Yesterday I was reminded of a silly game we used to play when I was younger called halvnisse/helnisse. The frightening thing was that though I remembered the name very well, I had absolutely no clue what it was about, nothing about the rules, nothing.
The same thing happened a couple of weeks ago, I stumbled over a phrase in Swedish I hadn't heard in about 15 years and though again it was very familiar somehow, I had no clue what it meant and the correct use of it.
Both of these words/phrases are absolutely meaningless and will not affect my life in any way, but it scared me.
It's like my past is crumbling up in fragments that if I don't keep up pasting them together, soon will be a jig saw puzzle with too many pieces, I don't longer know how to put together and have forgotten what the finished product show
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Religious Extremist or just plain wacko?
An Army guy has been shot dead outside a recruiting center here in AR and an other wounded, how badly I'm not sure, lets hope not life threatening.
On the very first news about the story it said it could been religious and political motives that caused the suspect killer to do what he did.
We later found out that the guy that fired the shots is a Muslim, an American born, guy that used to be a regular Joe, converted to Islam and now is a Muhammad something.
We don't know more than that, really.
But today on the news he's all of a sudden a Muslim extremist.
He might very well be a Muslim extremist, but he don't have to be, he can just be a wacko, or an idiot or a what ever, that happens to be a Muslim, right?
The other day a doctor was shot during church by a man who claimed he shot the man because he's a doctor performing abortions. The doctor had been targeted before, his clinic bombed. What that doctor used his medical skills for is questionable for sure. I read he performed late term abortions, something I totally disagree with, there must be other solutions for women being pregnant in a late state, right? But the laws are allowing late term abortions in some states and I guess he was performing them in a state where it's allowed. The man who killed the doctor didn't agree with that law so he decided to make the doctor quit on his own. A pro life guy that kills... don't make much sense does it?
No one in the press called him a Christian extremist though. I'm pretty sure he's of some faith, don't you? By the standard used to describe the soldier killer here in AR he's a religious extremist, right?
There are wackos everywhere that take other people's lives, some are of faith, some on mind twisting drugs, and some just mentally troubled and ALL of them need to be put away.
On the very first news about the story it said it could been religious and political motives that caused the suspect killer to do what he did.
We later found out that the guy that fired the shots is a Muslim, an American born, guy that used to be a regular Joe, converted to Islam and now is a Muhammad something.
We don't know more than that, really.
But today on the news he's all of a sudden a Muslim extremist.
He might very well be a Muslim extremist, but he don't have to be, he can just be a wacko, or an idiot or a what ever, that happens to be a Muslim, right?
The other day a doctor was shot during church by a man who claimed he shot the man because he's a doctor performing abortions. The doctor had been targeted before, his clinic bombed. What that doctor used his medical skills for is questionable for sure. I read he performed late term abortions, something I totally disagree with, there must be other solutions for women being pregnant in a late state, right? But the laws are allowing late term abortions in some states and I guess he was performing them in a state where it's allowed. The man who killed the doctor didn't agree with that law so he decided to make the doctor quit on his own. A pro life guy that kills... don't make much sense does it?
No one in the press called him a Christian extremist though. I'm pretty sure he's of some faith, don't you? By the standard used to describe the soldier killer here in AR he's a religious extremist, right?
There are wackos everywhere that take other people's lives, some are of faith, some on mind twisting drugs, and some just mentally troubled and ALL of them need to be put away.
LAGOM, a very useful word
I think it has it's origin in an old Viking term, describing an amount enough for everybody lag-om, team around. For example: the mjod horn is going around the camp fire. The amount of mjod in the horn is enough to give all of them to drink is LAGOM.
The Swedes use the word for everything. Lagom temperature of the bath water, not too hot, not too cold. Lagom has defined Sweden for decades in politics. And I think it's about time it comes to us here in the US too.
I listened to Glen Beck the other day on the radio and he said it perfectly. We have two ways of thinking in this country and both ways are ran by the radicals.
The radical left wants government in everything, health care, retirement, Unions, your wallet...
Let ME decide, not anyone else, OK?
The radical right wants government in my bedroom, in my family decisions, in my personal life...
Let ME decide, not anyone else, OK?
It's like San Fransisco vs the bible belt small town.
I'm neither of them, nor are the rest of America. San Francisco wants to believe America is like them, but America is not!
The bible belt town people want the rest of America to do it their way, but we don't want to!
Here's where we need to be LAGOM.
Let the radicals on both side be the way they want but don't impose any of it on the rest of us.
Leave it open, let the laws be as far away from the radicals as possible.
I don't want to live in a Swedish way, where they are more concern about what others think than to preserve their own traditions. Where the flag has become a racist symbol. Where it's OK to wait for 12 hours at the emergency room. Where a rapist gets 5 years in prison and better food than old Miss Greta in the nursing home.
I don't want to live the bible belt way either, where they try to implement their twisted religious views in politics near and far. Where I have to drive over county lines to get a beer. Where gays have to hide. Where the teens get pregnant because they teach abstinence only.
I was hoping to get to more of the middle ground of America when we move to Colorado Springs... maybe the Mega Churches of radicals and all the migrated Californians have learned to live in peace, learned to keep their views to their blog spots and otherwise keep them to themselves...
The Swedes use the word for everything. Lagom temperature of the bath water, not too hot, not too cold. Lagom has defined Sweden for decades in politics. And I think it's about time it comes to us here in the US too.
I listened to Glen Beck the other day on the radio and he said it perfectly. We have two ways of thinking in this country and both ways are ran by the radicals.
The radical left wants government in everything, health care, retirement, Unions, your wallet...
Let ME decide, not anyone else, OK?
The radical right wants government in my bedroom, in my family decisions, in my personal life...
Let ME decide, not anyone else, OK?
It's like San Fransisco vs the bible belt small town.
I'm neither of them, nor are the rest of America. San Francisco wants to believe America is like them, but America is not!
The bible belt town people want the rest of America to do it their way, but we don't want to!
Here's where we need to be LAGOM.
Let the radicals on both side be the way they want but don't impose any of it on the rest of us.
Leave it open, let the laws be as far away from the radicals as possible.
I don't want to live in a Swedish way, where they are more concern about what others think than to preserve their own traditions. Where the flag has become a racist symbol. Where it's OK to wait for 12 hours at the emergency room. Where a rapist gets 5 years in prison and better food than old Miss Greta in the nursing home.
I don't want to live the bible belt way either, where they try to implement their twisted religious views in politics near and far. Where I have to drive over county lines to get a beer. Where gays have to hide. Where the teens get pregnant because they teach abstinence only.
I was hoping to get to more of the middle ground of America when we move to Colorado Springs... maybe the Mega Churches of radicals and all the migrated Californians have learned to live in peace, learned to keep their views to their blog spots and otherwise keep them to themselves...
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