My Most Important Life Lesson 

Sigmas either save the world or get labeled villains. Bcuz they won’t conform. I am so happy that I piss off alpha males. Cry about it. Idc it only proves your not an alpha

I’ve been disillusioned for a long time, but only recently got a primal yearning for being outdoors more, closer to nature and a slower-paced, but more fulfilled life…fulfilled with basic human needs completed fully and wholesomely. I suspect it could be my Norwegian heritage…my inner Viking.

@@LukeTPZ I was the same way for many years. And I too have the Norwegian bloodline - to a great extent. It has balanced me out along with the realization, around 15 years ago, that we all were being lied to. About almost everything. It’s hard to handle at times but I fall back on my ancestry and what they had to deal with all those years ago. I’m from strong stock or I wouldn’t be here now. And so are you… So are many of us who will not be held down and let this life waste away…

Its like a gift that one cannot refuse, or like being gifted a box that is full of shit

Submissive to what?

​@@lisamc2820 its not a norwegian thing its human we are utterly estranged from our nature by this sick slavemachine of a society.

Ditto my friend! 🙏❤️🕯🕊🇳🇿

Many thanks!

I liked this ep. He has a nice soul. Like that he didn't slander all Russia with its Leader here. The worst that would ever happen to Russia if EU approached it's borders is "Hey, want to sign up to Schenghen Treaty with us". If I were the next Russian leader I'd say Yes, but with the only caveat that Putin ever said that was "Parents get to parent till age 18". He was against losing parental rights to raise children and Nazi's and yet NATO, US, EU can't deal in those 2 policies. It's not going to end well if they don't listen. Anyway, enjoying seeing Norway and sad it's so vulnerable now. Hope we don't have a clash there.

The other thing I would say to Bjorn is, if Billy Connolly agrees, can you imagine that episode on a lake by a campfire. Wow, would be awesome. His America series was amazing and there's no reason he wouldn't be awesome in Norway too. I know he's been unwell but if he can, I think he would love it. It would be special

@@leonie563 Agreed!

Do you have a blog or website capturing any of this? I’m 50, at a crossroads and wondering where to go forth? Looking for ideas. Hence my resonation with your comment. Cheers!

Yet the masses continue to support bigger and bigger and ever more controlling governments instead of living by the principles of individual self reliance. It does not work when people insist on having more if what destroys freedom and they reject the real virtues that freedom depends upon.

Your fridge lasted 25 years?

@@davideldred.campingwilder6481 LOL 😂 Yes, it did! Then one day it flooded my kitchen, and I had to get a new frig. Still have the magnet though 😜

@@davideldred.campingwilder6481 i like it 🤣

@@davideldred.campingwilder6481 Had mine almost 30years.

Yeh I have to say, people telling you to "just live life!" is not helpful when you're weighed down with anxiety and depression (Complex-PTSD). I've never known how to "live life. "

Took the words right out of my noggin; deep down, I want to engage with life like Bjorn describes, but it all feels like too much and no proper direction.

​@@charlottetaylor4471 sorry to hear you suffer from that ,try small steps at a time , little wins, remind yourself that it's just a body feeling ,that's triggering the thoughts ,that are triggering the feeling.A vicious cycle.

​@@charlottetaylor4471 goodluck!!

I too recently retired. Its a beautiful thing having full control over your day to day existence. No more "rat race" yes sir; no sir; right away sir. 😂

“Living every moment” as you wasted most of your life at work. You aren’t free of the sheep, you participated

@@gr2786 True.. just a stretched out way of saying "IDGAF let me live degenerately"..

@@ytplol8446 don’t need to be a “functioning member of society” to be productive, fulfilled, purposeful.

I must be a Viking because what I went through in life would have destroyed and killed many people. I survived it all and brought myself and my daughter out of hell and my daughter is happy now. I did that all alone.

Fear is a misuse of the imagination.

Well said 😊

fear is their greatest weapon against us

We have to have some fear in order to survive, but it is choosing what type of fear we buy into. It’s better to be educated, to be aware of true treats and not live in fear or let fear hold you back from living. I think I am lucky in being raised in a very courageous family, I am also grateful for having gone through a lot of hardships which has taught me that I am resilient and stronger that I thought I was. We just have to keep on moving forward and not be paralysed by fear. That is not living :)

Me too !

I feel you , I also feel very conflicted, it's hard once you wake up and see the bs that's going on .

I'm aware but still frozen (I have a messed up "super sensitive" nervous system ha)

You are an inspiration, Russian RU-vid - wow!

From here in the highly regressive region of northern California, USA, I support Russia....too.

Sehr gut Kamerad

Yes. Keep learning. That is so important. Well done on you for teaching yourself Russian!

@@spezibauer6009 vielle danke

Yes they do. He has very kind eyes and expressions

Its sins..

Then you would be wrong lol

All by design.

There can be more to the situation than it initially seems. Trauma, for example, leaves you in a stuck and self-destructive state.

It's caused by blue light , a modern problem

@@Mrdsmith500 that's True

@@Mrdsmith500 those in power DO NOT want a population of fit ,strong ,intelligent ,well organised , politically active go-getters

I don’t share the stuff now- they have already taken boosters.

Thank you, Isabelle. Glad you liked it.

The evidence of atrocity and of intent mounts By Tim Snyder (published on April 8) Russia has just issued a genocide handbook for its war on Ukraine. The Russian official press agency “RIA Novosti” published last Sunday an explicit program for the complete elimination of the Ukrainian nation as such. It is still available for viewing, and has now been translated several times into English. As I have been saying since the war began, “denazification” in official Russian usage just means the destruction of the Ukrainian state and nation. A “Nazi,” as the genocide manual explains, is simply a human being who self-identifies as Ukrainian. According to the handbook, the establishment of a Ukrainian state thirty years ago was the “nazification of Ukraine.” Indeed “any attempt to build such a state” has to be a “Nazi” act. Ukrainians are “Nazis” because they fail to accept “the necessity that the people support Russia.” Ukrainians should suffer for believing that they exist as a separate people; only this can lead to the “redemption of guilt.” For anyone still out there who believes that Putin’s Russia opposes the extreme right in Ukraine or anywhere else, the genocide program is a chance to reconsider. Putin’s Russian regime talks of “Nazis” not because it opposes the extreme right, which it most certainly does not, but as a rhetorical device to justify unprovoked war and genocidal policies. Putin’s regime is the extreme right. It is the world center of fascism. It supports fascists and extreme-right authoritarians around the world. In traducing the meaning of words like “Nazi,” Putin and his propagandists are creating more rhetorical and political space for fascists in Russia and elsewhere. The genocide handbook explains that the Russian policy of “denazification” is not directed against Nazis in the sense that the word is normally used. The handbook grants, with no hesitation, that there is no evidence that Nazism, as generally understood, is important in Ukraine. It operates within the special Russian definition of “Nazi”: a Nazi is a Ukrainian who refuses to admit being a Russian. The “Nazism” in question is “amorphous and ambivalent”; one must, for example, be able to see beneath the world of appearance and decode the affinity for Ukrainian culture or for the European Union as “Nazism.” The actual history of actual Nazis and their actual crimes in the 1930s and 1940s is thus totally irrelevant and completely cast aside. This is perfectly consistent with Russian warfighting in Ukraine. No tears are shed in the Kremlin over Russian killing of Holocaust survivors or Russian destruction of Holocaust memorials, because Jews and the Holocaust have nothing to do with the Russian definition of “Nazi.” This explains why Volodymyr Zelens’kyi, although a democratically-elected president, and a Jew with family members who fought in the Red Army and died in the Holocaust, can be called a Nazi. Zelens’kyi is a Ukrainian, and that is all that “Nazi” means. On this absurd definition, where Nazis have to be Ukrainians and Ukrainians have to be Nazis, Russia cannot be fascist, no matter what Russians do. This is very convenient. If “Nazi” has been assigned the meaning “Ukrainian who refuses to be Russian” then it follows that no Russian can be a Nazi. Since for the Kremlin being a Nazi has nothing to do with fascist ideology, swastika-like symbols, big lies, rallies, rhetoric of cleansings, aggressive wars, abductions of elites, mass deportations, and the mass killing of civilians, Russians can do all of these things without ever having to ask if they themselves on the wrong side of the historical ledger. And so we find Russians implementing fascist policies in the name of “denazification.” The Russian handbook is one of the most openly genocidal documents I have ever seen. It calls for the liquidation of the Ukrainian state, and for abolition of any organization that has any association with Ukraine. It postulates that the “majority of the population” of Ukraine are “Nazis,” which is to say Ukrainians. (This is clearly a reaction to Ukrainian resistance; at war’s beginning the assumption was that there were only a few Ukrainians and that they would be easily eliminated. This was clear in another text published in RIA Novosti, the victory declaration of 26 February.) Such people, “the majority of the population,” so more than twenty million people, are to be killed or sent to work in “labor camps” to expurgate their guilt for not loving Russia. Survivors are to be subject to “re-education.” Children will be raised to be Russian. The name “Ukraine” will disappear. A girl looks back as she is being evacuated from Irpin. Many civilians who remained in that Kyiv suburb were murdered by Russian servicemen. According to local officials, their bodies were then crushed with tanks. Had this genocide handbook appeared at some other time and in a more obscure outlet, it might have escaped notice. But it was published right in the middle of the Russian media landscape during a Russian war of destruction explicitly legitimated by the Russian head of state’s claim that a neighboring nation did not exist. It was published on a day when the world was learning of a mass murder of Ukrainians committed by Russians. Russia’s genocide handbook was published on April 3, two days after the first revelation that Russian servicemen in Ukraine had murdered hundreds of people in Bucha, and just as the story was reaching major newspapers. The Bucha massacre was one of several cases of mass killing that emerged as Russian troops withdrew from the Kyiv region. This means that the genocide program was knowingly published even as the physical evidence of genocide was emerging. The writer and the editors chose this particular moment to make public a program for the elimination of the Ukrainian nation as such. As a historian of mass killing, I am hard pressed to think of many examples where states explicitly advertise the genocidal character of their own actions right at at the moment those actions become public knowledge. From a legal perspective, the existence of such a text (in the larger context of similar statements and Vladimir Putin’s repeated denial that Ukraine exists) makes the charge of genocide far easier to make. Legally, genocide means both actions that destroy a group in whole or in part, combined with some intention to do so. Russia has done the deed and confessed to the intention.

Congratulations on your 100th sale! 🎉❤ that's a huge achievement, you should be very proud of yourself. Keep on writing those books and letting everyone read your beautiful stories. Being an author is such a wonderful profession. Blessings from the UK

I`ve sold 52 copies of my autobiography and am very proud of it. Not many of us can sit down for hundreds of hours of writing and endless editing. Be proud, I hope you sell a million copies.

@@HarryFenton6124 Thank you! You as well!

@@PeaceButterfly Thank you so much!

I thought they were already available in English.

Thank you! One of many languages they have been translated into.

Thank you! 😃

I prefer, "If you're going through hell, walk like you own it."

The evidence of atrocity and of intent mounts By Tim Snyder (published on April 8) Russia has just issued a genocide handbook for its war on Ukraine. The Russian official press agency “RIA Novosti” published last Sunday an explicit program for the complete elimination of the Ukrainian nation as such. It is still available for viewing, and has now been translated several times into English. As I have been saying since the war began, “denazification” in official Russian usage just means the destruction of the Ukrainian state and nation. A “Nazi,” as the genocide manual explains, is simply a human being who self-identifies as Ukrainian. According to the handbook, the establishment of a Ukrainian state thirty years ago was the “nazification of Ukraine.” Indeed “any attempt to build such a state” has to be a “Nazi” act. Ukrainians are “Nazis” because they fail to accept “the necessity that the people support Russia.” Ukrainians should suffer for believing that they exist as a separate people; only this can lead to the “redemption of guilt.” For anyone still out there who believes that Putin’s Russia opposes the extreme right in Ukraine or anywhere else, the genocide program is a chance to reconsider. Putin’s Russian regime talks of “Nazis” not because it opposes the extreme right, which it most certainly does not, but as a rhetorical device to justify unprovoked war and genocidal policies. Putin’s regime is the extreme right. It is the world center of fascism. It supports fascists and extreme-right authoritarians around the world. In traducing the meaning of words like “Nazi,” Putin and his propagandists are creating more rhetorical and political space for fascists in Russia and elsewhere. The genocide handbook explains that the Russian policy of “denazification” is not directed against Nazis in the sense that the word is normally used. The handbook grants, with no hesitation, that there is no evidence that Nazism, as generally understood, is important in Ukraine. It operates within the special Russian definition of “Nazi”: a Nazi is a Ukrainian who refuses to admit being a Russian. The “Nazism” in question is “amorphous and ambivalent”; one must, for example, be able to see beneath the world of appearance and decode the affinity for Ukrainian culture or for the European Union as “Nazism.” The actual history of actual Nazis and their actual crimes in the 1930s and 1940s is thus totally irrelevant and completely cast aside. This is perfectly consistent with Russian warfighting in Ukraine. No tears are shed in the Kremlin over Russian killing of Holocaust survivors or Russian destruction of Holocaust memorials, because Jews and the Holocaust have nothing to do with the Russian definition of “Nazi.” This explains why Volodymyr Zelens’kyi, although a democratically-elected president, and a Jew with family members who fought in the Red Army and died in the Holocaust, can be called a Nazi. Zelens’kyi is a Ukrainian, and that is all that “Nazi” means. On this absurd definition, where Nazis have to be Ukrainians and Ukrainians have to be Nazis, Russia cannot be fascist, no matter what Russians do. This is very convenient. If “Nazi” has been assigned the meaning “Ukrainian who refuses to be Russian” then it follows that no Russian can be a Nazi. Since for the Kremlin being a Nazi has nothing to do with fascist ideology, swastika-like symbols, big lies, rallies, rhetoric of cleansings, aggressive wars, abductions of elites, mass deportations, and the mass killing of civilians, Russians can do all of these things without ever having to ask if they themselves on the wrong side of the historical ledger. And so we find Russians implementing fascist policies in the name of “denazification.” The Russian handbook is one of the most openly genocidal documents I have ever seen. It calls for the liquidation of the Ukrainian state, and for abolition of any organization that has any association with Ukraine. It postulates that the “majority of the population” of Ukraine are “Nazis,” which is to say Ukrainians. (This is clearly a reaction to Ukrainian resistance; at war’s beginning the assumption was that there were only a few Ukrainians and that they would be easily eliminated. This was clear in another text published in RIA Novosti, the victory declaration of 26 February.) Such people, “the majority of the population,” so more than twenty million people, are to be killed or sent to work in “labor camps” to expurgate their guilt for not loving Russia. Survivors are to be subject to “re-education.” Children will be raised to be Russian. The name “Ukraine” will disappear. A girl looks back as she is being evacuated from Irpin. Many civilians who remained in that Kyiv suburb were murdered by Russian servicemen. According to local officials, their bodies were then crushed with tanks. Had this genocide handbook appeared at some other time and in a more obscure outlet, it might have escaped notice. But it was published right in the middle of the Russian media landscape during a Russian war of destruction explicitly legitimated by the Russian head of state’s claim that a neighboring nation did not exist. It was published on a day when the world was learning of a mass murder of Ukrainians committed by Russians. Russia’s genocide handbook was published on April 3, two days after the first revelation that Russian servicemen in Ukraine had murdered hundreds of people in Bucha, and just as the story was reaching major newspapers. The Bucha massacre was one of several cases of mass killing that emerged as Russian troops withdrew from the Kyiv region. This means that the genocide program was knowingly published even as the physical evidence of genocide was emerging. The writer and the editors chose this particular moment to make public a program for the elimination of the Ukrainian nation as such. As a historian of mass killing, I am hard pressed to think of many examples where states explicitly advertise the genocidal character of their own actions right at at the moment those actions become public knowledge. From a legal perspective, the existence of such a text (in the larger context of similar statements and Vladimir Putin’s repeated denial that Ukraine exists) makes the charge of genocide far easier to make. Legally, genocide means both actions that destroy a group in whole or in part, combined with some intention to do so. Russia has done the deed and confessed to the intention.

Thank you so much!

It's depression and hopelessness. They are exhausting.

For me it's realizing I can't trust anyone to be there for me. 2020 was the year that I realized I literally have only a couple friends and since then the friends I thought I had are not friends at all. When you realize you're literally on your own, it's a bit mind numbing. I'm trying to meet new people who I hope will be there but I can't guarantee that either.

Quit being a coward.

Thank you very much! I hope to see it in English soon too.

Good points. To be honest, I already own everything I want that can be bought, and taxes is certainly frustrating as what I earn moving forward is mostly saved for my kids. I work because I'm driven, and also for my kids. Not to pay taxes.

Amen to that, Roberta.❤

exactly !

That is awesome! Congrats!

Redneck.

Ditto

Idleness isn't always a bad thing 🙂

@@charlottetaylor4471 of course...working is only worth it if there is a vision for the future and a happy life as a reward.if not 🤷‍♂️ it feels like a waste of my powers and potential.

Try and be more compassionate.