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Fool's Philosophy - by Nate BartlingThe Best Commercial to Ever ExistMay 9th 2008 19:11
The happiest commercial in the world
This commercial makes you feel like the world isn't as bad as it seems for a minute. It could make you happy and even make you cry. I hope it does for you what it did for me. Nate
 Want to know if you are an old soul? (LINK)May 7th 2008 19:51
Albert Einstein is a pretty obvious old soul
Recently I was discussing the concept of soul age. I'm talking about the belief that everyone lives many dozens of lives, and keeps reincarnating back into a new body. This is an awesome thing to think about and look into if you have never thought about it. The concept is that there are souls that range from infant all the way to old soul that you come across in everyday life. You yourself fall into one category regardless of if you believe it or not, so it's best to at least know where you would stand. After discussing this concept of old souls I happened to Google "old souls" and one of the top pages that came up was this Find out your soul age HERE It talks about the different ages and characteristics of souls and gives you a general idea of the age of your own soul along with anyone you know well enough to decide fits into a category. Read it, and leave me a comment telling me what you think your soul age is and why! I know it's kind of long, but trust me, it's well worth it. Enjoy Nate
What Jake Burton Taught Me About SnowboardingMay 1st 2008 23:57
So If you have been reading my blog you might want to know a little bit about the man behind the mask. Other then the strange fact that I seem to think in an almost embarrassing philosophical manner, I also snowboard. It was my passion for a long time, and, as strange as this sounds, a snowboarding concussion is what turned me from a goofy full-time partier into a quiet philosopher. So today I thought it would be fun to showcase some of my snowboarding so you could all see what I'm passionate about behind the scenes. This is a snowboarding video I made in a couple weeks a couple years ago. I'm sorry for the small jumps and rails, but most was shot in Iowa : / 
Me doing a Misty Flip at a USASA snowboarding competiton
A nice long rail at Keystone a couple years ago
This is just a couple of the stacks of snowboarding memories cluttering my life, but I hope you enjoy!
I Blink, Therefore, I AmApril 28th 2008 22:11
One thing I have been studying and contemplating on lately, is the concept of a body load system. I believe that all death is, is the body becoming cut off from the "soul" and being cut off from the human world that we now live in. Take this for example; When you phase out, or daydream, you enter an alpha state of mind waves. This causes you to blink less, as we all know, when you are no focusing on anything you can go without blinking for long periods of time. My theory is, when you sleep at night, the next day's possibilities are loaded up into your brain. Which is why when we you get a smaller amount of sleep any given night, you tend to enter the alpha state more. Because you don't have the next days total information you only have a limited amount to spread through the whole day. So when you blink, you are loading up in your senses what was uploaded through your last sleep session. So logically you would have to blink less to be able to make it through the whole day with less information
The Ride of the Black Dragon Chapter: 1April 16th 2008 22:40
The Ride of the Black DragonApril 16th 2008 20:58
So I was thinking about trying something new. I would like to post a first opening to a story, the first part of the first chapter, and anyone that reads this can take part. Everyone will submit the ending to the first chapter and we will read through them and pick the best. Each week we will post the next chapter beginning and each week we will pick the second part of the chapter.
Let's kill the costume partyMarch 11th 2008 17:53
Is it possible that the human body is the outer shell and that it was a thoughtless robot for our consciousness to control? If that was true, then there would be no race or sex, there would only be levels of consciousness, and further more, if our inner being was an intellectual being then where did these "parasites" that control the humans species come from. And what if right now, what I’m typing, is being written by the inner being that is controlling Nathaniel Bartling. If that’s the case, and I’m the intelligent factor in this relationship, then it would make sense that you should be able to transfer your consciousness to another animal, or even let it float freely.
I’ve been practicing astral projection for about a year now (if you don’t know about astral projection check it out. It could change your life) so I’ve learned that it is possible to take your consciousness out of your body. For those of you who have never heard of astral projection this probably sounds really strange, but check it out. So then why are humans the only ones that are allowed to have this consciousness. It doesn’t seem like they are any more deserving then any other animal. It now seems that they are taking advantage of the human body more and more these days, so maybe at some point there will be a mass group move another less capable host, or maybe that’s what happens when your human body dies. Don’t get me wrong, I understand these are a lot of “what ifs”, but anything is just as possible as anything else, at least until they prove one way or another. Until that point though, take some time and feel as if your body is just your costume and not actually connected to who or what you are. I’ve personally found this can take away pain when something hurts, make you feel perfect when you are sick, stay alert when you are tired and so on. If you don’t let your mind think it’s a part of your body, then your body is left alone to deal with its own problems. The mind cant feel things like pain, that’s the body, so if you ignore the body and focus on the mind, the body has no back up way to contact your consciousness. Work on it and you can get rid of any sickness your body can throw at you
Religion on the EdgeMarch 11th 2008 17:02
Religion is a subject that takes a lot of consideration and contemplation to even try to tackle. There are no right answers and no wrongs, only feelings and stuff that seems to make more sense when you think about it then the stuff we have been told as we grow. As far as my personal views, I was raised Christian in a Baptist home where church ever week wasn't an option, and neither were philosophical questions. I was told God cared about me and my actions affected God and his mood towards you. The following way I feel is purely feeling and in no way is said to be pushed on anyone, but I can say from someone who I feel contemplates a lot more then most that the things that follow should be considered.
I don’t believe that God is there in the way that we think about him; I don’t think that God is a man with a white beard overlooking our doings from the clouds. I believe God is a wonderful concept and the acceptance of religion will not lead you to a bad life by any means. I think if there is a God, (which will always be in question) he is letting us run around in our own chaos like animals. What makes us think that we are better then the animals that we consume during every meal? We build skyscrapers and construct pyramids, but does that do anything? The animals that we see every day have accepted what they are and aren’t fighting wars over who is right considering what happens when we kick it at the end of our lives. The wars fought across the world are mostly religion centered and the funny thing with that is that the people that are fighting the religious wars have skewed their religious texts to believe that the God that they are following wants them to extinguish the others of our cruel planet to makes things right in his eyes. When you break down the different religions and sacred texts you find that there is no place where God wants planes flown into buildings or troops killing everyone with a way to defend themselves in his name. Religion is mostly peace oriented, and if you were raised a Christian like I was you know that God doesn’t tell us to go out and kill others that are different, or don’t agree with us. He wants us to follow him and do what the religious texts say is pleasing to him. If God claims that we are all his children and he loves all of us then why does the inevitable end with half of us in the glories of heaven, and half of us in a lake of fire for all eternity? If you had four children and two of them were good and two of them turned into hateful meth addicts would you push the two meth addicts in front of traffic and hope they spend forever in a burning lake of fire? I don’t think so. Life couldn’t exist without religion. Period. That would mean that at the beginning of the day we would wake and go do whatever the hell pleased us as far as killing enemies and stealing whatever we wanted, that is even assuming that life would get to the point where there were organized things to steal. People don’t what to believe what I believe, that we are alone in this journey. People depend on the fact that when things get hard and overwhelming that they can turn to a god who has a plan for them and their lives with their best interest at mind. If that were so then good things would happen to everyone and bad things would only happen to people that need to get straightened out. That is not how things are. Good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to everyone, and when bad things happen and religion is looking for an answer we are presented with the thought that "God is testing us" or "God is trying to get us back on track", and the thought of prayer has its own pathetic cop-outs, such as " well God has a plan for us all so if you don’t get what you pray for God has a bigger plan". He doesn't. And the concept of faith never ceases to make me chuckle. Any question you ask that has no answer, anything you want proof of that doesn’t exist, any reasoning that you can’t find is always thrown back to "faith". Oh, you have never seen a sign of divine intervention? Well, you need faith! That in its self is a mockery of what the design of man is. People think that if something good happens to you it is a blessing, but if something bad happens to you, you are being tested, or God is trying to get you back on track. Pssh for every question we have there is an excuse that has no answer. Faith is shit. I had it, most people do, but what are you hoping for? That god will see you out of the seven BILLION people on the planet and deem you worthy of this so-called heaven? Well the concept of Satan and heaven is a farce from the beginning. If God designed everything and knew what was going to happen before it happened, you think he would let a fallen angel (Lucifer, (Satan for you morons)), have control of half of everything and be able to ruin Gods design of humanity from the start with Adam and Eve? Doesn’t sound very reasonable. An angel challenges God and God gives him full run of a place called Hell and half the souls that have ever existed if not more? The things we believe we believe because of our parents and because of wars telling us what region needs to believe what. If we were born in India we would most defiantly not believe in the Bible or Christianity. We would believe in Buddha and Enlightenment, not that people need to go out and reach all the non-believers, but when someone walks through the door of the church that doesn’t look like you "God's people" should judge them and give them the cold shoulder because of cockiness and ego. God would not have wanted his church to turn into a boring place that people dread to attend every week because they fear falling asleep in front of the judgmental group that controls the church. The Catholic Church wouldn’t have been able to control the world and the bible for a thousand years without anyone to check if they were tampering with the so-called " sacred text". The things I believe are scary and might offend you but, think about them, and let me deal with the consequences of them. If I am wrong, and the Bible and God are just as we are told to believe then I suppose I will burn in "Hell" with the rest of the "scum
Generation wh(Y)?? Times are changingMarch 11th 2008 16:51
Generation wh(Y)?
Being a part of generation y,(anywhere from late 70's to early 90's) seems to be a real trying time for most people. As much as technology and medicine have become better then they have ever been, happiness is at an all time low. How can this be? parents want to ask, but everyone in our generation has a general feeling that something isn't right, that they belong in a different time, that this just doesn't feel like what life is supposed to be about.
BeginingsMarch 11th 2008 16:43
Everyone knows the constant pressure and stress that come along with life: Work, School, Family, Relationships, Religion, Rules, Fitting in. The list goes on and on and this journal is a compilation of pure thoughts, feelings, and intuitions about life, take it as you will but life is seen this way through my eyes. Each post will have a specific topic and feel free to post thoughts and criticisms about anything. I want to learn everyone's perspectives and everyone's thoughts to try to answer these questions and thoughts about life.
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