in the news

Pope Francis told in an interview about recent events that the religion is not to blame for all of the bad

things happening. It is the others fault. The world is at war because it has lost its peace.  to avoid any 

misunderstanding:

Quote:  “I would just like to add one more thing by way of clarification: when I speak of 

war, I mean real war, not religious war I speak of a war of interests, over money, nature’s 

resources and the domination of peoples.” 

“I do no speak of a religious war. Religions,” he, Pope Francis, concluded, “all religions, 

seek peace. It’s others who want war. Understand?

I like that finishing line Capisce? or Do you understand? (If you look at the video of the interview the Pope speaks in italian/spanish)

Thinking

There is a sentence I have returned to think of lately and I do not know the correct

 translation for it. It's a sentence from the play Ett drömspel  A Dream Play by 

August Strindberg(1849-1912). 

"Det är synd om människorna" says Indras daughter to her father upon the return 

home from a visit to Earth. At first before being to Earth, she is hopeful that love 

will conquer all, but after she listens to the anguished cries of humanity, 

experiences the pain of family life, and discovers that reform always will be stifled 

by the self-righteous, she can look on humanity only with compassion. She finally 

realizes that human beings are creatures who hopelessly harbor spiritual 

aspirations but are held down by the weight of their fleshly existence.

I come to the sentence "Poor Youth", in an english translation of the work, which 

is close enough. 

Det är synd om människorna - direct translation word by word - 

It is pitiful about humanity. That is what the daughter of Indra repeats in the play. 

Indra is apparently God from India. So August Strindberg must have read about 

other religions during his lifetime. The writer is known for his paintings of a 

stormy sea and dark clouds, and his books and his participation in the society of 

manly men, smoking cigarr, drinking and being angry. 

This is the mad writers dream done into a play, he was mad it's 

written down. It was a bewildering play for his time, with the not correct way of 

telling a tale. 

I have added to my films to watch list Ett drömspel (1963) by Ingmar Bergman

 becoz I don't fell like reading, which is a shame. Shame maybe 

even better translation of the swedish word synd. It's a shame about humanity. 

Like the godess return home to his father and says 'I visited Earth and oh boy it's, 

I feel sorry for them.' She feel pity and goes from feeling so hopeful to being 

disappointed. Lesson learned may be keep your expectations at an all time low.

(The title Ett Drömspel could also mean A game of dreaming, 

most swedish words have double nature meanings, it's hard to translate anything)

Anyhow. That string of words has come to mind last week, 

a play writers words Det är synd om människorna that could be translated to

 It's a shame about humanity or maybe even Poor souls. 

After have seen some of the YT of Comic con and I can say this. I am looking 

forward to the TV serie American Gods, I 've just read the book by Neil Gaiman 

and to see it becoming film is amazing. 

It started 8 years ago and will soon be 15 episodes, Sherlock.

Then I don't know about what otherwise was presented at the comic con

I just stop and stared at Jared Leto becoz I've had his pic from an OK magazine 

since I was tiny and now he plays the Joker in a film which name escapes me but 

I'll see it. 

"I dream therefore I exist"   August Strindberg

mandela and forgiveness

DT - One thing Keep remembering. Evil is an abbrevation. You get upset when a     woman get abused

CF - Yes, you look at me as if I dont?

DT - At Darfur its one of the most awful places worst place, met with refugees, talked with them, they could laugh. the men who Nurse white robes, clean, spotless.

CF - Where do they get the water?

DT - Part of it there are trucks. If the women go out of the camp the women get raped.

CF - What?

DT - Human beings are incredible. I mean you are incredible

CF - The thing I was gonna uh

DT - The second thing.. shh

CF - Oh yeye no you're right, you're good

DT - ..incredible thing, The humanitarian workers. Have we hear enough craze of fantastic people, many of them go their second, third mission. What make them go there? They get no kudos. They can't live normal life if they don't go

CF - Is that why you hang on to the faith? When you see such evil, is it a test of your faith?

DT - It is that Evil is evil. You can't seek to the ghastliness when people put others into gaschambers.

CF - ye..

DT - I mean that is awful there is no word had good enough to describe the level of Evil, I mean in the Truth and Reconcilation commission we had some gruesome accounts. Somebody said we gave him drug coffe, we shot him in the head, and then we burned his body, it takes 7-8hour for a human body to burn completely. And so whilst the body is burning here we're having a barbeque here drinking beer and laughing and there the human body burnin and here cowflesh burnin and you say what could have happened o the humanity of anyone that they could sink so low Had a barbeque next to that.

CF - What could have happened and How do you find reconciliation, how do you find forgiveness in that? It must be its a gigantic tragedy.

DT - It is and yet have met Not just black people, white people too, who had this incredible, One woman was with friends at a X-mas party at a golfclub, and one of the liberation movements threw handgrenades into the party and Several people were killed, she wasnt killed but she was so badly wounded she was in ICU for several months now She is talkin she says she couldn't when she came out, she couldn't wash herself, she couldnt cloth herself, she couldn't feed herself, it was done for her by her children and then she says. I mean a condition that leaves her
Totally hopeless. She said It has Enriched my life. I mean, enriched my life, This woman crazy

CF - It's very advanced for me, I dont get it

DT - And Then she says I'd like to meet the perpertrator. I'd like to meet him in the spirit of forgiveness. I'd like to forgive him and I hope he forgives me.

CF - Is that the only way to freedom? I remember something about Hearing the Dalai Lama talking about he Felt he was in danger with the chinese because he felt himself loosing compassion for them, which I really didn't understand at the time, but it sounds a little bit like your saying. .

DT - The thing is that you and I, and all of us. Even when we don't accept it I mean or understand. It is that God created us in such a way that I can't be human on my own. I wouldn't know how to walk as a human being, I wouldn't know how to think, I wouldn't know how to speak, I wouldn't know how to be a human being Except through learning from other human being. and so our humanity is bound with one another. And you see If you carry out a policy that dehumanizes others in the process you are dehumanized, you know and so you understand now, you understand how others can say in order for me to be me, I want to forgive you. Because, have you discovered? When you don't forgive frequently, you feel it in you tumtum

CF - Ye I always was told that resentment was like drinking poison and then excepting someone else to die, you know that has...

DT - That was beautiful

CF - Thank you very much its not mine. Father Tutu, we must take a break.
((It was a Quote from Nelson Mandela))

Transcripted from an Episode of Craig Ferguson Late Show with guest Desmond Tutu. Check it out on youtube if you wish. I own nothing.

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Whats up world!? I'm just a swedish girl that love music.
In the swedish newspaper I read today that the EU wish to see  more trainees/ lärlingar in Sweden.
I think its a wonderful idea, but I wonder how to get it done? In Expressen(evening standard newspaper) yesterday Ann Charlotte thought that those who are unemployed should help out in the healthcare, taking care of the old, instead of having the rule that those who have been unemployed for more than 2 years is forced to do meaningless fas3 jobs.
Another voice in the newspaper that made me think was Magdalena, that thought real jobs should  be done with real pay where those who work get to do a real effort.
Mikroloan to the young thinks Claes because it is something that has worked for the Africa countries.
 Last seen Musicvideo: David Bowie och Gary Oldman i The next day video. Them dressed as people of the church, no, Bowie is dressed as a singing profet and it is clearly a prostitute bar. A kid say in the beginning her money for the poor and the hungry. The Gary Oldman hits the poor man down and a prostitute picks up money from the floor. Whom made the musicvideo this time? Who was the director I mean? SO cool. The priest Gary shout something at the profet and the prostitute woman starts bleeding from her hands like shes been nailed. It ends with David Bowie saying thank you everyone and disappearing into the spotlight. (I don't see why there was such a fuss about the video.)
Ciao!

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I'm home on sick leave from work now. I'm not goíng back there...
Something to look forward to this evening is to have a look at the Oscars. I like the glamour, to be inspired of the storytelling in filmmaking. Tonights event is gonna entertain and its Top notch people that are there so its interesting. Just dreamin away from the mundane. And get some laughs.
The pope Benedict recently resigned. SNL joked about an insurance company for popes then, the last pope that resigned before did it ca1400th. In absurdum.
IRL I'm having two Lapsong dogs (Tibetansk knähund) to babysit for a week, while another is on a holiday. Fun. Cheers!