I’d like to guide some attention to a study on obesity in children. Most of the study’s findings aren’t surprising. Already the tv series House, M.D. portrayed a case of a patient, who was obese due to the repeated involuntary and unrecognized intake of a poisonous substance. The diet in the hospital made the patient […]

On January, 28th in each year is the feast day of the Catholic Saint and Doctor of the Church Thomas Aquinas. If I wrote about Saints and if only on their feast days, then I could do nothing else anymore. So writing about Thomas Aquinas is an exception because he is the most famous and […]

The Book of Revelation is known as an especially difficult to understand book of the Bible. Within the Catholic Church had very long been disputed whether it should be canonical. I recently found the website (in German) of a theologian, who explains why many Clerics disliked the Book of Revelation and how to understand it. […]

The Catholic Church since the Council of Trent in the middle of the 16th century insists in exactly seven of its rites being Sacraments, which have an influence on the salvation of a believer’s soul. The Sacraments of other Churches are derived from (if they differ in number) or got adapted to the Seven Sacraments […]

The World Wide Web and in the last time in particular Wikipedia spreads a lot of nonsense about aikidō (合気道) and its techniques. Don’t try to learn from such sources! You’d only hurt yourself instead of gaining the ability to defend yourself. I did already put some things clear, but Wikipedia knows more nonsense. Aikidō […]

Tergeste is asteroid #478 and also known as 1901 GU. Tergeste is of the type S (Tholen) or the type L (SMASS II). Tergeste’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.02 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.09, a period of revolution of 1 911 days, and an inclination of 13.2 degrees. Tergeste was […]

Not only “… as we already did forgive …” instead of “… as we forgive …” must be, according to Ruth Lapide, the translation of the Lord’s Prayer, which is a so old Jewish Prayer that the original is in Bible Hebrew, but “… lead us not into temptation, …”, too, is a wrong translation. […]

For the wŭcháng (五常) or Five Virtues according to Confucius, I made a suggestion how to assign them to the five planets, which belong to the Five Phases. But Confucius’ disciple Mencius suggested a different set of Five Virtues, also known as the Five Relationships. These are qīn (親) or heartiness between father and son, […]

Will God forgive everything or will you be judged? According to the Catholic Church this isn’t something between God and you, but Catholic Clerics decide whether you experience God’s forgiveness or whether you’re condemned. If you aren’t a member of the Catholic Church, although you know about the Catholic Church, or if don’t believe in […]

Weakness, loneliness, and despair, according to the Israeli philosopher Aviad Kleinberg, are the real origins of sins. Weakness, loneliness, and despair can be neither chosen nor avoided, but always are due to outer circumstances. A Church really wanting to help to get rid of sins would do something against these origins. Weakness, loneliness, and despair […]