While some Catholic Clerics, instead of what they are supposed to do, tell their believers that skipping Sunday Service would be a deadly sin, the deadly sins officially are defined by the Catholic Church to be pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth. Nothing else! Yet I have a problem with sloth. I mean […]

From the Catholic tv show, which declared not attending Sunday Service a sin or at least disrespectful, I learnt a surprising fun fact. Catholics traditionally fasten on Fridays. But the Catholic Church meanwhile recommends to do something good instead. Why is unclear. Perhaps because this Friday Fastening meant to only refrain from eating meat, while […]

A non-European, who wants to be christian yet stays rooted in a culture different from European culture, can at best imitate christians. Such wannabe christians would gain nothing due to a religion, which isn’t their own heritage. Hence some Europeans wonder whether Europeans, too, wouldn’t live better with a religion free of foreign influences. Especially […]

The Catholic Priest and Monk from the Catholic tv show, which declared not attending Sunday Service a sin or at least disrespectful, in the same episode of this tv show told an anecdote about a Church, where the duty to attend Sunday Service got too stern. The believers of that Church waited outdoors, but right […]

Researchers from the Uppsala University in Sweden figured out how the dinosaurs had become the dominating animals on Earth. The researchers identified five phases in the evolution of the dinosaurs. The differences between most of these phases are only quantitative. Dinosaurs evolved from small omnivorous precursors. The first dinosaurs were small and carnivorous. Then in […]

From time to time, I learn something from a religious tv show. Nothing important, only some fun facts. For example the Catholic tv show, which declared not attending Sunday Service a sin or at least disrespectful. The ritual of the Holy Communion is nothing, in which I’d participate regularly. But I already participated several times. […]

This is a kind of addendum to my article ‘Uchidachi (打ち太刀) and Shidachi (仕太刀) versus Uke (受け)/ Aite (相手) and Shite (仕手)’. I had only when I collected some kanji for that article learnt that the opposite of shite (仕手) traditionally has been aite (相手). Shite (仕手) denotes a person, who executes a technique, while […]

The birth of Jesus, who became known as Christ or the Messiah, shall according to the Gospel of Matthew have been indicated by a star above Bethlehem. This made three astrologers “from the east” travel to there. This travel makes modern astrologers, who never were able to forecast the birth of an important person, wonder […]

An international group of researchers recently found that heatwaves are on some places on our planet much hotter than any climate model was able to predict. The researchers tried to figure out the reason for this divergence. They suggest that dry spots become hotter and this leads to a positive feedback loop. I believe this […]

An article on the Dendê Arts blog asks the question whether capoeira is hard to learn and answers this question with no, not if you stick to your level of abilities. So learning capoeira indeed is easier than becoming a circus artist. But the question to me, and certainly to many others too, had never […]