The big yesterday news was Pope Francis dying, a bad thing but that's life, and that death has triggered a mourning period which involves centuries-old rites. One of those rites is the process for electing a new pontiff after burying Pope Francis this Saturday in a more simpler place than the previous Popes.

Many people get stuck in feeling responsible for their psychological state, it is said, and there's a way in which simply being with whatever uncomfortable emotions rather than believing that you are controlling them can be extremely beneficial for psychological wellbeing. In the video Annaka Harris explores these two illusions and how they shape our everyday experience and I can complete her.

Christmas was yesterday and this year Jesus' birth celebration entered the second day, so you may want to know if the demons can hear your thoughts. Yes, of course we can hear your thoughts with ease. Being among you for thousand of year we have learnt some good tricks and reading your mind is one of them.

You know I am kidding, right? If you haven't realized it yet and if you are not laughing as hard you can reading this you should start laughing. If the demons do really exists, and you probably have never met one yet, he can't thoughts because corrupting a person by reading minds or adding thoughts in somebody's mind is fucking easy.

Life is a personal way for each person, and all of us are having are having references points when going on our way from one place to another. In life, on going from birth to death, we all have the same references points but the context is different. Many people's faith in one god or another is one of their references, and when those faith are becoming too close many conflicts and war started from that - your god is the single and the most real god and all the other references point does not matter, right?

I am putting here the Dalai Lama's message here because I like it and I am interested in this message whitout being a buddhist. It would be just OK to life accordingly to this message no matter your religion if you are having one.

I don't care about what the person next to me is believing in, it really does not matter if that person is Christian, Muslim, Budhist, Atheist or whatever. His / her actions are more important than whatever and whoever that person believes in. You may believe in a god or the glass on the table, if that belief makes you a better and a happier person I am glad, but if it makes you hurt other people (emotionally or / and physically) that is bad and you need to be stopped (by society or another person, prefferably just by talking with you).

Author and historical researcher David Fitzgerald says the planet's major religions have a major common denominator: they're built around figures that never existed.

Reading the book Shōgun by James Clavell, watching recenly the latest Shōgun series and practicing kendo for 22 years (almost 23 years) kind of prepared me for this Gresham college lecture. The growing Catholic community in Japan was brutally suppressed in the early seventeenth century. How did this shape myths of Japanese cruelty?

The re-run of the Supernatural series made me pay some attention to the magical things, to the gods and what is related to them. It's not about giving up the science fiction as writing stories and in general, it's just an extension to the things I know. And, in this situation, Ronald Hutton, a  Gresham Professor of Divinity, spoke about the western magical tradition on 24th April 2024 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London.

The nudity is still interesting for many people. It's not a ritual anymore, not as I know (it may be ritual for some people), it's just sold and / or used by the porn websites as many times as people can sell and use it.

Some history you should know about: when the Western Roman Empire crumbled in the year 456 of the Christian era, the Anglo-Saxon peoples who occupied Britain brought their own paganism with them. This was Germanic, with a pantheon of deities that included Woden, Thunor, Tiw, Frig and some other gods.

About 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible have been recovered a few years ago and the data about them (text and images) have been uploaded on the internet. Visitors to the website www.codexsinaiticus.org are still able to see images of more than half the 1.600-years-old Codex Sinaiticus manuscript.

Galileo Galilei (15 february 1564 - 8 january 1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution.

No, they do not elect a new Pope. In the light of Benedict the XVIth's retirement last week and the following election for a new Roman Pontiff some may think I am writing about the Conclave of elector Cardinals. But no, the Catholic Ecumenical Councils are a very different thing.

Pope Benedict the XVIth's retirement rose up a few questions for the Catolics. They have to electa new leader for their Church. Any man baptized as a Catolic is eligible for the position of Pope, but since 1379 only the Cardinals have been elected by the Conclave of elector Cardinals. For now there are elibigle for voting (it depend of age) only 117 cardinals in 50 countries: 28 electori in Italy, 11 in United States,  6 in Brazil, 6 ini Germany, 5 in Spain, 61 in the rest of the Europe, 33 accross the America (but not USA), 23 accross Africa, Asia and Oceania.

Many people have commented during the last few weeks, since the pope Benedict the XVIth announced that he was going to retire today, about this decision. Some people started joking about the subject (speaking about the coming apocalypse, posting the Darth Vader march, blaming one people or another, etc), others started to worry or to cry.

The effect of smoking to the human body and the debates about them are not new, they have existed for decades. As heavily promoted lately, from a medical stand point smoking is undeniably bad for health: it is considered a cause of several types of cancer (esophagus and lung cancer, for example) and other respiratory issues, it can cause cardiovascular disease (as affecting the hearth

As most of you already know, Islam is one of the major religions of the Earth, the Muslims constitute approximately one fifth of the world's population and they are scattered throughout the five continents. It would not be so if Islam would not be considered universal in its teachings and practices and expects adherence and obedience by each and every Muslim regardl

The questions about the life, the Universe (the sfere of knowledge that's becoming bigger and bigger as we know more and more about our world and the worlds sorrounding us), why are we here, are not new. They were put by many generation of man from the beginning of time and the answers varied. A lot. The great number of religions extisting now or extinct over the last fi

True, very true: Jesus loves you (everyone else thinks you're an idiot). I've got the image by email from a smart guy.