And Then Religion Came Into The World And With It The Claim To Absolute Truth.

And then religion came into the world and with it the claim to absolute truth.

Those who possess the absolute truth do not allow any other truths.

This is the root of all evil.

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A very impressive Japanese samurai war armour Mogami Dou Gusoku from the Hosokawa clan around - fabric, iron, leather. - Mito ju Yoshinobu - Japan - around 1700

細川藩の鎧「最上道具足」（布、鉄、革）。- 水戸稚児義信 - 日本 - 1700年頃

No-Face (顔無し)

“Ah… Ah... Ah.„~ No Face

The Kaonashi, or No-Face as he tends to be called in the English releases of the film, is the secondary antagonist of Studio Ghibli's 12th full-length animated feature film Spirited Away.

No-Face is a dark spirit who resembles a black humanoid being with a white mask. He devours other spirits and can absorb their emotions into his own soul, causing him to take on their attitudes, especially negative ones, which lead to his transformation into a villain (until his redemption).

Though he never truly speaks, his moans and coos were performed by Akio Nakamura in the Japanese version, and Bob Bergen in the English dubbed version.

When I saw it I just loved it, shortly afterwards I bought it and then gave it away.

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How can you save the world on a voluntary basis when others are destroying it full-time?

By organizing all of us and building a new utopia.

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This is what equality looks like!

Taiwan has nothing to do with China, it is not China because it is a democracy.

No matter what XI pulls out of its hair as a historical justification on the basis of such claims, Europe would still be Roman.

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For a free and democratic Taiwan, let the other democracies realize that they can only stand together against the dictatorships.

China is overestimated and overestimates itself and that is exactly the point where it will tip over without outside influences. The Chinese youth have been given the promise that if they study they can practice what they have studied. Somehow apolitical, but not if the promise cannot be kept by the Communist Party XI. There are already measures on the part of the CP to bring all these unemployed academics who are supported by their parents to the countryside to work in inadequate jobs. These are still only measures and not coercive measures, but that can change at any time.

If parents are no longer able to support their children, dissatisfaction will increase, to the detriment of the CP. Many young people in China are seeking internal migration and thus a new sense of purpose, as the Communist Party's promise of prosperity and a future has not been fulfilled for them. The party is currently allowing this to happen without intervention, but if they realize the potential and impact it may have on the future of the CP's existence, violence will follow. What they do to other parts of the population, they will do to the youth and put them in re-education camps. So China has a huge problem because their promise that the fate of the party is linked to the prosperity of the people will be broken.

In addition, government spending is immense, not only for the gigantic army but also for all the infrastructure projects that were not necessary. In addition to the environmental problems such as clean air or water.

China is a giant with feet of clay.

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That is its weakness, no matter how puffed up it is in relation to the West.

President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan thanks drag queen Nymphia Wind for a great performance

DW reports that Taiwanese drag queen Nymphia Wind (妮妃雅‧瘋) and winner of the TV series “RuPaul’s Drag Race” has performed a medley of songs for outgoing President Tsai Ing-wen, thanking her for being the island’s “mother.”

As you can see from the video, the President enjoyed the performance very much. The president is clearly a strong supporter of the queer and trans communities.

Drag queens, led by "RuPaul's Drag Race" winner Nymphia Wind in yellow, perform for Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen at the presidential office in Taipei, Taiwan. 

Photo: Wang Yu Ching/Office of the President.

There are days when I just feel like I've been sucked dry.

Vampires simply know no self-control!

Lusy's last sentence could have been written in dracula.

Abraham „Bram“ Stoker more or less

In 1890, Stoker met the Hungarian professor Arminius Vámbéry, who told him about the legend of the Romanian prince Vlad III Drăculea (Dracula). From this character, Stoker developed the figure of the vampire Dracula. Stoker worked on this vampire novel for seven years until it was published on May 18, 1897.

John William Polidori, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker can be regarded as the founding fathers of the modern vampire myth. While the former aroused general interest in the figure of the vampire, it was Bram Stoker who shaped the specific image of the vampire.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873), known as the author of classic ghost and vampire stories, especially “Carmilla”, the story of a lesbian vampire that inspired Bram Stoker's “Dracula”, among others, dispenses with all spookiness in “The Murdered Cousin” and - anticipating Alfred Hitchcock's technique of suspense - allows tension to arise solely from the announced horror, which is inevitably fulfilled step by step.

The Vampyre" is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori