Science and a cabinet of curiosities

Decorative Bananaplant

I am in the process of writing an extraordinary and comprehensive book review. It is written by the most brilliant man you have probably never heard of: Michael Polanyi. The book is called “Personal Knowledge“. I first read part of it almost 47 years ago and was immediately very impressed. It seemed to me to… Continue reading Science and a cabinet of curiosities

Another Walkaway: in the Netherlands

Collapsing dam

Nothing strange about many immigrants voting Wilders’ party. For a long time, politics in the Netherlands – especially under the leadership of the man who would like to become the leader of NATO, EU or the WEF – has been about the worst of all European countries. All but explicitly, no priority was given to… Continue reading Another Walkaway: in the Netherlands

Erasing history and repairing the past

DO NOT MENTION LYNCHING

Or: The fathomless madness at western Universities The audio of this video features as Dutch podcast (Here at spotify). It is the first post in the new sub-category ‘Shadowbanning and censorship‘. Links promised in the video / podcast: Detail of my painting to commemorate the brothers De Witt, murdered by Dutch Orangists. See also the… Continue reading Erasing history and repairing the past

Painting Tributes

A podcast about paintings?

>> Podcast BELUISTEREN kan via deze link >> This is a slideshow associated with a podcast. And with English subtitles. It is referring to quite a number of blogposts and some podcasts I made before. Here are the links to those: More about my atheism. My ‘Rembrandt as St. Paul features as the home button… Continue reading Painting Tributes

The difference between Beheading & Decapitation and between Wrong & Evil

Babies. In incubators. The stories about Jewish babies beheaded or not by Hamas reminded me of very different events happening 23 years apart. The first being the murder of Lee Rigby in London (2013): hence the photo above. The second was the occupation of Kuwait by the Iraqi army in 1990. I write about the… Continue reading The difference between Beheading & Decapitation and between Wrong & Evil

The hatred between Sunnis and Shiites in Egypt

OR: the self-evidence of totalitarianism in the Mohammedan world This is the English version, shortened and slightly updated, of a Dutch text I wrote in August 2013. “More than two years ago I wrote a rather long and in-depth article [in Dutch] entitled Arab Spring or Mohammedan Autumn?That was well before Morsi, as candidate for… Continue reading The hatred between Sunnis and Shiites in Egypt