that's about $450USD

Asians are good trolls

Do y'all do the Hell Money thing, where you burn it at a grave?

I can imagine a pallet of that being sent to isis

> 50ドルならまあ
> 当然輸送料は元払いな、着払いで送ってくんなよ

"How about $50
But you pay the bank transfer fees, and don't send him back COD"

no but we burn stuff during Obon, which is basically in 2 weeks

so similar custom

but not quite the same

oh we burn stuff for specific purposes, like you go to a temple and leave toys for [your] dead children in a special place, and they put it all in a bon fire later on to send it to the next world

Yeah similar

me and my wife did that once when we had a miscarriage, the area for the dead children was the saddest place I've ever been. People wrote letters and attached them to brand new toys and video games that were popular - like the kind of stuff you fight other people in line for or bid for on ebay from a scalper

Wow

fucking heartbreaking man, I'm tearing up just typing this out

Sorry about your loss man

ah no it was really early term

You're white, yeah?

my wife didn't even cry she was just like "hey take me to the hospital tomorrow I miscarrieed"

I'm white-ish

Haha

But your wife is Japanese?

yup

So you follow Japanese indigenous religion?

I can't stand white women... probably has something to do with my white mom being a terrible person

we do all the shindo and buddhist customs here yeah

but nobody is really religious

I know more shinto shinwa than my wife

Same in China, it's more of a cultural tradition than a religious one

yeah, and China has it damn right cracking down on the serious religions

like the ones where you have to believe sky daddy told you to kill people

I think they should be treated like cults

we have christians up the street and they think that because I'm white I'm religious or something and they like invite me to easter parties and stuff

But for "us" the existence of the Christian God is basically just an accepted fact of nature

is it? I never grew up in a religious environment and I have a history of a big chunk of my family being wiped out from that.

Like my Chinese family they call themselves nonreligious but they still believe in God

aah like spiritualism

yeah none of that here

I meant us as in my Chinese family

right

in Japan it's just so perhipheral, it's more or less just the feeling, like even if you go to a shrine and buy a charm they'll say "It's not the charm that makes it happen, the charm is a symbol and reminder for you to make it happen"

Sounds very Catholic