Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!nntp.gol.com!203.216.70.8.MISMATCH!not-for-mail From: Brett Robson Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Japanese Mythology Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 11:28:37 +0900 Organization: FusionGOL - Global Online Japan Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <73fde4f0.0411241056.48e0f410@posting.google.com> <41A4E547.629B743@yahoo.co.jp> <9_8pd.49229$QJ3.4973@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> <41A5E722.3708F4F6@yahoo.co.jp> <41A60A3F.E415510A@yahoo.co.jp> <98opd.49395$QJ3.36476@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> <3xvpd.49509$QJ3.17112@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-216-000-091.engineering.gol.ad.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1101436118 6096 203.216.0.91 (26 Nov 2004 02:28:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 02:28:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5 X-Accept-Language: en In-Reply-To: <3xvpd.49509$QJ3.17112@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:22506 necoandjeff wrote: > Brett Robson wrote: > >>necoandjeff wrote: >> >>>Atheism isn't much more common in Japan than it is in the U.S. They >>>call themselves Buddhist and Shinto because they draw their >>>traditions from both. Most people are "spiritual" in the sense that >>>they believe in something more. >> >>Total crap. Japanese have some vague idea about people being >>spirits after they die, and that's it. > > > Sorry, what's the total crap part? Are people who believe that they are > spirits after they die atheists? Damn. What I said is clearly written above. I corrected your post: > I'm going to have to find a crowd to hang out with then. > Tell you what Brett, once you complete your survey > about how many Japanese know the meaning of the "na" in "Nara," why don't > you conduct one to see how many of them would consider themselves an > adherent of "mushinron." Make up your mind, mushinron or aetheist. I explained quite clearly what I meant "Japanese have some vague idea about people being >>spirits after they die, and that's it." Ask all your thousands of Japanese friends this little question: "What religion are you?" if they answer Buddhist ask Please tell the fundamental beliefs of Buddhism. What have you ever done to affirm that you are a Buddhist.