The Finnish (former) prime minister Jyrki Katainen spoke about the factors of social and cultural change as he opened a meeting of the ministers of the National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) on the 14th, August 2013. He saw the thing from the perspective of the Finnish society, but the changes are worldwide: all over the world…
The so called constitutional states make more and more regulations and formats in which people should conform to. Everything begins to repeat itself, pro forma. I was in this kind of situation last year as I asked myself a simple question: Who am I? One year ago as I was planning this blog my biggest…
In my previous text Rehabilitation I ask, why did I, who never even caught a cold suddenly found myself in a hospital connected to a ventilator. While I have been turning this question in my mind now, there is a worldwide discussion going on about the safety of birth control pills. According to the news…
The Finnish interior minister, Päivi Räsänen became the eyesore of the media last week when she said in her speech in the summer festival of the Finnish Lutheran Mission that when the worldly law and the law of God conflict we should obey God’s word. I think this is rather a no-brainer and I didn’t…
As I became physically disabled over 30 years ago I was very aware of my reduced mobility, but mentally I was the same person as I was before. I saw my illness as most people do: negative.But I didn’t feel that I would be imperfect or IN-valid somehow. For the first time in my life…
The best thing my mother supplied me with was the feeling that when I had a measuring tape, a chalk and a fabric I could do with them whatever I wanted to. One of my first memories from my new home was, that I asked my craft teacher to help me sew a new winter…
In the Thrive-movie David Icke talks about the greatest prison of people: the fear what other people think (1:18:10 on video timeline). People have been brought up to become guards for each other. Those, who step too far from the norm and conventional rules are forced through wordless agreement back into the old rut again….
At the turn of the year I divided my texts into two categories: There are writings, which tell my story (Glow in the Darkness) and writings, in which I dig deeper into myself and our society and try to see my place as a part of the whole (Wings of Thought).On January 15th, 2013 I…
In his documentary ‘Civilization: Is the West History’ (pt 6) the historian Niall Ferguson talks about the influence of the Protestant (Christian) work ethic on the economic growth in the western countries. The relation between religion and economy was studied by Max Weber, who wrote a book about the ‘holy alliance’ of Protestantism and economic…
In the past months I have wondered what kind of a magic lies behind the fact that physical exercise is so pleasant with my physiotherapist: At best it is not exhausting and everything is happening by itself. But when I want to exercise with my assistant it is ordeal to the soul. I could do…
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