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I agree. But it’s sadly an unenforceable principle when dealing with German musicology. Maybe I should just point out the people who were demonstrably not Nazis

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Det er ganske mye modigere å kjempe mot Israel, tenker jeg.

Super important thread about censorship and racism towards Palestinian accounts on here.

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I just sent some money to Lubna in Gaza. The situation there is beyond description. Please share and donate if you have the opportunity!

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Anders V @veiteberg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Hello dear Lubna, thanks for writing me. I just made a small donation. The situation in Gaza breaks my heart.

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Thanks for writing me! I just made a small donation - hope you get many more!

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Anders V @veiteberg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I'm still struggling with this tbh! And then there's also a whole list of subtle hints and phrases to show that one belongs among the privileged few

Another thing one doesn’t learn in German class is the one-way-Du. If a professor says Du, you’re still supposed to respond with Sie. It took a whole year before I got this

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That’s a great story. It makes sense that the collegial Du was no longer appropriate. Still, it must be feel really strange to consciously distance oneself in this way.

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A question about Germany: A singing professor I knew said Sie to her bachelor students, and Du to the master students. This means that the change from the formal to the more intimate form was completely predictable and structured. Is there a term for this phenomenon? Are there other examples?

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Hell is what people are going through in Gaza, but I hope you will be able to cope with this difficult experience.

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Charlie W @charlie-w.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Thanks for the this. I’ve still to read Nietzsche, but I think this is correct. Or one could say that secularism killed Christianity.

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Well, on the Nietzschean account (Genealogy), Christianity is woven into secular value systems, and in a negative way. So the roots of the problem are v. deep (for him).

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Hehe, I agree. And that is basically my issue with Western Christianity, it doesn't offer a moral alternative. However, to make this argument, I would have to have find examples of Christian groups that have had a genuine positive effect in the world...

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True. But in many European countries, churches are state funded (or through Kirchensteuer). That’s a fascinating hypothesis. In Norway, conversions to Catholicism (from mainstream Lutheranism) may be linked to the demands it asks from believers, and that it is more resistant towards secular trends.

That might be true, but in that case, religion is not much different from a crossfit gym. And how do you account for mainstream western Christianity, which doesn’t place any demands on its adherents?

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«where Christians adopt a wide range of moral positions and live lives that are not clearly differentiated from those of non-Christians, where discipline becomes a matter of strategic interventions and statistical calculations, it is understandable that rites should have become symbolic occasions.»

If anything, it seems that Christians in Norway are less likely to care about the genocide in Gaza than the rest of the population, while many Muslim groups are constantly fundraising for Palestine.

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Anders V @veiteberg.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I’m reading Talal Asad, he makes the point that there is nothing separating the lifestyle of Christians from others in modern Western societies. What’s the point of such a religion?

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For English class, we did The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - a book I have very mixed feelings about. Great Gatsby was too difficult, sadly...

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Anders V @veiteberg.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

We read "An Enemy of the People" by Henrik Ibsen. I still think about it from time to time.

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Anders V @veiteberg.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

A good reason to believe in conspiracies is that powerful elites want to keep their activities secret. Think of MKULTRA, cointelpro, jfk, watergate etc. It long seemed ridiculous that NATO had stay behind armies in neutral Sweden.

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Anders V @veiteberg.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Thank you!❤️ All my very best wishes to you and your family

Anders V @veiteberg.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I just made a donation to Misk in Gaza. Please share and donate if you have the opportunity!

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Chris Larsen @chrislarsen.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

On my 18th birthday, my biggest concern was teen angst, not my brother's leg injury. Please help if you can.

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Anders V @veiteberg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I would be happy to hear what you’re working on btw!😊

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Anders V @veiteberg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Thank you, Anna!! I've frankly stopped expecting anything else, but it's frustrating that they are so good at slowing you down and distracting you from the important issues. it's almost impressive

Hello dear Lubna, I just made a small donation to your campaign. I would be very happy if someone else would donate as well!

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It’s funny - I make an effort to use full sentences and to avoid humour and irony in academic settings, as I know that might be a barrier for outsiders. And I don’t lie. Apparently, Norwegian academics interpret this strategy as aggression.

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Yes!! I hope to do that! I've learned so much more from people like MAKC than from my professors. I've been able to get funding to invite some real scholars for a lecture series next year, so that's really cool at least.

That makes sense. It's also fascinating that the lowest-paying jobs are held by immigrants - who face immense pushback if they criticise any aspect of Norwegian society...

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