DebbieSG
Refugee
is it Shinto? Mass consumer production? please clue me in, i have not seen any recent reports stating the rituals and prayer ceremonies practiced in our former enemy's land!
DebbieSG said:and to the first two "peeps", thanks for your succinct and enlightening ideas! we will all learn more about the western world and the terrible display of ethical confusion, resulting in sex, drugs and rap
melon said:It isn't postmodernist really. The Japanese are what they are today because of the United States and their post-World War II occupation of the country. They got the Japanese to redirect their militant-nature from war to capitalism. But there are still lots of Shinto shrines, etc.
As for Catholicism, I think that is the result of the fact that the followers aren't in control of their own religion. They just get talked down to by the lofty hierarchy.
Melon
Screaming Flower said:
and they're having sex to rap music.
DebbieSG said:oh, so it's a post-modern "reaction" to theocracy? sounds like the "reaction" of many current modern Catholics, in this country, anyway! atheistic or agnostic...
i suppose they are so commercially oriented (making our cars, ghetto-blasters, televisions, etc) that they have very little interest in spiritual pursuits...but don't they have a bunch of spots where they make pilgrimages to, like hillside alters and little carp ponds and such?
I'm not sure, having never been to Japan
and to the first two "peeps", thanks for your succinct and enlightening ideas! we will all learn more about the western world and the terrible display of ethical confusion, resulting in sex, drugs and rap
DebbieSG said:we will all learn more about the western world and the terrible display of ethical confusion, resulting in sex, drugs and rap