Patriotism Is When Love Of Your Own People Comes First; Nationalism, When Hate For People Other Than

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Charles de Gaulle

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Confucius

It's interesting how a bunch of American Christians see the only one as a saviour who, purely because of his Nazism, vanity and greed, should there be a hell, gets a free ticket to hell just for that.

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the Antichrist with unnaturally dyed hair the colour of hellfire*

The beast was authorised to make great speeches and blaspheme God in the process. It was allowed to exert its influence for 42 months. 6 When the beast opened its mouth, it insulted God. It mocked his name, his sanctuary and all who dwell in heaven. 7 The beast was allowed to fight against people,...**

* The authors were completely possessed for 4 minutes when they translated it, but after they confessed and an exorcism was performed, they were able to return to athletic faithlessness.

** However, this really comes from one of the many Bibles. For those who really believe and have no idea of Bible history there are really many Bible translations and summaries in a new version.

In addition, the hotel Bible is donated by the constructor of the hotel.

The good ol’ days.

There is almost no kiss in film history that was so beautifully fake.

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The passion is evident in her hands as she grasps his hair wildly yet tenderly. This moment is pure magic in the eye of the beholder. It must have been a great event that opened the eyes of many a couple in their twenties. Films have and will always influence us and can open up the world for us to discover other perspectives.

Asphalt is a silent film by Joe May. Betty Amann and Gustav Fröhlich play the leading roles. It premiered on 12 March 1929 at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin. The film was banned for young people.

Asphalt (1929) Joe May, Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Betty Amann, Gustav Fröhlich

Asphalt (Joe May, 1929)

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Rabindranath Tagore

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Lao Tzu

It is fascinating how the element of water attracts us, it is a part of us and we are part of a whole.

Anyone who doesn't want to recognise this has never really wanted to understand nature.

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Forget women in music history who were the pioneers of rock'n'roll, Rosetta Tharpe.

Rosetta Tharpe was a pioneer of rock'n'roll. With her guitar playing and stage presence, she inspired many young men who shaped a new era of pop music in the 1950s. Despite this, the African-American musician is almost forgotten today.

In the 30s and 40s, the gospel singer with the electric guitar was a true rock star in the USA. Many of the young men who established the new style of music in the early 50s with throaty vocals, hard riffs and expressive body movements heard and admired her, explains Gayle Wald.

Courage in times of segregation

The American and English scholar published the biography "Shout Sister Shout" about Rosetta Tharpe in 2007. During segregation in the USA, the African-American woman showed courage, says Wald. For example, Rosetta Tharpe took the Jordenaires - a white vocal group - on tour as support.

"Rosetta Tharpe was clever in the way she tried to deal with segregation. The Jordenaires, for example, had to prove themselves to an African-American audience and live up to their expectations. In the 50s, she had a female singing group, The Rosettes, to accompany her. They were young women. Rosetta was in her mid-40s at the time and she made sure that these young women never had to present themselves in a patronising or stereotypical way on stage. For example, when appearing on American television, they were to stand in a backdrop with a hay cart like in the countryside and the women were to wear headscarves. For Rosetta Tharpe, this represented the stereotype of the black woman as a slave in the fields; it had nothing to do with emancipated, creative female artists. She rejected the headscarves for her singers and prevailed."

On stage with Little Richard

In his memoirs, Little names Richard Tharpe as one of his great musical role models. He met his idol at the age of 14. And Tharpe - impressed by the teenager's musical talent - invited him to come on stage at one of her concerts, says Wald:

"She got him on stage and paid him to perform. It meant a lot to him that he was recognised by someone like her and encouraged to carry on. And who knows, maybe they both saw each other as sexually transgressive performers. Even if Rosetta wasn't bisexual or had relationships with women. The fact that her guitar playing was perceived as masculine changed Rosetta's relationship to femininity from people's point of view. She was queer in many different ways for her audience."

Empty church and anonymous grave

On 9 October 1973, Rosetta Tharpe, aged just 58, died of a second stroke. She had previously had a leg amputated due to diabetes. The church was only half full at her funeral - and she was buried in an anonymous grave.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Manchester, 1964)

It gives a deep insight into the great primal fear of the so-called beast, the fear of the most brutal creature that has ever existed on earth, human beings, of being eaten by a fish threatened with extinction.

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I think the outrage would be enormous if there were cut-off arms and feet dangling up there.

I always hope there is no parallel universe in which a cruel species cuts off the arms and legs of a species of humans out of pure indulgence and superstition and then puts them back on the ground to die.

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I am in favour of sustainability in fishing - you can only take what can grow back.

If you kill a living creature to distort it, you have a responsibility to ensure that the creature has led a species-appropriate life until its death. And the absolute responsibility that its life is ended with maximum efficiency and with the least possible resources.

At the same time, the living creature must be completely utilised as food only in this way is it sustainable.

I am not against the consumption of meat, but it can be reduced to a minimum.

By buying only high-quality and sustainable meat from your local environment.

By the way, I don't make the completely nonsensical distinction between meat and fish because the meat from fishermen is substantial.

It's just an immoral distinction so that you can say: I don't eat meat! Which is factually wrong and an untruth.

If you really must eat meat do it with great humility and consider the luxury of the gift.

And eating sharks is real rubbish for morons who also eat the rhino horn from the rhino horn because they are addicted to the superstition that it makes them more potent.

Sometimes it's hard to believe how stupid people can be and how unscrupulous others can be to make money out of their stupidity.

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Donald Trump is like a terrible accident in the opposite lane - you don't want to look but you have to!

The slogan comes from television.... and yes it hurts.

No real.....!

Where have all the virtues gone? Which are brought up again and again!

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