Can’t post anything really as the internet is down until at least Friday but I’m drawing and writing if that’s any. consolation.

Chloe

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You Are a Solo Thinker

You are strong willed and strong minded. You have the mental chops to get through anything.
You are proactive, and you try not to let anything slide. You avoid lazy thinking habits.

You have to tell it like it is. You are compelled to be honest, even when the truth isn’t popular.
You are driven and energetic. You always have your eyes on the prize.

Are You a Solo or Group Thinker?

Blogthings: Discover the Parts of Your Personality that Have Been Hiding

My Mind is boggled

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway#Religion

In another parable, possibly told by a Finn, two Danes, two
Norwegians, and two Swedes are wrecked together on a desert island. By the
time they’re rescued, the Danes have formed a cooperative, the Norwegians are
fighting, and the Swedes are waiting to be introduced. (Maybe that does say something but not enough.)

I’m still trying to comprehend what happened in Norway. It is so against the grain of normal Scandinavian behaviour. People associate the violence of the Vikings with the Nordic region but it really isn’t in character. You can beat on another neighboring country but not your actual neighbors and for all their reputation as the Viking hoard they were also fantastic traders and you can’t kill people you’re trying to sell to. (See Ikea)

Especially right wing Christianity, while 80% percent of the population of Norway is baptized into the Lutheran church only about 2% of the population attends church regularly and the Lutheran Church has never been a fount of revolution. Even Martin Luther didn’t really mean to start a new church, for Pete’s sake.

Having grown up in a family that was heavily dominated by Swedes ( A great grand mother, grandfather, his brother and three sisters and their spouses) I know a lot about how Scandinavian’s minds work and it isn’t fanaticism. My great-uncle was fascinated by guns and knives but was a firefighter and one of the first L.A. paramedics. Not someone that would use them against people. He was also in love with his Porsche for that matter.

The Nordic countries are more internally directed than external. That’s why they have a high suicide rate. They more often hurt themselves than others. And to massacre children is also against the grain. Children are really important and treasured because birth control is readily available they plan their families and children are wanted. Men have paid paternity leave in Sweden. So to go to a kid’s camp where they are supposed to be safe and having a good time is just about the most heinous thing I can think of. That freak of nature shot kids for an hour and a half before he was stopped. It must have seemed like an eternity and according to one survivor he targeted the girls because every time he fired they screamed so he could hunt them down easily.

I really, really do not understand and I bet the Norwegians are even more bewildered than me. This just does not happen there.

http://www.gregpalast.com/harry-potter-jo’s-other-ending/

Harry Potter: Jo’s Other Ending

Knot of Isis

Brighid Flameshift a wee bit late

Every day and every night that I say the geneology of Brighid
I shall not be killed
I shall not be harmed
I shall not be put into a cell
I shall not be wounded

No fire, no sun, no moon shall burn me
No lake, no water, no sea shall drown me.

For I am the child of Poetry,
Poetry, child of Reflection,
Reflection, child of Meditation,
Meditation, child of Lore,
Lore, child of Research,
Research, child of Great Knowledge,
Great Knowledge, child of Intelligence,
Intelligence, child of Comprehension,
Comprehension, child of Wisdom,
Wisdom, child of Brighid.
Carmina Gaedelica edited by Lunea Weatherstone

May my words be as considered as poetry,
May I reflect on all I do or say,
May I meditate on those things important spiritually
May I seek to know more of the lore
May I research what I am curious about and what will enable me to grow
May I seek to know great knowledge,
May I acknowledge the intelligence of others
May I comprehend what I seek to learn and apply those lessons
May I know that seeking wisdom is not the same as being wise.
May I be a child of Brighid.

SelfBlessing is by me

Brighid, bean-oirdheirc
Lasrach grad
Fetaim lasrach soillse
Thoir cuireadh sinne
ris a’ bheatha
mhaireannach`

Brighid, Sublime Woman
Quick flame
Long may you burn bright!
You give us the invitation
to life everlasting.

Magdalene laundries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalene_Laundries

This was a heinous excuse to mistreat a group of inconvenient women. Any woman that was a threat to men in any way living in Ireland in the Twentieth Century. It started out a benign and turned into something unimaginably terrible and though it doesn’t say so in the article I suspect “social dysfunction” is code for lesbian.

The Magdalen survivors fund is a charity to help those who had to endure in the laundries sited in Ireland and that is what the single from the youtube video I posted helps.