Today the family and friends of Paul Collins laid him to rest. It was a very heart felt and emotional day for everyone. During the service we heard from family members who recounted the life Paul had and it showed him to be a truly amazing young man. One wonderful story that was told during the service was of how Paul who had no money left on a travelling trip, saved what he had to purchase a rickshaw for a family so they could start there business, they even have his picture up at there home, this was a truly typical example of the heart that Paul had. He was a beautiful and wonderful person who although might have come across a little mad talking about aliens and spiritual things, if you truly knew him and understood the things he said, you couldn’t help but love the way he had so much passion about these subjects. I personally shared a lot in common with Paul and the ideas and spiritual beliefs in peace and love to the world are something i also hold close to my heart – and i think that is why he and I would always have so much to chat about and of course hit off our friendship so quickly. Often he would get me to download video clips and audio books from the internet by people who shared his ideas of the world.

Paul was a very clever young man in the way he could tell a story and no matter what it could be about, he could always have you hooked to the outcome and that’s not something any old person can do. His passion for so many different things and his ability to try so many different things has left so many in ore of how wonderful he truly was and it is not just a shame he has now gone, but its a true loss to the world that someone so free spirited, beautiful and so in tune with the world has now left us

I was trying to hold my emotions back today, but alas i couldn’t help but cry at his passing, something i had been doing all week – Paul was a truly inspiration man who had so many friends and lots of family members who will all miss him. This tragedy will remain with me on a personal level for the rest of my life. Paul and i had started putting plans together in past months to visit America together, plans that i will try to live up to as i know he will be with me on such a visit.

My heart truly went out to his parents, sister, cousin and other family members today as well as all of his friends. Today for me was supposed to be a good day as it was my 30th birthday, but sadly more important matters took precedents quite rightly, I just wish Paul could of been here to come around for a few beers, if only things had been different . Although i had been feeling very down and upset by today’s events, talking to his family really helped and i think it helped them too to know he was so loved. Once i got home i cuddled up to my nephew and the little tyke seemed to help make things seem better, even if only for a short time.

It will never be good bye Paul by dear friend, you will always be in our hearts and you will always as i know be with us. The circle of light my friend is as strong in death as it is in life. Rest in peace my friend.

As many of you may know, i am a keep historian and enjoy doing research. Today i watched a documentary on Auschwitz and although i have seen it before, today things started to sink in – i am truly ashamed of humans, how they can treat other cultures and religion all in the name of superiority. I was truly upset whilst watching this documentary as to how mankind treats one another and it made me very angry. In this documentary it went into detail about how the Nazi’s discriminated against the Jewish population as well as the Russians and other minorities during World War Two; how they took women and children and marched them to there own deaths, in one instance of the documentary, it was described  how a Nazi SS officer took a screaming child and threw her into an oven, burned alive. It was truly sickening to think that only 60 odd years ago man kind was so up themselves to do this horrid thing, and yet this thing is not just a thing of World War Two is it? This kind of thing goes on still in the 21st century and it makes me sick to think that so many innocent people die at the hands of those arseholes who discriminate against them. I really feel for all those who have lost there lives in these genocidal wars past and present and i am truly angry that nothing is done to stop this kind of thing. World War Two shouldn’t of happened, but it did, and mankind should of learned the lessons from that war, should of learned to put prejudice and racial disharmony to rest, but it hasn’t and i am truly ashamed to even call myself a human knowing that we are all monsters inside When will people wake up and think about others instead of themselves or they way people look, when will mankind awaken to the fact that these atrocities are wrong and that it should not happen, not now and not ever.

As for those who deny the Holocaust ever happened, i truly hope they burn in hell! Anyone who can deny persecution on that level or any level is nothing but a Nazi in disguise and should burn with the Third Reich.