discovered there’s a shinto subreddit and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything with more illustrative cases of trying to cram a non-western spirituality into the framework of western beliefs. even the buddhist and taoist subreddits don’t show it quite this clearly
Today I found out that Mountain Goats aren’t goats and it completely blew my mind.
By which I mean I learned mountain goats, the actual animal, aren’t true goats but a different, closely related creature. I’ve known that the band The Mountain Goats wasn’t formed by goats for over six months.
in the US an “amber alert” is used to mean a child in the area has been kidnapped so this makes it sound like the British government is now snatching kids and stealing their blood
