Message from @Ƶero
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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
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
I wouldn't know, not very versed on Catholisism
I had a strange upbringing I guess
We have all sorts of trinkets
I like that kind of religious culture
charms and stuff
I have a 神棚 right behind me, it's a little shrine made of wood that you store charms in