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Ok, it sounds like you don't have a specific claim on the part of the Japanese imperial family to falsify. Now there is an additional claim that belief in such
by adolph 5y ago
Ok, it sounds like you don't have a specific claim on the part of the Japanese imperial family to falsify.
Now there is an additional claim that belief in such power is not good for the Japanese people. Japan as a nation seems to have done pretty well for itself. If belief in a supernatural power is present in a society that seems otherwise well-adapted evolutionarily, what is "not good" about it? Maybe they would do better without it? How would that claim be different from a claim that they might have done worse without it?
- westcort 5y agoNot divine. Not relevant.
- adolph 5y agoI appreciate not agreeing with a claim of divinity in that it is unfalsible, but to claim something is false without offering evidence is just as much a naked assertion as the original claim. As to the relevance of the imperial family in Japanese society the fact that they are being discussed is a variety of relevance if only in the same manner as reality television or professional sports. For some reason the story of the Babel fish comes to mind. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/35681-now-it-is-such-a-bizarrely-improbable-coincidence-that-anything https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/35681-now-it-is-such-a-biza...