False "Profits"

"but seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you." Matthew 6:33' we have this all wrong in society today we seek things first, Cars, Ipods, TiVo then after we are comfortable then the kingdom" I heard this being said by a pastor on a certain "Christian" radio station O.k . at first hearing this, one may sit back an say "amen" to that. The pastor Then went on to say "god wants us to be comfortable, If we first seek his kingdom then all these things computers, cars, nice clothes...things will then be added unto you.

You have to follow God and then he will give you the things you want." This pastor spoke for half an hour and talked about a Christmas gift he wanted and how he got it. other stories from his life with a few jokes to sprinkled trough-out to make everyone laugh. Besides quoting the verse at the beginning of his sermon, it wasn't until five minutes from the end that he mentioned what I have quoted above.

It may sound like there is nothing wrong with what he said. That is the danger of heresy it sounds legitamate but if he had gone into the bible and read the rest of Matthew 6 the "things" that are being talked about are shelter, food, and clothing the minimum required to survive. I am sure there are people hit by Katrina that were "seeking the kingdom first" were is their stuff now? Where is their "things" they may not be comfortable but they have shelter and food available. Thanks to orginizations like the Red Cross

and churches like Grace Bretheren

This pastor I'm sure wasn't intending to distort the scripture, but that's what happens when we approach the Bible selfishly as merely a book of truths to give us a set of principles for life, marriage, family, or finances. The Bible becomes nothing more than a tool to be used and it remains external. When we see the Bible as the living word, as Gods Story, it encompasses every aspect of life we are challenged to live in and become part of it.

Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceptive

this is the reason i rarely post its who i am. my blog personality or "bloginality"

"You are an INTP!

As an INTP, you are Introverted, iNtuitive, Thinking, Perceiving.
This makes your primary focus on Introverted Thinking with an Extraverted Intution.

This is defined as a NT personality, which is part of Carl Jung's Rational (Knowledge Seeking) type, and more specifically the Architect or Thinker.

As a weblogger, you might not be as concerned about popularity, but more with the ideas and theories that you strive to understand. Because routines aren't your strong point, you might be more likely to work on the concept of how to do a blog, but not be as excited to keep it up."

My Bloginality is INTP!!!

money is the root of all evil...

...does that mean there was a money tree in the garden of eden?

habitual credit card use can be as dangerous as heroin, just as addictive and probably costs as much to. The other day I read an article about how this young mother ran up $50.000 in credit card debt from buying gymboree outfits fifty THOUSAND dollars in baby clothes c'mon that’s just crazy. Imagine if the APR on that card was just 12% she would be paying $500 a month just for the privilege of staying in debt. Its like saying, "here's $1000 put $500 toward what I owe and you keep the rest, buy your daughter a few gymborie outfits"

Read the whole story here

Realy Boring

reality is boring why do people watch "reality tv" which isn't realy reality its a the good conflicts editited to a half hour or hour long show if there was a reality tv sohw about your live; would it be interesting? would it be part of a story? a part of THE story. what would it be like?

How was your weekend? or what did you do this weekend? is usualy a loaded Question often when people ask this it is because they had a great weekend and just want to share what they did.

so I have started to track my time what my reality show looks like. this is what I've got so far:
Sunday, July 24
8:00 am - 8:45 am wake up have breakfast
8:45 am -9:00 am Shower, brush teeth
9:00 am - 9:30am Drive to church
9:30am-12:15 noon Church/ ABF
12:15 n-12:30 Dirve
12:30 pm- 1:00 pm Grocery shoping
1:00pm - 2:00 pm prepare and eat lunch
2:00pm -3;00 pm TV (special on Johnny Cash)
3:00 pm - 4:15pm Drive
4:15pm - 6:00 pm Lake Paris
6:00pm - 7:15 pm Drive
7:15 pm - 11:30pm TV
11:30pm-1:15am Movie (Robin Williams live)
1:15 -1:30am ready for bed
Monday , July 25
10:00 am- 10:15 wake up and Breakfast
10:15am - 12:00n work on resume apply on-line jobs
12:00n - 12:30 Shower get ready for work
12:30- l:30 start laundry Type this blog

put the wrong empaasis on the wrong sylaable

since i don't post too often i've decided to leave a few morsels to chew on:

"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip." John Locke

"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."
e. e. cummings

"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."
Blaise Pascal

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."
Charles Schulz

"I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything."
Jerry Seinfeld

"I have a phone now...and there was much rejoycing"
Nathan Voss

ET phone home...

o.k. so it's been like a month now since i lost my phone. and it is been a challenge calling this person.
I'm T.Oed because its been a month and she still hasn't sent me my phone. I thought hey why don't i have everyone i know give her a call and politely remind her to send the phone, but instead of being really mean and posting her number for the entire world wide web to see. i decided to just foward her number to those who ask. so if you want to contact me i'll send Anna's number to you.

here is a random quote by Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)

"Thats what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing"

FOR SALE: mind , just like new...never used!!

So today i thought i would do a random google search, and typed "mind."one of the headings that came up said:

"DISCOUNT MIND: New & used Mind. Check out the huge selection now!" and below it had his address www.eBay.com

gosh what can't you sell on eBay? I have heard of people loosing thier mind. perhaps these people never lost it at all: but sold it for some fast cash, and forgot.
now what did i do with that mind of mine i know it was here yesterday. its a bummer too... i only used 20% of it

FREE iPod!!! NO WAY

Yes.. It is True...A free iPod, this is a $200 digital music player that works with either mac or pc. "O.K. what's the catch?" i said when my roomate jeff approached me about it. "you just sign up and complete just one of the offers. a trial blockbuster.com membership or sign up for a credit card (GM card that gives you %5 toward a new vehicle) or try some weightloss drug. and then you just need to sign up 5 more people." i was still skeptical and thought its a scam a marketing ploy to get money they don't just give stuff away like that. what is the catch? so I never signed up. and now about a month or so later he shows me his brand new 20gig iPod and all he ended up paying was like $5 shipping for some trial product. Wow it actually worked. So now i am am going to try.
of course i used my "spam" e-mail account. if you want to check out the sight here is the link: www.freeiPods.com/?r=13469248

I'm sorry the person You are trying to reach has been temporarily disconnected...

well a couple of weeks ago I lost my cell phone, having no "land-line" there is only three ways to contact me: e-mail, "snail mail", or just drop by. This at first created some what of a paradox...I fell this sort of freedom, not having to be constantly "connected' yet a bit of Anxiety also, what if there is an emergancy, really great news (like some one getting engaged), what if they need me to cover a shift at work...thats when it hit me. This is in a small way an asocial rebellion against this age of the internet and consistant connection. society always has to be "on". The cord has been cut. I am free from the control of a wireless wired society. But occationaly, I still feel need to "reach out a touch someone" and regardles if I use the phone or not I still have to pay the bill...

WHAT AM I DOING???

Ok here is a little ten minute exercise that is a little dissolving. You can do it right now while you are reading this post or next time you are alone listening to the buzz of silence contemplating solitude.
You feel cut off from the rest of the world and at that instant you feel you are the only one that exists lonely and bored. Nothing could be further from the truth. You will find out how mistaking you really are.
Right now in this moment, ask yourself what your friends, family, roomates, college buddies, highschool friends, anyone; is doing right now. Picture them in your mind. what there current activity is. Try and place them in relation to where you are now in space, beside you, to the left, right. Imagine how far they are from you. see them from different angles. Now think about the scene of people who might be around them.
broaden your point of view an imagine everyone else in their neigborhood, town, city. What are they doing; working, shoping, sipping a latte at starbucks, studing, sleeping. How many people in this world at this precise moment are clipping ther toenails? surfing the net, sipping a hot cup o soup?
How many at this instant are listening to music, watching t.v., trying to get comfortable in an airplane seat. How many are laughing, crying, dreaming?

How many at this instant are asking the same questions?

WARNING!!!!

So, I haven't posted in a while in fact it has been so long I forgot my address. I go to my computer and log on to the net i type www.natrix.com oooops! that's not right it was ome company, oh yeah I think to myself it on blogspot so I type: www.natrix.blogspot .com and the familiar black template that i chose loads up and in the box it say's "Natrix" the as I look about the page du dum...du dum...du dum dudumdumdudm the JAWS theame plays in my head and my heart skips a beat then tump tump thuthump thu thump it beats faster as a scan the page what does this all mean, tessting...blogsomething test test test...lorem ipsum something...posted by: nate oh no i thought it has been so long since i have posted that pranksters have hacked into my blog. and started posting gibberish...How long has this been going on. I click some of the links...This isn't making sense. I break into a cold sweat and scream " WHERE AM I!!!!"........ wait a minute my blog is "ENTER the natrix" whew...

1100010101110110111011111100101001111010101101010101010101101101010111100100111100111110011001100111010010110011000110110011001100110100110111111/// BEEEEP END TRANSMISION >>>>DOWNLOADING>>>> BBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

got agua?

I found this bottled water that has the coolest name ever:VOSS

hair today gone tomorrow

well my fans have been patiently waiting for another inspired pearl from deep within the cognitive grayness on the darkside of my ocular cavities. I was sent an e-mail, this one inparticular had an attachment, photo of some redhead. My friend, on a whim decided to dye her hair red. earlier in the week a former co-worker came into Starbucks sporting jet black hair. yesterday I just got bored and took a pair of clippers to my noggin. with one strand of hair scientests can determine what type of diet one has, were one lives, race, and virtualy unlimited DNA information. like the rings on a tree our hair provides a rich history to those who know how to dicipher it. Imagine once one decides to walk into the hair stylist or the drugstore to pick up that box of dye, they have decided to alter the course of their life. the stylist will shampoo, snip, snip, buzzzz, buzzz, a little, a lot, somewhere between, maybe none at all. they apply color or peroxide to remove existing color. perhaps a million tiny strands of your old self being swept into a pile mingling with other salon patron's past personas. Just sewpt into a dust pan and thrown out. when the process is finished you walk out an apparantly new person with a renewed confidance. It will more or less conform to your asthetic notion of what is the new "you". For a split second people you know won't recognise you. even though you are still essentially the same, the same likes and dislikes, same taste in music.

The future present has a past and it's now

Marty McFly : Wait, you don't understand. If you don't play there's no music. If there's no music they don't dance. If they don't dance they don't kiss and fall in love and I'm history.
I'm sure just about everyone has seen Back to the Future. in the movie Marty McFly goes back in time and inadvertantly disrupts the space/time continum, when he saves his dad from a fatefull accident that was the original conext of his parents meeting and falling in love. He now has to ensure they meet and fall in love, before he ceases to exist.
we all come into this world at a certain point in time when our history our part of the story begins. untill that time there was no "self" before that point of conception we didn't exist. When I was young i had the idea that we were in some ethereal plane (heaven) just waiting to be born. From the moment we are brought into this world our expiriences begin to shape who we are and will become. "Remember that which made you who you are, remember that which makes you unique, and forget everything else that makes you tired, scared, and weak."

A Sartre Thought

In love, one and one are one.
Jean-Paul Sartre

u.o.me

Ahhh I got my credit card statement today...it feels good to have a negative balance...those prigs now Owe ME...bwahahahah...Now why cant I charge them 25% intrest...those evil bat turds
oh well one down; (to the tune of a partridge in a pair tree) three credit cards, two student loans, and a car loan for the matrix

Faux Qandom Ruote

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)

Psychedelic Carnival Art

Observe the oscillating, illuminated, spheres
follow the intricate serpentine pattern of infinity
trails of light etched in your mind
where is end of this conspiracy...We call time
tick tock goes the clock...Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick , tock... t i c k , t o c k ,
t i c k . . . t o c k. . .

The 8th wonder of the world

...COMPOUND INTEREST...

This is why credit card companies are EVIL they are the fruits of the DEVIL. I learned this the hard way and now having to deal with thousands of dollars in credit card debt. Take the chess board legend which illustrates the Fibonacci sequence, and compound interest works in a similar way. I have figured out how to be completely debt free in three years including: my student loans, credit card debt and car loan. Thanks to Stacy Johnson author of the book Life or Debt. In the book he takes you step by step in creating a debt destroyer. Which consists of: gathering your all your debt. Figuring out which debts to pay first (current balance ÷ min. Payment) rank them from first to be paid to last. Every month you pay the minimum on all, except the first one. The first one gets blasted with the debt destroyer ( Minimum payment {minA} + 10% of your income). Then it snowballs the first debt gets paid. The money going to that debt rolls over to the next on your list (minA + minB +10%) . The idea is you figure out a fixed amount to go to debt repayment (minimum payment on all debts plus 10% of income or other set amount). The beauty part is that compound interest can work for you too. Stacy talks about how to take that "Debt Destroyer" and invest it and have that compound interest work for you.

Obey Your Master

mastercard, originally uploaded by etan07.