First of all let me tell you i won't open my blog from last night again.. since the comments might as well be made here..
As you all know i have written a blog about personal experiences i had in eastern europe and with people that came from that area. When i say people i mean people from all levels of society.. oh and this wasn't while i was there by truck.. these visits have occured partly in holiday and partly for one of my previous jobs.
I have made observations in allot of those countries that they had been misinformed about the way the world was devided. I did not say anything about the other aspects of their education. I know what great technology has originated in eastern europe. I said it was a common flaw in the eastern european education.. I did not say it was like that in every single town or country that was part of it.
Now after this blog i was attacked by someone.. you all know who.. and her fanclub. Even after i clearly stated several times that this blog wasn't about her she still kept attacking me.
First thing i ask myself then.. why would someone who claims to be so well educated and intelligent feel as if this was aimed at her? But i have noticed allready that she often thinks all blogs on CS are about her.
Normally i wouldn't bother taken the time to explain the reasons why i post a blog.. but after talking to friends about this i will explain my reasons.
As i said several times.. This blog was not about jana. it was not about anyone on CS. I have used my own experiences in life to try and make a point. I wanted people to realise the power of propaganda.
The reason why i came to write this particular blog found his basis on several levels. There was the blog leo did about the fact that nobody seems to know where his country is. That originally made me think back of my experience in freiburg. The fact that i actually wrote about it has to do with the upcoming elections in USA and in my own country.. We get all sorts of claims from all sides.. some contradicting eachother. That is the reason why i posted this story.. And that is the only reason I posted it. If i have offended some eastern europeans I do apologise for that. However i will not apologise for defending myself to someone who thinks the entire universe revolves around her own pitty life. In fact if anyone should apologise it should be her for doubting my honour and respect towards others.
Some recent blogs and some comments all over CS made me remember an event from a few years ago..
I was for work in freiburg germany.. I had to make a delivery there.. One of the guys working asked me where i was from.. So i answered him i was from belgium. He reacted to it as follows.. Oh so cool so you are american?.. Anyone will be able to understand my confusion .. so i said no i'm from belgium. He was so suprised that i wasn't american.. So i asked him why would he think i was american. Then he explained me... He came originally from siberia russia, during the communisme they had learned in school that their are only 2 countries in the world. Mother russia.. and america. So since i wasn't from russia i must have been american. A logical conclusion. You should have seen the suprise on his face when i explained to him their are allot of different countries in this world and that america was just a small part of this world.
The next time i had to go there i had taken a gift for him.. A worldmap.. I showed him where america was and what else is out there for him to discover. This man was embaressed for the little knowledge he had.. but he was willing to learn new things, ready to learn the truth. And it has been many years now since last time i've seen him but i'm sure he is doing allot of discovering still upon this day. I wish him the best of luck.
Unfortunatly this poor education was common in all eastern europe. And whats even worse, some still don't realise how wrong some of the things they always believed are. Some consider themself smart because they still know everything that they learned in those days or have learned from others that gotten knowledge in those times. I can understand it is hard to realise you actually sound foolish and have no idea about reality.. and offcourse their will always be others that feed your opinion because theirs is as screwed up as yours. I just hope you will someday learn the truth and find the courage to face reality.
Many years ago.. I was about 18-19 years old, sitting at a local pub together with one of my best friends...
My girlfriend walked into the pub and joined our conversation, as always we have all freely expressed our opinions and had been able to do so in peace with eachother. Untill he started talking about his girlfriend, he had cheated on her with another friend of mine. I was thinking about what the right words would be to help him but also to make him understand how wrong he had been for doing that. My girlfriend wasn't that considering and just told him he was a jerk. At that time he stands up, by that he trows back his chair and takes a swing at my girlfriend, thankfully she can avoid being hit and in a fraction of a second i've hit him. AS he laid down on the floor i felt sad. I never hit anyone like that before. Me and my girlfriend just walked out of that pub and I haven't spoken to him since then.
Yesterday, i've gotten a message... Please come to this pub.. I need to talk to you.. a message from that "friend".
I was in doubt if i should go or not. I wasn't planning on going but it kept nagging me.. why did he want to talk to me now? what did he have to say? Why now after 15 years? I left my home at 11pm, drove around for about an hour.. in doubt.. Go or don't go.. I don't wanna fight him again.
Around midnight i stopped at the pub, never been there before.. what was i supposed to find?? Finally i stepped inside, a dark pub, blues music playing.. and at the bar bend over a glass of whiskey, my friend. I sat down next to him and order us both another whiskey. He looked up at me for just a second and then i noticed... HE was only a shadow of who he used to be.. Once he was a proud young man, good looking, he could get any girl he wanted and now.. nothing, no charisma, no joy only sadness. We didn't say a word, words weren't needed. We just sat there for about 2 hours drinking whiskey. Then he turned his head to me and said.. I'm sorry, you were right. I looked at him and answered.. you are just being drunk now.. he smiled.. I smiled.. We started talking about the music.. we've spend hours talking about music.. We left eachother at 7am. We both went our own way once again. But the pain was gone.
Sometimes i just sit and think about what is and what was.. Looking at the past to get a clearer view on the future.
At those times i just love this music
Sometime in the night or during this day my last 3 blogs were deleted... Does this mean i'm now a real blogger???
just took some pictures while i was out walking my dog...
Only 15 minutes drive from my place...
Yes guys we had our fun yesterday so let's give the girls what they really want now.
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Someone asked me today how things went with that girl i liked. So therefor let me tell you what happened since my last meeting with the cleaninglady.
I've met her once again at my client, had another talk with her. It was really nice and i was gonna ask her out but then she said something about her husband. Appearantly she has been married for a few years now, she doesn't seem to happy with it and i do feel as if she would be willing to go on a date with me but i just won't get involved with a married woman.
Any intrest that i might have had for her is totally gone by now and won't return. Still I will see her again at work and I do hope to talk to her again, she is a nice girl so who knows maybe we can still become wonderfull friends.
Better luck next time i guess
Today has been a turningpoint in my life.
I had my first meeting at the hospital today because i want to have a gastric bypass done. I'm really nerveous and still a few tests need to be done and churgery won't happen for a few months but at least today we have kicked off and i really have faith that this operation will be good for me.
There i was, sitting in front of an old laptop.. looking at some blogs of some random people. I opened one of them and started reading.. Why was i who you don't know allowed to read all this personal stuff about your life??? A fair question if you ask me... But maybe even more significant, why did i care about your life? Why did i care about you? You live on the other side of this world, we've never met, maybe we'll never will.. and yet you have become important to me. I don't know when, i don't know how.. but you are. Thank you for letting me be part of your life.
I was on the blog of serendipity615 where it was all about why and how the universe was made... IF it had intelligent cause or not. After a while that turned into a discussion if everything could be explained by the evolution theory or if it must have been an act of God. It made me think back at some ideas i had a few years ago. Since everyone always says you can't believe in both evolution and God at the same time , I was determined to find a way to combine those 2 in a somewhat reasonable theory of my own.
To combine these 2 you must accept that evolution theory is correct.. but also that what is written in the bible is real. Well it is written as a story so you gotta take some possible exaggerations in account. But let's just focus on the big lines about how the world was made.
Start of evolution theory... The big bang... considered to be a mixtures of gasses that came to explotion and by that created the universe... The bibble said God snapped his fingers and wam bam there was the universe. Put up some nice paradise.. Make adam make eve and there we go.
2 tottaly different versions it seems but here goes.. What if God indeed created a paradise created adam eve and well we all know the story.. adam eats from the tree of knowledge and they both get trown out. Let's assume that this paradise was one enormous planet. And God instead of just trowing them out (to where?) let the paradise explode.. then that explosion just might be the big bang.
That could explain for me at least where all this massa came from and would also be acceptable as an explenation for how nature could come up with these complex structures as DNA. They might have been leftovers from what was on the original planet.
Let's take it one step further because this still doesn't explain how we gotten all that info in the bible then.
When adam ate from the tree of knowledge wich was also the tree of life. He just might have become strong enough to survive that explosion. And with the knowledge he had gained (maybe he didn't get all the knowledge because he only had 1 bite) he tried to recreate the paradise by himself. Ok a few million years might be long for our standard but would that really be that long for an eternal being? have a go at making life, create dinossaurs... figure you better try again so whipe you sheet clean again by trowing meteor on it so they dissapear, start fresh and with slow steps.. MAybe start of with a single bacteria, let that develop into a fish, some other animals.. try to see if you can adjust them to walk on the land instead of the water.. all the way up to creating a human. Once you've done that let's see what happens in a few thousand years how things go, go live with them.. tell storys about your father how he created you and eve.. If you see one of your creations thats broken (blind or something) you might wanna fix that while you're around.. People may call it a miracle. and before you know it you created an entire religion.
Ok that about does it... Please keep in mind this theory of mine was developed when i was only 17-18 years ols so goes way back... Just figured it might be fun to share.
A while back someone here did a blog asking whats to see where you live... That got me thinking that it might be nice to show the world a bit of where i grew up. First i was thinking maybe to describe belgium a bit but i believe it would say more if i only show a bit from the small village i grew up in. So therefor i have looked up some pictures.
Our village only has about 2000 inhabitants and is about 16 square km's.
Our church..
Our castle..
The boat that reminds us of our long history..
Our land..
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