Even God loves a good wrestling match! So He wrestled with Jacob. Do you know this Biblical tale? And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent […]

A martial art in truth is a therapy! This explains why people learn techniques and tactics, which they would have needed decades ago and then perhaps never again. The situations of the past then are recapitulated and better solutions get found as a kind of psychoanalysis. This article series serves the same purpose. I begin […]

In some comment, which I don’t find anymore, I did read that people learn a martial art because they experienced some trauma in the past. They try to repair the past this way. But the past is the past and already gone. To attain the skills, which would have been needed back then, doesn’t have […]

The ‘Fluent in 3 Months’ website features an article on learning French. The mother tongue of the author of that article is English. That article is written well. The author elaborates on her motivation to learn French, then mentions several methods, which she tried and which didn’t make her understand French. She also mentions the […]

It was in that night… Sorry to digress already at this point. Did you ever realize that each second story has a “that night”? It’s rarely that day or morning or evening and even less often a concrete date. It’s usually “that night”. This always gives me the impression that most stories take place at […]

Chinese is commonly known as the most difficult of all languages. The large number of Chinese Characters commonly is counted as one of the reasons for this. The ‘Fluent in 3 Months’ website gives the advice to ignore Chinese Characters. Please do never follow this stupid piece of advice! Chinese Characters are the whole fun […]

The authors of several martial arts blogs agree that you nowadays can’t know a person’s abilities from the person’s rank or belt color. Some people really live this, while other people, as judged from complaints on some blogs, certainly don’t. I now stumbled upon another blog post, which confirms the same things for jiu-jitsu.

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth had previously been a tv host and during that time wrote a book, which was published in 2020 and is named “American Crusade”. I know it only from hearsay. Pete Hegseth in this book compares the current era of history with the Crusades from the eleventh and twelfth century. […]

The ‘Catholic Answers’ magazine features an article, in which Islam and Communism are found to have some commonalities. These shall be contrary to Western values, which shall have originated from Catholicism. The commonalities really shouldn’t be a surprise because Islam and Communism both did learn from Catholicism. Islam and Communism in fact both are Catholicism’s […]

With my strong natal Moon, I should have a great talent for doing the chores. So I’d like to write articles of the ‘what grandma still knew’ type. Yet my tips for vegetarian cuisine are the only topic in the realm of the Moon, on which I so far was able to write. Even worse […]