Posts tagged: submission
SUBMISSION: The yarn I’m using to knit my sweater. Before I dyed it, but after I unraveled it from the old thrift store sweater it once was.
Organized neatly under feline supervision, of course.
More so a Haiti reference, but let’s just face the inevitable future of Japan’s “disaster relief care packages”
Or even worse, pray for them. Yeah, helpful. Thanks.
Halfway relevant:
Most Japanese people do not exclusively identify themselves as adherents of a single religion; rather, they incorporate elements of various religions in a syncretic fashion known as shinbutsu shūgō. Shinbutsu shūgō officially ended with the Shinto and Buddhism Separation Order of 1886, but continues in practice. Shinto and Japanese Buddhism are therefore best understood not as two completely separate and competing faiths, but rather as a single, rather complex religious system.
Japan grants full religious freedom, allowing minority religions such as Christianity, Islam and Sikhism to be practiced. Figures that state 84% to 96% of Japanese adhere to Shinto and Buddhism are not based on self-identification but come primarily from birth records, following a longstanding practice of officially associating a family line with a local Buddhist temple or Shinto shrine. About 70% of Japanese profess no religious membership, according to Johnstone (1993:323), 84% of the Japanese claim no personal religion. And according to Demerath (2001:138), 64% do not believe in God, and 55% do not believe in Buddha. Japanese streets are decorated on Tanabata, Obon and Christmas.
Wikipedia/Christianity in Japan:
Christianity is a minority religion in Japan, with less than 1% and possibly less than one-half of one percent of the Japanese population claiming Christian belief or affiliation. Nearly all known traditional denominations of Christianity, including Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and Orthodox Christianity are represented in Japan today, with no restrictions on evangelism.
via cuteboyswithcats
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
—14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso (via picquotes)
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.
—John Lennon (via picquotes)
I don’t feel the need to love people. I want to love the night. I want to love darkness and the magic that happens on Earth when the sun is gone. I want to love music and solitude. Oceans and deserts, cities and empty streets. Patches of earth that have been left devastated by disaster. Miles of land where everything has been rendered extinct or moved on. Leave this part of the world to me. People are too painful with their beauty and their desperation.
—Henry Rollins
