All entries for Sunday 27 November 2005

Tea with Ghosts

People who drink tea should be shot!

I have come to the opinion that there are too many tea drinking people in this world. You can see them swarming around in their packs snarling at passers by and scenting the air with herbal essences. It has to be stopped. Whenever i enter the houses of these tea fiends they immediately offer me a cup of the lethal mixture. So far i have managed to resist their desperate attempts to bring me on to their side but it is getting harder day by day.

It is generally these tea drinkers that also happen to believe in ghosts. Is this a coincidence? I think not.

The other day someone told me a story about someone they knew having seen a ghost. They described the situation… a dark night, walking back alone and lo and behold there the ghost was. As i watched them recall this tale and the complete belief in what they were saying i began to question my beliefs on ghosts. I have always been extremely suspicious and sceptical about the whole thing and my immediate reaction to anyone claiming that they have witnessed a ghost is that they should either seek medical help or get some sleep. Since most of ghost sightings happen at night there might be a clear link… you should be in bed… you're tired! Still, i admired the amount of trust this person had on the story even though they themselves hadn't seen the ghost. So, i guess that whilst i believe this person does really believe that he saw a ghost and he isn't lying in that sense i still think it was the circumstances that triggered his mind to see something and more importantly believe something that actually wasn't there. In short i don't believe in ghosts… it's the mind playing tricks.

So are ghosts real? I think not. I would argue it is simply the poisonous substance known as tea that corrupts their brains and makes them hallucinate. So the sooner the government pass a law to ban tea the sooner ghosts will disappear!

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