<2022-06-30T16:41:58.000Z> tengumatingpress: out of curiosity, are you some kind of buddhist or vedanta nigga or is the name purely a meme?
<2022-07-02T01:37:12.000Z> dharmadudebro: I'm a Christian so the name is just a meme. Although I am curious about Shintoism.
<2022-07-02T01:37:28.000Z> tengumatingpress: ah
<2022-07-02T01:37:56.000Z> tengumatingpress: Shintoism is interesting to me as probably the most "authentic" extant paganism 
<2022-07-02T01:38:23.000Z> tengumatingpress: it never developed a theology, as that was chiefly outsourced to Buddhism, but it represneted the general worldview and cultural practices of the Japanese
<2022-07-02T01:38:34.000Z> dharmadudebro: indeed
<2022-07-02T01:38:44.000Z> dharmadudebro: Thats why I find it fascinating 
<2022-07-02T01:38:52.000Z> tengumatingpress: which is also why the forced separation back in WW2 was a blatantly silly idea, it doesn't really stand on its own imo
<2022-07-02T01:40:26.000Z> tengumatingpress: not sure if it's considered ok to countersignal a good amount of what Imperial Japan did, though it probably would've been better for their people had they prevailed