/jp/ - Otaku Culture

does anyone else think that we should have a separate touhou and visual novel board... I really would like for this to be about actual Japan and Japanese culture instead of the shit it is today.

Shintoism, a reverence for nature spirits and ancestors with no formal dogma?! Get real, Japan!

A central concept in many eastern religions is that every single thing, not just every living thing, has a soul. Even a rock has a soul so don't take it for granite! Ha ha... Anyway, I've always wondered this. If one rock has one soul, and that rock is broken in half, what happens to the soul? Does one piece get the soul and the other piece get a new soul? Is a new soul created? Or are inanimate object souls a metaphor and we're not really supposed to put that much thought into it?
And if two rocks are molten down and joined into one, does it suddenly have one soul instead of two? Does every single atom have its own soul? I want to ask a Buddhist monk this, but I don't want to sound rude.

Anyway, ITT eastern religion.