While Ruth Lapide still lived, many custom officers came to her and asked her whether they are doing something wrong and sinful. This because as custom officer was translated into German what in older English translations is a publican and in newer English translations is a tax collector. The gospel of Luke tells: From this […]

Anthony Louis wrote an article on dispositors heading south. I don’t have much to add. If his theory of the bad meaning of heading south being due to diving beneath the horizon should be correct, then the meaning of this accidental dignity would have to be reverse for natal charts cast on places on the […]

When I found an article on German Academic Fencing on koryu.com, I at first was impressed by the use of many technical terms from German and that somebody found Academic Fencing in Germany at all instead of directly heading to Asia. Even most of the swordsmen among German martial artists are ignorant of German Academic […]

In Surin in the northeast of Thailand on the third weekend of November in each year, a big festival, in which regularly more than hundred elephants participate, is held. Races between elephants are held and historical battles, which included elephants, are reenacted. Some other cities have similar festivals, but the festival in Surin is the […]

In the tv show, when the two Catholic Priests discussed what to do against Halloween, one of these Priests tried to explain why pumpkins are turned into lanterns, but he didn’t get the folktale of Jack O’Lantern together. He did only make me curious enough for making me read the story. It’s a completely christian […]

In the tv show with the two Catholic Priests, which I sometimes watch, was discussed not whether participating in Halloween is acceptable, but what to do against it. One of these Priests is also a Monk and Austrian. He knew from travels to Africa the tradition of children costumed as Catholic Saints. Although the tradition […]

Many people nowadays believe that the Pharisees had been Jesus’ enemies. But their true relationship was completely different from enmity! Many Pharisees had been Jesus’ disciples. The Bible additionally mentions: At that time some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, “Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill you.” (Luke […]

I accidentally watched the end of a religious tv show, in which some Fundamentalists discussed how they could keep their children away from Halloween. I did read the short info that the show shall have been on how to keep children away from things like Disney’s movie Frozen. I wonder what is the problem. The […]

Something else, which is helpful in answering the question whether a martial artist should kill in certain cases, exists besides religion. This other helpful thing is astrology! If Ellis Amdur had killed the delinquent, what would then have happened to the twelve year old girl, who he mentioned? Astrology can answer this question. When assaulted […]

Although I already mentioned a certain article on koryu.com, I have to come back to it. The author of that article, Ellis Amdur, is convinced that he could have saved other people, including a girl of twelve years, if he had killed a certain person. So Ellis Amdur wonders: “Am I a moral failure in […]