Grinding down a legal institution
There are folks who reject any kind of authority, yet they claim authority themselves. Basically they either attack or facilitate attacks on anything that const...
Category: philosophy / law / religion
I need to merge these three fields of interest, as my interest indeed is focused on law and religion. I am spiritually somewhat untalented I need to understand and to be able to explain explain and this leads me to one of favorite quotations:
Only if we can explain the “Why” and the “How” of a thing, we have understood it.
[Aristoteles *384 B.C. – †322 B.C.]
We only can have an opinion about a matter, once we are able to argue on it. It is not enough, when we only take somebodies else’s opinion, because we like it. Here we need to go deeper and sometimes I will write an article on basic concepts like “The good”, “Opinion”, “G-d” but I will do this from a very sober point of view so that some people may call me an atheist, but I am not. I am religious but not spiritually inclined.
Was ist Hetze/Hate Speech, Fake News…..etc?
Ach ja, “transphob” hat die Gudste vergessen. Es hat mich dann doch mal interessiert: Was ist eigentlich die juristisch korrekte definition von R...
Groundhog Day 2 – Und täglich grüßt das Gretchen
Margarete: Versprich mir, Heinrich! Faust: Was ich kann! Margarete: Nun sag, wie hast du’s mit der Religion? Du bist ein herzlich guter Mann, Allein ich glaub, ...
Of course one could call today’s Germany a Nazi-State
And Sweden and Norway and the UK and Austria and France and……. It is my wish, that I have deeply insulted you, so that you are deeply aggrieved! I d...
The Temple Mount a Matter of Power
Today there was another article about riots on the Temple Mount in derstandard.at. And I posted a little talk back which of course wasn’t published –...
When you could, but you can’t – What is competence?
At Motorola I received leadership training and was involved in the budgeting process. This was because the hierarchies there were pretty flat. I’ve...
The right, the left and the ugly – about political chromatics
Often political movements and parties choose a color to identify themselves. The socialists go for red, the Italian fascists were on black and the Nation...
Defriended – No, Bentsi, I can’t be with you on that
It is not long ago, when Bentsi Gopstein was jailed and accused for terrorist activities. At that point I was facebook friend with Bentsi and I didn̵...
Separating the Challah, I need a little hobo oven
Tevet 10, 5775 When baking the bread, I need to follow the Mitzwa of separating the Challah. I separate a little peace of the dough and give it to Hashem. Not s...
Consciousness and conscience – the anatomically modern inhuman
Tevet 9, 5775 – to be revised – I have been thinking a lot, what distinguishes us from a sponge or a worm. It doesn’t start with the ability t...