Sorry bout your heart
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So you genuinely believe Satan exists and has influence in the world? Where does he live under the Earths mantle?
Because that is entirely at odds with everything we know about reality.
You might want to look up what The Satanic Temple actually believes.
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Look it's cool that you're in a philosophical moral club, but don't go around defending religion by calling yourself a religion and saying 'look at me as an example of a good religion' when you don't actually hold religious/supranatural beliefs.
And if you do hold such beliefs, don't claim you accept reality.
Look, I actually kind of agree. And this is why I will never call myself a Satanist.
However, I think it's foolish to ignore the work that the TST does in fighting for the separation of religion and government.
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Is that still a pervasive thought in today's culture about Japan? I understood back in the 90's when there was less exposure but I thought that reality kinda crumbled with the loss of high tech companies that actually give a damn anymore. I don't know of anyone that talks about "premier" Japan tech unless it's something from the past.
Japan tends to lurch forward, then be stagnant for large periods of time.
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I do not trust any stats that come out of Japan in terms of homelessness. If there's a statistic that's embarrassing for Japanese society, you know damn well they're gonna try to cover it up with technicalities.
In Japan, the legal definition for someone who is homeless is: "those who use city parks, riverbanks, roads, train
stations and other facilities as their place of stay in order to live their daily lives."So that doesn't include living in your car, living in insecure housing, living in shelters, or living in internet cafés, of which in 2020 there were about 15,000 'net café refugees' in Tokyo alone.
Sooo yeah, Japan can claim to officially have a super low homeless population, because they've narrowed the definition so much that you have to literally be sleeping on the street for it to count.
They also flub their murder rates. It's considered unclean to handle dead bodies, so autopsies aren't common and anything that could be ruled a suicide, is.
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To be fair there is also the suicide rate.
Also what the fuck were they expecting, Japan to be some Christian paradise?
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I guess not having many Jesus cult members helps
Apparently the moonies don't help things.
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Are the uh... maggoty cum farts optional or?
They'll grow on you.
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ICE thugs are already staking out churches in immigrant neighborhoods and abducting people as they come out, and Trump has made it legal for them to barge inside as well. I don't care what you think about religion, it's not funny to sic the American Gestapo on folks just trying to live their lives.
Don't target the immigrant neighborhood's churches, hit the rural ones 4 hours away from any major city. Just imagine the ice gestapo sending a convoy of agents out that far and getting nothing.
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Literally 5.7 per 100 per 100,000.
Neither had cake nor ate it
As soon as you get to the "per 100" part you can stop. After that, it doesn't matter if it's per 100,000, per 8,759,016, or per 10.
So the fact that they mixed up something so basic makes you question the number entirely. Their point is valid, but undermined by their lack of basic math skills.
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Your unhoused numbers are wrong. Those are the official "sleeping on the streets" numbers, which is not the same thing. First because they're official, and therefore almost certainly undercounting, and second because they exclude all of the situations where people don't have houses but are kinda not exactly in a cardboard box.
To be fair though it’s the ones living on the street that people choose to hate on as much as possible
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Some people are shockingly stupid, even though I've spent my entire life finding out how stupid people can be.
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07%
This is why punctuation is important.
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Fuck all religion. No I don’t want to reject reality to play make believe.
I can hear your avatar.
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To be fair there is also the suicide rate.
Also what the fuck were they expecting, Japan to be some Christian paradise?
Also what the fuck were they expecting, Japan to be some Christian paradise?
Portugal has entered the chat
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I've lived in three different major Japanese cities and see fewer people sleeping rough in a year than I can see in an hour in either Europe or the US.
Sleeping Rough != Homeless though. Granted, almost everyone who sleeps rough is homeless, but not every homeless sleeps rough. Japan only counts people sleeping rough as homeless though.
Also there's the element of being seen sleeping rough. There are plenty of people sleeping rough out there, but they don't want to be seen that way so they keep to themselves and stay away from the general public, getting across the idea that there aren't many of them.
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Don't target the immigrant neighborhood's churches, hit the rural ones 4 hours away from any major city. Just imagine the ice gestapo sending a convoy of agents out that far and getting nothing.
Even if you choose the whitest most conservative church in the county, ICE will collect the brown person who cleans up after the white folks. And anyone else who tries to defend them, but I'm not sure if any would.
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Hey, we at least tried to convert them, but nobody congratulates Portugal for that.
If anyone's interested in that time period, James Clavell's excellent Shogun novel is set a few decades into the process. (Before the shogunate rose into power, banned Christianity and massacred tens of thousands of Christian converts
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07%
This is why punctuation is important.
Never mind that, what does "07% per 100K" even mean? As far as I can tell that evaluates to 0.0000007 or 7 per 10 million
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Look it's cool that you're in a philosophical moral club, but don't go around defending religion by calling yourself a religion and saying 'look at me as an example of a good religion' when you don't actually hold religious/supranatural beliefs.
And if you do hold such beliefs, don't claim you accept reality.
You know, you can just say "supernaturalism" instead of "religion". The two are not synonymous. You can have religion without supernaturalism, such as non-theistic Satanism and some forms of Buddhism. You can have supernaturalism without religion, which describes many New-Agers. I'm sure you've heard people say "I'm spiritual, but not religious", and that's what they mean by that. There are people who believe in souls and reincarnation and stuff like that, but they don't have a religion built around it.
In the case of non-theistic Satanism, there is a moral code, a set of beliefs, and a community of people with shared values, as well as holidays and rituals. Just nothing supernatural.
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