Amaterasu Ōmikami is real. Follow Her.

Life is absurd without God. So if it makes you happier, simply believe in God. There's no right and wrong in absurdity.

>>17831036 (OP)
Cheer up then.
God is real and we have proof that was meant to be revealed definitively in our age.

https://youtu.be/YT1R2kDPHFA?si=WHA1qNvzvAD56HWF

no, you do not wish that he was real. to look into the Face of God is Terror

>>17831036 (OP)
The gods are real but you won't learn about them from any dubious holy text

>>17831059

Yes.

6 posts in and every one is skitzobabble, his is back

>>17831036 (OP)
You won't be wishing that when he casts you into Hell for your transgressions. Have fun burning.

>>17831049
>>17831059
See >>17831049
>>17831074
>6 posts in and every one is skitzobabble, his is back
What color is your skin?

>>17831036 (OP)
If all else fails and you dont know what to believe at least remember this

>>17831103
>virtues mean something in and of themselves
How come?

>>17831110
From where you are standing there is two directions you can go, one direction is virtuous the other is malevolent

Religion does not hold a monopoly on benevolence

>>17831080
Sunburnt

>>17831120
I'm not opposed to the virtue-vice dichotomy or to virtues existing outside religions, I'm just seeing you quote Aurelius on the idea that gods will judge you based on your virtues as though the virtues themselves have value. I'm not sure that is the case and from a Christian POV virtues are just tools you use to become divine, which is the actually valuable thing.

>>17831129
Not everybody is a christian, some have doubt's, some just simply dont believe, nothing wrong with giving good advice to the doubters and unbelievers, Christianity should not be pressured on to people giving them the idea that their life is hopeless without it, that makes you look like you're proselytizing for a cult, Christianity should not give the appearance of "join our club or burn in hell" evangelists & fundamentalist look creepy to outsiders when they do that

Shintoism puts virtues above all else. It asks you to get rid of your vices, your grudges, and resist doing evil. That's why it's better than Fagstianity.

>>17831158
Thats a good philosophy to live by

>>17831156
Bro I'm just challenging an assumption that's in the text, I'm not threatening you with hellfire.

>>17831158
That's literally what the law of God teaches.

>>17831036 (OP)
I wish you weren't, conversely

>>17832513

>DUHHH SHINTO TODALLY DONT TEACH THOSE THINGS BUT JEEW RELIJUN DOES LOL

Can you provide sources for both of those claims?

>>17831080
NTA but white as mayo, and God is definitely real.

>>17831120
Ah yes the benevolent democratic government who would throw you in jail for visiting your grandparents five years ago.

>>17832541
Why are you so obsessed with proof? Do you know how anal you sound? Man being around you must be exhausting. Do you ever get any enjoyment out of life?

>>17831044

THIS.

>>17831185
Not him but virtue is good because it's effect is immediately observable. Imagine you are a food addicted obese smoker who loves sitting 16h a day playing videogames. This would be non virtuous, unrestrained behavior.
You keep this behavior up and your life becomes miserable, your mind is in shambles, your body becomes an enormous bothersome burden, and you keep sinking and enforcing these detrimental behaviors, making it harder and harder and more and more painful to stop and get out of.


On the other hand if you did none of that, your life would be better, your mind healthier, your body not as burdensome, overall you would decrease your suffering through being restrained and virtuous because being virtuous is nothing other than restraining yourself from what's clearly not good for you and by proxy not good for others. What is not good for you? Indulgence in pleasures and indulgence in anger, they just lead you downwards, there is no other way around it, they end up becoming your master and lead you to bad and dark places. Be restrained and things are much better. Of course restraint is harder and initially more painful than giving in and indulging, the path of least resistance.

>>17834953
I wouldn't have said immediately because it does take time to gain perspective, like someone quitting a bad addiction looking back after time has passed and seeing how stupid that was. But I think it's not hard to see the logic of it, what's hard is to keep such perspective when one becomes irrational while trying to become more restrained and virtuous. But with persistence it's doable.

>>17834956
Shouldn't* have said "immediately observable"**

Apologizes for the triple post