Later in his life, he also designed submarine devices to explore the ocean’s depths. He reported the earth to be round, but also once stated that on one occasion, the earth looked ‘flat’ with turned-up edges. Gene Roddenberry – the creator of Star Trek – used Auguste Piccard as the inspiration for Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
Category: Human Interest
Anything that does not fit into to any of the other specific categories and is of general interest!
Transcendental Illness
However, illness for many (even within privileged societies) is an everyday reality, particularly if there is no cure, or the case that medicines can only ‘control’ the situation for a time. Even in China where Daoism is an ancient medicalised spirituality, people who are ill keep themselves as ‘free’ of angst as possible, and seek to detach a ‘clear’ mind from an ill body as much as possible.
Japanese Buddhist Monk Apologises to a Grateful Chinese People
If Japan apologised to the Chinese people and strove to make amends for their war-crimes, the world would be a better place.
When Britain Ethnically Cleansed Its Chinese Populations
Polish people may well be from another country, but their European ethnicity runs the UK – albeit in its distinct British form. I condemn any and all crimes against Polish people, but do not believe that they are the victims of post-Brexit ‘racism’ in the manner that Black, Asian and Chinese people in the UK are (a subject the British media is quiet about). To the British media it seems that hate-filled prejudice is only reportable if white people are suffering it.
The Red Lizard – The Bourgeois World of David Icke! (26.9.2016)
Following the bourgeois interpretation of Communism is hardly the basis for a ‘free’ approach to existence!
Great Britain (GB) and the United Kingdom (UK) Explained
The UK is diverse and multicultural not only by choice, but also because of its unique history.