This is a slideshow associated with a podcast. And with English subtitles. Go to the podcast. 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 on this site. More… Continue reading Painting Tributes
Category: Miscellaneous
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
Phosphorus Fertilizer and ‘Prepping’
I have quite a few houseplants in my living room. On my tiny balcony, in addition to ornamental plants, I have plants for consumption too. I purchased the spathiphyllum specimen shown here over ten years ago and it did produce some flowers every year. Inspired by my ‘microscopic‘ horticultural activities and observations, a few weeks… Continue reading Phosphorus Fertilizer and ‘Prepping’
September 11: a special kind of retrospective
Today marks exactly 22 years after the four (!) attacks in the United States. Retrospectives Twelve years ago, on September 11, I only quoted a piece I wrote in 2005 about conspiracy theories (In Dutch only).In 2011 I of course wrote (In Dutch too) about the attacks that were committed that year on 9/11, especially… Continue reading September 11: a special kind of retrospective
Harari, Skinner and Chomsky: utopians of sorts
Harari of the World Economic Forum When it comes to the political side of this weblog the category AAA, Against All Aristocracies is the most important one. That category contains several post about the World Economic Forum wherein a Mister Schwab and a Mister Harari feature as two of the most outspoken anti-democratic forces. In… Continue reading Harari, Skinner and Chomsky: utopians of sorts