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mathteacher
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Organize Sweden
Hi,
I'm a high-school dropout, now temporary teacher, who crave life and real "education". Got some ideas and thoughts, now wanting to organize "anti-school"/"life knowledge" proejcts in Sweden.
ARE YOU FROM SWEDEN AND WANTING TO ORGANIZE? Or do you know anyone from Sweden who might be intressed?
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Michio-kun
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Re: Organize Sweden
Boy you came at the wrong time.
Also we're not a big community unfortunately, and nobody here is from Sweden. Most people here are from America and the UK.
By the way, please ignore the forums labeled: School Ramblings, General Talk, and especially Recycle Bin.
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Re: Organize Sweden
I think there was someone from Sweden at some point. Not sure if he's still here though.
What kind of projects did you have in mind?
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mathteacher
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To bad,
I had a couple of things I'm keen to be part of organizing.
* First of all just get some info. and words out in the schools. That there are options, and that they are not what the school tells them they are etc. Maybe translating alot of things connected to this page, and creating some kind of forum for swedish speaking people.
* Start up a skip class activity. So each week during school time there is an activity planned. E.x. see the options to work/school by visiting people who live diffrent, go to the woods, talk, watch a movie, climp the hills, hang out, discuss or what ever...
* Create a home schooling commuity (or and daycare center for younger people)
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Michio-kun
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God that sounds awesome...
Anyway ... if you see stupid stuff on this forum, just ignore it and try to make better posts. Our forum isn't very good right now, and it would be nice if it was turned around.
To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. - Chuang-tzu
The quieter you become, the more you can hear. - Baba Ram Dass
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. - Dogen
Great Faith. Great Doubt. Great Effort. - The three qualities necessary for training. - Zen saying
Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. - Zen saying
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mathteacher
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Personnly I'm kind of intressed to learn to be independet from the school/work system, or the Empire as a whole. I'm learning where and how I can get food, clothes, health, fire/warmth without going to the supermarket, or any other suppressing system. But more important, to learn who we really are. TO get to know our place in this pretty fucked up world. and to heal from the trumas we all have been trough, if it is school, family or just everydaylife we have lived which have deeply traumitized us to be filled of fear.
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mathteacher Wrote:Personnly I'm kind of intressed to learn to be independet from the school/work system, or the Empire as a whole. I'm learning where and how I can get food, clothes, health, fire/warmth without going to the supermarket, or any other suppressing system. But more important, to learn who we really are. TO get to know our place in this pretty fucked up world. and to heal from the trumas we all have been trough, if it is school, family or just everydaylife we have lived which have deeply traumitized us to be filled of fear.
Your thoughts sound a lot like mine. I would recommend reading a book called Mindful Economics. You may also be interested in the website www.energybulletin.net.
If you're young, you may be in luck. I believe that humanity is about to experience a massive sociocultural shift. In perhaps 30 years, the world will operate very different from today. What will change is a move from an interlinked international economy where we are all dependent on each other for trade, to a more self-sufficient time period. This will happen if capitalism fails, which I believe it will due to the coming global depression and the depletion of oil. The system will be forced to change whether we like it or not.
To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. - Chuang-tzu
The quieter you become, the more you can hear. - Baba Ram Dass
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. - Dogen
Great Faith. Great Doubt. Great Effort. - The three qualities necessary for training. - Zen saying
Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. - Zen saying
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Re: Organize Sweden
I was about to tell you to go to the wiki, and help fill in the Sweden page, but it seems there's some issue with the server right now... so that'll have to wait. 
Basically we're trying to gather info on alternatives in all the countries of the world, because information like that seems to be hard to find on the internet.
I also want to put up lots of info on alternative lifestyles, like job stuff and how to live without one... stuff like that.
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mathteacher Wrote:To bad,
I had a couple of things I'm keen to be part of organizing.
* First of all just get some info. and words out in the schools. That there are options, and that they are not what the school tells them they are etc. Maybe translating alot of things connected to this page, and creating some kind of forum for swedish speaking people.
* Start up a skip class activity. So each week during school time there is an activity planned. E.x. see the options to work/school by visiting people who live diffrent, go to the woods, talk, watch a movie, climp the hills, hang out, discuss or what ever...
* Create a home schooling commuity (or and daycare center for younger people)
move to America and teach at my school pl0x
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