Stupid Boy Is Stupid!
Dear Nexus
My lettuce on lettuce, although I usually love reading peoples poorly written and un-thought-through opinions on a Monday morning I’ve grown tired of them. All lettuce has become is a way for angsty brats to complain about people they're too scared to complain to and provides a battle field for the theists and the atheist's war that’s been going on since a holy entity allegedly nailed an Israeli chick then later allowed his creations to nail his bastard child to a cross…but I digress. As I was saying; All lettuce is providing is a forum / garbage bag for people to advertise their stupidity or hatred for other people or groups of other people, to complain when there is nothing to complain about and to hate people who are going about life their own special way. So today readers of nexus I present to you LETTUCE on a bun with a delicious hunk of prime flame grilled beef, more lettuce and drizzled in hot sauce served with a refreshing cup of opinion and a fresh serving of hot controversy fries and ketchup.
Now that your expectations have reached unreasonable levels that I cannot hope to reach I will just hate on some poor soul I’ve seen around campus. Dear kid that hangs out at the village green with a green day top on, eye liner and ridiculous hair that gives Yugi Motto a run for his money; I HATE YOU! You’re a university student, you are trying to be different and awesome and nonconformist but your attempt at all of that is incredibly fail. Your first mistake: unless you’re 14 and hate your parents and think you know what politics is YOU SHOULDN’T LIKE GREENDAY or at least not advertise it and if you must listen to Greenday listen to dookie. Also: 8 different hair colours a week?! WTF! You also position yourself and your tweenie friends right in front of the sushi place so you ruin my appetite you little bastard! I feel so bad for you, if you want to be alternative / punk listen to some real punk, like or Toxic Holocaust or Crass! Speaking of epic music tune into contact fm regularly, there are some seriously awesome metal shows starting in the coming weeks! I don’t hate you kid, I know what it was like, I used to be like that (when I was 14) but you must move on, if you’re still angry and angsty move up to some better angrier music and don’t dress like that because you think it’s cool. You young people don’t know the history behind that style of clothing. Move on, evolve, listen to better music and a personal message to you kid; go home, take a shower and wash off the shame (and eye liner), start tomorrow with a new approach, listen to some good music and don’t be a poser. Because posers suck, so do Green Day, Paramore and Panicatthechemicalfallout.

Signed Varkin

BUSINESS BEEFS!
Dear Nexus
Oh joy! For heaven has bestowed upon me a new breed to my most loathed race!
There I was walking down the local highstreet of Hamilton, at peak rush hour gazing merrily at the true wonderment of all the possibilities at hand, while the city was at it’s finest.
Now imagine how my pure moment of true bliss was ruined.
It was simple, I had been blind to what was so obvious to see, oblivious to the excessively crude and gittish.
It was every working Joe’s home time from their nine to five benign slavery. The city streets would be awash with the suit and ties and my naivety caught the better of me to so foolishly assume that all these people were of a different generation and that I would not see a peer of mine, but no: the workforce has torn down the divide and punishment of youth, and let in people that I was rubbing shoulders with only a few years ago.
I don’t know how this happened but somewhere along the line beefcakes got this major advantage from somewhere that said to employers, “I’m well presented and therefore I am intelligent and obviously suitable for your business”.
And these chumps have dominated every business and company I could see, it was an army of twats, with them all talking very loudly about how much “pussy” they get and faffing around with their PDA’s, penciling in when and where their buddies are going to meet for the gym.
Every single one of these fuckers has a predetermined notion of themselves as “the American psycho”, a poignant role model I must say as he did such great things during the film.
And this is how I have come the conclusion of why beefcakes are such massive overly aggressive assholes. It’s all because of this martyr and highly esteemed role model that has been conditioned into the generations of beefcakes throughout our time.

You can start writing about religion now
Hey,
I'm a first year student at the uni studying computer science. This letter (as unwanted by the nexus people for its content) is about religion. Have i ever studied philosophy...no, have i read the Bible or any other religious material...no, (from reading the material in the March version of nexus) have i ever heard of Richard Dawkins...no, so right now your are probably thinking I'm some uneducated student thinking once again Ive got good solid comments about religion like the hundreds of other people, and your probably right, but i view these topics from a view that others don't, and i hope that these questions and views make you all think more about the topic like you haven't before.
First of all why are you all still at the point of asking each other to "prove" whether the God is true or not, why not ask each other why he should exist and why he was created in the first place, gods in all religions.
Back in the day you have all these settlements and civilizations of man kind all living and prospering in the world with minimal knowledge of the world around them, advancing in technology to a degree where they think all that there is to know, and anything that they can not explain they put down to a little thing called "religion". (simple examples) Egyptians thinking that there was a sun God, Ra, because they could not explain what the heck the sun was, or the Greek Gods of the elements in the world, Poseidon Lord of the sea, Hades King of the underworld, again resorting to making gods in a religion for things that they could not explain. These days however we have a much better understanding of these things, as technology has advanced to a point where these can be explained. And so are there any modern day religions being created? now that we have explored the entire world, know roughly what the sun is, what space is and all the elements of the world, should we make a religion explain the so called sighting of aliens? are we saying gods said to be are aliens of old? Should we even need to have answers to all these questions? why do we need the topic all at!? everyone is so caught up in being one or the other, why not be neither and think above that state.
To think if you put a group of people with no prior knowledge of whether there are gods or not and they have no opinion on the matter at ALL, on some land and leave them there to evolve and advance etc. for thousands of years do you think they would create their own religion? of course, as they would be in the same place we were where we didn't have the answers to all the questions surrounding them. Saying that makes should make you think that hundreds, thousands, millions of religions would be made if the world was 5000 times bigger and there was more bases of civilizations around. So which one is "right"? should any of them be correct and true? could our civilization work without the concept of religion? no, sadly it would not, not because it is true or not, just because its a stage in development and something that just happens.
I once heard this saying "religion is a mental disorder". At first sure its seems a bit harsh, but when you think about it its is fairly true. People are so afraid in this world of being the odd one out, not being in a group at school, being a loner, like people joining gangs to be someone, this applies to religion because people are afraid, yes people have fear in their hearts of going to "hell". There aren't more religious people these days then in past days because more people "believe" (will come back to this point in a sec) in religion, its because they fear what will happen if they don't. They get so caught up in the whole idea of religion that it just consumes their mind to that point where nothing else matters, when they find "inner peace". It's not called inner peace because they think they have and understand themselves to a point above all others, its inner peace because they have shut out all other conscious solutions and their mind is corrupted in this religious cycle where they are mentally unfit. Thus leading to the mental disorder.
If Christians had a reputation of being people who caused havoc and were hated by the world do you think they would be as popular as they are today? i would think not. But this is why its religion and not a cult. A cult is similar to a religion, the people in the cult fully understand what they believe in, its how they where taught it and go about it is different, but the idea of it is exactly the same.
So putting all these things together you get a religion, not very pretty is it. i would greatly write more, but already i am not sure how much i have already wrote, and whether it is under the limit, so I'm going to finish it up here. You join a religion for a few simple reasons, a bit of fear in your heart, a weakened mind (thought to be superior to those who are in the mental state already), evolution and a sense of being a someone in a popular group.
I'm not sure how this whole writing to nexus thing works, do as you please to this email i have sent you, i just hope someone reads it at least, and can make valid points against it, thanks,

Jonathan Megchelse, Student Village at the University of Waikato!