Chéngshì (城市) is the Chinese word for a city. The word is a compound word and consists of the components chéng (城) and shì (市). The latter simply has the meaning market. Chéng (城) is short for chéngyuán (城垣) and means city-wall, literally outer enclosing wall and inner enclosing wall, while a common wall would be […]

German free tv meanwhile offers five channels completely dedicated to religious broadcasts and one of them is operated by Seventh-Day Adventists. There recently began a documentary series, in which Creationists present science facts and draw their own conclusions. This would be great if Germans still could be proud of their educational system. But while this […]

The USA handle oral statements and written statements differently. So there is the right of freedom of speech and the right of freedom of press, though the latter rather meaning freedom of print. I mentioned this already in the fourth part of my article series ‘Understanding the Case of Charlie Kirk’, together with the fun […]

Deism is the tenet that God created the universe so perfectly that He doesn’t need to do anything for its maintenance and hence doesn’t interact with His creatures. The universe instead has fundamental features like karma to the purpose to make sure that nothing goes wrong. I believed in this during almost all of my […]

Stefan Hensel is Hamburg’s special envoy for combating antisemitism and he, too, called Charlie Kirk a reliable friend for Israel and the Jewish people. Stefan Hensel got hated because of this, but his opinion is perfectly in line with what Benjamin Netanyahu and other without any doubt pro-Israel people uttered. All of Charlie Kirk’s alleged […]

In the last time, I write and publish many articles about religion. This is a quite new development. I never before spoke so frankly about religion. Much of it is about my time in Hong-Kong, though this was only three months. It isn’t that this time would have been central in my life! But it […]

Because I never received a batizado and so don’t really belong to any capoeira group, I’m nevertheless a real capoeirista. I can confidently claim so because learning without a mestre is the most traditional way of learning capoeira!!! (Just hoping that the article on the Dendê Arts blog reappears and so still linking it.) The […]

Several people communicate with God via Bible verses. Most of these people simply open the Bible regularly on a random page. Sometimes a mysterious voice tells them to do this. A guy, who communicates with God in this way, gave an interview in a religious tv show, that I randomly watched. This guy was working […]

From shiatsu (指圧) with its many schools probably also branched off reiki (霊気) albeit it has a different founding myth. Usui Mikao (臼井 甕男) shall have been on a meditation retreat of twenty-one days in the Kurama-dera (鞍馬寺), back then (and until 1945 A.D.) belonging to Tendai (天台) Buddhism, on Kurama-yama (鞍馬山), when he got […]

Five things need to be added to my article ‘On Methane Gas’ Greenhouse Effect’. The first thing is that there is an obvious way of reducing the influence of methane gas on the climate: Burn the methane gas until only carbon dioxide is left! Methane gas as a byproduct of oil production used to get […]