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Dear Irish friends and friends of Europe,

I am a citizen of a EU member state. In my country, we have not been allowed to vote on the future of Europe. You, our friends in Ireland, alone have this right and are called to vote on the "Lisbon Treaty" on June 12th.

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Been quite a month - movement, lots of movement, but not all directed by me, not in an aware way I mean - stuff is happening. Laptop broke down - is now back to the store, to be repaired or replaced. I've been stating last month (out of fear) that if the laptop has to break down, then please within the guarantee period. And this happened. In the last month before the guarantee period expired. So I got what I wished for. Two ways to look at it: the laptop broke down because I feared it breaking d… Continue

The new CEO of Virgin Media, Neil Berkett, has openly stated in an interview that they think net neutrality is “a load of bollocks” and claimed they're already doing deals to deliver some people’s content faster than others. They would then put websites and services that don't pay Virgin in the "slow lane", meaning those sites would load slowly and cause most users to give up using them, feeling forced… Continue

So ok, I'll prepare and eat meat balls tomorrow.

I used to make them with gloves on because I couldn't stand the idea of meat on my skin, under my nails - it disgusted me. And with that I had a disgust for animals - no, for dead animals. Strange - me 'loving' animals so much and at the same time feeling so disgusted by their dead substance, hmmm
Is it not disgust for death also?
Anyway I will prepare the meat with my bear hands, feel the structure, smell it. I sure hope I don't have to puke.
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I forgive myself for accepting and allowing me to define myself as the mediator, because I am mediator out of fear of conflict and out of fear for loosing my safety net (consisting of people that love me, like me and wont let me down).
I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to be a mediator not because I choose to, not because I prefer - but because that is my way of dealing with trouble and out of lacking another way to deal with conflict.
I forgive myself for accepting and allowing… Continue