There’s a saying, a Japanese person starts life as a Shintoist, marries as a Christian and dies as a Buddhist. Religion doesn’t seem to be as important as it is for us. They’re only a collective of traditions and rituals performed just for the mere act of ‘celebration’.
Discussing all the differences that the lack of fundamentalism creates between Japan and west would take me a book, but I think this quirky story will do for now.
A man married a video game character.
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Article 18.
- Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
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That’s quite a big question.
What do we mean by God?
We have all been confronted with this question a few times, or maybe we’ve made the question to someone else. We use language to communicate and language is what defines what we are, so let’s be really clear about this.
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Ivan Pavlov was a psychologist and physiologist who became famous for his ‘Conditional Reflex‘ experiment.
Everyday, before feeding a dog, he will ring a bell so the dog associated the sound of the ringing bell with being fed. After a certain amount of time, the dog would start salivating just by hearing the bell.
Every Thursday I go to my local swimming pool after work. Like every Thursday I woke up, prepared my bag with my ‘swimming equipment’, and went to work.
But last Thursday was different.
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We’ve had one of those workshops the other day here at the cave.
Our shaman thought it would be a good idea to get some basic principles in morals to keep up with the modern days. The objective of such thing was to teach us the difference between morals and which ones would suit us best.
‘There are two major different types of morals’ – he said – ‘Ones for the wise and none for the rest’
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