oh my fucking god i just watched biosphere (2023) WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME THERE WAS A FUCKING MARK DUPLASS POST APOCALYPTIC CHILDHOOD BEST FRIENDS INTERRACIAL DEMOCRAT/REPUBLICAN ACTUAL MPREG YAOI FILM featuring ALL OF MY FAVOURITE FANFIC TROPES ON SCREEN culminating in a BEAUTIFUL UNDERREPRESENTED QUEERPLATONIC BROMANCE DYNAMIC???? WHERE FISH AND MAGIC ARE USED AS STORYTELLING DEVICES AND THE CENTRAL THEME IS THAT HOPE OCCURS IN IMPOSSIBLE PLACES?????
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ok but the concept of rogue as a sort of colonial noir. you got the growing, ever shifting city of new york, crime riddened with gangs; your typical white male protagonist in dark robes, originally portrayed as a lone wolf, a rogue, someone different; you have racial tensions and segregation; and ofc you have your femme fatale, hope
A concept I find unforgivable.
In Christianity we often run across the concept of being unforgivable. Because of our sin we can't be forgiven, but God, through Jesus, forgives us anyway.
By my way of thinking, it is the sin that is unforgivable, not the individual. If people were unforgivable why make such a sacrifice in the first place.
In Shinto, Kegare is the Japanese term for a state of pollution and defilement. Sin doesn't even exist. Kegare is the closest we are going to get to the concept of sin, but it's not sin, it's the product of bad choices either our own, or that of others. To be clean of this defilement one merely needs to be cleansed, usually ritually, be it in a bath, at a shrine, or washing in a stream or ocean. Curious how baptism started out as a ritualized form of washing in a stream. And hopefully we learn from our mistakes.
I can't help but wonder if Shinto and Judaism started out with similar concepts when it comes to the things we do that are contrary to good health and social order. Somewhere way back ideas deviated. Shinto never came up with the concept of original sin, or sin in general. Shinto never formulated the idea that someone could be unforgivable. I simply do not believe that anyone is unforgivable. Their actions might not be, but not the individual.
We are forgivable and we forgive because it is the right thing to do.
