Ludzi
NEET Monk
- Nov 27, 2022
- 9
This is going to sound crazy but I unironically believe that anime girls are godesses and if you embrace this belief you are going to improve your life.
I started out being an atheist weeb which got me more interested in broader Japanese culture, and, eventually got me interested in Japanese philosophy and religion as a way for me to find grounding in a good worldview after realizing that my atheist views weren't providing me with such. One of these is Zen Buddhism, which forms a large part of my worldview but this will not be the focus here. What I want to talk about is Shinto. While Buddhism was imported from China, which, in turn, got it from India, and then perfected in Japan, Shinto is the native religion of Japan. Shinto believes in the existence of many gods, called Kami. Kami can be the spirits of anything. They can be the spirit of a piece of land, of a family, of a country, of a person, or of certain abstract concepts. The Japanese say that there are eight million Kami, which in japanese means that there are practically infinite possible Kami. This might seem like a weird belief to hold but once you think about it, it does start to make sense. The way in which we view the world is in concepts, or Forms, as Plato would say. Plato even went so far as to posit the existence of an entire realm only made up these Forms, called the World of Forms. When we think about the Forms we give them Images. Images are any representations of Forms through the senses. In the case of Kami it is mainly through the sense of vision. This holds true to most religions in general. Most religions create great visual art in honor of their gods. Be it through painting, sculpture, architecture, or calligraphy. This is due to the visual sense being the most prominent of the human senses, with more than half of the human brain being involved in some form of visual processing. Kami are the Images of the Forms which the world is made out of. Kami can be anything, and, most importantly, they can be the representatives of profound human Archetypes. Carl Jung, one of the greatest psychologists of all time, posited the existence of certain universal ideas within the collective unconcious of humanity. Certain ideas, which always exist regardless of time and culture. These Archetypes can be represented through the Kami. We might change the Kami, the Image, but the Form remains the same. Some western practicioners of Shinto, for instance, worship people like Abraham Lincoln as Kami while people in Japan will worship their great national figures. During the days of the Empire, there were proposals to build Shinto shrines in Korea to great Korean national figures. It would be very much possible to be a Shintoist and worship the Greek gods, for instance. Or, it would be possible to worship biblical figures and Christian saints. Now, coming to the topic of this thread. I believe that having laid out my philosophical framework, it is possible to worship anime girls as Kami. Now, I will talk about why anime girls specifically make for good Kami to worship. Anime girls are the most beautiful beings which man has created until now. I do believe that certain natural phenomena are more beautiful than depictions of living beings but in terms of living beings there is nothing which can compete with the transcendent beauty of anime girls. They are the closest we have reached up until now towards developing an Image of the ultimate transcendent Form of beauty. Anime girls usually fall into certain tropes due to being fictional characters. This also makes them good representatives of other Forms. There might be an anime girl which is very elegant and sophisticated and which you might be able to worship as a Kami of these Forms. There might be an anime girl which is very compassionate and helpful and you could do the same for her. There might be an anime girl who studies a lot and is very intelligent and you could to the same for her. Anime girls are the best representatives of these positive characteristics because they are the closest to devine Images which we have created up until now. They are the most beautiful, the most perfect, which is why they can act as the perfect Kami. Through them we can come the closest to percieving divine perfection on a visual level, which is the strongest form of perception. I would recommend anyone of you to go and write down which anime girls would be good to worship for which positive trait or concept. Dedicate a small place in your room to them as a shrine and pray to them to develop the same good traits. Hold prayers of gratitude in their honor and study their actions in their respective anime, study their character and meditate on them. Use your worship of them to let you become a better person and thereby honor them.
Any additional ideas? What girls would you worship and what do you think is she the godess of? Have I managed to convert anyone of you?
I started out being an atheist weeb which got me more interested in broader Japanese culture, and, eventually got me interested in Japanese philosophy and religion as a way for me to find grounding in a good worldview after realizing that my atheist views weren't providing me with such. One of these is Zen Buddhism, which forms a large part of my worldview but this will not be the focus here. What I want to talk about is Shinto. While Buddhism was imported from China, which, in turn, got it from India, and then perfected in Japan, Shinto is the native religion of Japan. Shinto believes in the existence of many gods, called Kami. Kami can be the spirits of anything. They can be the spirit of a piece of land, of a family, of a country, of a person, or of certain abstract concepts. The Japanese say that there are eight million Kami, which in japanese means that there are practically infinite possible Kami. This might seem like a weird belief to hold but once you think about it, it does start to make sense. The way in which we view the world is in concepts, or Forms, as Plato would say. Plato even went so far as to posit the existence of an entire realm only made up these Forms, called the World of Forms. When we think about the Forms we give them Images. Images are any representations of Forms through the senses. In the case of Kami it is mainly through the sense of vision. This holds true to most religions in general. Most religions create great visual art in honor of their gods. Be it through painting, sculpture, architecture, or calligraphy. This is due to the visual sense being the most prominent of the human senses, with more than half of the human brain being involved in some form of visual processing. Kami are the Images of the Forms which the world is made out of. Kami can be anything, and, most importantly, they can be the representatives of profound human Archetypes. Carl Jung, one of the greatest psychologists of all time, posited the existence of certain universal ideas within the collective unconcious of humanity. Certain ideas, which always exist regardless of time and culture. These Archetypes can be represented through the Kami. We might change the Kami, the Image, but the Form remains the same. Some western practicioners of Shinto, for instance, worship people like Abraham Lincoln as Kami while people in Japan will worship their great national figures. During the days of the Empire, there were proposals to build Shinto shrines in Korea to great Korean national figures. It would be very much possible to be a Shintoist and worship the Greek gods, for instance. Or, it would be possible to worship biblical figures and Christian saints. Now, coming to the topic of this thread. I believe that having laid out my philosophical framework, it is possible to worship anime girls as Kami. Now, I will talk about why anime girls specifically make for good Kami to worship. Anime girls are the most beautiful beings which man has created until now. I do believe that certain natural phenomena are more beautiful than depictions of living beings but in terms of living beings there is nothing which can compete with the transcendent beauty of anime girls. They are the closest we have reached up until now towards developing an Image of the ultimate transcendent Form of beauty. Anime girls usually fall into certain tropes due to being fictional characters. This also makes them good representatives of other Forms. There might be an anime girl which is very elegant and sophisticated and which you might be able to worship as a Kami of these Forms. There might be an anime girl which is very compassionate and helpful and you could do the same for her. There might be an anime girl who studies a lot and is very intelligent and you could to the same for her. Anime girls are the best representatives of these positive characteristics because they are the closest to devine Images which we have created up until now. They are the most beautiful, the most perfect, which is why they can act as the perfect Kami. Through them we can come the closest to percieving divine perfection on a visual level, which is the strongest form of perception. I would recommend anyone of you to go and write down which anime girls would be good to worship for which positive trait or concept. Dedicate a small place in your room to them as a shrine and pray to them to develop the same good traits. Hold prayers of gratitude in their honor and study their actions in their respective anime, study their character and meditate on them. Use your worship of them to let you become a better person and thereby honor them.
Any additional ideas? What girls would you worship and what do you think is she the godess of? Have I managed to convert anyone of you?