Mitsuharu Misawa - R.I.P.

Mitsuharu Misawa

June 18, 1962 - June 13, 2009


Jun Akiyama, Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi, Yoshihiro Takayama

The blog is still on hold. I was planning on doing a small update on how thing are going and whats up with my life right now. Then the news broke and for the moment I want to honour one of the greatest men in proffessional wrestling. This is no time for me to talk about myself.

I found out late yesterday just before the UFC 99 event. I'm shocked to say the least. Mitsuharu Misawa, maybe the biggest legents of puroresu (japanese pro-wrestling) poassed away at the age of 46 in the ring due to heart failure after a back suplex. Some reports say he could have died in the ring.

This is the man who has been in most classic matches and he has probably won more "match of the year" awards than anyone. He also had probably the most amount of five star matches in history of pro-wrestling. He wasnt in good shape the last few years and this might have been part of the cause of his early death. In hindsight I just wish he would have stepped down after his last reign as GHC champ or even before that.

He was essential to pro-wrestling NOAH since he was the one leaving AJPW (All Japan Pro Wrestling) to form this new group. AJPW's most recognizable name leaving to form his own group. Partly successfull but lately not so much. Still during the best days one of my favorite organisations ever.

I am very happy to have witnessed Misawa live in action almost exactly a year ago in the Coventry Skydome. It was a great experience and a fantastic match. I just wish he was still here with us.

Scenes difficult to watch from the awful accident:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwzeAG2kmB0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndp0NUplIDI

WrestleView (through the Wrestling Observer) reports:

Mitsuharu Misawa, one of the greatest pro wrestlers of all-time, was declared dead at 10:10 p.m. Saturday night at a hospital in Hiroshima from an apparent heart attack after being being given a back suplex in a tag team title match.

Misawa would have turned 47 on June 18th.

Misawa, the president of Pro Wrestling NOAH, was teaming with Go Shiozaki in a match challenging Bison Smith & Akitoshi Saito for the GHC tag team championship in Hiroshima. Misawa was given the move at about 8:45 p.m. and knocked unconscious.

According to eye witness reports, Saito gave Misawa a "routine" back suplex that was described as a "7" in danger on a scale of one-to-ten. He did not get up. It was chaos in the ring as they attempted to revive him using CPR and the crowd was hushed for a while, and began a "Misawa" chant. He turned purple in the ring and was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance.

His heart stopped beating in the ring.

The wrestlers were told on the bus that he had passed away.

While it is being reported that he passed away at the hospital, he may have actually passed away in the ring.

Misawa was the Japanese high school national wrestling champion at 187 pounds in 1980, and was recruited by Giant Baba into All Japan Pro Wrestling. He gained his first taste of stardom in 1984 when he was chosen to be the second Tiger Mask. After unmasking in 1990, he became an even bigger star after a series of singles matches with Jumbo Tsuruta.

He was Japan's biggest pro wrestling star of the 90s, and one could make a strong case for him as the top wrestler of the decade. He was the Wrestler of the Year in 1995, 1997 and 1999.

After the death of Shohei "Giant" Baba, Misawa wrestled a little over one more year for All Japan Pro Wrestling, while working as company president. After consistently butting heads with owner Motoko Baba, the widow of Shohei Baba, he and 90% of the All Japan roster quit the company to form Pro Wrestling NOAH.

Here are some of my pictures from the show where I saw Misawa wrestle. They arent great but Im no proffessional. I also have a couple of pics of me and him both holding the swedish flag which of course was a great moment. All pictures feature Mitsuharu Misawa and Kenta Kobashi:

Im on blogger vacation....

Well, I havent been very active on this blog for quite some time now. There's several reasons for this. Work has been tougher with the restructuring we go through at the moment. I also try to decide on what to do and how to plan my vacation as well as trying to decide on my future. I will probably go to London this summer and basically get the feel of the city and see if I can get some input and/or insight into what might be the best action for me in regards to jobs and places to live. I will combine that with visiting a few friends of course. And will I sell the place I live in now or rent it out to someone etc? Theres just alot going through my mind and I havent felt inspired to write alot on here.

On top of all this Im trying to complete my studies in the science of religion which I hope I can manage before the summer starts for real.

Busy, busy, busy.....

Ny länk.

This is one of few posts in my native language and it is written in swedish because it deals with a blog that mainly uses that language.

Jag fann en blogg idag av en medlem av Golden Dawn som jag fann mycket intressant. Jag är som bekant mest inne på vänstra handens väg och dess uttryck och fann då ett långt inlägg som beskrev Thomas Karlssons (Dragon Rouge) syn på saken och sedan inkluderade bloggarens egna tankar. Det intressanta här är att sammanfattningen är mycket kompetent och så obektiv som jag tror att man kan vara och att kritiken på det är mycket väl genomtänkt. Delar av kritiken, ja kanske den största delen, håller jag dessutom med om. Den vänstra handens väg och den högra handens väg är olika vägar mot samma mål. Det var så de uppkom i öst och hur och varför de omtolkades till att ha olika mål vet jag inte. Oftast verkar det dock härstamma från Julius Evolas tolkning. Var Evola fick sin information om detta från vet jag inte.

För min del var tex Satanismen alltid ett uttryck för något som inte var dualistiskt även om jag givetvis inte alltid i mina yngre år uttryckte det på speciellt komplierade metafysiska nivåer. Jag kom tidigt i kontakt med "The Dark Doctrines Crew" och de förespråkade alltid en icke-dualistisk syn presenterat i sataniska termer (jag bryr mig föga om deras politiska åsikter, det var alltid det metafysiska som var intressant för min del). För mig var detta tidigt skillnaden mellan kristendomen och satanismen. Jag är medveten om att det i alra högsta grad finns satanister som är dualister också men för mig var det aldrig så. DD Crews längre texter är att föredra men dessa finns inte på hemsidan (de går att köpa, eller hitta på "inofficiella sidor").

Baphomet ser jag fortfranade som en av de främsta symbolerna för helheten i min värdssyn tillsammans med den Heraklitianska elden. Och även om jag gått ifrån att kalla mig satanist då det är för snävt och samtidigt något jag utvecklats bortom så har det stor betydelse för mig på flera sätt. Mina egna tankar om detta går att finna här, här och här.

Detta mycket längre än jag tänkte. Här är iaf länken till bloggen jag skrev om och texten om den vänstra handens väg i synnerhet. En länk ska läggas till i den vänstra menyn också.

Gyllene Gryningen - Angående den vänstra och den högra handens vägar.

Some notes.

As you can tell Im all healthy now which is why there was a slowing down in the posting compared to the amount of posts two weeks ago. Back at work means tired in the evenings but I hope to contribute more soon.

I made a Google Analytics account to see if people were really finding their way to this blog and to my surprise the blog has way more readers that I thought it had. The numbers arent amazing or anything but way more than the few I thought cared. Most based in Sweden, even though the blog is in english, but also from very varied parts of the world which is great. I just have a very low commentary rate on my posts and participation in my polls. I wonder why.

So anyway, I hope to be able to keep making people come back here and maybe to trick some new unexpecting victims into the Ephesos trap ;)

Barack Obama: We Are Not A Christian Nation.

Its very nice and refreshing to hear the president of the United States of America acknowledge that the country he represent isnt in fact a christian nation. Of course all the conservatives and the influential christian right may be terrified. However, as much as they talk about the founding fathers and the constitution did they ever read what they had to say about Christianity? Here are some excerpts that may get some people thinking:

The Founding Fathers on Religion

As the quotes on this page illustrate, the claim that America was founded on Christianity is a myth. Many of the Founding Fathers and Revolutionary War leaders were Deists, and upheld a firm separation of church and state.

Webster's New World Dictionary -- Third College Edition

Deism: (1) The belief in the existence of a God on purely rational grounds without reliance on revelation or authority; especially in the 17th and 18th centuries. (2) The doctrine that God created the world and its natural laws, but takes no further part in its functioning.

United States Constitution

The First Amendment
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..."

Article VI, Section 3
"...no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."


John Adams (the second President of the United States)

Adams signed the Treaty of Tripoli (June 7, 1797). Article 11 states:
"The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion."

From a letter to Charles Cushing (October 19, 1756):
"Twenty times in the course of my late reading, have I been upon the point of breaking out, 'this would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.'"

From a letter to Thomas Jefferson:
"I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved -- the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!"

Additional quotes from John Adams:
"Where do we find a precept in the Bible for Creeds, Confessions, Doctrines and Oaths, and whole carloads of trumpery that we find religion encumbered with in these days?"

"The Doctrine of the divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity."

"...Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind."


Thomas Jefferson (the third President of the United States)

Jefferson's interpretation of the first amendment in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association (January 1, 1802):
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State."

From Jefferson's biography:
"...an amendment was proposed by inserting the words, 'Jesus Christ...the holy author of our religion,' which was rejected 'By a great majority in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mohammedan, the Hindoo and the Infidel of every denomination.'"

Jefferson's "The Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom":
"Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, more than on our opinions in physics and geometry....The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."

From Thomas Jefferson's Bible:
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."

Jefferson's Notes on Virginia:
"Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these free inquiry must be indulged; how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse ourselves? But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments?"

Additional quotes from Thomas Jefferson:
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."

"They [the clergy] believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition of their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the alter of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

"I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth."

"In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own."

"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear....Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences. If it end in a belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue on the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise and in the love of others which it will procure for you."

"Christianity...[has become] the most perverted system that ever shone on man....Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus."

"...that our civil rights have no dependence on religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics and geometry."


James Madison (the fourth President of the United States)

Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments:
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise....During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution."

Additional quote from James Madison:
"Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together."


Benjamin Franklin

From Franklin's autobiography, p. 66:
"My parents had given me betimes religious impressions, and I received from my infancy a pious education in the principles of Calvinism. But scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself."

From Franklin's autobiography, p. 66:
"...Some books against Deism fell into my hands....It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quote to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations, in short, I soon became a thorough Deist."


Thomas Paine

From The Age of Reason, pp. 89:
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of....Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and of my own part, I disbelieve them all."

From The Age of Reason:
"All natural institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."

From The Age of Reason:
"The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion."

From The Age of Reason:
"What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder."

From The Age of Reason:
"Loving of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has beside no meaning....Those who preach the doctrine of loving their enemies are in general the greatest prosecutors, and they act consistently by so doing; for the doctrine is hypocritical, and it is natural that hypocrisy should act the reverse of what it preaches."

From The Age of Reason:
"The Bible was established altogether by the sword, and that in the worst use of it -- not to terrify but to extirpate."

Additional quote from Thomas Paine:
"It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible."


Ethan Allen

From Religion of the American Enlightenment:
"Denominated a Deist, the reality of which I have never disputed, being conscious that I am no Christian."

The founding fathers were not Christians. . .
Is America a Christian nation?
The U.S. Constitution.

This and that.

You might wonder why I write all these posts all of a sudden. Well, this is my third day being sick. I feel like I have a fever but the thermometer says otherwise. These days I only get this sick about once a year so I hope this is it and that I keep fresh the rest of 2009.

It has dawned on me how boring it is to be home with nothing to do. I did manage to read some a couple of days ago but in general I avent been able to. What I have done is watching loads of football (the kind of football where the participants actually use their feet to kick the ball). I went to a game some days ago with friends and I got into it. I never really cared alot even though I do have a favorite team and all. However the game I went to combined with me having loads of time being home and sick made me watch it more. Been watching about 5 matches. 4 champions league and 1 från the swedish league and Im getting into it. I will attend a game on Monday as well. I hope Im well enough to enjoy it by then.

I answered an add that a band had put on the internet about possibly becoming a bass player for them. When they found out I played in another band they said that they wanted someone who would focus whole heartedly on their band. Ah come on... Just because I play in two bands doesnt mean time has to be taken from either of them. Sounds kind of like when James Hetfield didnt want Jason Newstedt to do anything outside of Metallica. I guess thats their loss...

I got myself google analytics to gain stats from this page. So far it seem like my left hand path posts gather most internet traffic. And here I am writing diary like posts. We'll see if I can manage to throw something new together on the LHP topic soon.

On the importance of production.

This is just a link to an already existing piece but its a very good one and it explains on a low level why and how the production of an album is important. It all stems from the complete flop of Metallicas Death Magnetic in terms of the sound. It was awful. This article isnt so much focused on that but it does indeed touch upon that as well.

Was there anything wrong with the recording of the new Metallica album? How did Led Zeppelin revolutionize recording rock? Why do newer albums sound louder? For these questions and more, clink the link and discover why the production on albums matter! Read more...