Saturday, November 2, 2024

Tokidoki

 

Credit: Simone Legno

This is a thing among Catholics just now, apparently...

I´m married to a Funko Pop!   

15 comments:

  1. So are the crusades officially over now?

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  2. An anime crusader might be interesting, though...

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    1. King Arthur Flour company had to change its logo, decades old, from a Crusader knight, with a cross emblazoned on his shield,
      praising its *whiteness* to a crown of wheat...

      https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/is-your-bread-white-enough-king-arthur-baking-companys-racist-marketing-history-e070df0dd13a

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  3. This is the biggest scheme the Jesuits ever pulled.

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  4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luce_(mascot)

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  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alfDQdcDLoc&t=28s

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  6. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/260129/meet-luce-the-vatican-s-cartoon-mascot-for-jubilee-2025

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  7. Not sure what the fuzz is about, to be honest. Even some tradCaths consider Luce to be "based".

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  8. Yes, too much squabbling over a contemporary symbol. And yes I get Holdsworth's video point about the cultural pandering but question that culture is embodied religion. Actually I had not heard of this. Will be part of the Osaka World Expo.

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  9. I only heard it now. A young Catholic on YouTube was *very* frustrated by the intra-Catholic flame wars on X over this non-issue. I mean, why can't a Catholic event have an anime symbol, really? Catholic Christmas is sometimes child-friendly, too!

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  10. Don't tell the haters about how Catholic Santa shows up together with...a guy dressed like a Devil who pretends to spank the kids with a mock cord!

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  11. It ocurred to me that perhaps religion and its symbolism begins in the Paleolithic with the caves at Lascaux. Allegedly some 19,000 years old. Rapidly deteriorating since opened to the public, now closed of course.

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    1. Actually, the Chauvet cave could be 36,000 years old!

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  12. Or maybe symbolic culture is even earlier than Homo sapiens, although that´s controversial...

    https://ashtarbookblog.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-homo-naledi-situation.html

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  13. Not impossible that our "tree jumping" ancestors manufactured tools and buried their dead.

    Imagine on the savannah lightning strikes a tree and sets it afire. One brave gorilla grabs a burning branch and either as a boast, or maliciously, waves it about, much to the awe of the females. Or conversely, a female grabs it to dominate males, eh? Anyway, he/she becomes the alpha of the group. Art imitates Life? Culture is borrowed/improvised from observable natural facts? Interesting that H. naledi had a smaller brain cavity than alleged contemporries, and an average size of 4 ft 8 inches and a mere 88 lbs. 335,000 yers ago! Now yer talkin' some incredible stuff!

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