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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.
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Date: 25 November 2014 07:51 pm (UTC)Nine
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Date: 25 November 2014 11:59 pm (UTC)So far.
Did you see the one from the guy in Tucson who was going to make a movie for a cool quarter-million? Bottom tier $1000. Dream on, cowboy. Dream on.
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I am to understand that people don't generally hold funerals for their toys? How sad.
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Date: 26 November 2014 02:57 pm (UTC)!!
Um, yeah.
Funerals when broken beyond usable, I've seen. Not when outgrown, so much.
---L.
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Date: 26 November 2014 06:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 26 November 2014 03:02 pm (UTC)---L.