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>>47146088
>I find it kinda funny that i'm learning about shinto in the most roundabout way
>i guess it's one of those things that was just meant to happen.
Yeah!! And these things so often work in really weird roundabout ways. Like when I picked up Touhou I was in a part of my life where I was hoping to kinda distance myself from esotericism. Turns out it was for me the last thing in the world to get into for this purpose.
>when i live in an area with a MASSIVE japanese population and influence
I'm a bit jealous, as much as I would want to take my practice towards more authentic Shinto there is just not enough Japanese people here for them to have shrines or anything. On the other hand, a community of apparently very authentic, very much rooted in Daoism, community of Tai Chi practitioners holds their lessons very, very near where I live. I'm enrolling soon, when their courses open up to newcomers again.

>>46966821
NTA, but I also believe that it would be positive to let these discussions happen naturally (much like they previously did, although on a smaller scale).
It won't take much effort to spot supernatural-related discussions amid waifu threads and vtuber/gaming generals.

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