A positive hallucination is defined as seeing or hearing something, which isn’t present. A negative hallucination is defined as not seeing or not hearing something, which is present. I had to find that AI in search engines and in consequence also in the Wikipedia explains things (fighting styles and combat techniques), which don’t exist, but […]

The seven Beatitudes isn’t the only list of Beatitudes. Pope Francis in 2016 proposed a list of six modern Beatitudes. Yet these Beatitudes don’t include the promise of a reward. Hence they aren’t like the traditional seven Beatitudes. Another list is found in the Gospel of Luke, which knows four Beatitudes. Three of them include […]

Do you know (from watching at least) the dance featuring the Cossack squats? This dance is pan-Slavic. Hopak (Гопа́к) is its Ukrainian name. The Ukrainian karateka Volodymyr Pylat (Володимир Пилат) in 1985 modified the folk dance and thus got combat hopak, which resembles modern capoeira. The Ukrainian government didn’t help him to hide or cover […]

Church Father Augustine of Hippo did as follows assign the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit to the Beatitudes, which are found in the Gospel of Matthew 5: 3 to 12: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven, reflects Fear of the Lord as the “poor in spirit” are […]

I did in history class in my school learn something about warfare in Antiquity. But this was for some unexplained reason restricted to naval battles. Yet somehow got mentioned that the Roman legionnaires were infantry, so were Romans, who had  to walk, while auxiliary troops could ride horses. I wondered very much about overthrown tribes […]

On January, 9th in each year is the Play God Day. Origin and background of this fancy holiday are unknown, except that it originated in the USA and isn’t meant for living out an unhealthy god complex. The fancy holiday shall rather be celebrated by doing something good. The fancy holiday perhaps is primary addressing […]

Wikipedia really spreads plenty of nonsense about aikidō (合気道)! I wonder why the admins deem this necessary. I did explain the kokyū-nage (呼吸投げ) in a previous article. Wikipedia can’t explain the kokyū-nage (呼吸投げ), so instead gives different sub-categories of an alleged kokyū-nage (呼吸投げ). Besides other nonsense, Wikipedia lists a forward throw, several drops, and several […]

For some people in the Lutheran Church had the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit been too supernatural. So philosophers and Lutheran theologians of the 17th century made another list of seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. Other Churches have own lists with different numbers of spiritual gifts. The seven spiritual gifts of the Lutheran […]

Another aikidō (合気道) technique, about which Wikipedia only spreads confusion, is the ushiro-nage (後ろ投げ). I did mention it in previous articles, especially in the description of a great variant, which was demonstrated in the anime series Demon Slayer. Ushiro (後ろ) means to the rear and nage (投げ) means throw. So an ushiro-nage (後ろ投げ) simply is […]

The seven virtues, which Thomas Aquinas opposed to the seven deadly sins, consist of two sub-groups. Thomas Aquinas himself wasn’t too content with this. So he also made a list of seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, which he derived from Bible verses and which became canonical in the catechism of the Catholic Church, to […]