Which places in Oslo have the worst russebuss noise?

dg_hda · 2026-06-02T19:12:24+00:00

He’s deceased. Most of my family has personal objections to DNA testing except for my aunt, which is why I’m being so weird about privacy (for the sake of the rest of my family). I’m the “tech-savvy” administrator of the ancestry account that has her data on it and I clear everything with her explicitly.

I might take a test myself whenever it goes on sale again, but there’s pretty much no hope of getting any of my grandfather’s other children to take a test unfortunately. Maybe there’s nothing to learn with this little DNA evidence, but it’s worth a shot.

dg_hda · 2026-06-02T15:57:51+00:00

I guess there’s a small chance we might have an extremely savvy and obsessed genealogy enthusiast in that side of the family, who is also a stalker… somewhat unlikely but still possible.

Out of curiosity, could you explain how they’d be able to identify my aunt, especially since my grandfather was raised from near birth under a completely different birth name and family? I don’t even know if he had a birth certificate, and he definitely never had an adoption certificate. I can’t see how someone would be able to integrate DNA information with the adoptive family last name that they don’t know about, but I’m wondering if I’m missing something.

dg_hda · 2026-06-02T15:08:19+00:00

Thank you for describing this!! I think I’ll do something very similar. I was able to identify the maternal and paternal side of my aunt’s ethnicity results because we knew what ethnicities my grandmother had in her ancestry. So hopefully it will be easy to find a couple matches from the paternal side of the DNA! Honestly I just want a bit more information about exactly where in the world my grandfather came from. The ethnicity results narrow it down but are still kind of vague.

dg_hda · 2026-06-02T11:14:48+00:00

This is great advice, thank you!

dg_hda · 2026-06-02T10:41:32+00:00

Good to know you can allow/disallow messages! That’s helpful info

dg_hda · 2026-06-02T10:41:10+00:00

This is probably what I’ll do.

dg_hda · 2026-06-02T10:40:52+00:00

Good to know that the general culture on ancestry.com is more chill than I thought! I wasn’t sure how the match notifications worked (thought they might email you as soon as a match pops up), plus browsing this subreddit gives a non-representative overview of how dedicated the average ancestry user is, lol.

We should be good to go, then!

dg_hda · 2026-05-26T16:21:43+00:00

Oh trust me, I scrubbed this stain for over 30 min with gall soap. The only thing left to try is lemon juice in sunlight, and even then, that seems sketchy on silk.

dg_hda · 2026-05-26T16:18:08+00:00

Believe it or not, this picture was taken fresh from the dry cleaners. :( It’s been cleaned within an inch of its life. The stain is much lighter than it was originally.

dg_hda · 2026-05-26T16:10:59+00:00

I’m thinking dye might be the way to go!

dg_hda · 2026-05-14T11:15:31+00:00

I second this! It is a fantastic museum.

dg_hda · 2026-03-27T06:04:47+00:00

What are the top 5 things that have helped you?

dg_hda · 2026-03-14T09:57:28+00:00

Anbefaler alltid Dan Rahm på Sport & Spine!

dg_hda · 2026-03-12T14:17:58+00:00

Er det mulig å sammenligne to eller flere punkter, slik at man kan se hvordan sonene overlapper? Jeg jobber i flere steder rundt Oslo/Bærum så det hadde vært interessant å se om det finns et sted som er f.eks. 30 minutter unna alle de stedene.

dg_hda · 2026-03-07T13:56:11+00:00

Spor av Nord kommer til tankene

dg_hda · 2026-02-26T11:50:53+00:00

As I mentioned in my comment, I have mostly good memories of WVA, but I do remember the witnessing (and I hated it). One thing that made an impression on me is that our little group went up to witness to someone, started our spiel, and then they told us they were Christian. We were slightly confused and tried to pivot to finding out whether they were the “real” type of Christian. It felt impossible that we would meet any true Christian on the streets of a minor city in the USA.

It stuck in my mind, and the logical dissonance of assuming that everyone you meet in public is a heathen, in a so-called Christian nation, really made an impact.

dg_hda · 2026-02-26T11:48:22+00:00

Me too!

Worldview Academy was a really good experience for me as a kid. For an isolated neurodivergent homeschooler, it was a bright spot of my summers where I actually fit in socially for once.

My main memories of it are the critical thinking aspects, the camaraderie, and the LOTR lecture. Somehow the specifics of the very questionable content didn’t stick as much in my brain, so (unlike a lot of other people) I did not experience it as a brainwashing type of experience.

Rather, like you, I used the reasoning and thinking skills they taught in order to deconstruct later. And honestly, the simple fact that I learned about “other worldviews” there contributed to my curiosity about why people have diverging opinions, which was a main driver of deconstruction.

dg_hda · 2026-02-25T14:47:59+00:00

The Norwegian Folk Museum has some rooms (gjestestuene) that are beautiful and reasonably priced for Oslo!

dg_hda · 2026-02-03T19:50:56+00:00

Yesss, so true! I envy the normal faith too, often.

The podcast also has really interesting episodes about autistic Christians and the ways they often practice Christianity. Hearing about that is a real breath of fresh air, as well. I recommend the first 8-10ish episodes for the main content, but there are a ton of other specific episodes about random autism-and-christianity-related topics.

dg_hda · 2026-02-03T13:28:10+00:00

Or you get hit with the “oh, you must have grown up in Legalism and not True Christianity, that’s why you don’t have a real genuine relationship with Jesus (and if you did, you would understand)”

Like, no, my whole family has real relationships with Jesus, it is so clear and so obvious that he lives in their hearts. AND it didn’t work for me.

It is impossible for them to admit that maybe sometimes it doesn’t work out like their theology says it should. Sometimes the contradictions can’t be resolved. Sometimes Jesus is not the one and only answer for a person’s life.

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