/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

>"In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence."
- Reimu after abandoning her shrine and founding the Gensokyo Atheist Society

[Anonymous No.]

That's kind of silly because gods canonically exist in Gensokyo.

It's like that faction in Star Wars that believes there is no "Light Side" and "Dark Side" of The Force, even though there is. They have no reason to believe otherwise.

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>>11209358
*tips fedora

[Anonymous No.]

Atheists are dumb.

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>>11209371
you're wrong though. the light side are hypocrites and the dark are meat heads that never considered alternatives.

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>>11209371
I'd like to walk to Moriya and meet a god.

[Anonymous No.]

>phony god's blessing

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>>11209419

Religious people are also dumb.

[Anonymous No.]

Cultural Marxism has invaded Gensokyo.

Push back the soviet swine! Kill anyone with a red ribbon!

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>>11209438
I would fug that so hard.

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>>11209440
I don't think the outside world has forgotten about "cultural marxism" yet.

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>>11209438
I would bum a black Sanae

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>>11209440

Could this be the work of the infamous Rani-chan?

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>>11209426
But that's just our outside world point of view, and that's the reason that faction was created. It defeats the whole point of the in-university mythology. There's no, "Dude, what if like, the Light Side and the Dark Side are totally, you know, the same shit?" because that's not how it works. There is definitely a Light Side and a Dark Side. The Light Side is good and good people use it, the Dark Side is bad and bad people use it.

I wish more stories were like this. I guess Star Wars got away with it because it started out as a Flash Gordon rip-off or whatever, but I'm sick of adventure stories shying away from good vs. evil. Morally gray or ambiguous characters are boring as hell.

[Anonymous No.]

Any time I see an atheist professor I just laugh a little to myself because atheists are fucken' dumb and their spaghetti could fill probably 69420 fedoras. Fuckin' faggot probably goes on r/atheism, christ.

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfzSTx2peeo

This will be Gensokyo in a few years if YOU don't act now.

[Anonymous No.]

if God is not real then who made everything?

Checkmate, Atheists

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>>11209371
I don't know, the movies are never really clear if the differences between the light side and dark side are fundamental or merely ideological. It's possible that there's no technical distinction between the two within the force itself.

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>>11209476
Richard Dawkins did.

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>>11209483
Actually the lord Raptor Jesus made everything before you possible and win, please realize this.

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>>11209482
Well I don't think it was originally supposed to be as arbitrary as the games and books made it ("Force Lightning is Dark, Force Heal is Light!") but there is definitely two fundamental sides to The Force that affected users and manifested themselves in different ways.

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>>11209488
The differences could be explained as competing schools of though on its use. The good guys believe in using it for good, the bad guys believe in using it for bad. For example nuclear fission could be used to create a bomb or provide power to a hospital: two extremely different things that both rely on the same fundamental process. Also one can go from light to dark and, presumably, from dark to light. This would suggest to me that they both draw upon the same common source.


Now certainly a faction that believes this would be out of place in Star Wars on a thematic level, but I think a case could be made to justify it's existence in universe.

[Anonymous No.]

Wouldn't that like destroy Gensokyo?

#yolo

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>>11209454
>The Light Side is good and good people use it, the Dark Side is bad and bad people use it.
>I wish more stories were like this
God no, theres nothing more boring than unambiguous good vs evil plot. Actually 'plot' is word too strong to name it, its more like an excuse for stuff happening and pointer to which of completely unrealistic sides of conflict we should sympathize with.
Modern stories more often involves 'meh vs EVIL' sides though, which is nearly as bad as you know already what is going to happen.

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lmao @ star dorks in this thread

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>>11209595

I prefer the term "Star Otaku"

Thank you

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>>11209371
Sure gods, spirits, and supernatural stuff exist in Gensokyo, but that doesn't really prove an omnipotent god who created the universe exists.
Btw, I'm not an atheist.

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>>11209619
I can't see shit

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>>11209631
religious fanatic blind to the truth

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>>11209619
Let's make the range of the points very small, so the bars will make it seem like there is a huge difference.

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>>11209638
Maybe if you're not posting thumbnails I might be enlightened.

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>>11209663

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>>11209619

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>>11209666
But how many onions are smuggled into the Philippines?

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>>11209358
i want reimu to be my mom.

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>>11209779
That body is so arousing

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>>11209671
How many times have you eaten bread?

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>>11209781
13 times, I usually eat Japanese food.

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>>11209816
what a weeb

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>>11209816
Japanese food creeps me out. I like their candy though.

[Anonymous No.]

The hell is a phone god?

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>>11209781
I miss arc meiling and uncle mugen.

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>>11209833
Rice, eggs, tofu, noodles, and fish creep you out?

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>>11209781
Who is this guy? Can someone help a newfag out?

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>>11209852
So much that I can't eat them.

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>>11209874
Uncle Mugen! You baka

[Anonymous No.]

>>11209874
Don't bother.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11209874
A potato smuggler.

I think it was potatos. I think he got arrested due to that.

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>>11209910
He never got arrested as far as I'm concerned, he pops up sometimes albeit nowhere near as often as before.

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>>11209875
What do you eat then. Just burgers and fries?
Try eating different things anon.

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>>11209612
I guess not, but you could always go ask Shikieiki. She probably knows, one way or another, and if she doesn't, her boss probably does.

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>>11209876
>>11209885
>>11209910
So, he's just some guy who makes shitty VNs, and used to attention whore on /jp/. It wasn't that hard to tell me.

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>>11209937
I just eat whatever my mom makes. Usually pasta or soup or meat and vegetables.

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>>11210033
*hugs *

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>>11210034
Y-you're not my mom!

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>>11210014
That's not even half the story.

[Anonymous No.]

Mugen was the guy that had the fetishistic obsession with 2hus getting shot with arrows, right?

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>>11210033
Try cooking something for yourself. Look up some recipes for things you think you might like and see if you can make it with the food you already have at home.

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>>11209663
I've never fully understood these as arguements towards correlation or causation. Aren't the graphs you posted in fact neither correlative nor causative? They're just coincidences.

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>>11210096
My mom helped me to make cinnamon apple crumble before and that was tasty but I lost the recipe.

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>>11210174
Aren't they technically correlative?
Not causative though, obviously.

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>>11209588
>God no, theres nothing more boring than unambiguous good vs evil plot.
Shit taste.

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>>11210174
They're arguments that things can be correlative but that does not mean that there is a case of causation between them. Even though it is just a coincidence they still show correlation because as the average temperature increased, the number of pirates decreased.

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>>11209532
I think it's far more likely that the Force interacts with the user as much as the user uses it. Those who maintain ascetic purity can stay in control but those who give into their baser urges and become a Force-waving superhero doing the things THEY want to do, then they will find themselves slipping to the Dark Side, becoming creatures just of that base selfish desire.

It tracks more closely with in universe dark side depictions than anything else

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>>11210047

Fucking degenerate.

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>>11210174
Start by understanding what "correlation" means, because it's pretty much a specific way of saying "coincidence".

[Anonymous No.]

Derailed by star fags
Good job

[Anonymous No.]

>>11209371
they can be pretty sketchy sometimes, though.

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>>11211040
Everyone in Gensokyo is sketchy. That's the point

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>>11210186
>>11210266
Not exactly? Correlation is still an actual trend that is being followed for one reason or another that you may use to predict future results. These pictures aren't even that, it's just graph manipulation, which is the point. They're meant to illustrate how people just look at graphs and accept whatever finding it is rather than what it really means.

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>>11211549
But the graph still shows correlation because there's an even trend line between the two sets of data being shown.

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>>11211672
Having a few data points and drawing a line doesn't make a correlation. If you had two dots and could map a line through them, its accuracy would be perfect but you still wouldn't be saying anything. Or if you had that IQ graph with five people, it would just be one person per category (minding the SD). It's just playing with shapes and labels.

A correlation is distinct from coincidences because it has some predictive ability. The point of a correlation is to, y'know, show that the two things are actually related with some nontrivial level of confidence. It's to graduate something from actually being a coincidence to something that probably isn't.