Is the great turn of the world coming? (Published in GralsWelt 4/1997) The turn of the millennium is approaching - and with it the fears of the future of many people are increasing. But what can we expect from the "year of destiny 2000″? Does this calendar year mark nothing more than a round number to which we attach an unjustifiably high significance - or does it stand, as gloomy prophecies [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 3/1997) NASA “discovery” and life in space In August of the previous year, in the middle of a news “summer slump”, NASA launched a sensational report: There were traces of life on Mars rocks which suggest that primitive life forms existed on our sister planet about 3.5 billion years ago. Life on other stars? [...]
What does love for nature, nature conservation, animal welfare actually mean? (Published in GralsWelt 4/1997) Anyone who seriously deals with animal welfare, who discovers a love for nature and flora, will soon be faced with crucial questions: Do plants and animals also suffer? Do you have a consciousness? Or, as Christian ethics teaches, does man really have the right to own the earth [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 8/1998) The German prophetess It was the Staufer Friedrich I - Emperor Barbarossa - who called Hildegard von Bingen (1098 - 1179) so. But as famous as the seer was during her lifetime, after her death her visions got lost and her work was forgotten. In the century after her (13th century) the monastery and [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 7/1998) “Mercedes Benz” also fell victim to the “global acceleration”. Since the end of the 19th century, German industry has earned an excellent reputation, and “Made in Germany” was and is to this day a globally respected seal of approval. (See "Made in Germany an obituary") The structure of the [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 2/1997) On August 23, 1887, the British Parliament passed a law requiring all goods imported into Great Britain to have the country of origin indicated either on the goods themselves or on the wrapping. This early "consumer protection law" was mainly directed against Germany, which in the last decades of the 19th century had huge exports [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 45/2007) By Victor and Victoria Trimondi, 600 pp. EUR 39.90 ISBN 3-7705-4188-X, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn, 2005. This book closes a gap in the book market. It is an important standard work on religious fundamentalism of the present, behind which old apocalyptic visions stand as the driving force. The end-time expectations of traditional [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 44/2007) By James Lovelock Why the earth defends itself List-Verlag, 2006 James Lovelock (born July 26, 1919) is a chemist, doctor and biophysicist, one of the most prominent representatives of the environmental movement. As a chemist, Lovelock developed the electron capture detector (ECD) with which chlorinated environmental toxins can be detected sensitively. At the beginning of the 1970s he formulated together with [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 45/2007) Centuries before Christ: the first end-time proclamation between 1,500 and 600 BC BC - archaeologists and philologists are far apart in their dates - the Persian bringer of truth Zarathustra (Greek: Zoroaster. Cf. “A Persian bringer of truth” under “History of religion”) proclaimed the supreme god Ahura Mazda, the creator of all things, from whom only Good comes out. [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 43/2007) In 1798 a text on classical economics, which is still frequently quoted today, was published, which has been rejected by most of its readers since its first publication. Do-gooders, moralists, ecologists, economists, philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, theologians: almost all of them reject this work with the most varied of arguments. And yet it is mentioned again and again. [...]
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