>alice in wonderland is referenced
I liked the Dagashi Ending
Why are nips obsessed with Alice in wonderland?
>50 shades of gray is curriculum 'literature'
>>137242165
Its weird and just as stupid as everything they have over there
>not liking Alice in Wonderland
>>137242165
Don't know, but girls fucking love it.
Like, it's the only princess-like fairy tale they have.
Go to any bookstore with a decent sized manga collection.
Most of the shoujo you'll see will have the name "Alice" in it or some shit.
>>137242076
>Alice in Wonderland
>"Christian mythology"
>Christian Church is actually the biggest evil incarnate
>Shroedinger's cat
>Sucking Nazi Germany's dick
>muh grorious nihon, yamato damashii
>>137242345
>>Christian Church is actually the biggest evil incarnate
That's true though.
Reporting all reaction image to cliche threads.
>>137242240
I like it, it's fine, but it's just a fucking children's book that's decently entertaining. Maybe, just like we obsess over taiwanese picture books, they obsess over anglo-saxon children's books. The Disney movie was better than the book though desu senpai
>>137242076
modern media (both western and japanese) ruined alice for me desu
it's referenced too often regarding any sort of madness or "wacky shit" happening
>>137242165
Because Alice was the original kawaii in 1865
>>137242165
Go ask Alice, I think she'll know.
The same reason they're obsessed with Germany
>>137242076
>WW2 Tank/Fighter aces are referenced constantly
>>137242441
Alice lost WWII with them?
>>137242441
Only ones who don't like Germany are burgers and mini-burgers, now more known for beings bongs and muslims.
>>137242441
And that is... ?
>>137242345
>priest or minister who never actually holds a mass
>>137242165
It's one of the few western fairytale-like stories that doesn't just sound foreign and alien to them. Like most folk stories are so culturally centered that they lose all meaning to those outside of that context. Try telling Hanzel and Gretel to somebody not from america and europe and you'll lose them on the first line. It's like trying to tell the story of the peach boy to an american.
Alice in Wonderland is sort of unique in that it isn't really too stuck in a cultural context, and what context there is leans towards that aristocratic victorian british aesthetic that's so vogue in japanese fantasy anyways.
>>137242375
Kike spotted.
>>137242609
If the Church isn't evil incarnate then why do they have black priests?
I believe we're done here.
>>137242375
This is why I hate western liberals.
>The Church is so evil guys, they dont support gay marriage. I wwish we had a more tolerant religion like Islam.
If you think the Church is evil you seriously have a sheltered life. I dislike the Church, but it has produced some really grat people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Damien
Fuck you Mother Theresa, this man deserves all the fame you get.
>>137242312
Thats kinda sad. In the West, most girls would probably list some tv bullshit, yet nips are the ones enjoying books. Also, Disney princess bullshit is terrible.
>Women are equal to men
>Everything turns out happily ever after, even when you are entitled as fuck
The Little Mermaid was better when she died for not being satisfied with being an underwater princess.
>>137242656
Thars black muslims too, dog.
>Implying there's anything wrong with Alice in wonderlands
>>137242689
>The church is great because it produced a good guy 200 years ago
Really
>>137242697
Did I ever say they aren't evil too?
>>137242583
>Like most folk stories are so culturally centered that they lose all meaning to those outside of that context.
I like foreign folklore/myths. I want more anime like Mononoke and games like Okami. I also enjoyed seeing that stuff in Touhou.
If I wasnt poor I would probably have bought a bunch of books on Japanese folklore by now.
Also I dont want to look like a weeb.
>>137242656
There's nigger atheists, agnostics, rabbis, imam and probably a handful of hindus and buddhists as well.
>>137242583
>It's one of the few western fairytale-like stories that doesn't just sound foreign and alien to them.
That's weird because the dialogue and text is full of English-specific puns and made-up fantasy words and phrases for the purpose of rhyme.
>>137242583
What exactly makes the story of Momotaro or Hansel and Gretel difficult to understand if you don't know the cultural context?
>>137242742
>Christian Church is actually the biggest evil incarnate
You said they were less evil.
>>137242375
Nippon Catholics Churc is full of badass, real life one ... not so much.
>>137242782
>If I wasnt poor I would probably have bought a bunch of books on Japanese folklore by now.
Or you can join the 21st century and just download them off the internet?
>>137242656
>>137242782
Libraries exist anon
>>137242718
>I dont know anyone by name, so there are no more good people
They are still doing shit like helping leppers, there are people I know who have been allowed to live with monks/nuns when they were homeless, and the salvation army are pretty active in helping people. I havent seen any atheists with organizations on that scale, despite all the bitching about how evil the church is.
Oh and most people who whine about the Church tend to gloss over Islam. I guess it's only ok to talk shit about how evil a group is if they wont retaliate and cut your head off.
>>137242858
I could, but I dont really know where to start, they dont have anything along the lines of Grimm's fairy tales, Aesop's Fables and Shinto is a total mess in terms of being organized. I will eventually get around to it. I'm currently reading up on Buddhism and Taoism. (Which I only got interested in due to 2hu)
>>137242898
I dont want them to know what I read. Same reason I havent read Lolita yet, despite lots of people online saying it's good. I also dont want to buy it thinking it will put me on a watchlist.
>>137243015
Lolita is a condemnation of pedophilia anon. Also there's no ebil gobernment watchlist that tracks what harmless shit people check out from libraries.
>>137242912
Religion is one of those immensely powerful things that drives people to do both great good and perpetrate horrible evil. You can find examples of both in any religion.
>>137242165
It's not just them. Everybody loves Alice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_based_on_Alice_in_Wonderland
This shit always gets me:
http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html
>>137243015
>I also dont want to buy it thinking it will put me on a watchlist
You're already on a watchlist, we all are.
>>137243203
yeah, i looked up tor and how to build a bomb and look at loli shit. i think I'm on the watch list too
>>137242787
>and made-up fantasy words and phrases for the purpose of rhyme.
This is a big part of why it works in other cultures. It's full of nonsense and made up words, and the point is very clearly in the sound and verse instead of in the specific meanings of words. You don't even have to be able to speak english to appreciate what makes the story timeless, and in fact it's often used public school english classes across the world.
>>137242434
Remember what the door mouse said.
>>137242912
>Oh and most people who whine about the Church tend to gloss over Islam. I guess it's only ok to talk shit about how evil a group is if they wont retaliate and cut your head off.
All of you religious nutjobs are the same. I despise all religion. The hardcore Christians are no better than Muslims who call for Sharia Law.
>>137243297
Difference is radical Christians don't run countries.
Radical Muslims do.
>>137242076
>alice in wonderland is referenced
>involves a character growing or shrinking
>>137243373
>Difference is radical Christians don't run countries.
>>137243149
Which makes not the religion evil or good, but the religious who participate. It is still an utter fallacy to derive the church as being evil because of some bad apples.
>>137243529
Just wait for obligatory
>crusades
and
>inquisition
>>137243529
this, most nazis were really cool guys.
>>137243373
>this anon probably lives in a radical christian country
>doesn't realize it because he's socialized to accept it as normal
>>137243529
I completely agree. I would say though that religion has a way of exasterbating certain predispositions, whether those predispositions are good or bad.
>>137243709
My soldiers don't get told to scream ALLAHU AKBAR or anything religious when they do their thing.
I think that makes my point.
>>137243529
If these crazy nutjob evangelists weren't able to hide behind their bible then we'd be free to call them out for the crazies they are. But they're free to preach their hate speech about gays and women under the guise of "traditional values" held by you dumb fuck religious nuts
It's the same reason people defend Islam. It's "their culture" so they get a pass. It's their culture to kill anyone who objects to Allah, their culture to rape their women as they please and give women 0 rights, etc.
If you do a good deed you can do it without religion backing you. If you preach this hate speech that goes on in the world, you can't do it without religion backing you, otherwise the world will call you out on the nut you are
>>137243812
>My soldiers don't get told to scream ALLAHU AKBAR or anything religious when they do their thing.
Lel
Do you really believe this
You dumb americunts are forced to say the pledge of allegiance in your classrooms every morning until college
>Alice is the company mascot
Absolutely based
>>137243874
>Forced
pft
I didn't say shit.
Nobody said anything about it.
>>137243709
>number of people executed for adultery in radical Christian countries last year: 0
>>137243874
Nobody forces anybody to say the pledge of allegiance. It's also only tangentially related to Christianity.
>>137242165
I love it, so I like seeing it on shows.
>>137243874
>pledge of allegiance
>religious
>>137243812
They don't have to when "god bless our troops" is every third phrase out of political leader's mouths.
>>137243709
>nation whose constitution formalizing the separation between church and state, and mandates all governing bodies and institutions be 100% secular.
>"radical christian"
Sure thing, bud.
>>137243874
It is literally against the law to force people to say it.
>>137243951
Especially we know that the God of American Pledge is really Mommon you filthy masson. heretics.
>>137243815
A large amount of airtime and print space on mass media is granted to people calling evangelicals crazy homophobes.
>>137243874
Actually starting in middle school we stopped saying "under god" in our pledge.
Nice try though.
>>137243980
>entire country shuts down to celebrate birth of son of god
>any suggestion this shouldn't happen is met with massive shit storm
Sure is secular here senpai.
>>137243197
Fucking physicists with their stupid names for their colliders and detectors.
I swear, they try to make a female name out of everything.
>>137243197
The one that gets me is the porn musical
>>137244070
Christmas is a cultural holiday about christmas trees with lights. It existed and was celebrated by the ancestors of our culture long, long before jesus was born or the word 'bible' had ever been spoken. By your logic, if the muslims changed the date of Eid to correspond with family day, we'd have to cancel it as it's no longer a secular holiday.
People can worship christ on the 24th of december if they so choose, the rest of us (eg. the secular majority) hang stockings on the chimney and leave out milk and cookies for a fat german in a red suit.
>>137242434
>it's an /a/ pretends to know shit about religion as a discussion topic episode
>>137242345
>>Shroedinger's cat
Steven Hawking once said that he reaches for his gun whenever someone mentions Schrödinger's cat, If I recall.
I was never quite sure whether he implied to shoot the other guy or himselfprobably the former, but over the years, I came to understand why.
>>137243279
Feed your head
>>137244201
This was weird as fuck for me, because I went to religious school until high school and didn't realize until then how little of a shit people really gave about Christmas and Easter.
>>137244070
It does yes, or do you think Japan, or anyone else, shutting down to celebrate Janus' day shows that they are enthralled by a radical belief in the Roman pantheon?
>>137244264
>>137244264
>Steven Hawking
>reaches
>>137242076
I'd go down her rabbit hole
>>137242076
>gaijin girl
>always named Alice
>if not, it's some extremely stupid name that nobody past the Victorian era would ever use and gets mangled even further by shitty jap pronunciation
>>137244264
>I regard [the many worlds interpretation] as self-evidently correct. [T.F.: Yet some don't find it evident to themselves.] Yeah, well, there are some people who spend an awful lot of time talking about the interpretation of quantum mechanics. My attitude — I would paraphrase Goering—is that when I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my gun.
He wasn't mad at animu, or teenagers and stoners trying to sound deep, he was mad that people disagreed with him about metaphysics.
>>137244354
It's the same reason western weebs introduce an east-asian character just to make up some stupid-sounding name instead of using a real one. They just hope/assume their readers are far enough removed from that culture to not tell the difference, and use it as an excuse to insert made-up names that they like instead of being stuck with real ones.
>>137244333
I don't know how far back in the past he said that.
He could at one point move his hands, even being bound to the wheelchar.
Not anymore, though.
>>137244145
There's nothing wrong with giving female names to machines.
>>137244354
Asians in general have some fucking obsession with old-fashioned English names. There's a million Winston Chings and Weatherby Leungs and shit.
>>137242076
>Lord of the Flies is referenced
>>137243529
And for some people religion is the only thing giving them enough hope to keep on living.
It's pretty scummy when atheists go out of their way to try and take that away from people.
>>137244145
LIGO is mai waifo.
>>137242718
Maybe everything isn't so black and white, like your autism would lead you to believe? I'm no christian, but even I have to admit that the churches wrong doings a few hundred years ago, don't undo the massive amount of charity work they do nowadays.
>>137244044
>starting in middle school
The way you try saying that so proudly is hilarious to me.
>>137244484
Escapism is bad anon.
>>137244551
Why?
>>137244518
How so?
>>137244354
>Blonde, blue eyed, nice clothes, drills or braided hair, and a name lice Alice, Carol, or some white name that your grandmother had, and lives in a mansion
>British
>Blonde hair, blue eyed, tattered clothes, boots, pony-tail, simple down, or bushy hair, and has some shortened version of a modern name like Tina, Becky, Jenny, or Brook. Lives in an apartment.
>American
>>137244551
Go to bed Anno.
>>137244463
literally when
>>137242441
Nothing wrong with that, Germany was the pinnacle of the western civilization.Emphasis on was.
>>137244044
Heresy, where the fuck did you live?
>>137244787
In Infinite Ryvius threads, maybe?
>>137244825
Georgia, hilariously enough.
Right in the middle of the goddamn Bible Belt and they do this.
>>137243460
>implying Cruz will run anything after New Hampshire tears him a new asshole
>Dune never gets referenced
I just want the spice to flow.
>>137244787
Mugen no Ryvius
MGS5
Bokurano
>>137244972
>MGS5
Not /a/, no one cares.
>Bokurano
Is that anime-original? I don't remember it in the manga.
>>137244750
>>137244354
>no-one is ever named Alice any more
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-370365
>>137245031
>3 Isla
What?
>>137242375
>>>Christian Church is actually the biggest evil incarnate
>That's true though.
Some religions serve as social technology, facilitating cooperation and coordination between larger groups of people than mere local tribes. That's how you get the great civilizations of Europe and Asia, versus Africa's hell.
>>137245066
Celts.
>>137245066
It's the UK. Don't know why they forgot the M though.
>>137242076
Funny, I just watched the second episode of kiniro mosaic where that happens.
>>137245031
>27 Eva
How many of your faggots have been breeding?
>>137244790
>holy
>roman
>empire
>>137244435
Steven Hawking is proof God exist and will strike you down if you're a smug atheist twat.
And you know what, I'll say it, theoretical physics and such don't impress me.
Its theoretical, oh boy your played with numbers all day to play with what if scenarios, but you have no means to prove it.
I'm so more impressed by Steven Hawking than mechanic or than a doctor.
Crippled faggot
If he can count stars and numbers all day to come up with the possibility of black holes.
He probably could have read, studies, hired a lab assistant to find a cure for his condition or any condition.
In the end, if Steven Hawking did what he does and wasn't in a wheel chair, no one would give a fuck, he'd be another British Atheist wasting science on stuff than helps no one. Its a gimmick that makes his science seem important.
Same for Dawkins, if he wasn't so smug and stepping on religious toes, he'd just be some college biology professor in Britain.
>>137243777
>exasterbating
Seems like something else is on your mind right now anon
>>137243197
>Alice in Murderland
>>137244883
Make
Anime
Great
Again
Trump2016
>>137244452
Next you'll be defending a charm flavoured quark.
>>137244551
So you hate anime, then? What are you doing on /a/?
>>137245374
I have half-a-mind to go register and vote at the Ohio Caucuses
>>137242375
[Fedora JPEG]
>>137242076
Are you Alice?
>>137245078
>africa's hell wasn't directly caused by the catholic church
>>137244070
You don't know what secularism is, do you? It is not atheism.
>>137245591
Correct.
>>137245682
HEY
CALORIE QUEEN
>>137245682
There is something really unsettling about this dance.
>>137245774
Looks rotoscoped.
![[HorribleSubs] Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara - 05 [720p].mkv_snapshot_00.18_[2016.02.09_22.04.53].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/YwvE2Oc.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara - 05 [720p].mkv_snapshot_00.18_[2016.02.09_22.04.53].jpg")
It's not just Dagashi. Two shows this season reference Alice in Wonderland.
>>137245031
>21 Freya
uwot
>>137244044
Funny thing
I live in Texas and for like a century or so our state pledge has been
"Honor the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to thee. Texas, one and indivisible."
but in 2007 they randomly decided to change it to
Honor the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to thee. Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.
It really bothers me. It's like they're trying to change my childhood.
>>137245234
>I believe in God
>>137246486
Probably because you went to a butthurt confederate school and they were forced to change their oath when somebody took notice.
>Gundam Reference
>>137242076
And why is that a bad thing? As expected from a Maishitter.
>>137245774
Forced animation.
>>137244354
dumb sakura poster
>>137247778
You misread I think?
They ADDED "under God."
It wasn't taken out.
>>137242076
>They only do the fucking tea party or the rose sequence
>hatter is love interest
>white rabbit is love interest
>tweedledee and dum are there (not even from the same book)
>>137244463
Fucking WHEN?!
Holy shit, I'd love to see that.
