How did Japan create a coherent, well-behaved populace/country without a uniting transcendental religion with strict moral rules?
What is Zen Buddhism
>>1260911
Is Buddhism really the kind of religion that can unite people like Christianity?
>>1260911
Shintoism too I think?
>>1260906
>How did Japan create a coherent, well-behaved populace/country without a uniting transcendental religion with strict moral rules?
they didn't
shintoism and buddhism were both used to uphold the political order
>>1260942
>Shintoism
>uniting transcendental religion with strict moral rules
>>1260946
it was definitely a force of cultural unision
>What is the syncretic blend of Confucianism, Shinto, and Buddhism?
And y'know all of the stupid and violent japa got killed off in the wars
>>1260931
Ask Tibet
>>1260906
unified homogenous culture
>>1260999
>ask China
FTFY
>>1261011
>implying China isn't united by "muh state/emperor worship"
>>1261011
>Ask the Maurya empire
Fixd
They weren't well behaved at first.
>>1261048
>yankee posting
>>1260906
Nationalism is even more compatible with pre-monotheist religioins.
I don't think Hirohito was to blame
>>1261048
If you think nukes can fix something wrong, just nuke your brain
>>1261182
Sure fixed the Japs.
>>1261194
>nuke
>Akihabara
American education
>>1260942
Shintoism is just a loose collection of folk myths with no strict moral code
>>1260906
They didn't
>what is shintoism
>what is Buddhism
>most importantly what is Confucianism
>>1260906
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen-article_constitution
>>1261224
They learned the value of non-flammable building material, since the last couple tokyo fires didn't.
>>1260906
Liberal application of violence to enforce the rules.
>>1261224
We woulda if Stimson wasn't a fuggin weeb
Then when will US government nuke Detroit?
>>1260906
It didn't japans a disgrace, Asians are all oddballs
>>1261224
That's not what he was trying to say my weeb friend
>>1261194
>Created the cancer of anime and caused weebs in the west.
Fixed all right
>>1263011
Anime girls are one of the most incredible artistic achievements in history and in my opinion are Japan's greatest contribution to global society.
Because you can have a society of shame instead of a society of guilt.
Japanese people doesn't like strict moral rules. Without them, people can be happier.
>>1263046
You know, I never thought about this.
>>1260906
>your religion has gods for everything
>get told everywhere that the Emperor is a living god
>>1261019
>implying China isn't united by "muh state/emperor worship"
>Nationalism and emperor worship are interchangeable
>>1261194
>Sure broke the Japs.
FTFY
>>1260906
Fuck off you idiot.
Why are atheists so full of shit?
Japan has never had Judeo-Christian values. You only need to look at the massive murder rate in Japan and compare that to the relatively low murder rates in the US, thanks to Christianity to see that Christianity instills basic values that Shinto Atheists simply don't have.
>>1260906
Shinto and Buddhism.
values similar to the ten commandments, basically don't be a jerk to people or animals.
>>1263641
>You only need to look at the massive murder rate in Japan
Tell us more
>>1263828
he's making a joke senpai
>>1261194
>chuo dori
Romanizations that write long o's as simply o rather than ou, oo or ō make me angry.
>>1260906
Geographical isolation, the nature of Island Life, the genocidal nature of Japs, etc.
>>1260906
>3 years later and Chihofags are still bootyblasted
