Most people, who’re toying around with the occult, end in nuthouses. So the path of magick not only takes a very long time, but is also dangerous. The more you hurry, the more dangerous it is. Yet this doesn’t make everybody shy back. Some people, especially North Americans, somehow are much in a hurry and […]

On the Martial Development blog got several quotations collected and somehow related to martial arts. Even if they have really nothing to do with martial arts. The best of these quotations is rather about drawing: Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw. ( Simon Munnery ) When […]

I watched another episode of the same documentary series. But I could watch it only partly. Some fun facts were presented. Then a Creationist, who claimed to be a biologist and to also have studied several other sciences, proceeded with outright lies and I thus got too much. A fun fact is that the amount […]

Many of my articles seemingly on martial arts are in truth about linguistics! This one too. I some time ago searched a karate technique, which doesn’t exist. An asteroid with the name Yamasaki exists, so that Yamasaki (山崎) is a real name and had to be considered as a possibility. But it only was a […]

Soldiers in the Ukraine War already after forty days on the front lines stop caring whether they survive. This certainly can’t be compared to mere brawls, but if a child in kindergarten gets a beat down daily, how long could it take until the child’s psyche cracks in a similar way? There are people, who […]

On May, 20th in each year since 2014 is Streaming Day. This fancy holiday got initiated by the US enterprise Roku, which produces hardware for streaming. May, 20th was chosen because it was the day, when Roku in 2008 rolled out its first Netflix player. I had never heard about such a technology. Probably a […]

Did I ever mention peak oil? This was from little more than twenty years ago until roughly ten years ago a very popular buzzword. People feared that civilization would end soon because of running out of mineral oil because all of this fossil fuel would soon be used up. German netizens referred to this situation […]

Deploying obstacles in the surrounding is a great idea if you have to fend off a bully. Holding a weapon on the other hand is a bad idea for several reasons. One of these is that weapons leave characteristic traces. In order to avoid this, weaponizing everyday items could be a workaround. The weapon training […]

Among the many things, which got skipped during history class in my school, had been whole countries and their cultures. Not only far away countries like China or Japan, but even Great Britain. Well, the Magna Charta got once mentioned and that it somehow limited the monarch’s power, but I don’t have a clue when […]

Do you know tummo (གཏུམ་མོ) {or in Wylie transcription, which is the only to consider that Tibetan is a tonal language, giving tonal patterns by a leading silent letter: gTum-mo; in Sanskrit: caṇḍālī (चण्डाली)}? This is an Indian and Tibetan meditation practice, which makes the body temperature rise. Icy temperatures can be endured and snow […]