Mainly because it meant more occasions for clashing with bullies, I mentioned the Protestant Confirmation ritual and its preparation phase. At the end of the Confirmation ritual, that I had feared because it was also a kind of oral exam, the participants got documents, which featured some encouraging Bible verses. They were different from participant […]

On this blog, I already published an article, in which I describe where I would have preferred to continue my astrological relocation experiments if I could afford to do so. There would also have been places for verifying or falsifying expected unpleasant experiences. That I postponed visiting them after I would have checked all other […]

Living for more than seven decades isn’t too short for humans. Especially when compared with Third World countries, where the life expectancy of humans is rather around four decades. The life expectancy in Okinawa Prefecture nevertheless is lower than in most other Japanese prefectures. So the question why people in Okinawa live so long must […]

Now I know that the story of Christ symbolizes cosmological phenomena and was only later by much less learned people reinterpreted as something historical. So now as I know this, how to I have to adapt my religious tenets and perhaps religious practice? I’m convinced that nothing needs to be adapted! Because the christian religion […]

Karate is an effective martial art if you consider and understand its flaws: * Fist-thrusts aren’t meant as combat techniques. * Most karate fist techniques were adopted from boxing. Together with them was adopted the risk of the boxer’s fracture and the risk of breaking the own fingers. * Aerials aren’t part of any real […]

What would on a spiritual blog suggest itself more than to assign the Twelve Apostles to the twelve zodiac signs? I just have to recollect the Apostles’ names before assigning them. There was Judas, famous for his self-murder. Then there was Thomas, famous for doubting Jesus after the resurrection. Peter was by the Catholics posthumously […]

Diǎnmài (traditional: 點脈 / simplified: 点脉) has different subsets, which can be categorized either by the expected effects, which in most cases are completely unrealistic, or by the nature of the pressure point. Three types of pressure points exist. The first are acupuncture points on the acupuncture meridians. The second are points on some blood […]

WWE Crown Jewel 2025, Asuka and Kairi Sane versus Rhea Ripley and Iyo Sky: A German wrestling commentator, who did wrestle in Germany and also in Japan, explains that the problem between Asuka and Iyo Sky is that Asuka abuses the Japanese system of sempai (先輩) and kōhai (後輩). Because I studied some semesters of […]

As announced in the thirteenth part of my article series ‘On some DC Superheroes’, I now elaborate a little about the so-called “death touch”. This expression is a common “translation” of the Cantonese expression dim2 mak6 / dim2 maak9 (點脈). But only a subset of dim2 mak6 / dim2 maak9 (點脈), if at all, could […]

The numbers “researched” by Michel Poulain and Dan Buettner are debunked. But what are the real numbers? At least newer Japanese statistics exist. They are done separated for the different sexes. The survey from 2020 showed that the life expectancy of Okinawan women is on the sixteenth place within the forty-seven Japanese prefectures. The life […]