Author Archive for rmonteux
Making the headlines in the UK are the currently planned admission fees for the services with Pope Benedict XVI during his state visit in mid-september. The attendees are intended to be charged for the open air show on the 16th of september in Glasgow Bellahouston a sum of € 23, and for an evening prayer [...]
The concept of schizotypy The interest of apparitional experiences to psychology has acquired an added dimension in recent years with the development of the concept of schizotypy or psychosis-proneness. This is conceived of as a dimension of personality, continuously distributed throughout the normal population, and analogous to the dimensions of extraversion or neuroticism. As long [...]
Moral or Immoral is a religious connotation in itself. Morality is the murder of free will. Free will is the purported ability of agents to make choices free from constraints. Free will is logic and common sense, as opposed to fixed rules and constraints. Common sense, based on a strict construction of the term, consists of what people [...]
The three Information Portals I have been working on for a while are now officially launched and functional, as you can see right here in the top right-hand panels. Actual/Aktuell is an intelligent News and Social Media Aggregator, what means it crawls the internet after all the latest items that attend a certain degree of [...]
A new website by the European Public Weather Forecast is now available with information related to 650 regions in the continent, in 28 languages. The warnings from the “Meteo Alarm” website are also available as RSS feeds, and can be integrated into other websites. The information for ten different weather parameters is valid for a [...]
Now it includes Germany’s largest airport: the ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano has reached Frankfurt am Main. Aircrafts may not take off nor land anymore. Also the airports in Hamburg, Berlin and Düsseldorf are closed. Aircrafts could only arrive in Frankfurt until 8 this morning no, there is also no take offs allowed anymore. [...]
Zwei Frauen sprengen sich in Moskaus Metro in die Luft. Für die Polizei führt die Spur eindeutig in den Nordkaukasus. Die beiden Attentäterinnen, die am Montag 39 Menschen mit in den Tod gerissen hatten, wurden identifiziert. Die Bluttat löste weltweit Empörung aus. Nach dem Doppelanschlag auf die Moskauer U-Bahn mit mindestens 39 Toten und mehr [...]
Infografik der Woche: Die Kinderschänder Karte - Deutschlands Schandflecken! Eine unvollständige Übersicht über (Verdachts-)Fälle von sexuellem Missbrauch an kirchlichen und nicht-kirchlichen Schulen und Einrichtungen, von den 50er Jahren bis heute. Einfach ausdrucken und an alle Priester und Lehrer ihres Vertrauens schicken - Hier als PDF und hier in großer Auflösung. Filed under: Deutsch, Religionskritik Tagged: [...]
Noch immer äußert sich der Papst nicht zu den Missbrauchsfällen in Deutschland. Werbung mit einem Hinweis für den Papst. Filed under: Deutsch, Religionskritik Tagged: Benedikt XVI, chemische Kastration, katholischen kirche, kirche, medizinische Kastration, missbrauch, papst, pädophilie, sexuell missbraucht, vatikan, video, werbung
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has called on the Israeli government to freeze its settlement program and support a two-state solution with the Palestinians. In an interview on Deutschlandfunk national radio Westerwelle said, Germany is convinced that the settlement program must be frozen. This is not just Germany’s stance, but of the European Union and [...]
Die Plattform “Betroffene kirchlicher Gewalt” hat mit fachlicher Unterstützung von langjährigen MitarbeiterInnen des Wiener Kinderschutzzentrums eine unabhängige Telefon-Hotline für Opfer kirchlicher Gewalt eingerichtet. Sie richtet sich an Menschen, die Opfer sexueller, seelischer oder physischer Gewalt waren. Die Hotline wird von einer speziell geschulten Psychologin betreut. Somit können sich Betroffene an eine von der Kirche unabhängige [...]
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (Roger Boyes, TimesOnline) – Iceland is preparing for an even more powerful and potentially destructive volcano after a small eruption at the weekend shot red-hot molten lava high into the sky. About 500 people were safely evacuated from the land close to the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, which is around 120 kilometres (75 miles) southeast [...]
Switzerland’s parliament has passed a law that could lead to the outright ban of violent games, in a first proposal put forward last month, calling for the banning of any game that “requires cruel acts of violence against humans and human-like creatures for in-game success” In February, two resolutions were passed; the first made the [...]
In an interview with Germany’s Handelsblatt business daily, the president of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso called on European leaders to back the Commission’s proposal for a system of coordinated bilateral loans to be made available to Greece during thursday’s European Union summit in Brussels. We need a decision at this summit on how [...]
Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, the leader of the German Roman Catholic Church, admitted during an interview to the German magazine Focus this sunday, that cases of child sex abuse were known and covered up by the Roman Catholic Church. Yes, we did have that. The assaults that took place in such numbers within our institutions shame [...]
Pope Benedict XVI released today a Pastoral letter expressing shame and remorse of Catholic church and calling on priests to face justice. He also castigated Irish bishops for “grave errors of judgment” in their handling of the paedophilia scandal and ordered a Vatican investigation into the Irish church.
Despite the size of the letter, it only [...]
Our instincts – for food, sex or territorial protection evolved for life on the savannahs 10,000 years ago, not in today’s world of densely populated cities, technological innovations and pollution.
We now have access to a glut of larger-than-life objects – from confectionery to pornography to atomic weapons – that gratify these gut instincts with often [...]
In this lecture from Baroness Susan Greenfield, a British scientist, writer, broadcaster, member of the House of Lords and Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Lincoln College Oxford, the neurological and psychiatric scenarios where individuals are more creative than the norm, are explored.
Could there be common features in these diverse cases that could give a clue [...]
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