How does a person survive torture or hell?

All I really know about torture is all the horror movies I watch. My idea of horror is Jigsaws’ puzzles in Saw movies. I couldn’t imagine what real life torture would be like.

Obviously I don’t want to find out, but I think that the people who have been through difficult things in their lives like that it takes a lot of faith and the will to carry on.

Learning about the Holocaust, it talks a lot about what people went through during that time. Hiding and running your whole life isn’t the way most people want to live and it wasn’t just that. People were miserable! I wouldn’t know what that’d be like, but I can say it definitely falls under the category of torture.

Hell is a complicated term if you think about it. Hell can be a lot of things. A few people in my family are Satanists and to them, hell is their heaven. I am yet to have a faith or grasp an understanding of previous and after lives but to me, hell is what you make it. Just like life is what you make it. I think just living in a proctor house a ways away from home is hell but there are people out there that are going through a million times worse struggles. I have just learned to not complain about my life until I have it really bad.

So I’ve given a lot of thought to death and whether or not there is an afterlife. Is there a Heaven or Hell? Is there a God for that matter? I think to answer these questions I need to find out my own answers. Nobody can tell me what I believe.
I went to church a lot with my parents just to please them. If there is a God, then I’m pretty sure that this would offend Him. The first thing I need to find out is whether or not God is real. Then I can look into organized religions to fit what I believe.
One of my major problems is how lazy I am. I’m not really committed to a lot of things unless I want to do it. Based on what I know about religion it is a lot of work. I question myself a lot on whether or not I would commit myself. A lot of it is just because it is really hard.
In conclusion, I can’t learn anything without looking first. I really am fascinated by a lot of religions, but all of them have something that I don’t believe in. This makes it really hard for me to find what I want or need. I don’t think that I will ever find anything perfect, but I think living the way I believe is right is the best thing I can do. All I can do right now is look.


Aaron

“In war there are no unwounded soldiers”

I think the quote means that in war even if a soldier is not physically hurt, they still might be emotionally or mentally hurt. I don’t think that Vladek will get the respect from his country that a veteran deserves. I think it’s sad that he won’t have his country be proud of him just because he is a Jew. Every veteran deserves to have their country be proud of them.

I think it would be a lot different to go to war now. Back then I think it would have been a lot crazier to go into an area infested with the enemy with just you, your gun and your fellow troops. You would have to go in their like a savage and blast the enemy before they blast you. Now it’s just bombs and missiles most soldiers don’t even know who they are killing whether it be women, men, or children.

My uncle fought in the war between Chile, Peru, Argentina, and Bolivia. Chile won the war and took Bolivia’s access to the pacific.


Felipe