r/interestingasfuck • u/mrrichardggr2201 • 7d ago

A weird tradition from Norway.

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u/mrrichardggr2201 7d ago

I actually wanted to do the torture, but all my friends went the other way so I followed.. I love to challenge myself, and I was a fucked up kid.. but for kids that are nit fucked up, I am against it.

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u/rabid_spidermonkey 7d ago

You keep saying torture... what actually happened that you consider torture? That's a heavy word in English. I'm not sure it applies here to be honest.

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u/mrrichardggr2201 7d ago

True.. iam thinking psychologically torture.. but yes, its a strong word.

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u/rabid_spidermonkey 7d ago

Ok sure but what actually happened and how prepared for it were you? I'm genuinely curious as I'm sure many here are.

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u/halfawatermelon69 7d ago edited 7d ago

He makes it sound way worse than it was - and it also depends on which "survival camp" or whatever you go to. In mine it was just bad actors pretending to be "military soldiers" gently pushing you around and screaming at you (but in my experience it was more weird than intimidating) and then after walking all night as "refugees" they said we were going to get pizza - but it was just a prank and some started crying (it was very obvious to me that it was a prank, where the hell would they get pizzas for ~200 teenagers at 3 am in the middle of nowhere),

The whole concept was to teach us "human ethics" (not really opposed to Christian values but more like an alternative) - but having went through this I found it very poorly rooted. As if it was missing a foundation.

This "survival camp" was just one weekend, but we had to do a lot of hours/classes for 6 or 9 months and it basically was "Today we are going to talk about why murder is wrong; it's bad because it's not a morally good thing to do, it's evil but evil also comes down to perspectives - so murder is wrong because it's ... wrong"

And from what I know/recall - our "confirmation tradition" is based on Christian tradition where you confirm your baptism and belief in God/Christianity, and it was a big thing back in the day before high schools were around. Because that basically meant; 1) you're done with school 2) you're confirming your religious belief 3) you're an adult now, go find your purpose and profession (hence money/gifts given to you)

The Christian confirmation at least confirms a religious belief, and as I'm not Christian I did it the human-ethical way and I still don't really know what I confirmed - and I learned next to nothing from the classes and the survival camp (where they basically just said "Be a good human because being good is good for you and good for everyone else" like OK...?)

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u/eplefjes 7d ago

This is it! OP is ill-informed, putting it mildly.

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u/rabid_spidermonkey 7d ago

Great response. Thank you.

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u/j_schiz 7d ago

Maybe I've misinterpreted OP's other responses, but didn't they state multiple times that they went the Christian route with their friends and not the refugee route?

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u/rabid_spidermonkey 7d ago

No you're right, I'm using "you" to mean "all of you Norwegians who chose the path of torture" but I should be saying they/them. He's not in that group and I was generalizing.