Am I Respected Less Due to Low Belt Ranks?

To me quite astonishing, people prefer paying money for belts in the martial arts over not getting scammed. So those belts must nowadays be connected with a lot of prestige. So you might wonder whether I, who has low belt ranks and doesn’t care about them at all, am less respected by martial artists with […]

Franziska

Franziska is asteroid #520 and of the type C, G, or U. Franziska is also known as 1903 MV. Franziska measures approximately 27 km in diameter and is a member of the Hirayama-family Eos. Franziska’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.00 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.11, a period of revolution of […]

The Priorities of the Catholic Church

Catholic Priests in Germany took notice of the case of the Muslim merchant, who tried to take a housel with him outdoors and got sentenced to seven years in prison for this. But the Priests didn’t criticize the Indonesian judiciary for this. The Priests instead criticized the German judiciary because it dismisses charges of this […]

Sylvania

Sylvania is asteroid #519 and also known as 1903 MP. Sylvania’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.79 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.19, a period of revolution of 1 702 days, and an inclination of 11.0 degrees. Sylvania was discovered by the American astronomer Raymond Smith Dugan at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory […]

Something to Think about

An article on Steven Franz’ blog gave me something to think about. Why do people still want the colorful belts, when these people already know that they get ripped off and the colorful belts mean nothing not only because the martial arts teach humbleness but rather because these colorful belts are scams and really prove […]

Halawe

Halawe is asteroid #518 and also known as 1903 MO. Halawe’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.53 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.23, a period of revolution of 1 472 days, and an inclination of 6.7 degrees. Halawe was discovered by the American astronomer Raymond Smith Dugan at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory […]

A Real Case of a Back Guard with Rear Naked Choke

I watched a hilarious YouTube clip by a German BJJ coach. The YouTube clip naturally is in German language, so I enjoyed it more, but can only describe it here. The German coach of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in the video clip discussed together with a colleague a video clip, which was filmed by his girlfriend. This […]

Edith

Edith is asteroid #517 and also known as 1903 MH. Edith is of the type X. Edith’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.16 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.18, a period of revolution of 2 049 days, and an inclination of 3.2 degrees. Edith was discovered by the American astronomer Raymond Smith […]

Some AI-Generated Pictures

WordPress has got a new tool and it astoundingly is a freebie. I’d have preferred more storage space for my pictures. But if you begin a blog on WordPress anew, you’d get only one third of the storage space, which I got, so I shouldn’t complain. More storage space nevertheless would have been more useful […]

Awareness Maybe Not Enough

Because I can relate with everybody, who got seriously bullied, so Rin’ne Berurinetta (リンネ・ベルリネッタ) from the anime series Vivid Strike! is another anime girl, who I love. She got orphaned early in her life, so she spent kindergarten age in an orphanage. She there learnt to trust nobody, in particular not adults. She there also […]