Mostly nerds I think, but what can you do?

Nerds, some bots, but also an increasing number of real people with diverse backgrounds and opinions.

Welcome in!!

Ik kom ook uit #Nederland. Heb me recent aangemeld maar nog geen reacties op mijn #newhere post.

welcome :)

Er zijn enige mensen hier uit Nederland, en die schrijven ook in het Nederlands. Er zijn natuurlijk ook mensen uit andere landen. Gelukkig schriven ze vaak in het Engels, maar natuurlijk ook in andere talen (Frans, Spans, Grieks, etc. etc.)

Maar ik vers er zijn niet zo veel Duitsers die in het Nederlands. Ik doe dat wel - ondanks mijn problemen met de spelling (en het/det is nog steds onduidelojk voor mij).

Ik wens je veel plezier in Diaspora.

:-)

@Marc, je moet beginnen met contacten toe te voegen. Ik had er al wat van internet geplukt en toegevoegd. En daarbij je post met #newhere publiek plaatsen. Dan kan hij ook door anderen gedeeld worden. Dat is nu ook met die van mij gebeurd. Succes!

Welcome into the federation! :-)

@Menno Dank voor je reactie. Ik heb nog geen contacten. Door mijn bericht op 'openbaar' te zetten dacht ik dat het voor iedereen zichtbaar zou zijn. Ik heb in dat bericht #nieuwhier gebruikt maar niet het Engelse #newhere.

Welcome. I miss Frikandel speciaal met friet back in the days when I lived in Germany, close to Venlo. Actually I miss so many dutch things that i will probably visit a dutch beach next year. or jazz festival.

@docnederlands@pluspora.com

Ik zou er verheugd zijn als hier nog meer mensen uit het platte land bijkomen.

Welkom in diasporaland Menno. Ik heb ook mijn eigen pod draaien op een VPS. Goed om nieuwe gezichten te zien!
Btw, mijn VPS draait in een .de datacenter bij contabo (erg veel bang for buck)

@Rob Bosch, Dan gaan wij lekker snel naar elkaar praten. Die van mij zit dus ook bij Contabo.

@Marc Je ziet dat er al veel mensen contact zoeken. Voeg ze zelf gerust aan je contacten toe. Dat vinden ze vast niet erg.

Welcome aboard!

welcome! @Yogrt** and @Lilith Goregeous have said they are Hollanders.
but haven't seen them around here lately.

Welcome in the magic bus !

welcome aboard Menno

Warm welcom to you !

Welcome!

Diaspora is a great place for privacy advocates, Linux users, anarchists, atheists (or others with unusual views about religions), amateur photographers, etc.

What is Messianic? Calvinist (like the Reformed Church)? (You said you were Dutch.)

Or maybe Mennonite? (Pun intended.)

Following Wikipedia are about 50% of no religion. 24% are roman-catholic, 15% belong to the protestant religions, 5% are muslim. 6% are Jewish, buddhist, hindu etc.

Astonishing, isn' t it?

I did work for three years in NL, enjoyed that time very much. I learned quite a lot about Germany during that time. Also about the darkest chapters of the Dutch-German history.

@David
Yes, and this is my church:

No, seriously, with Messianic I mean the group of people who know God as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and do believe that Jesus is the Messiah. We value the regulations of the Torah and accept the salvation by Jesus.

Christianity in general has lost its connection with the Jewish roots. Most Christians have created their own celebrations like Christmas and Easter. We celebrate the traditional Jewish feasts like Pesach and Sukkot.

The Messianic conviction started when Jesus (or Yeshua, for that is his Hebrew name) started preaching. He was a Jew living the Jewish Torah and while bringing salvation, he has always tought us to hold on to the Torah. So that is what the first Christians did and that is what we as Messianic community do.

BTW, we also recognize the Saturday, which is the 7th day, the Shabbath, as the day of rest, and not the Sunday.

Well this is an issue we do not have common. But I am sure that in the Diaspora will be able to maintain an atmosphere of tolerance and mutual respect.

Being a happy atheist I am quite optimistic about this.

@Menno Manheim

So you are Menno Manheim, and your church is the Manheim Mennonite Church. That can not be a coincidence. Are you the preacher?

Your church is in the traditional American home of Mennonites and other Anabaptists, but your profile page says you live in Lelystad, which is in the middle of the Netherlands. This seems anomalous.

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I associate the Netherlands with Calvinism, but Menno Simons was actually born in what is now part of the Netherlands, right? The theology of the Anabaptists seems more humane to me than that of the Calvinists.

I should add that, like @(((Dirk Weber))), I'm also an atheist, but I still take an interest in other people's views.

By the time I was in my 30s, Protestants here in the United States started to embrace (in my opinion) another religion. This other religion is usually called conservatism, but it's closer, I think, to the "Objectivism" of Ayn Rand (author of The Virtue of Selfishness). The Objectivists (to me) seem as inhumane as the Calvinists.

I've written elsewhere that "conservatism" is less about traditional morality, and more about keeping the traditional social order, where those on top now remain on top.

What do you think?

It is rather usual to associate The Netherlands with calvinism, and this surely was true in the past. But things have changed a bit. As I wrote above there are much more roman catholics in The Netherlands than other religions and people who do not regard themselves as religious are nearly 50 per cent of the population.

Well you cannot say that The Netherlands are a roman catholic society nowadays, but the domination of calvinism is history.

Why should Menno not follow a religion which has its roots in the US, or at least its most followers?

Hoi Menno, Hartelijke groeten van een mede-Nederlander!

@David and @(((Dirk Weber))) I am joking about the Mennonites. That is just a coincidence in mutual names. Read the rest of that post to learn about my Messianic conviction.

;-)

Ah.

@J R That is true! I am! But unfortunately I'm not as much on the D* as I would like to... Anyway, @Menno Manheim, Welcome! :)

Ik weet niet zeker of ik mezelf tel onder "real people";P

Dat valt snel te testen @Lilith Goregeous... Je pakt een speld bij de kop vast tussen duim en wijsvinger. Dan zet je het scherpe deel op bijvoorbeeld je andere hand. Zodra de punt je huid van je hand raakt, en je duwt nog 'iets' verder, dan zou je een pijnsensatie moeten voelen. Als dat niet zo is, dan is dat een sterke aanwijzing dat je geen 'real people' bent... :P

Hahahah oke
positieve uitslag! @Rob Bosch

Okee, toch geen robot dus ;-)

Gelukkig! :P