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What does /jp/ know about Shinto? I want to know about it out of curiosity, mostly. Religion can be very interesting.

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Reimu

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what about shinto?

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lots of gods, interesting rituals, hot mikos

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>>1103107
How about this;

I know absolutely nothing about shinto. Where would one learn?

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Most the Gods are animals. There is a wolf god, a fox god, a monkey god. Lots of animal gods.

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Fuck yes I love religion.

/jp/ needs more religion threads.

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Question: Are Shakyamuni and Shinto religion related somehow?

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>>1103118
Not really gods.
Shintoism = glorified animism
The State Shinto practiced from the Meiji restoration to World War II was a historical anomaly, Shintoism is just animism.

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>>1103103
Calling it a 'religion' is your first mistake.

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>>1103103

I had to learn about the basics of Shinto like how it originated etc. mainly because I had to study the architecture of Shinto shrines/the "grain storehouse" architecture and the stupid professor decided we HAD to know how the shit started due to certain practices/beliefs/etc.

Had to learn a lot of Hindu and Buddhist shit too.

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It reminds me of ancient European religions with shrine maidens added in.

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>>1103121
I can't stand the religious persecution normally perpetuated by the higher ups on /jp/ though.

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>>1103250
don't you have a table to wait on?

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>>1103254
I'm sorry? I'm home from work now.

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>>1103254
Actually, on that note, the party I had on the patio tonight had three cute little girls (only one of which actually would have grown up nicely, the other two were vietnamese or something) that kept running around, jumping on chairs, and shit. Not really being a bother, just having their fun.

Long story short, the cutest one was wearing pink panties with little red hearts dotted on it. Was quite nice.

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ITT: Pedo's and architecture.

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Gegege no Kitarou will tell you everything you need to know about Japanese religion. They do not get the idea that religions are supposed to be mutually exclusive and instead just try to appease any spirit they think might have any influence on their lives. Shakyamuni is the particular version of the Buddha that most Japanese worship. Budhism and Shinto exist side by side but do not tie into one-another on a philosophical or theological level. Instead, they fulfill different social and psychological needs. Certain birth-related ceremonies, marriages, and funerals are essentially Budhist, while most public festivals are Shinto. Japanese Buddhism has no central head, just the senior monks of individual temples. The Japanese royal family is considdered to be decendants of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, but, since Shinto has no formal dogma, just a hap-hazard collection of rituals, this is more a justification for the emporer's claim to worldly power than a claim to religious leadership of the type a Pope or Mullah would weild.