/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>47065912
>Everyone is a double-crossing devil
They are though. There’s like… a handful of characters that aren’t con artists trying to steal shit at the best of times. Hell, WAHH has multiple chapters about how pretty much everybody from the Kappa to the Hermits are all just the same flavor of snake oil salesman.

>>46966369
That’s pretty much all the religious leaders honestly, Reimus a quirky weirdo who also strikes down any deserters from the village, and Byakuren got fuckin assassins. They’re all nice as a front, that’s how they get followers and money

>>46678704
>I can't make up my mind about this
Why do you need to? All "truths" are analogies, any label we give to something is arbitrary, and reality exists entirely within the mind of the observer.
You could say there are "real" "living" "conscious" spiritual "beings" with "physical forms"
Or you could say there are swirling fractal patterns of collective thought, that manifest into the world through people's words and actions, and make their way into your reality through your own mind.
There's no need for these to be distinct concepts. Viewed from a materialist perspective, one is an analogy for the other, and one might even say a rather apt one. And since analogy is the only form of truth, if the analogy is apt, that means it's true, to the extent anything can be true.
Approaching the truth from a materialist perspective is a needless abstraction, however. It's necessary for some people because our culture is materialist, and will not allow us to believe anything that it can't justify. But even materialism is just an analogy, and it's possible to approach the truth from other directions if you have an open mind.
Reality exists in the mind of the observer, and more people throughout history have lived in a reality with living gods than without.

>>46676631
Milo absolutely delights in the control she has over people, Byakuren brags about having her subjects do her work for her, and Kanako lets the kappa create a shitty ropeway all for the purpose of extra maintenance payments. They are all malicious at best, downright scummy con artists at worst.