The time has come again. I did again watch the Catholic tv show, where two Priests discuss the question of a spectator. This time somebody reported that he went to shrift and confessed that he had missed the Sunday Service several times. He had instead participated in front of his tv screen, when the Catholic […]

Because some unwritten rules exist in capoeira, so the Dendê Arts blog has a guide to the capoeira roda. I only by reading this got aware of how much I got used to certain unwritten rules and already accepted them as an inevitable part of capoeira, although Dendê Arts blog stresses in several articles that […]

ChatGPT and similar Large Language Models often are labeled as Artificial Intelligence, but they also got the name Large Language Models because some people working in the according field still are aware that ChatGPT and its relatives aren’t intelligent. Yet ChatGPT and its relatives somehow become a tool for problem solving and information retrieval. This […]

The whole thing with the exams, graduations, and colorful belts in the martial arts is all a huge scam! I did learn this already as a youngster. I meanwhile know that the graduation system was adopted from shōgi and go players, but then inflated. Capoeira adopted the graduation system from Japanese martial arts, but this […]

Dào-Jiā (道家) is the name of another ancient Chinese school of philosophy. The philosophers of this school are known as Daoists, yet this school of philosophy has only little to do with the Dào-Jiào (道教), which is the Chinese religion, which also is known as Daoism. The Dào-Jiā (道家) also has little to do with […]

France arrested several people, who dared to criticize in social media the queer parts of the opening show of the 2024’s Olympic Games. Martin Armstrong reports things like the DEA robbing airline passengers. Yet Frenchmen and US-Americans still are fortunate to live not in Germany, where house searches are a means of oppression. If you […]

On the Koryū blog is an article put together from several comments. The article is about the Japanese warrior spirit, but I love it especially because it mentions “nineteenth century German patriotism”. I find this understanding of history impressing, although it still means to confound patriotism with nationalism. Patriotism simply means to love the own […]

If it wouldn’t be from the Fighting Arts blog, I wouldn’t know at all that Soken Hōhan (祖堅 方範) or Roy Suenaka had existed. The latter was the first aikidōka (合気道家) successfully teaching aikidō (合気道) on Okinawa. He probably was successful in this because he also was a karateka (空手家), too, and as such a […]

Not only don’t some people know the natural color of orange juice, but US-Americans also don’t know that butter is a diary product. Packages for both the salted and unsalted Kirkland Signature Sweet Cream Butter list cream as an ingredient, but do not include an allergy warning that the butter “contains milk”. So the FDA […]

The to most astrologers biggest thing in 2025 is that several planets change the signs. I don’t think that a sign change is a big thing. The Sun changes the sign once each month. Mercury and Venus accompany her and the Moon changes the sign twelve times each month. How is this a big thing? […]