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Three related links from MetaFilter:
Kickended, a website that redirects to a random Kickstarter project that ended without attracting a single backer. A random grazing will usually make it clear why each one failed (this seems particularly dire, I must say).
Shinto is very much an animistic religion, and a loved toy like a doll or plushy is considered likely to have gained a spirit as a result of being much loved -- and so when it's discarded, a ceremony is needed to lay that toy's spirit to rest.
tl;dr version of the Bible.
Well, *I* think they're related. If you squint slantwise. Through my brain.
---L.
Subject quote from "Desert Hymn to the Sun," Bayard Taylor.
Kickended, a website that redirects to a random Kickstarter project that ended without attracting a single backer. A random grazing will usually make it clear why each one failed (this seems particularly dire, I must say).
Shinto is very much an animistic religion, and a loved toy like a doll or plushy is considered likely to have gained a spirit as a result of being much loved -- and so when it's discarded, a ceremony is needed to lay that toy's spirit to rest.
tl;dr version of the Bible.
Well, *I* think they're related. If you squint slantwise. Through my brain.
---L.
Subject quote from "Desert Hymn to the Sun," Bayard Taylor.