Erika's Blog (3)

I think often on these networks

Respect is confused with hatred.... (or at lest contempt)





Like if someone keeps his/her moth shut....either because someone tells him/her to do so, or "hints" that....or it is out of fear, or out of respect.







Many times if someone is quiet it annoys others because then there is a "Weak Point", (why don’t you speak up, man!?) – but there might be reasons why one cannot throw everything open on the Internet, such as… Continue

I am reading Mohandas Karmachand ("Mahatma")Gandhi's Biography in English right now. He lived and worked in South Africa a lot.



Gandhi has long been one of my "heroes", along with Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King. I got interested in Mahatma Gandhi's work about the same time as I started working politically for the abolishment of Apartheid (this is when I was 14 or so, in the change over from 80's to 90's).



I know this was about a hundred years ago, what he is talking… Continue

I want to release some anger about the media lately, while Sweden "enjoys" its season of hunting (bears, mooses etc.).



I do tolerate that some people do this for food, or for the pleasure of nature (even though I must say its violating it a bit) or whatever. But the way some news papers expose the pain of these poor animals is insane.



At the end of summer, our local paper had two or three pages full of private fishers and their (dead) fish. It was in a competition-mood,… Continue