the seeds for further tribal conflict twenty years later.
The trauma of this war did spark some awareness of the dangers inherent in the link between primeval tribal instincts and the rapidly growing killing efficiency of modern technology. This resulted in the establishment of the League of Nations, with the aim of promoting international co-operation to achieve global peace and security.
However, the organization was treated with contempt and proved totally ineffective in controlling the continuing development of military technology or the age old habits of tribal warfare. The twenty year pause between 1919 and 1939 was used to make new alliances, re-arm and stoke up aggressive nationalism in preparation for the next round of fighting between old tribal enemies.
But even World War Two did not threaten global catastrophe despite massive structural damage, fifty million dead and the dropping of nuclear bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Indeed, it is likely that the two bombs dropped on Japan were the only nuclear bombs in existence at the time.
It was only in the following decades, with the spread of nuclear weapons and in particular the development of efficient long range delivery systems that the very existence of humanity was put in peril.
The human approach to resolving differences, however, has barely changed at all since our ancestors butchered each other. The primitive instinct that motivated ancient man to protect tribal interests or seek dominance over other tribes is still with us in the 21st century. While the technology of warfare has rapidly advanced, especially since the Industrial Revolution, the human psyche has hardly altered at all.
Modern humans, just like their ancestors, spend a vast amount of time, effort and money in defending or conquering as opportunity and resources allow. This explains why the arms trade is one of the most lucrative businesses on earth. This imbalance between the rapid evolution and development of modern war technology, and the almost total failure of humans to understand the need for a radical change of mind-set, poses the greatest danger to our future.
The establishment of the United Nations in the aftermath of WWII provided another opportunity for humans to make the necessary radical change. Writing as far back as 1951, Albert Einstein warned;
“In the long run, an all destroying conflict can be avoided only by the setting up of a world federation of nations.”
However, like the League of Nations, the United Nations is not taken seriously and is generally used by the bigger powers to promote their own national and strategic interests. Coupled with serious under funding, this short-sighted approach to the world body ensures that tribal interests continue to take priority.
The collapse of the Soviet empire which ended the Cold War in 1989 sparked off yet another realignment of tribal power blocs. The European Union is in the process of creating its own unified military power base to avoid the embarrassing dependence on American military hardware and the need to slavishly follow American foreign policy. A much weakened Russia struggles to maintain her military and political clout while China continues to expand her military and economic power structures.
The events of 9/11 provided a golden opportunity for the US, at present, the most powerful tribe in the world, to change the predictable course of history. The attack on the Twin Towers generated unprecedented sympathy for America and this goodwill could have been used to steer humankind on a new path of cooperation and peace.
Instead, the Bush Administration acted as humans have always acted; they declared war on tribes who they perceived as enemies and threatened everybody else by declaring that if you are not with us you are against us. Instead of developing a new and enlightened policy of global co-operation they used the attacks as just another means of strengthening their position in the continuing realignment of global tribal power.
The history of the 20th century teaches us, if we care to learn the lesson that this game of power bloc musical chairs inevitably leads to conflict. There has never been a time in history when events turned out otherwise. There is no reason whatsoever to believe that the present realignment of the various tribes into their armed camps will bring mankind anything else but global catastrophe.
This depressing but realistic view of what we face can only be avoided if the main players discard the primitive instinct of forming themselves into warring tribes armed with nuclear spears and clubs and acknowledge that there is only one tribe on earth – Humankind.
The Western powers, currently the most powerful military tribal bloc, must avoid the age old temptation of dominating the other tribes and lead the way by embarking on the only possible alternative – the establishment of a strong and effective United Nations which really does represent all the nations of the world.
The opening years of the 21st century must see the nations of the earth reject ultra-nationalism whether promoted by single nations or groups of nations and embrace a global view as proclaimed by the great Greek philosopher, Socrates (469-399 BCE) –
“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
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