Christendom spreads rapidly not only in Africa, but also in Asia. So you can meet many christians in Africa and in Asia and most of them have quite strange opinions with respect to religion. This is partly due to influences of their own cultures and partly because most missionaries, at least in Asia, are from […]

On December, 5th in each year since 2002 is the World Soil Day. December, 5th was chosen because it is the birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, who was the first politician supporting the idea of a World Soil Day. The idea of this fancy holiday is to appreciate soil as the basis of […]

I have some reasons for not making a forecast on who will become the next president of the USA. One is that my blog isn’t about politics. Another is that until the inauguration still is plenty of time for an assassination. Then there’s a reason, which is best explained by a diagram: Many more votes […]

In the Templo Expiatorio de León (Expiatory Sanctuary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus), a Catholic Church in León, Guanajuato, Mexico on October, 5th had been a wedding. One of many, but insofar special as the bride, the bridegroom, and also many guests had appeared in cosplay. The archdiocese León in consequence demanded to respect […]

In a previous article, I wrote that the Olympic Games 2024 were quite boring, just like expected at least concerning scandals. You perhaps could think: “But wasn’t Imane Khelif competing in women’s boxing a big scandal?” I know that many people talk about it and even the President of the Russian Federation uttered his distaste. […]

On December, 3rd in each year is the USA’s National Roof Over Your Head Day. It deserves to become an international fancy holiday. Since when this fancy holiday exists and why it is on December, 3rd is forgotten. It perhaps was initiated in an area, where the cold winter days begin around December, 3rd. To […]

An article by Nishioka Tsuneo addresses several interesting issues. The most interesting to me is the traditional distribution of roles between beginners and advanced students of the martial arts because I’m not used to beginners learning only to defend and then the advanced martial artist attacks and at the same time guides a beginner. So […]

Now in 2024, slaves in the kafala system building the Al-Bayt soccer stadium for the championship in Qatar in 2022 is a matter of the past. But this doesn’t mean that slavery would have ended! Slaves in the kafala system are now building Neom, the Arabian future city, for which already Natives were expelled. The […]

Here is the second set of eighteen of the pictures, which I took at the temple of the god of war in the city ward Sham-Shui-Po. To upload them had again been very difficult. The handling of WordPress seems to have worsened. Hong-Kong originally was a small and irrelevant fishing village, so I wonder why […]

When I was in Hong-Kong, I had failed to visit the home of Bruce Lee. But in the city ward Sham-Shui-Po, I discovered a temple of a god of war. I naturally couldn’t resist to visit and to take some pictures. Here is the first set of eighteen of them and this time the limitations […]