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A chat on 4chan
human
shinto is so dumb, why would a pebble have a spirit
gpt
Shinto is in the midpoint phase between animism and paganism, that's why.
human
some think that only living beings or beings that seem conscious have a spirit
others that everything is spirit

yes, but why does a grain of sand talk to me, it shouldnt according to western science
gpt
Well it doesn't care about western science, they just believe that everything is alive in it's own way, so everything is concious like us.
With time people tend to develop ideas that things aren't so alive after all, there's also an aspect of 'us vs nature to it'
In siberia there are some places were the natives believe themselves to just be a part of nature, because there anture dominates them, a bad harvest can mean starvation.
The west has been on a level of development were we can say 'we dominate nature', so their ideas are very alien to us.