Lisa Magnusson: No, thank the martyr

So is this. Christmas, this great feast. I am thinking not only of the there with Jesus, as Mary gave birth to with pain, just as God wanted it, and who then himself died for our sins. I mean even all the usual vardagsmartyrer.

It is a pity about them, and just as the son of God is suffering not the means but the whole point. They sacrifice themselves for that, we'll have it good. But what the hell do they get for it?

No thank you martyr. It is also a little bit of it that is the thing: No one has asked the martyrs, to be martyrs. They just did it anyway. And their cloying demands for ”a little appreciation, at least,” disturbing, for what it is well for christmas gift when the donor suddenly requires paid?

What are the triumphs they celebrate christmas and other celebrations, these privacy-plagued self-sacrificing souls!

comes from the Greek ”marty's”, to testify, and to which they bear witness. There are, in fact, no humble martyrs, they are rather a kind of förgrämda heroes. Some people have given up themselves for the greater thing since the beginning of history, but there was at least one honor in it, a purpose.

Today vardagsmartyrer excels in, instead, on the contrary, by their bitterness, their lack of vision. They are suffering in the small and talk about the true values as something already pre-lost, and about themselves as victims of a stupid, cruel world that none understand.

The triumphs they celebrate christmas and other celebrations, these privacy-plagued self-sacrificing souls! But without joy.

a modern martyr is to give up power in order to establish the ultimate power – to put the other in so tremendous debt of gratitude to the never going to atone. Thus makes you lonely and miserable.

instead, realize that they are doing christmas for its own sake will not only make it easier to determine how much time and energy they want to devote to the project. They will also feel better. For it is only when a victim is voluntary and unconditional as it really is enjoyable.