Helsinki subway flooded
Hiski
on the subway. This afternoon, huge amounts of water invaded the
tunnels at the most important station, the one under Helsinki Main
Railway Station, and continue to do so. Some pockets of water are
reported to be 20 m high.
The reason and place of the leak have not been found. A passer-by in a
news report said it started with an explosion. No human casualties are
known. All subway stations west of Sörnäinen are currently closed, and
the Railway Station one is expected to remain closed for days, if not
longer.
Hiski
Markku Gr�nroos
"Hiski" <his...@hotmail.com> kirjoitti
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If you are going to visit Helsinki in the next few days, don't count
on the subway. This afternoon, huge amounts of water invaded the
tunnels at the most important station, the one under Helsinki Main
Railway Station, and continue to do so. Some pockets of water are
reported to be 20 m high.
The reason and place of the leak have not been found. A passer-by in a
news report said it started with an explosion. No human casualties are
>>>
Yes it has. A main line water pipe (40 cm in diameter) has bursted.
Valtsu
The flooding of the Rautatientori metro station was the punishment of
God Almighty on Finns for sneering too much because of their victory 7-0
against the Swedes in ice-hockey. The loss for the Swedes was God's
punishment because of ordaining of two women bishops - a finnj�vel and a
flata - by the Church of Sweden. That in turn was a punishment for the
wicked ways of life the Swedes are leading.
J. Anderson
"Valtsu" <val...@stadissa.fi> wrote in message
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> The flooding of the Rautatientori metro station was the punishment of God
> Almighty on Finns for sneering too much because of their victory 7-0
> against the Swedes in ice-hockey. The loss for the Swedes was God's
> punishment because of ordaining of two women bishops - a finnj�vel and a
> flata - by the Church of Sweden. That in turn was a punishment for the
> wicked ways of life the Swedes are leading.
You forgot to involve the kirkkoherra/kyrkoherde (vicar) at Imatra who
recently underwent a sex change and became a kirkkorouva/"kyrkoherdinna"
instead. God will undoubtedly make the water in the Imatra rapids run
backwards any time soon. Luckily the nearest metro station is in St.
Petersburg.
Hiski
> You forgot to involve the kirkkoherra/kyrkoherde (vicar) at Imatra who
> recently underwent a sex change and became a kirkkorouva/"kyrkoherdinna"
> instead.
That man was doomed when he began to write into sfnet.huuhaa, years
ago. Nobody ever survived that newsgroup with his / her sanity intact.
Regarding the subway, they are trying to figure out who drilled two
big holes in the pipes, when and why.
Hiski
J. Anderson
> The flooding of the Rautatientori metro station was the punishment of God
> Almighty on Finns for sneering too much because of their victory 7-0
> against the Swedes in ice-hockey. The loss for the Swedes was God's
> punishment because of ordaining of two women bishops - a finnj�vel and a
> flata - by the Church of Sweden. That in turn was a punishment for the
> wicked ways of life the Swedes are leading.
From Helsingin Sanomat (for educational purposes only):
Two women - one a Finn, another a lesbian - ordained as Church of Sweden
bishops
Churches of England and Ireland boycott the ordaining ceremony
By Anna-Liina Kauhanen
The ceiling of Uppsala Cathedral is certainly high.
There is some stir in the nave of the largest cathedral in the Nordic
Countries, but it soon turns to silence, when King Carl-Gustav and Queen
Silvia take their seats, nicely cushioned with red velvet. Others have to
settle for harder surfaces.
The bells toll. Soon two women will be ordained as bishops of the Church of
Sweden. One of them will soon be the Bishop of H�rn�sand. She is the
Finnish-born Dean of Uppsala Diocese Tuulikki Koivunen Bylund, 62.
The other, 55-year-old Eva Brunne, is about to become the Bishop of
Stockholm.
Brunne will also be Sweden�s first homosexual bishop. She lives in a
registered relationship with another woman. The relationship has also been
blessed by the church.
The cathedral is full. Over 1,300 people are present. But not every
invited guest has showed up.
The leaders of the English and Irish Anglican Churches remain absent. The
reason is Brunne�s lesbianism. Plus the Church of Sweden�s October decision
to start joining people of the same sex in marriage.
Lapua Bishop Simo Peura was supposed to represent the Evangelical
Lutheran Church of Finland, but he, too, cancelled his attendance. According
to Risto Cantell, executive director at the Department for International
Relations of the Church of Finland, Peura�s nonattendance was not an
expression of attitude, however, but merely a case of his falling ill.
�And this is not a political illness�, Cantell declares firmly.
Archbishop Anders Wejryd speaks of equality and the ability to
cooperate. When Koivunen Bylund and Brunne have received their bishop's
cassocks, crosiers and pectoral crosses - Koivunen Bylund�s cross is over
400 years old - they turn towards the churchgoers.
The audience breaks out into rousing applause that rings in the gothic
vaults and towers all the way to the twin pinnacles, up there at 118.7
metres above ground level.
The Church of Sweden has just ordained its fourth and fifth female
bishops. Previously three of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran church�s 13
bishops and archbishop were women. Eva Brunne is in fact replacing a female
bishop in Stockholm. Caroline Krook held the position from 1998 until her
retirement this year.
After the ceremony the bishops and the royal couple pose for a group
photograph on the steps of the church. A cold drizzle from above numbs the
fingers, but the bishops smile warmly at the congratulating audience.
Stockholm bishop Eva Brunne becomes more serious when she is asked
about the stir brought on by her homosexuality.
�I am very surprised by the reaction from other churches, but I am
here to show them the way�, Brunne says.
�The Church of Sweden is not really a forerunner, but it does keep up
with the Swedish population.�
Brunne plans to bring forward the position of the sexual minorities also as
a bishop.
�I am now in a different position of authority, and the matter is
important to me also on the personal level.�
According H�rn�sand Bishop Tuulikki Koivunen Bylund, a lesbian bishop
is an issue to which the reaction in the Swedish church is unconstrained.
�In this respect the Finnish Lutheran Church is a couple of decades
behind its Swedish counterpart.�
Koivunen Bylund�s ordination as a bishop also says something about the
Church of Sweden. �The church is not nationalistic.�
In 2005 Koivunen Bylund, who hails originally from the city of Turku
in the southwest of Finland, applied for the Bishopric of Turku, but was not
elected.
Helsingin Sanomat / First published in print 9.11.2009
Fredrik :Ostman
> “The Church of Sweden is not really a forerunner, but it does keep
> up with the Swedish population.”
Charles X rotates in his grave. Populus before Bible and priests.
Whatever happened to konventikelplakatet?
Anyway, the Swedish population does not keep up with the Church of
Sweden. More and more Swedes leave the church. That fight is already
lost, even if the next bishop be a Wicca queen. And now the few
remaining actually Christian Swedes also leave the church.
--
Fredrik Östman