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History of religion

Is there god

(Published in GralsWelt 40/2006) If we find a clock while walking, we will hardly ponder the way in which a hurricane might have raged in a junkyard so that this clock could come about purely by chance. Because it is clear to everyone that it must have been a watchmaker who designed and built them. A clock is [...]

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Book and film reviews

An uncomfortable truth

(Published in GralsWelt 42/2007) The most successful documentary of all time has recently been released in Germany (and many other countries): An Inconvenient Truth. The topic is “global warming” and the consequences that it will have to deal with. The updated scientific data and statements in image and sound [...]

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Book and film reviews

A refined privatizer

Jeffrey Sachs, a refined privatizer? (Published in GralsWelt 40/2006) Jeffrey D. Sachs “The End of Poverty”, Siedler München, 2005. Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's best-known economists. His career is extraordinary. At the age of 28 he was one of the youngest Harward professors. Then he advised governments of several states, and Kofi Anam, the UN Secretary General, appointed him [...]

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Ecology

The economic aspects of climate change

(Published in GralsWelt 43/2007) On October 30th, a study on global warming was presented in London (2). The study was commissioned by the government under the leadership of the world-famous economist Sir Nicholas Stern (born 1946). He was chief economist at the World Bank from 2000-2003 and is currently an advisor to the UK government. Its alarming and no longer ignorable results [...]

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Book and film reviews

The Templars

(Published in GralsWelt 45/2007) By Barber Malcolm, Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2005. In GrailWelt we have mentioned the Knights Templar several times. Many books and writings - historically correct, esoteric, fantastic, romantic - deal with the history and myth of the Templars, about whose work and decline there are many legends. Recently, [...]

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Book and film reviews

About the discovery of God on the edge of the universe

(Published in GralsWelt 40/2006) By Helmut Hansen, Verlag Via Nova, 36100 Petersberg. The present book has a surprising title, which at first suggests highly esoteric explanations full of transcendent speculations. Then you are pleasantly surprised when reading it, because it is a thoroughly factual work that is worth reading. First of all, [...]

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Ecology

Get out of the loop

(Published in GralsWelt special issue 18/2006) Nature does not produce unusable rubbish. Only we humans unbalance ecological cycles - to our own detriment. The life-sustaining systems of our home planet suffer from serious undesirable developments: Actually, we humans have known for millennia that there are things that grow back and that there are deposits of raw materials that are lost when [...]

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History of religion

Predestination and freedom

(Published in GralsWelt Special Issue 16/2005) When a stroke of fate hits people, when the death of a loved one is to be mourned, or even severe material losses, then the question inevitably comes: “Why?” Everyone then looks for explanations for such confusing events , and would like to calm himself down with answers that are plausible to him and give him the strength to go on living. [...]

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Science

Violence from heaven

(Published in Grail World 36/2005) In the Grail World we have spoken several times about the fact that the earth is threatened by collisions with celestial bodies. The Tunguska event is known from the 20th century, but fortunately it took place so far from inhabited areas that no human casualties are known in this context. It has now been proven for the first time that [...]

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Science

A constructed universe?

(Published in GralsWelt 40/2006) In GralsWelt 32/28 we spoke of the anthropic principle under the heading “The Big Bang as Proof of God” (under “Science”) and also mentioned that some natural processes suggest that a more comprehensive guideline can be expected behind the diverse forms of nature; that chance as a development principle - that is, the [...]