Tanja @tanjaostman@dingdash.com

"Beyond meat, beyond sausage". Exactly! Beyond the real sausages I use to eat. 😂 🤣 😂

@MaryMamuzich I was like you as a child... 😀

@MaryMamuzich @sinbach he is referring to an interview he already made in October, if I get it right. You find a link to the podcast in the article.

@sinbach Wow, I thought that the Ev. Luth. Ch. in the US was more conservative than the highly politicized Lutheran state churches here. The interview is great! I am glad that you don’t back down! One of my husband’s cousins is a Christian transgender (from female to male). She has undergone a mastectomy (in 2019). And the interesting thing is that she still wants to be my friend despite what I've shared on FB. A couple of months after the surgery she wanted to visit us and said “I am glad that you share what you share and don’t give up on your views”. WHAT did I just hear?! She admitted that she will never become a real man, it’s in the DNA. And the most talented surgeon can’t change her genitals for real. There is no room for more text here... but what’s going on right now in the world (and Churches) is craziness! I pray for this relative that she will transition back to female, even if she has looked like and felt like a boy all of her life! Deep inside she knows this is no solution

@OneofTen I agree! 😀

@sinbach sweet boy!

@sinbach Whitney Houston. Even her beautiful funeral made me cry (it was happier than a regular Finnish worship service). I watched on YouTube a friend of hers telling about a meeting with her shortly before her death, how she was longing to live for the Lord and how she was touched by the Holy Spirit. I have watched two documentaries about her. I think it can help us not to judge her... ok she made bad and sinful choices, but at the same time she had always a relationship with the Lord. She was a victim of child abuse, and one of her female relatives, who used to babysit her and her brothers, sexually abused her. Then she was seduced by her best friend and had a lesbian relationship with her for a while. Her brother introduced her to drugs in her teens. Bobby Brown was not the best husband, and they were doing drugs together. At the same time she was put on a pedestal, and there were high expectations on her. She felt that she was never good enough - even if she was adored. Etc.

Lost in translation part 2. (I don’t understand Chinese, but I understand that the English translation is not really proper).

@sinbach wow! I have watched the series as well - really family-friendly. But great that you were sensitive to what was going on in the boys' minds and were able to talk about it and pray!

@sinbach poor little boy! I didn't watch much on TV at that age. You know, Finland in the 80s. 😂 We had like only two channels, a small black and white TV, strict religious parents... But in my teens I watched things that scared me... don't remember exactly what movies. As a child we lived in a small town that you could easily go around by bike. All of my closest neighbors were boys, so we were biking a lot, and following the sounds of sirens. I saw a house burning down and it was really scary, and I had terrible nightmares. My parents and I didn't talk about feelings, so they didn't comfort me. I also saw a couple of traumatic traffic accidents with hurt people. It was my own choice to chase for the scary things...

@OneofTen I enjoyed it too. He is a real Dr.... PhD in theology.

@MaineStreams 👍

Suddenly it got warm - around 22°C today (tomorrow 15°C). Last time it was snowing (a little) was 6 d ago. I love this time of the year in Finland! The birds are singing intensely and nature is just bursting. We almost have midnight sun already. The picture of the beach and from the greenhouse are taken between 8 and 9 PM!

@LukoseGeorge @sinbach

@LukoseGeorge @sinbach Ok, thanks! But a little funny anyway. 😉 It wouldn't surprise me if someone would write something similar. I own a book, "Broken English", with hilarious examples of bad translations from around the world, including my country.

@bethany @sinbach I just listened to it, and it's really great, (what both of them say)! So sharp, clarifying, and balanced (in a true Christian way, not what some consider "balanced"). Every Christian should listen to it!!

Oops! Lost in translation. 😂 🤣
@sinbach

Dingdash office 2021, like Facebook office 2004? 😉 I must say I prefer the 2004 version (I joined FB in 2007), compared to the creepy business it is today.

A little (yellowish) snow left of the winter - in the slope a was skiing a couple of months ago. Soon nature is really green. Springtime came late this year.