New Additions to the Site
In the craziness of school, I have decided to bring together the tools I have made for school into one place.
As linked on the NateRad.com home page and now here, school tools has been added! Currently only the math and english sections exist. As new tools are made, they will be uploaded and made available for use. http://naterad.com/school/ is where it's at!
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Ouch
I broke my back skiing this past weekend. It's a lot of work to get to the computer, thus I will probably not be updating very often.
1-3 weeks from school
8-12 weeks with this back brace
6 months until I can do anything physical.
Visitors are more than welcome!
War
I.
Am.
My.
War.
Pain.
Death.
Despair.
Hopelessness.
Tearing lives apart.
Tearing families apart.
In the most patriotic country.
With men fighting for but nothing.
None remember the purpose or motivation.
They close their eyes and pray for reconstruction.
Men and women fighting for a greater good of which they forget.
As the dust clears and the moments become long and monotonous...
We have to ask ourselves, is this war we support really supporting anything?
I guess you can smile and pat yourself on the back for sending your son.
But then again, you fought against fighting for absolutely nothing.
When the bombs of Vietnam blew your friends to tiny bits.
Where is your picket sign now? Your peace protest?
If only you could open your eyes to the futility.
Another Vietnam, just another Cold War.
Like any war, with eyes closed.
Never tell me the truth.
Don't admit mistakes.
We cry out now.
For escape.
Patriotic.
Truly.
Sad.
Eh?
The Religious Aspect of Life
Oh God, where do I begin?
Never since the dawn of mankind has a subject dominated the lives and wellbeing of the human race like religion. Be it in the monotheistic Christians, Jews, Muslims, or the polytheistic religions of ancient and present days, man has used the presence of a "higher being" to dominate the lives of humans and the world.
For those of you who are atheist, I can't wait until you die and figure out that Hell you've been joking about is right at your doorstep.
Or perhaps you are correct in your hopeless belief that after life is nothing. That you're sent to earth to suffer in the monotony of all this and that's it. And if you believe that there really is no place to go, and there really is no reason for everything, then what's the point?!
For those of you who take the Bible literally, do you not understand that it was written many many years after the events which took place? If the events even took place. Perhaps all those symbols and parables of Jesus really are symbols and parables. Perhaps it never even happened. The truth is, we will never know whether or not Jesus was the messiah, or if it was Muhammad or an unknown prophet. What we do know is that these stories are real. The people in these stories are real, we have physical evidence of their decedents and the places in the stories. It does not matter if these events took place. It does not matter if your Jesus was the son of God. It does not matter if your Muhammad was sent with God speaking through him. It does not matter if your prophets truly spoke with God. What matters is the meaning behind it, the symbolism, the logic, the morals, the faith. Because what else is there?
The same goes for the Koran and every other religious work.
No matter what you believe, you can not deny the impact that religion has had on the world. Ohne religion, efforts to help starving countries and helpless victims of pain and suffering would be nonexistent, for churches and other religious groups send food and money and volunteers to help. Without religion, there are no laws and anarchy is rampant, for without the morals and fear of Pergatory and Hell, there is no reason for being kind to one another.
Without religion, one is ohne hope. And without hope, why go on?
But hope is here.