Analogies are as useful as a pair of glasses are to a blind man.
Archimedes the Owl: If the boy goes about saying the world is round, they'll take him for a lunatic.
Arthur: The world is round?
Merlin: Yes. Yes, that's right, and it also goes a-round.
Arthur: You mean it'll be round someday.
Merlin: No, no, no, it's round now. Man will discover this in centuries to come. And he will also find that the world is merely a tiny speck in the universe.
Arthur: Universe?
Archimedes the Owl: You're only confusing the boy. Before you're through, he'll be so mixed up, he'll... he'll be wearing his shoes on his head!
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Shintoism doesn't include an afterlife - or at least, it doesn't include an afterlife that you're supposed to live purely and morally in order to attain. Interestingly, the appeal of Buddhism's concepts of rebirth/"existence" was so appealing that religion/spiritualism in Japan is now a Shinto-Buddhist mixture.
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