tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.comments2018-06-08T10:37:55.223+03:00Moroccan mint and double appleKatieendeqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00241028539311426763noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-4923322769062056482018-06-08T10:37:55.223+03:002018-06-08T10:37:55.223+03:00I agree with you Katieendeq. The life doesn't ...I agree with you Katieendeq. The life doesn't work against you but for you! Our difficulties in the past will become our future talents. <br /><br />Moreover, I think ones we realize ours expectations in life (what we love to do) we will go and meet the persons who like the same things. We will find our tribe in which we will be accepted as we are.<br /><br />What do you think about it ?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06625669183364470015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-55052962064731333172013-12-30T04:26:03.934+02:002013-12-30T04:26:03.934+02:00I have to start thinking about similar New Year Re...I have to start thinking about similar New Year ResolutionAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650377908015606779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-68158182145454195692013-12-20T00:34:33.788+02:002013-12-20T00:34:33.788+02:00Conspiracie theories or not, right now we have swe...Conspiracie theories or not, right now we have swedish secret service pressing on for instant access to all data... Anybody remember Snowden?<br /><br />http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=1650&artikel=5735355Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03820637760381921126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-32279757790468293182013-07-13T06:49:30.716+03:002013-07-13T06:49:30.716+03:00Fantastic blog and photos! Glad you are having a g...Fantastic blog and photos! Glad you are having a great time in QLD with us. see you soon :)<br />- MickyMickyDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16609375528907675683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-46862690572232574232013-06-13T02:26:05.925+03:002013-06-13T02:26:05.925+03:00Yes, I definitely think its unfair. It doesn't...Yes, I definitely think its unfair. It doesn't people doing it though.Riikkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04596399978742332814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-45453525642395597542013-06-11T09:43:21.749+03:002013-06-11T09:43:21.749+03:00Thank you!Thank you!Katieendeqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00241028539311426763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-69299913017379542932013-06-11T00:33:15.802+03:002013-06-11T00:33:15.802+03:00nice one!!nice one!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650377908015606779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-68002334618507950092013-05-31T23:35:10.239+03:002013-05-31T23:35:10.239+03:00Yes, you are right about the "how you say it&...Yes, you are right about the "how you say it"-thing! It makes a huge difference.Anna Rantanennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-50142339213709650952013-05-30T08:55:32.647+03:002013-05-30T08:55:32.647+03:00I get your point, but don't you think it's...I get your point, but don't you think it's unfair towards the other person to "keep you doors open"? I'm not saying that it's not okay to have a temporary exciting thing, but I do think it's unfair towards the other person not to be clear about your intentions. I think it's important to be on the same page, to understand each other.<br /><br />I'm not saying that you have to know what you want right in the beginning of getting to know another person - that is impossible. Knowing in which direction something might evolve requires spending time together and getting to know each other. But if you know that you are not really interested in something more than a short affair, you should be clear about it. Level with the other person, because there's nothing as frustrating as getting your hopes up and developing feelings, if they are not returned. <br /><br />Any kind of relationship is okay as long as both parts are on the same page, and this can only happen trough communication.Katieendeqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00241028539311426763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-47325578230052504942013-05-30T03:21:15.100+03:002013-05-30T03:21:15.100+03:00I agree that if you meet the right person, there a...I agree that if you meet the right person, there are no excuses. There is no right or wrong timing either. There might be more or less work, but that is a whole different thing. The right person is worth the work.<br /> <br />I feel like sometimes people don't want to tell the truth, because they want to keep their options open. Open doors are nicer than closed ones. Maybe they are not interested of anything more than just temporal excitement and that would be gone with the brutal truth. When the excitement is gone, so is the person.<br /><br />I also feel that many people think of relationships as too black and white: its all or nothing. If you meet amazing person, but know that it is not going to evolve to anything romantic or deep, why can't you just tell that to the other? You can still have that amazing person in your life, but that is something that requires the brutal truth.Riikkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04596399978742332814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-41488253765377521552013-05-29T23:25:43.332+03:002013-05-29T23:25:43.332+03:00Yes, you are very right. I wanted to emphasize tha...Yes, you are very right. I wanted to emphasize that I think honesty is very important, but it's HOW you say things that matter. The "wow, you look like hell today" comment might be in place, if there is a strong confidence between the one saying it and the other person. Otherwise you might rather want to say for instance, "you look tired, are you okay?" <br /><br />And again yes, surely there are people, who don't want to hear the truth, but that makes me wonder about the reason for avoiding it. Nevertheless it is a never-ending topic, just as any topic when it comes to peoples' opinions. Like you said, finding a partner that thinks alike about the matter is crucial.Katieendeqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00241028539311426763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-81155774757199648852013-05-29T23:01:34.333+03:002013-05-29T23:01:34.333+03:00Well written! I have just had the same kind of dis...Well written! I have just had the same kind of discussions with a few friends of mine and I strongly agree on the importance of honesty. It's not easy, but usually it makes everything easier in the end. It makes things CLEAR (or as clear as possible). And of course there are different degrees of honesty; it's different to say "I'm sorry, but I cheated on you" (I see this as necessary) and "Wow, you look like hell today" (this I don't find that necessary) even though both of them were "the truth". And also, some people don't want to hear the truth. Some people don't want to know if their partner is cheating on them, and that is fine. But it's pretty important to then find a partner who agrees on this with you! Whatever the opinion is. This is all now of course from the view point of a relationship, but sure you can apply it to a friendship as well. (Although I don't see it that crucial in a friendship, important though. Or maybe the situations are just quite different.)<br /><br />Oups, sorry about such a long comment... Maybe I should start writing a blog of my own on this issue. :DAnna Rantanennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-79159202028555978122012-05-10T10:57:16.160+03:002012-05-10T10:57:16.160+03:00Firstly I have to say how glad I am that my blog p...Firstly I have to say how glad I am that my blog post is raising conversation. Secondly I have to admit that I might deliberately have been provocative and making things look black and white. Which they really are not. It was not my intention to state that a person should base their knowledge on trust. I was merely encouraging critisism towards information sources. Like I said in my post, I believe one should base their knowledge on a variety of sources instead of believing everything blindly. It is always good to question so called facts, because this is the only way for science to develop and go forward. I absolutely agree with you that there are trustworthy and reliable main media and also untrustworthy 'free media'. Still I want to encourage critisism. However I don't think that trust is the wrong word for it, everything in this world is about beliefs and trusting. Whether it is scientifical 'facts', religion or anything else. Most things can never be certain. We see that everyday as the science develops. A scientific result can be proven wrong the next day. Research on food is good example of this. Almost every day new research is stating that some food cause cancer, just to be proven wrong the next day (okay, provoking a bit here as well).<br /><br />My comment about global warming was also a bit misleading, mostly because I tend to have difficulties ordering my thoughts into words. Especially when the thoughts are overwhelming me and making my head spin. What I was referring to is what you were saying about the idea of global warming not being entirely man made. Of course global warming exists, but the question is whether it is normal change or man made. The word I probably should have used here is green house effect...<br /><br />Finally about conspiracies. Sometimes I tend to go overboard with my thoughts, that's when they start racing at a pace that my brain can't handle. Again one reason for these suggestions is to provoke conversation. Being critical against authorities is only a good thing if you ask me, but only as long as it stays within a rational range. I don't want to challenge the reliability of the government or the authorities, that would lead to revolution. I am just questioning the idea of trusting everyhting without doubt. Still I can't get over the idea that it might be possible to live in a double universe where we are being held in the dark and that there might be things that are to great for us to understand. That's when we come to the idea of conspiracies and theories. But that is a whole other subject, which I might write more about at some point.Katieendeqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00241028539311426763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-80588749494820303852012-05-10T09:56:40.411+03:002012-05-10T09:56:40.411+03:00One last comment I wish to make relates to the ide...One last comment I wish to make relates to the idea of 'free-press', or 'free-media'. I strongly agree that free-press is an absolute prerequisite to avoid articles that simply follow (directly or indirectly) the interests of some particular group of people. But this is far from enough to garantee objective articles, or even quality article. Some state-owned media produce great content (BBC?), as well as some family-owned (New York Times). And some free media produce rather low-quality content. Again what matters is the method applied to produce articles, the professionalism of the journalists, the editorial line, etc. Nowadays it seems that 'information' is seen as simply providing 'facts' (taking AFP telegrams, adding a few sentences, and publishing it). Real information is putting cultural, historical and economical context to fact, trying to track the real motivations behind a political action, debunking public communication from states or big companies, and... uncovering conspiracies if there are some. This is what journalism should be about. Free-press is necessary for that, but very far from being enough.<br /><br />Instead of talking about conspiracies, I prefer to talk about self-sustained, self-evoluting systems. The way media work today is probably mostly the result of the way our capitalist economy works and evolves, the way technological changes questioned the very existence of 'old' media, forcing them to optimize their expenses, therefore limiting their investigative capacity, having them look for new investors etc. Same for public communication (from the state or a company): there is not necessarily anything to hide. Sometimes people make mistakes. Sometimes they only follow some protocal, even though it would not be suitable for all given situations. There is no need to have a top-down conspiracy to have a system very detrimental to people as a whole. And this is very unfortunate, because unmasking a conspiracy would be much easier than changing a system, however wrong this system is for the people!Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12125423300358493294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-14194209450995718142012-05-10T09:55:56.214+03:002012-05-10T09:55:56.214+03:00Posing the problem of valid knowledge as 'who ...Posing the problem of valid knowledge as 'who we choose to trust' is problematic, because if pushed further, it means that we cannot advance our knowledge, as we would have to rely on sources which we don't consider reliable. The reliability of knowledge should not be measured in terms of trust or then we have to evaluate this trust in terms of the method used to produce such knowledge.<br /><br />Let's begin with global warming: knowledge related to climate warming has nothing to do with media, it has to do with science. The main principle of reliability for scientific knowledge is refutability, i.e. the possibility for fellow colleague researchers to prove the theory wrong, through criterias defined within the theory itself. 'Current' scientific knowledge comes from research results which have not yet been proved wrong, and have been 'approved' by other researchers (through peer-review process, responding articles, complementary researches, etc.). Derived from this, scientific knowledge is always 'temporary', and major trends are mainly the result of wide consensus in the scientific community. But this method is solid enough that we can build on it, and make progress, step by step, sometime jumping to another stair (when a new paradigm gain traction, see quantum physics for instance). Global warming benefits from a huge consensus. The fact that 'some' scientific articles try to refute it is not in itself a sign that global warming is a hoax (many articles refuting global warming are actually emanating from doubtful organizations, and do not go very far with peer-review process). The fact that global warming is man-induced is slightly less consensual, but still has pretty strong support in the majority of scientific fields involved.<br /><br />Basing our personal knowledge purely on a level of trust is not a good idea. In fact it is a very dangerous idea, if trust itself is not based on rational, method based and systematic analysis. What is at stake is the manipulation of people by small groups of interest. Everytime knowledge is produced, the method should be questioned. This is what happens daily in the scientific community, and this is what should happen all the time in the media (reliability of source, cross-verification, etc.).<br /><br />What is much more worrying nowadays is that some political groups and some affiliated media are now saying that all things are equal, therefore completely ignoring what makes scientific knowledge more valuable than pure belief. It is done on purpose, to serve their own agenda. They are trying to put into people's mind that believing in what someone claims (a politician, a religion) is exactly the same as believing in scientifical knowledge, so that their word should have the same value as a scientific theory. The result? People will stop hearing the 'method' argument, saying that science is just another type of belief. I think you can imagine where this will lead eventually.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12125423300358493294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-48623666271836895632012-04-26T23:31:55.236+03:002012-04-26T23:31:55.236+03:00I totally agree with you! I'm facing the same ...I totally agree with you! I'm facing the same looks, even though i wanna have a family and kinds, but only when I want them to come, not when it's right for the society. By that time sex and traveling are keeping me busy, haha :D I guess that society will never accept dissidents. Society is a way too strong mechanism and it wants all the people under it's control. But if it warms your heart, dissidents are more often remembered after their death :) And most important, you are not alone in that :)Julia Sakurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05622560336261470234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-4506448225859350572012-03-29T10:34:24.965+03:002012-03-29T10:34:24.965+03:00I could basically repeat here the same answer as f...I could basically repeat here the same answer as for the first comment. I think that it is masochistic to just keep letting someone treat you badly, but then again it is also more merciful to your own life to forgive and forget. Being angry at someone has a tendency to make you bitter, and I never want to live my life like that. Maybe the best way is somewhere in between?Katieendeqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00241028539311426763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-48338811577707733972012-03-29T10:31:51.112+03:002012-03-29T10:31:51.112+03:00Anni, pitkävihaisuus on mulle täysin vieras käsite...Anni, pitkävihaisuus on mulle täysin vieras käsite. Se ei vain onnistu. Se tosin saattaa olla hyvä asia. Jos mie jotaki olen oppinut, niin sen että vihanpitäminen vain tuhoaa oman elämän. Anteeksianto on huomattavasti armollisempaa myös itseä kohtaan.Katieendeqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00241028539311426763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-62916112517924900412012-03-29T10:30:04.899+03:002012-03-29T10:30:04.899+03:00I really can relate to the things you write about ...I really can relate to the things you write about and I find the idea very interesting to commit to the present and not the eternity. You managed to put in writing quite well what I wasn't able to do myself. From my point of view, committing to someone for life is scary and unrealistic. Your aspect is very interesting and deserves some more thought.Katieendeqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00241028539311426763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-20982358256559911732012-03-29T09:50:02.920+03:002012-03-29T09:50:02.920+03:00I just posted some thoughts more or less on the sa...I just posted some thoughts more or less on the same subject, from a different perspective but you might find some interesting elements there. You're definitely not the only one trying to sort these things out ;)<br /><br />Access is restricted, you will need to sign-in. Direct link: https://www.murmuran.net/en/content/conceptualizing-love-relationships-in-the-real-worldThomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12125423300358493294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-89526619044847453562012-03-28T23:39:57.719+03:002012-03-28T23:39:57.719+03:00For me there is a certain limit. If someone retrac...For me there is a certain limit. If someone retracts his/her promise it is really hard to trust that person again. I believe giving another chance but enough is enough. Trust is one of the most important thing in any relationship, and if there is none it won't work. I admit that sometimes I am being too strict about this and I should learn to forgive more easily, but maybe it is just because of some bad experience thats making me react this way.Riikkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04596399978742332814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565812401229570524.post-76072544666517626922012-03-28T22:53:18.201+03:002012-03-28T22:53:18.201+03:00Minusta tuntuu että mie olen vähän samanlainen. Aj...Minusta tuntuu että mie olen vähän samanlainen. Ajattelen että olen ihmisille se viimenen vaihtoehto. Ja sitte olen että ei, ens kerralla sanon etten kerkeä, on muuta tekemistä, mutta silti kuitenkin aina ilahdun jos joku tahtoo hengailla.<br /><br />Mie en osaa olla pitkävihainen vaikka joskus toivoisin pystyväni siihen. Joskus sitä antaa anteeksi ehkä liian helposti. What do.. :/Anni K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16660907626939876092noreply@blogger.com