necoandjeff wrote:

> I started to draft a response to this but conversing with you is so
> exhausting Eric. It's why I usually just stop answering.

No, you stopped answering after I pointed out how you were misreading my
explicit posts, you claiming I assume or call all Buddhists or Shintoists
atheists, and how you could not remember what you (or neco) posted yesterday,
such as calling the word "atheist", "that evil label".

You also cannot explain the contradiction between your apparent right to judge
people's beliefs, and your claim I have none.

> Not only do you
> have trouble following a line of reasoning, you have trouble expressing
> yourself in a coherent manner. Others have pointed out the fact that your
> sentences can't be parsed in some cases and you love non-sequitors. I can't
> make head nor tails of half of what you say.
>
> And can't you just make a point or two without splitting someone's post into
> 50 different pieces and replying to every single sentence fragment?

It allows people to easily delete what they don't need, better than hundreds of
lines of quoted text with a one liner at the very bottom.

> Best of luck figuring out what Shinto is all about Eric.

It's a religion. The Japanese home-grown religion, their state religion. It has
enough background or structure to constitute a religion, and it ties in to
notable but not well known ancient texts such as the Kojiki. People have a
right to believe in it, and I will make no speculation on what will happen in
the afterlife to people of any religion in general.

Good luck figuring out what your dictionaries or any other, say about mushinron
and athieist/atheism, and how that is explicitly applicable to people I know,
and near 30% of respondents in the link Ken posted despite many admitting to
stocking their homes with superstitious or religious wares and going through
the motions. Also note that what you translate as "belief" as opposed to
"religion" (I'm glad to hear Christianity is a "real" religion) is also called
religion or like religion in Japanese further down, but particularly called
"religion" in English.

> I'm done here.

If you insist. I just got done with 17 movies I rented last week myself, the
last of the 100 or 50 yen video rentals for the foreseeable future. Don't
bother watching "Message in a Bottle" or "Space Travelers".

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