Guardian spirits are such a cool concept. But everyone knows they don't exist, right, WRONG
In the Shinto religion, which is practiced by 100% of Japan, human bodies are possessed by Kami, which are spirits that return to the earth after death. So all those shrines around japan are homes for your dead ancestors, who have now become gods.
This is what it means to be a guardian spirit.
The concept is not that much different from a guardian angel in the west, but nobody in the west really believes in guardian angels anymore, that was a baby boomer meme. But guardian spirits are still heavily followed today.
What do you think about this, pol?
Juan Rivera
>What do you think about this, pol?
i think religious people are fkn retarded
Daniel Hughes
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Adrian Nguyen
i think that you're autistic and at risk of being called a delusional christfag i have to say that the lowest caste of angels are, according to ancient / Orthodox belief, strictly to deal in human affairs such as watching over people
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Caleb Reyes
So kinda like Guardian Angels?
Dylan Bell
kitsunes make my peepee go hard
William Brooks
You know life after death isn't the point of religion, right?
You THINK heaven is the point of following a religion, but it's not. That's just the hook.
Do you honestly think people believe whether or not they use the missionary position when having sex determines if they go to heaven or hell? Come on. Heaven and hell is not the point of religion, it never is and never will be.
Religious people are wiser than you'll ever be.
Parker Ortiz
>gaijins will never EVER understand the source of our true strength
Dylan Adams
You need to eat a high dose of shrooms or smoke salvia and witness a upper intelligence
Luke Nguyen
Cooler than fucking Christianity to be sure. Hell, it even makes more internal sense. It's also native to Japan, and is part of their heritage. Better than Christianity in every way actually.
Hunter Nguyen
Get back to class, engrish teacher
Andrew Sanders
>"it's the angel heiarchy meme" nobody actually believes this. get the fuck out
>he couldn't be bothered to read the entire post
amaterasu is a faggot
Lincoln King
You are suffering from a grass-is-greener mentality you dumb fuck
Dylan Hall
don't be a weeaboo, friend. japanese culture is fucking based but no need to curse your heritage
Kevin Jackson
Yeah, so they're free to believe what ever they want.
Now excuse me while I thank my Guardian Angel bro for having my back.
Grayson Jackson
Nah, because I've been on both sides.
Lincoln Morgan
wtf did yiu just say to me i am a strong womnyn ypu fucking neonazi skinhead fucker fuck fuck i hope you enjoy ur life in a basement fapping every day you stale cum splatter in humanclothes i bet u dont even know WHO madethem clothes u weae well ill tell u BL;ACK PEAPOLE they workSO hard for you and i look at my cooffee and know that there are peope with that skin color strugling every day with the apin of oppression u fukken nazi
Hudson Ross
Time to play FF8 again
Dominic Perry
>maybe you watched Shugo Chara
did ANYBODY watch Shugo Chara?
Joshua Brown
Ah yes, so wise I'll go and do things I shouldn't, but it's all okay if I go to church and pray on sundays!!!1 truly wise
Xavier Sanders
Some people just want to believe they have a STAND It's like a guardian angel, but cooler.
Levi Sanchez
To be quite honest, Christianity is as much Chinese heritage as it is European. It still comes from the Middle east kikelands. It also has major internal logic flaws that contribute to the disillusionment with the religion.
Having visited Japan, and having acquaintances inside Japan, I can say that although things may be harder, the people are much more homogeneous than under Christianity in my hometown.
Robert Nguyen
they're real
Zachary Jackson
you don't understand, and that is why you want to destroy society
here's a hint
what's easier
telling a kid that if he punches his classmate he will have his parents taken to court and possibly arrested
or
telling a kid if he punches someone else he gets to burn in hell by himself for all of eternity
i'll let you think about it
Blake Murphy
>American laughing at Japan because of religiosity Is this some multilayered ironic humor? the vast majority of your population think the world is 6 thousand years old.
Connor Powell
you're missing out on some big truthbombs by not watching shugo chara tbqh
it has some really good commentary on society
Ian Price
>Literally admitting that your religion is for dumb kids and isn't meant to be taken seriously. Damn
Isaiah Allen
Of Course Guardian Spirits exist.
Noah Morgan
What? Anyone with any level of education knows the true purpose of religion in a society is to form the backbones of social interaction.
It has nothing to do with hell or heaven and everything to do with establishing a mutual "social norm" that is taught to children who grow up into a type of person that is suitable for the society in question.
That is why you can't remove religion from the world. It's a literal necessity if you want any sort of adhesive social norm.
Anthony Jenkins
You in fact do not need religion if your populace has an average IQ of >115 and your society is built with a goal in mind for it's existance rather than simply "here we are".
Ian Gomez
So you're the type of person that wants a country to just have its population turn into emotionless machines that only care about acquiring money
Yeah have fun with the birthrates in THAT shithole.
Brayden Scott
i'll just add people much smarter than you already thought about these issues hundreds and thousands of years ago, before the society you were born in even existed, and determined religion was necessary to shape any meaningful society
so just fuck off
John King
>Acquiring money Fuck off, monetary gain is not a purpose you can build a nation around you insufferable imbecile. No wonder you think religion is necassary
Matthew Edwards
>Shinto >Practically 100% of Japan
Japan is majority Christian YOU FUCKING DUMBASS STOP BELIEVING ANIMU
Carson Sanchez
So stands actually exist?
William Bennett
>it was a troll the entire time
You can't build a society around anything but money in a society without religion. Any attempt to do so would fail after one generation.
according to modern japanese belief, yes ask any japanese person if they believe in guardian spirits, they will say yes
Jack Myers
s-source?
Jaxson Thomas
>practiced by 100% of Japan You don't know shit about Japan
Hudson Edwards
>be japanese in ancient times >the fuck is science? >earthquakes and volcanoes happen every other day >dafuq is this happening >tribe leader tells you it's spirits >you believe him because he has a two-inched dick instead of your one incher
Matthew Taylor
t. Stupid Weaboo who thinks he's a Japan expert
Justin Cook
You know America bombed the only two christain cities in japan, right?
Japan used to have have, 200,000 or more chrsitains. they all died in the nukes.
every single christain academy in the country was obliterated.
Liam Adams
Eh, they call them as kami or gods and goddesses, muslims call them djinn, and christians call them angels or demons depending on whether they follow the Creator. Same difference.
Jayden Campbell
I see you are a pessimistic nihilist. I feel sorry for you, as you will never have true free will outside of the false idea of self in your head. The very type of pwan that MGS 2 spoke of.
Jack Harris
I wanna possess that spirit
Asher Gomez
you have an american flag, you already kniow what a population that doesn't believe in god operates like, look at your friends and co-workers
there is literally no fun in anything
society has lost it's way indeed
Justin Wilson
same here bro
Chase Stewart
>amaterasu is a faggot
Oliver Davis
>Winged humanoid This isn't even my final form!
Kevin Jenkins
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Zachary Martin
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Carter Butler
>An ancient culture like Japan aligns their beliefs with nature and the spirit of their ancestors
Wow, so surprising, read a fucking book you illiterate faggots.
Christian Wood
who cares people have their own beliefs, retard
Colton Cooper
Japan UNIRONICALLY BELIEVES yelling the name of your attack is effective in combat
Japan UNIRONICALLY BELIEVES if you train hard enough you can throw a fireball made of "energy"
Japan UNIRONICALLY BELIEVES they are Saiyajin master race
Kevin Gonzalez
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Brandon Butler
>Remember Shaman King as a kid? Fuck yes, I loved that shit. Tried it again recently and both voice tracks were so bad to be they wrre unwatchable. >Maybe you watched Shugo Chara? Not much. It was fun but eh.
Ethan Clark
I didn't watch all of it butwhat I did was fun and cute. Wouldfinishwatchingifcontemplatingsuicide/10
Logan White
Good. Christcuckery doesn't belong in Japan eanymore than itbelongs in Europe.
Joshua Gomez
Angels are also real though.
Justin Robinson
>highschool freshman takes his first world cultures course
Aaron White
Do you even know they very definition of the word wisedom ? Asuming your religion is right because some goat fuckers in the desert invented it centuries ago and so they must have all the answers to all questions a human could ever ask is not wise. You either belief in your holy book without knowing the circumstances of it's origin which is not a very wise thing to do. Or you believe in it despite knowing the exact circumstances which isn't a very wise think to do neither. Give it up, Burger, there is no way some ideologic retard could ever be considered wise.
Levi Stewart
It's tradition. 99% of them are atheists.
Colton Gutierrez
tell me how to get a stand! Dont make me Nagasaki your shit!
Levi Turner
Yes, they are called Angels user.
Connor Campbell
one day there were 20 threads up at /lit/ which were of poor quality. I made them all.
Nicholas Brown
based nips stay based
Charles Hall
>he doesn't believe in extra-dimensional consciousnesses
I suggest you shut the fuck up before Kek punishes you for your insolence.
They are probably many "spirits" conscious forces we cannot understand or grasp the nature of. The only evidence of them existing is the uncanny circumstantial evidence they leave behind.
Many times in history prayer has brought about weather phenomenon to alter history.
Even the ancient Greek philosophers commented on this. These beings are comprised of information, memetic synchronicity. It's as real as the data in your computer or the radio signals in the air.
The medium of this information doesn't matter, what matters is that it's organized and behaves in a way that seems conscious.
Ethan Torres
Soiled school girl panties?
Camden Thomas
seriously was going to point this out the west has an analog of Shinto to some degree in Odinism/Asatru which includes ancestor worship/veneration too.
Luis Allen
>gaijins will never EVER understand the source of our true strength two nukes okinawa and nagasaki
Jayden Bennett
yeah, the west had been based as well before they fell for the kike deity :D
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Sebastian Wright
t-that doujin... masaka... you have good taste, my friend.
Joshua Foster
>shitndol >good
Xavier Howard
>we've got a pleb on the line boys, reel 'im in
Dominic Hughes
my spirit animal is Dr robotnik... whats your point.