This topic could spark some debate.

this post I think could be one of the few things that would cause more contreversy then my war post. Aman gave me the idea and this post has spent some time in the making. Its not much of a post on anything and it might bring back bad memories of a couple Health Classes but this is something all teens should think about more then once. You never know when you will have to deal with a situation involving it and in my own opinion its best to prepare prematurely instead of too little too late.

I of course am addressing the issue of teenage sex/pregnancies. I don't really have any statistics dealing with this topic exactly, but I'm pretty sure if I did the numbers would not be pretty. I do recall a survey saying that 80% of teens graduating high schools have reportedly had sex sometime throughout their life. I also know the numbers in our own class right now are probably much higher then most of us would think. So with this said I just want to know peoples thoughts on this. No names need be mentioned just know that Im stating my own opinion first here. Thanks for understanding.

To me sex is simply wrong anytime before marriage. condoms or no condoms, protection or no protection, sex is something reserved for a man and a woman who are bound to each other by the guideline set out in marriage and thus is an example of the supreme love felt for each other. I think sex is a physical/emotional/ physcological property of love that people look at too lightly and regard mostly in the physical sense. Abstaining until marriage is the only right path in my own opinion but I don't hold people who have not waited in bad light, they just made a bad choice and we all do that. My opinion shall remain though that sex is a process for a man and a woman bound by marriage to express their love to each other in a deeply passionate and personal way.

The shortest shorts ever!!!

this is me at slinger invite (cross country). I would just like to point out two things. First and most importantly that farmers tan is intense :) Number two look at those shorts!!! they cover like nothing, varsity cross country shorts feel like your wearing nothing, they are completely permeable. A race in the rain with those things is a nightmare ( i would know). I have wonderful memories of this meet, it was my 1st varsity race. Now if you can't zoom in this will mean nothing to you but I don't know what I'm looking at... I think it was a person behind my mom but I have no idea. Anway I just thought I would let you see me doing what I love most and see what we runners have to endure wearing.
Cheers :)

Okay now I would just like to compare one thing, look at her face to his face... yes i know he is in the water so hes not about to be smiling, but tell me who looks like they are having a better time??thats all im saying, say whatever you want i don't care. I won't listen to it anyway.

I read eileens blog not to long ago and i read how she commented something about how she wishes her blog had more people commenting on it. She cited my blog and laurens blog as blogs with just loads of comments, and i just wanted to say eileen that my blog a) started off with almost no comments at all b) contains more love messages from aman and sarah then any legitimate talking and c) that maybe its because i tend to be online more often then you are, so its a bit easier for people to access a blog such as mine. i just felt i would shout that out to you eileen.

i have noticed in several blogs lately and in a multitude of conversations that people are whining how they miss school and everyone there. well if you miss somebody why don't you get up and do something with them?? pick up the phone and make the effort. nothings going to get done unless you do it.

I Live for this

That is what the start to our cross country race in wausau looked like. Only our race last season had about 6 more lanes going left. Our team didn't even get to fit into the lane assigned to us, we had to take someone elses and push them into the trees seen on left :) Over 180 runners in our heat alone. that is what i live for. when that gun goes off, everyone sprints out to get to the bridge (not visible in this picture) barely 300 meters away on the right side of this photograph. Also not shown is how the last 150 meters looks like your running on a hill, the ground is uneven. This is smiley invite, although I can promise you that you would not be smiling once you finished this race. :< No greater feeling then sprinting out of your lane, nothing compares. you can drain 3 pointers all day long, you can strike out hundreds of batters, score 6 touchdowns in a game and none not a single one of those accomplishments compares to the feeling a true runner gets sprinting out of his lane in a cross country race... 3 weeks.....

"TRIED AND TRUE WE KEEP RUNNING THROUGH"

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Looks different through my eyes....

the paths of life have many hurdles in the path to the finish line

Sometimes you just have to jump over the obstacles in your life.... but once you pass one hurdle there is another hurdle lined up and waiting. The point is to keep running the race, even if you hit a hurdle and have to slow down you keep running. In the end we all have to cross the same finish line:)

Every Runners best friends

A world of caring creates a world of healing

does everyone remember how we as Americans felt when our country was cowardly and idiotically attacked by terrorists? I do, I actually recall that I came home from school and cried when i saw pictures of people jumping out of the World Trade Center Towers. Well since those attacks both Spain and now Britain has suffered its share of terrorists attacks, and now we should be supportive of our fellow man just as they were with us. Keep the Londoners in our prayers as they search for more bodies and figure out who committed these atrocities.

so random

War!! what is it good for?? Absolutely nothing!! (Well i Disagree)

Before I start this post I am just going to state that coming into this idea I knew it could spark controversy and I know that very likely people won't like what I say, nor will they agree with it, but I am not asking that you do any of that, I am just going to propose the facts that I looked up, and I am using those along with my utmost knowledge to try and paint a picture for everyone that the media often overlooks in its overzealousness of the politics of war.

Yesterday I took a poll of 20 people and asked them a simple question of if they think war is necessary(note not meaning its a trivial task, just that war can be something required for society to move on). The results were as follows:
70% thought war is a necessary facit of society
30% believe war is not necessary in any means

Okay now that I have posted what others believe I think its only fair and correctly right of me to publish what I feel on war. If you don't agree with how I feel, comment on it, for I wanted to create this post in order to see how my fellow teens feel on this issue, because the way this world is going war will become a more common occurence throughout our times.

My feelings on war are that it is more then a necessary part of society. I honestly believe that in order for man to move on and become better as a whole, war must happen. I don't believe war should be taken or thought of lightly, for the consumption of man and material alike is horrific, but without war there may never truly be peace. But more on the point of my feelings is how I feel war progresses society along as a whole, technologically, economistically, and diplomatically. The way of technology is by far the most drastically touched part of war and society. Whenever you hear the sirens of an ambulance you owe that to the Union Soldiers of the Civil War who invented the first ambulance to ferry soldiers off the battlefield to a medical station. A horse drawn buggy with a first aid symbol has now become a massive life saving vehicle in our time. Ever use a GPS system? GPS was created for use in smart bombs and motorized infantry in order to coordinate efforts and eliminate the usage of land based navigation. The system which is highly efficient in the military has also improved travel among ordinary civilian lifestyle. The food market has benefited highly from war as well. In WWII the Japanese created the first biological weapon of mass destruction. Designed to spread throughout a population and utterly infect anyone within hundreds of miles, they are quite efficient killers. But those same biological weapons are tampered with and then used on our farmers fields to kill off masses of bugs and insects which would eat through all of the crops. The pesticides are generally harmless to humans before you worry. The greatest technological advancement to come from war is also from WWII and the benefits to our society from this one technology are too numerous to list. This also came from the Axis side, and was used as a massive weapon of terror and mass destruction. The V2 rocket. Launched from France it could be aimed at London and would detonate in the city with little to no warning and killed thousands. After the war the United States took the German engineers and brought them here to work on our space program. An advanced version of the V2 Rocket carried the first Americans into space and carried Neal Armstrong to the moon. All rockets that are currently used to shuttle things into space are possible due to the German weapon of terror. Advancements in our society are largely due to the research that may only be done in space. Cancer treatments, power tools, automated cooling engines, more efficient growing methods. All of this is courtesy of space based research.
Economically everyone knows about the Great Depression which rocked the world in the 1930's one of the greatest factors in Hitlers being able to take over German and possibly one of the largest sparks to World War II it was also solved by the war itself. The American and other nations factories had to start producing war materials which drove the economy to a massive boom. No other event could have ended the Great Depression so soon.
A factor that almost no American can deny a benefit of is energy. The most efficient form of energy while also being the best power producing system is nuclear energy. Say whatever you wish about nuclear weapons, atomic energy is the safest and most efficient energy source known to man.
On the picture I have above I do want to say one point though, the bomb being dropped from the stealth bomber cost about 2 million dollars, thats one bomb. Each of those machines of war up above cost millions, some even billions of dollars to create and maintain. The cost in dollars of war may be better spent on peace and disease research, but millions of jobs in this country are created to use and maintain and create these war machines, and the strength of our economy utterly depends on our military spending.
I am not saying to anyone that war is something that we should always have, peace is the ultimate goal to war, at least that is the American directive. Bad men will always exist in this world, and sometimes war is the only way to stop the agendas of these sad souls. War on the whole though is and i shall always feel this way a necessary aspect to our society. Its not just necessary its something that man must embrace and accept if we are ever to move forward.

"The fear we must fear most is the indifference of good men"

War is an ineveitablilty... peace is an impossibility... the only guarantee is that there are brave men out there who will fight the ineveitable in order to achieve the impossible.