I recently stumbled upon Aikidoflow, which is another blog on aikidō (合気道), but in German language. The author of an article there pondered about how an aikidōka (合気道家) could defeat combat sportsmen. He came to the conclusion that you mustn’t box against a boxer, mustn’t wrestle against a wrestler, and mustn’t exchange kicks with a […]

The evangelical theologian Bruce Wilkinson caused a little hype at the beginning of this century. He did so by writing a book about a certain prayer. It’s found in the Old Testament and known as the prayer of Jabez. While it’s popular among evangelical christians, others prefer to criticize it for its alleged egoism and […]

I believe that belts should just hold up your pants. So letting go of belts in karatedō (空手道) and also in other martial arts would be the best option. I did during decades believe that I’d be quite alone with this point of view. But I recently found a great blog article describing the classes […]

To not drink alcohol is an important success secret in fending off bullies and also a success secret in shooting sports. (Once one of the seniors in my village’s shooting club told me that my father in his youth and at the peak of his skills would have been drinking and shooting at the same […]

Having a look at Mayan artifacts and comparing them with ancient Chinese artifacts reveals astounding similarities. These indeed are so striking that some, not too famous, Chinese believe that the Maya people are offspring of ancient Chinese seafarers. Until the middle of the twentieth century of the christian calendar had most Europeans never left their […]

I several years ago bought a book, which promised to explain how a business would become successful by considering astrology. Although I learnt a little bit from it, the book was disappointing. It introduced two business strategies and assigned them to the male zodiac signs (Fire triplicity and Air triplicity) and the female zodiac signs […]

Understood the title? It’s a Latin phrase meaning “no salvation outside the Church”. The phrase originates from the writings of Saint Cyprian of Carthage in the 3rd century, who used it in the context of a controversy about the validity of baptisms performed by heretics. I again watched the tv show with the two Priests […]

The idea of laziness is a merely imaginary concept! Due to life experience, I hold this opinion since years. So I’m now glad to meanwhile have found an article by a professional psychologist, who also figured out by his experience that situational constraints exist, while laziness doesn’t! Foreign words, which usually are translated as laziness, […]

A German emigrant to Russia got the permission to speak with Ukrainian prisoners of war and then published something on his blog. The article seems to be about next level organ trafficking. While organs of soldiers, who fell in Ukraine or already previously in Kosovo, being used as transplants is an open secret since many […]

The James Webb Space Telescope made an interesting near infrared image of the galaxy JADES-GS-z13-1. According to a publication in Nature, JADES-GS-z13-1 existed when the universe was three-hundred-and-thirty-million years young. Yet the galaxy emitted too much ultraviolet radiation, which due to the red-shift was visible in the near infrared image. While the universe in the […]