Inconsiderate?

Flickr is a photo site that allows even pornographic photos but then it has a system of content filters where when marking photos "restricted", people with a so called Safe Search on cannot see those photos.


 I was looking at pending photos as a moderator of a group and a photo came in with two cute young kids. The photographer was thanking people for a very large number of views. I was wondering so I looked at the list of people who had faved the photo. A suspicious name took me to a favourite's page, where, using a moderate setting, I could not see most of the photos. But what was worse was that one could immediately see photos that should have been marked restricted but where marked moderate. It is strange that people who know of the different filters, should so misunderstand and misuse them.


 I understand people who will not show photos of children in case the "wrong" people might fave them. At least you should always check where your photos are included.


 It leaves the question whether I should contact the photographer? But they are his photos and his responsibility. He might not like interference.

Twittering

I have a Twitter account and I even follow a few, but I hardly ever visit it and don't know how to use it. I got interested in it seeing there news about  a terror action in Mumbai several years ago when Twitter followed it closely and I found lots of information there. Now I don't know where those pages are.

Actually I was going to call this blog: Finns are strange. A Finnish Twitter that had gained some name, tweeted about an elderly guy, who he met in a bus. At the time he was watching news in his smartphone and the guy asked him something like: "Is it all in there nowadays?" This he took to mean that the guy disapproved his using the phone in a bus. So he told the guy: "OK, amuse me!" I cannot remember  how the guy reacted.

I read about this in the Finnish newspaper Iltasanomat, they reported this as news and people sent letters to the editor about it. Some agreed that the guy should not have said that, that he was rude, something about people wanting to be let in peace when they are travelling.

The others thought that the tweeter was rude, the guy was elderly, maybe lonely and just wanted to
talk to someone, was curious of these modern things.

From what was reported I rather thought like the latter, but of course I did not hear the tone of voice or see his expression.

What interested me was how popular this discussion was, it went on page after page. It could be because Finns always like to discuss the Finnish character: are we shy and quiet or what is the truth. I at least have often talked with people in the bus or bus stop quite happily.

By the way this is the bird in Finland that I love the most, the chaffinch. I have a story to tell about it. Otherwise I love the kookaburra.

Blue wood anemone

Yes, I went to Høvik and found the blue flower. More of them than I have ever seen before in one place. Hardly anyone seemed to pay attention to them. At least in Finland it is a protected flower.

they were below the path most people used. Here are two colour variations.

The area was about 8x8 meters.

It was in the Veritas park, close to the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (The Henie Onstad Art Centre). DNV GL Headquarters in Norway, Veritas Centre is on the other side of the park. I only found out today that there are free buses from Skøyen in Oslo to Veritas, which is in Bærum, so you pay less.

I paid the full fee of course, and after I had taken a few photos, I realized that I had no card in my camera, it was sitting in my computer! I had only room for 7 photos, but at least I have the flower photos. There are a few art works here and there.

Early spring

Interesting, this year Easter is early and so seems to be spring! Most of the snow in Oslo has melted, except where it has been piled or where there's lots of shadow. There's one flower that  I try to find earlier and earlier each year. I have tried to remember the places  where I have seen it first. It's the coltsfoot, a yellow flower. One place is not far away from where I live and I found a flower there on March 19, about three days ago. And of course it would have been possible to see it even  earlier.

(Actually I found that last year I had taken a photo of this on March 15, by a bike path a bit further behind the Opera.)

But yesterday I happened to be behind the Oslo Opera, and there I found lots and lots of coltsfeet and more coming up! Must remember that place.

Oslo Botanical Gardens have vinterblom, eranthis.

Galanthus Nivalis, snowbell

Helleborus niger, white Christmas Rose, is amazing.

I had never noticed before Adonis amurensis, amuradonis at least

  in Norwegian. In English it seems to be Amur Pheasant's Eye.

Also something blue, Siberian squill, Scilla Siberica, one of the most lovely spring flowers, small and delicate but covering large areas.

I also love the striped squill, or Puschkinia Libanotica (Russian Snowdrop).

I heard today where I could find the blue anemone, so I will go looking for it tomorrow. Sounds very early, as the white anemone at least usually blooms in May.

So many flowers already, I only started looking for them a week ago.

One more, the giant snowdrop, Galanthus elwesii, not open yet.

Photography

I feel in some kind of crisis. I love photography and joined Flickr to see and show photos. I don't feel I can use much money for equipment, which means that I just have a point & shoot camera, with no manual way of doing things.  That restricts a lot the way you can photograph.

I have some friends that say what good photos I take. I do try to think of new or interesting ways of taking photos but having no manual way sometimes makes it difficult. It is for example impossible to take a proper photo of the moon as the camera lets in too much light.

People looking at my photos have become fewer and fewer. I think I have given up trying to get more viewers and do not really care.  But then I see a photo I could have taken myself and it has lots and lots of views. So I ask myself why and get annoyed. I feel it has a lot to do  with how well known you are. Sometimes I feel they have so many viewers as they always watch for their photos. People talk about how many comments they have. Many days go without me getting any. I just lost a good Flickr friend so I miss that interaction.

But I have started to see how many people take so much better photos, better angles, better cropping, better everything. Maybe I really do not have the imagination!

I just saw an interview with Philip Lee Harvey, a travel photographer. I really enjoyed that and I had
the strangest reaction to one of his photos. It was about a man dressed in white on top of a high square rock, an image from Ethiopia.  It showed only a short time but I gasped and cried out and almost wept, yet it was probably not even the best of his photos. Or maybe it is, as it is one from the  selection by Harvey by which he won The Travel Photography of the Year award.

2014 https://oxfordschoolofphotography.wordpress.com/2014/12/15/travel-photographer-of-the-year-2014-winners-in-pictures/

There you can see how hopeless the moon photos are :)

Children and the Santa

Yesterday I went to a party arranged by a Finnish organisation. It was mostly for children but others can come too. We always have rice porridge there, the first time for me this year. We always eat it with sugar and cinnamon. The Norwegians also add butter but my family, Finnish-Australian, has always used a little milk. They did not have milk, but I went for seconds.

Later we had coffee with several kinds of cake style goodies, one of them a Finnish "Christmas tart", it is usually made of puff pastry with plum jam and shaped in the form of a star or a pinwheel and they are very good.  Finns are always looking forward to them before Christmas. I had four cakes one of them the tart. I was saving it to last and noticed then that I was so full that it would be better to wait a bit. After a while it tasted fine. 

When we were leaving, a friend encouraged me to have one more. In the buss home I noticed that I had heartburn but I had left my Rennies (for heartburn) at home. I had to use two buses, taking at least three quarters of an hour. I tried burbing, but no go. Those were some most uncomfortable three quarters, it even made me so exhausted that I had to go to bed at once.

For the next party: be careful!

Paris attacks

http://www.euronews.com/2015/11/14/explosion-in-paris-near-stade-de-france-conversely-two-dead-seven-wounded-in

I had just been in the concert hall in Oslo for wonderful Sibelius concert and after that spent a couple of hours with friends eating and talking, not knowing that  horrible events were  taken place in Paris, events that the president of France called "an unprecedented attack". One of these was in a concert venue, where most of the people were killed or injured. There the gunmen kept shooting for at least 15 minutes, reloading and shooting. The number of dead is now 128. There are some 200 injured, 80 of them seriously. The police claim that all the terrorists are killed, by the police (only one, at first they said three) or by their own hand.
The borders are closed, no-one can get into France or out of it.

The world is in sympathy, as you can see also from Twitter. The world was on the side of Norway, too, when we were struck by terror, 77 were dead then, but the deed was done by one of our own who could be apprehended and tried. This is much worse, for the extent and the number of killed.

But this is so unbelievable, that there are people who can plan such things and stand there and keep shooting. What was the main purpose, to spread fear? One shooter had implied France's involvement with Syria as one or the reasons. That is nothing ordinary citizens can do anything about. Most of target areas were frequented by young people, on the football stadium there were even young children. There must have been people from several countries, how would they know whether there might be Muslims there too?

It is reported that there were some Swedes among the dead, no Finns or Norwegians.
Like with the Twin towers incident, you see things happening, which one can hardly comprehend.

Later in the afternoon: A French senator says there are 300 injured.

Sibelius!

https://www.oslo-filharmonien.no/pages/sibelius1

This year has been the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jean Sibelius. There have been exhibitions, concerts and other festivities. Our Finnish church choir arranged a concert in the spring with the choir singing some compositions  of Sibelius and other Finnish songs, a pianist  playing some of his piano pieces and a soprano singing some songs of his. The Town Hall in Helsinki had an extensive exhibition of photos and videos in addition to textual information about him.

This week there is a mini-festival, on Thursday and on Friday there's a concert each day with a different program. In the aula of the concert hall there is also an exhibition of Sibelius's life and work,  photos and text in Norwegian and English, arranged by the Lahti Symphony Orchestra.

The conductor is Jukka-Pekka Saraste, former conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic, now of the WDR Symphony Orchestra,  Cologne. Yesterday was concert number 1, main features the 7th symphony and the violin concerto played by Jennifer Pike. The auditorium was almost full.

The soloist had a beautiful, metal coloured gown. She was very good, getting a standing ovation from the audience, with three calls. Unfortunately I had a seat on the right side and with problems of hearing with my left ear, did not hear very well the ending where the orchestra is playing strongly with the soloist. There are 34 recordings at least of the concerto, and though the performance was spirited and masterful, I remember listening to Norwegian Henning Kraggerud, and being more moved.

It was probably the first time I have heard Suite Nr. 1 from "the Tempest", where there was a section depicting each character, ending with the storm itself. Wow! I was hoping that there was no-one in the audience who had been close to a typhoon, as the performance would have frightened them no end. Even Vivaldi has not imitated storm like that.

Tonight I go to listen to concert nr. 2, with Karita Mattila as soloist. Last Sunday I had a sore throat and fearing getting a cold, has stayed in bed most of the days, but a cold will have its time, you can only lessen the symptoms. I only fear coughing, yesterday I had a period of an itchy throat but was able to prevent a cough.

My explore photos up to date.

1. Untitled, 2. Sunset and blackness, 3. White stripes, 4. Holmenkollen, 5. Holmenkollen, 6. Many directions, 7. Detail, 8. Feeding the ducks, 9. Village of Pechory, near Pskov, Russia, 10. Waves Spjutsund

There was an interval of some seven years before I was again in explore. The funny thing is that the same photo was explored twice on consecutive days as I made some corrections to it and re-uploaded it. Those dates happen to fall on two different years, 2007 and 2008!

Pertti Koivula ~ Kylmä Rakkaus

I like this composition a lot. Somehow the music fits the words very well. The lyric talks about cold love and mentions that it is like winter and ice, and this coldness is felt in the music.

Migration

"From the Middle East, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, hundreds of thousands of people spontaneously leave their home areas with any risk forcing the run in Europe. Experience of countries which constitute the main target in the ongoing exodus proves a disturbing reality. The assimilation policy adopted after the war meant a collapse evident. Inability but deliberately refusing to align with European standards of coexistence of newcomers is a challenge to which European countries have not yet found a solution.
Lately, on the background of rapid growth of the influx of immigrants and in the interest of keeping at least relative stability, Western policy on emigration receives coordinates. The solution, at least for the moment is giving up termenulde ASSIMILATION by replacing it with a new one yet fully incomprehensible: multiculturalism. According to this principle, under the umbrella of Europe there in terms of social and religious place for all: Europeans, Arabs, Africans, Muslims, Christians, atheists, ie a kind of "Babylon" social, cultural, religious, linguistic and economic .
Considering the fact that the final destination of the great migration phenomenon is just beginning, but it is primarily Germany and France and England, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called a special committee to analyze the phenomenon of migration.
Presenting the report to the German Bundestag stunned the entire European community: by the end of this year (2015) between 800,000 and 1 million immigrants are expected to lay only in Germany. The report is more alarming projections coming years. Psychosis of huge masses of people mostly from sub-Saharan African countries Muslim and Arab but to emigrate and settle permanently in Europe then catch unimaginable dimensions. It seems to be a phenomenon in development and will be conducted over a period of several years.
In the face of this phenomenon of migration is just beginning, reality demonstrates unequivocally: European countries were taken by surprise. Some measures and statements by governments of the European Union confirms that. On August 20, 2015 according to Radio DW, Macedonia was forced to institute a state of emergency throughout the territory, with the ability to use firearms in order to keep population.

http://www.cotidianul.ro/macedon"

Of course this is getting even worse as countries like Finland have no recourse to have very large numbers of people settling in,  especially of vastly different cultures, there's often very little sympathy or pity to be found in what people write in newspaper comments for example. The most common attitude is: we already have so many poor people of our own that they would have to be taken care first. So everything would stop there as that's utopia.

It only happened once?

Couple of years ago I started taking photos of cruise ships. First in berths next to the Akershus Castle, then at the end of Tjuvholmen when the ships were leaving. The photo on top has been taken there.

Then I found that a place called Huk in Bygdøy has a high rock, though not as high as when one is standing on the Akerhus Castle grounds. So I can take a different kind of photos there.

In the harbour I could sometimes get a video of a ship leaving and using her horn. I have a collection of those. One cannot usually hear those in Huk. One day, though, a ship was leaving the harbour a bit later, so she met one of the incoming Danish ferries,  not far from Huk. I heard one using her horn and quickly changed the setting of my camera to video. She used the horn three times for a greeting, got an answer of two horns and even answered that. I was so happy! But then I realized that I must have thought I had not got the video going and pressed the camera a second time, which of course turned it off!

I don't think this is likely to happen another time. I bit later two ships met but not close enough for that to happen.

I have not yet tried to take a photo of a ship leaving from the castle, that would be something new.

Travel in Oslo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68_mbqCyFRQ


One can find interesting efforts on YouTube. A woman seems to make travel videos on different cities, I just happened on one when looking for videos on Oslo. The commentary is in English but I do not know her origin, as her English is not easy to understand and the sentences are halting and have mistakes. Someone asks whether she is from Madagascar and she just answers: Nope.

I wonder if they have a similar camera as mine, as it does not seem to have zoom, either.

The video starts by explaining what it is about, the problem is that she is in the camera and they shot her face so close that it is too much "in your face", which is uncomfortable.

They show lots of the centre of the city, but stay very long on the square enclosed by the National Theatre and the National Metro station. She calls the area for 'park', though there is no grass and hardly any trees visible. I wondered why they could not spend more time in the real beautiful Oslo parks. Later we see nice scenes from the central fountains.

They go into the Egon restaurant but stay too much in the close-up mode.

One sees good scenes from the central street, Karl Johans Gate, but she pronounces the name as if it was English. 'Gate' means 'street' in English, not 'gate'.

They call themselves 'JiVie Channel' which sounds very official. They have even an official Facebook page.

There is a good section showing the palace guards and their movements. Also they show Aker Brygge close to 9 o'clock at night, which tells people in more southern countries about the light nights of summer.

A company called Expoza Travel has an older travel video on Oslo, very professional, though containing a few mistakes, with a flowing commentary. It has only some 550 views compared to 25 thousand of the JiVie one, though it has been longer on YouTube. I wonder why?

Well, I have a funny video of a kitten chasing his daddy's tail, which  is not popular, either.

Enjoyment

In 2013 I heard Arkadij Volodos play the Brahms Piano Concert nr . 2 with the Oslo Philharmonic. He certainly is one of the leading pianists of this decade. After the third call he sat down again and played something quite opposite to the fairly boisterous concerto. Was it Bach or Handel, I'm not sure, gentle, fairly slow, but his pianissimos are magical.
We also heard the 5th symphony by Sibelius, my favourite. The director was Jukka-Pekka Saraste. I love the ending by cords. It also has the famous 'swan theme'. You can find the 5th on YouTube by many conductors. I loved the interpretation of Bernstein, partly perhaps as it is a DVD, not CD, so you can see him. Especially the end, where he,  after thanking the orchestra with his hands held palm to palm, folds them in front of his face, seemingly overwhelmed. the camera moving quickly away.

There are some fine remarks on the performance:

"Surely every performance of any work has its merits unless played utterly contradictory to a composer's wishes. This is Bernstein's performance and who has the audacity to argue with him? Sibelius is not here to defend his work and who is entitled to say that he would NOT have approved of Bernstein's
, Karajan's or anyone else's interpretation? Great orchestra and fantastic sound. Thanks."

"Thank you for posting this. It makes me homesick for Finland- and I'm not even from there!!"

"Epic piece...played it in San Vito Lanciano (Italy) 1989 with german conductor and the Orchestra Interazionale...last movement especially really emotional. Best interpretation I have ever heard! Bravo!"

After this some criticism:
"Leonard Bernstein was a true genius one of the greatest musicians, composers and conductors EVER so stop picking nits ! He COMMANDS this orchestra as if he's playing each instrument personally ! I once felt sick when I heard a 'Classic FM' DJ called Henry Kelly refer to him as 'Lenny' as if he were a personal friend and worthy of anything more than doing up his shoelaces !"

"Surely every performance of any work has its merits unless played utterly contradictory to a composer's wishes. This is Bernstein's performance and who has the audacity to argue with him? Sibelius is not here to defend his work and who is entitled to say that he would NOT have approved of Bernstein's, Karajan's or anyone else's interpretation?
Great orchestra and fantastic sound. Thanks."

"Of all the versions of Sibelius' 5th, I must say this is the most perfect.  Which is a lofty thing to say...today I heard this very performance on SiriusXM and had to hold back my blubbering tears as I sat in my car during lunch."

"When Raymond Leppard was music director of the Indianapolis Symphony...he had a weekly program on our NPR station. Called this 'the most perfect symphony'. It is. Yet, the 2nd symphony is still my favorite."

He was answered by: "The face of Bernstein following the end of the Fifth and the end of the Second says it all. I think Bernstein would agree with you"



These probably followed Bernstein's interpretation of the 2nd.:

"Two geniuses made this symphony breathtaking, it leaves me in tears of thanking God' grace on this rainy day in northern California."

"Pinch yourself if you don't feel moved by the closing 15 minutes.  Have to be dead."

"I played it with the Longwood Symphony. It was hard not to weep during the string unisons.
My brother in Seattle heard this done by their Symphonic Orchestra and turned me onto it...can't help but be pulled into the emotion and action...fun, fun, fun."

"Thanks for this!  I love watching Bernstein conduct, & he's especially wonderful here.  Those last few seconds totally melted my heart."

Countries I have visited

Make yours @ BigHugeLabs.com

Four of these I've lived in, not counting England, where I just lived for two months.

Problems, problems, help!

(The photo has nothing to do with the subject, Some kind of aloe grew on our lawn, reaching high, my husband had to steady it with rope. In the end we had to cut it down, it had hundreds of babes which started to grow, took ages to pick them up.)

This is Flickr nowadays. Extractions from the Help Forum:

"Uploading is messed up again. Only tried to upload 2 photos, both timed out. Location Norway.

Click on a picture and it comes up momentarily - then a black screen. This is not a lot of fun. I also agree about very long upload times. It takes longer than when I was using a dial up connection.

I have honestly never used a site that has this many issues. It's not the least bit surprising anymore when something goes wrong. I mean, something goes wrong literally every few days.
I've pretty much given up all hope that Flickr will ever be usable for any sustained period of time.

Same from Belgium when viewing (or scrolling) a picture. Upload was OK.

I have a weird problem... The images flash up quickly and then disappear (the page renders completely black and nothing is visible). this is after I have click on a picture on the main feed of other peoples pictures...

I have the same problem here in Alabama/USA- the page loads, you can see the photo for a moment, and then the whole page just goes black. I have cleared the cach, dumped all .tmp files, looked for unwanted extensions in Chrome- none there, rebooted and run two different malware programs which report all clean. Intermittently, too, I get the Bad Panda page. Mostly just the page that loads then goes black. "


It is just terrible. I read all these problems and maybe I shouldn't. My Flickr behaves quite well, and if something does not work, I usually clear my cache and it works again. What can it be! I get frustrated for the others. People saying they will leave. Things not working for weeks! Even a Norwegian complaining.

The staff has not said much, maybe they have not a clue. Is there something wrong with people's computers, routers, broadband or what?
When are things going to be fixed, people ask. How does the staff know what to fix, if their equipment for ex,  works ok?

Certainly things happen even to me but then it is usually something they know how to fix.

Just now Magic View would not come, clicking for a photo gave me Bad Panda. I cleared the cache and things worked again!

Follow, follow!

Khun P  kevin.sezar   Keraban Aga  Kenneth Houseal  keith midson keith_fannon kegronamy keffermark_mendoza k wandering

It is possible on Flickr to "follow" people whose photos you like, usually you click on the "follow" button on the person's photostream
and they get a message: "So and so is following you!
If you don't know So and so, So and so is probably a fan of your photostream or wants a bookmark so they can find you again. There is no obligation for you to reciprocate, unless you want to."

They used to be called "contacts", which many still think is a better term, some tend to feel follow has overtones of being stalked.
People used to have under 500 contacts. Last year for several reasons it became easier to add lists of people as contacts. The limit of their number used to be 3 000, some time ago Flickr raised the number to 100 000! That is mostly because some people started following even that many people. It seems that some even delete those contacts so thy can then add new people.  I still get these messages and they are usually from people who follow at least 30 000 people. Some people block them, I just do not reciprocate. I do not know my reasons, maybe I'm jealous of them as they usually have huge numbers of views and faves :-) That is supposed to be a joke.

At the top is a section of somebody's list of people they follow, as you can see they are all people starting with the letter k. So I just wonder if they have even seen any of the people's photos as they have just copied the list from somewhere.

The idea was to see and enjoy the photos you like, how is that possible if you follow 100 000 people, it would be impossible time-wise even to see one photo of each!

I have lately added very few followers as they all follow 30 000 to 80 000 at least! It just makes me wonder, if I followed 100 000, would I also get huge numbers of views? I only follow 322 people. That's not easy either.

Are we just lucky? I woke up today in Helsinki hearing loud thunder, but I guess I was tired as I seemed to have fallen asleep again quickly.
When I got up and looked at the news, I found out that Friday was supposed a very thundery day, somewhere else it had rained so the streets were awash. But what I heard was the front passing Helsinki. There was also hail, so big that it broke peonies in a garden in Heikinlaakso.

It,s about half past 1 and the sun is shining, but maybe I'll take the umbrella!

Poor Flickr!

Statoil building, Fornebu, Oslo

Flickr just rolled out most of the extensive changes it has been preparing for months.
Some are happy about them but of course there are huge numbers of people who dislike them. Except that the word is too mild for most of them to use, it is usually: "I hate it!""Remove it immediately!" "Go back to the old one." I understand that people have different opinions and tastes but do some really expect that after so much work ( and I really think most new things are good) Flickr would just abandon all because some of probably 8 million members demand it. Immediately!?

One new thing is the Camera Roll. I think it should have some other name as it has already been the name of an extension in iPhone, I think.

The Camera Roll can only be seen by the owner of the account, You need not use it if you  'hate' it. One problem is that it has been put in 'You', a  drop-down menu. I usually hover over it and just click on whatever I want, but some have to click on it and then they get the Roll, which is in the first position. The  first used to be  photostream, which most people want.

The Camera Roll has all your photos as thumbnails, in the order they were taken. That way it is easy to delete duplicates, which you easily get if you have many photos.

Here are some dissatisfied customers, The first one had not noticed that he should himself have disabled it in the beginning. It is a bulk upload that many people had asked for, but it uploads everything on your phone. He can control it with no problems.

"I discovered that Flickr was automatically uploading photos from my iPhone to the Flickr Camera Roll. I have disabled uploading to Flickr on my iPhone and deleted the photos that were uploaded yesterday (most of them were duplicates of photos that i'd already posted to Flickr and put in Albums).
I use my Flilckr page to show photographs that I want to show, not as a dumping ground or backup for every photo that I take"

The next one has a way with words, though there's some  tautology.

"Perhaps you should check if anyone wanted this rubbish im looking for somewhere else I can put my photos Flickr is total rubbish" 

I'm happy someone is thankful.

"I like the new Flickr! It was amazing that I found today my photos also in views (collections) of e.g. buildings, flowers, weddings, winter, frost, sceneries, trees and birds. I also know that you are working hard there to meet all the needs every critic is giving you. Well, that´s good since people think differently. 
Keep going! 

This was the worst story I saw, just shows you must know what you are doing and be careful.


Camera Roll confused me and I ended up deleting most of my photos. Dunno what to do. I'm thinking of quitting altogether. I thought this was something my phone autouploaded through the Flickr app.(Please disable this!!! It's like stealing people's phone photos. This is horribly invasive and disappointing. Reminds me of Facebook privacy stuff in the past which hurt their reputation.) I never saw it before so I thought it would be safe to delete it. Boy was I wrong! Deleted all my photos. No thanks for the freakin layout change. I'm so pissed off right now.
 Who made these stupid freaking decisions??? And like most websites, this should have been a tester not a forced roll out. Did I not see the option to not go beta? I am kicking myself and crying in pain for doing so.


That was really bad and I feel for him. But of course it had been tested, but just in a smaller group.

Mocking??

"2 million homosexuals flooded the streets and performed a mock crucifixion of Jesus. A transgender actress played the part of dressing up like Jesus, being whipped until she bled, and then being crucified. - See more at: http://truthuncensored.net/2-million-homosexuals-flood-the-streets-and-preform-mock-crucifixion-of-jesus/#sthash.ZJmt9c8E.DBVBQFzD.dpuf"

Why?

I wrote this in the Truthuncensored.net: 

• 
  
• It does not make me angry, but very sad. I cannot find an article that would tell me what was her reason to do this, why is it called “mock”. How could anyone mock what Christ has done! He died for all of us! Jesus is not the same as Christians. No-where in the Bible does Jesus say anything about gays, the only thing he mentions there is about marriage and divorce.
  People usually felt love and respect for Jesus, does this mean something else? I wont mind if you mock Christians, but why insult Jesus, if that was the idea? At least there seems to have been other people who insulted Him with their behavior.
  There are some Christian communities where they have enactment of the crucifixion but it is done to honour Jesus.

I have had and have gay friends that I respect and like, so I will wait for the Lord to tell me the reason they exist, but I only know that God has also created them, so I will not hate my friends.