You know why some books of the Bible are apocryphal? Jesus liked scat porn. No one wants to worship someone who digs that shit.
I’m not done sucking Japan’s tentacle just yet. Once more, with feeling.
The fashion here has it’s hits and misses, but the point that I think requires stressing is not that, but that of the average person. People here, on average, are much more fashionable that what people dress like in the wilds of North America. Every fashion trend that winds its way through Japan isn’t always the best (purple or yellow nylons are interesting), but even including that, it still easy beats Jesusland. Going one or two deviations from the norm can be met with disastrous results, true, but it’s such a train wreck that you don’t actually mind that much since it gives you the opportunity to see such a thing.
Speaking of Jesusland (or lack thereof), it’s quite the breath of fresh air to not have to deal with religion in the least. I don’t have to worry about a politician saying that atheists aren’t citizens or patriots, someone trying to get intelligent design into a classroom, or retards attempting to save the life of a vegetable. A lack of religion does not make Japan a place filled with people who care/understand science, but that won’t happen until the apocalypse, which I am patiently waiting for.
On a related note, boobs boobs penis. It’s nice to be in a place that doesn’t go absolutely apeshit over a something related to sex. Not only that, they have buildings whose entire purpose is the pursuit of climax and tons of magazines prominently displayed in convenience stores that seem to be about nothing other than sex. A place where little to no people actually think that if a child witnesses something sex related that they’ll be scarred because of it. Of course this isn’t true even though so many people believe it despite zero proof. Although, there are tertiary effects of being young and happening to catch a steamy scene in a movie; your parents could argue about it and do more damage than the love scene could have ever done.
There could be something I’ve missed, but I think you get the point, there’s a lot of good things to be found here. When you point out smaller things that you don’t prefer but never talk about the big picture it can make those minutiae look much more substantial than they actually are.
