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Björk - Wanderlust

nýja 3-D videoið. EKki bestu gæðin hér á youtube videoinu, en flott lag og video. 

 

I am leaving this harbour
Giving urban a farewell
Its habitants seem too keen on god
I cannot stomach their rights and wrong

I have lost my origin
And i don't want to find it again
Rather sailing into nature's laws
And be held by ocean's paws

Wanderlust!
Relentlessly craving wanderlust
Peel off the layers
Until you get to the core

Did i imagine it would be like this
Was it something like this i wished for
Or will i want more?

Lust for comfort
Suffocates the soul
This relentless
Restlessness
Liberates me
Sets me free

I feel at home whenever
The unknown surrounds me
I receive its embrace
Aboard my floating house

Wanderlust!
Relentlessly craving wanderlust
Peel off the layers
Until you get to the core

Did i imagine it would be like this
Was it something like this i wished for
Or will i want more?

Wanderlust!
From island to island
Wanderlust!
United in movement
Wonderful!
I enjoy it with you

Wanderlust!
Wanderlust!
Can you spot a pattern?

Relentlessly restless
Restless relentlessly
Restless relentlessly

Can you spot a pattern?

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video af mótinu

smá brot af undanúrslitunum í Foil og Sabre. Sword in the stone.

 

Mótið yfirstaðið

og ég komin heim á nýja staðinn(var að flytja) og ákveð að hlusta á rúv.is á netinu og haldiði ekki að ég fái bara þjóðsönginn sem fyrsta lag...  ég sem vann ekkert á mótinu en gerði mitt besta, og fæ þjóðsönginn sem fyrsta lag fyrir tilviljun, eða ekki tilviljun...

Ekki það að ég hafi verið að keppa fyrir landið, þetta var opið mót þar sem maður keppti á móti reyndum sem óreyndum. Ég keppti í bæði Epee og Foil. Það er aukaatriði í hvaða sæti ég lenti, ekki síðasta reyndar, en ég er mjög ánægð með að hafa náð stigi gegn þremur B skylmingarmönnum. B er mjög hátt, en fólk er flokkað í A-E og undir. Ég er alveg lurkum lamin eftir þetta 2 daga mót, með marga marbletti, og mitt fyrsta íþróttamót ever.

Keypti líka fullan búnað og stefni á Norður Karólínu-mót um miðjan apríl. Gaman.

Þeir sem unnu í Epee flokknum voru allt strákar um 16 ára gamlir...Það virðist vera aldurinn sem er að standa sig einna best.

 

Ég og John Rea þjálfarinn, en hann er í 6.sæti í 60 ára og yfir í Sabre á landsvísu.  

  

The garbage warrior

Heimildarmynd um mann sem hannar og byggir ódýr eco-hús úr dekkjum og flöskum, en á í stríði við yfirvöld. Áhugavert.

The garbage warrior 

vinátta ísbjarna og hunda

ahhhhh....

M'ot um helgina

Jej! Ég er að fara á skylmingamót, jú að keppa...

Við förum nokkur héðan til Columbia í Suður Karolínu á 2 daga mót. Það verður gaman.

Þar keppa allir saman, ungir sem aldnir, reyndir sem óreyndir. Fólk í A flokki og þeir sem einsog ég eru ekki í neinum flokki enn. 

hvad ef...

Letting Go of Worry

What if we knew for certain that everything we're worried about today will work out fine?

What if . . . we had a guarantee that the problem bothering us would be worked out in the most perfect way, and at the best possible time? Furthermore, what if we knew that three years from now we'd be grateful for that problem, and its solution?

What if . . . we knew that even our worst fear would work out for the best?

What if . . . we had a guarantee that everything that's happening, and has happened, in our life was meant to be, planned just for us, and in our best interest?

What if . . . we had a guarantee that the people we love are experiencing exactly what they need in order to become who they're intended to become? Further, what if we had a guarantee that others can be responsible for themselves, and we don't have to control or take responsibility for them?

What if . . . we knew the future was going to be good, and we would have an abundance of resources and guidance to handle whatever comes our way?

What if . . . we knew everything was okay, and we didn't have to worry about a thing? What would we do then?

We'd be free to let go and enjoy life.

Today, I will know that I don't have to worry about anything. If I do worry, I will do it with the understanding that I am choosing to worry, and it is not necessary.

- From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie

Unitarian universalists

er frjálslynd kirkja hér í Bandaríkjunum og víðar, A religious association of Christian origin that has no official creed and that considers God to be unipersonal, salvation to be granted to the entire human race, and reason and conscience to be the criteria for belief and practice.

Þessi kirkja var einna fyrst til að gefa saman samkynhneigða og hefur gert svo síðan á 6.áratugnum. Sja wikipediu.

Ég hef ekki heimsótt þau en heyri fólk i kringum mig tala um hana og ætla ad kíkja einn daginn. Líst vel á þetta.

Unitarian Universalism (UU) draws from many sources:

• Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces which create and uphold life;
• Words and deeds of prophetic women and men which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion, and the transforming power of love;
• Wisdom from the world's religions which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life;
• Jewish and Christian teachings which call us to respond to God's love by loving our neighbors as ourselves;
• Humanist teachings which counsel us to heed the guidance of reason and the results of science, and warn us against idolatries of the mind and spirit.
• Spiritual teachings of earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature.

These principles and sources of faith are the backbone of our religious community.

- af heimasidu theirra.

Hvað eiga egg, kanínur og Jesús sameiginlegt?

jú nýtt líf, upprisa, von, vorið.

Merking páskanna:

Easter is a Christian celebration of Christ's rising, but this holiday also has pagan origins. Where did the colored eggs, cute little bunnies, baby chicks, and lilies come from? They are all symbols of rebirth.

Easter falls in the spring, the yearly time of renewal, when the earth renews itself after a long, cold winter. The word Easter comes to us from the Norsemen's Eostur, Eastar, Ostara, and Ostar, and the pagan goddess Eostre, all of which involve the season of the growing sun and new birth. The Easter Bunny arose originally as a symbol of fertility, due to the rapid reproduction habits of the hare and rabbit.

The ancient Egyptians, Persians, Phoenicians, and Hindus all believed the world began with an enormous egg, thus the egg as a symbol of new life has been around for eons. The particulars may vary, but most cultures around the world use the egg as a symbol of new life and rebirth.

 

Kvöldmaturinn

ekki viss hvað þetta er, tilgátur vel þegnar.

Kúl skylmingasyrpa

það er rosa gaman að vera byrjuð að skylmast með rafmagni eftir 8 vikna fótaæfingar etc..

Þetta fólk í videoinu er ekkert smá snöggt...

af hverju að vera kristin?

viðtal við Marcus Borg guðfræðing um breytingar sem eru að verða á kristni.

Why Be Christian?

Revisionist Jesus scholar Marcus Borg explains why "Christianity makes persuasive and compelling sense." Interview by Deborah Caldwell


In renowned Jesus scholar Marcus Borg's latest book, The Heart of Christianity, he responds to an audience of readers who, over the years, have asked him about the essence of their faith. How, they ask, can Christianity be relevant in a time of ever-expanding historical and scientific knowledge? In a conversation with Deborah Caldwell, Borg answers that question, touching on the afterlife, living in a multi-cultural society, the meaning of salvation, and being born again.

You say that Christianity in North America and Europe is going through a paradigm change-that a new vision of how to be Christian is emerging. What is it and why is it happening?

Broadly speaking, there are two different visions of Christianity in North America today. The earlier vision is the product of the last few hundred years, especially the last 150 years. This earlier vision of Christianity is literalistic in its understanding of the Bible, absolutist in its understanding of the ethical teachings of the Bible, and exclusivist--meaning Christianity is the only way.

That's the vision of Christianity that the majority of us grew up with, whether we are mainline Protestant, Catholic, or conservative Protestant. But that way of seeing Christianity has become unpersuasive to millions of people--who can't be literalists or absolutists or exclusivists. But now there is an emerging vision, an emerging paradigm.

The conflict between these two paradigms can be seen in many different places. In the second half of the 19th Century and early in the 20th Century we saw conflict over evolution. Thirty years ago the conflict was over ordination of women in mainline denominations, and of course today we see the conflict about gays and lesbians in the church. For Protestants, the two visions have everything to do with biblical authority. The earlier vision sees the Bible as divine product with a divine guarantee to be true. The emerging vision sees the Bible as a human historical product, the product of two ancient communities [Judaism and Christianity]. It tells us what they thought, not what God thinks.

- áfram hér.

Krossfestingin

What is the significance of the cross and the crucifixion of Jesus?  

First of all, I see the cross of Jesus as having a political meaning. Jesus was executed by the authorities, and if we ask why, the most persuasive historical explanation is because of Jesus' passion for the Kingdom of God, which involved him in radical criticism of the domination system of his day. The domination system killed him. On the one hand, the cross tells us what domination systems oftentimes do to those who oppose them. It tells us about the typical behavior of empires.

The cross in the New Testament also has a more personal and individual meaning as a symbol or an image for the path of transformation, for what it means to follow Jesus. It means to die and rise with Christ. We find this in Paul. "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me." The cross there is an image for that path of spiritual and psychological transformation that leads to a new identity and way of being.

Then there's the cross as the once and for all sacrifice for sin. If we literalize that language, as … much of conventional Christianity has done, the only way God can forgive sins is if adequate sacrifice is offered: Somebody has got to be punished, and that person is Jesus. Also only those people who know and believe in that story can be saved. Thus, literalizing that language is a slur on the character of God. If you see Jesus' death as part of the divine plan, as part of the will of God, that suggests that God required the suffering of this immeasurably great man. It is never the will of God that an innocent person be crucified, and to suggest that is to suggest something horrible about God.

If, on the other hand, we understand the language of Jesus’s being the sacrifice for sin as a post-Easter interpretation of his death that emerges within the early Christian community, we can then see that, metaphorically, it's a proclamation of radical grace. The connection is this: If Jesus is the once and for all sacrifice for sin, understood metaphorically now, it means that God has already taken care of whatever it is that we think separates us from God. It means that God accepts us just as we are and that the Christian life is not about getting right with God. God's already taken care of that. The Christian life becomes about something else, namely, living within this framework of radical trust in God and relationship to God that makes possible our transformation, and, ideally and ultimately, the transformation of the world.

--Dr. Marcus Borg

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