Friday, January 2, 2009   8:33 PM

Happy New Year to You Too!

Christians outside Meiji Jingu

More precisely to all the glum-looking Christians hanging around outside Meiji Jingu today with yellow signs bearing cheery messages such as "This World Will Crumble Away", "We Are All Doomed", "You in Particular Are Going To Hell", "Wash Your Clothes in the Blood of Jesus Christ For That Purer Than Pure Look" etc. etc. OK, I am paraphrasing slightly here, but come on guys, cheer up a bit. It was a lovely morning, just right for a spot of symbolic pagan / animistic / dead emperor worship and coin throwing, and judging by the reactions of passers by (none) I don't think your message was getting through to any one at all.

(Now, if you could direct your energies towards the abolition of incessant and religiously meaningless Christmas carols from mid-November onwards, you might get a bit more sympathy...).


Posted in Scenes from Japan
Comments
Happy New Year, Doomsday Fuckers!

I mean, how the hell can any one person or group of people be so intent on pissing on someone else's parade. Any god who tells his/her/its followers to go where people are happy and celebrating to remind them that the world is really a crap place and will go to pieces someday, can kiss my fargin' arse.

Anyway, Happy New Year to you, Mr. Penguin ;)
Posted by: billywest | 2009-01-04 04:47
Hi Penguin. Long time no see (your blog, at least!). Good to see you're in Japan. I'm back in the UK, but planning to return to Japan soonish. I love your photos - you'd think with Christianity being the joy that it and Jesus being reborn once more they'd manage more than a scowl. The man at my local tube station who's up with the lark is a very cheery fella.

Love the Tokyo photos too. Happy New Year!
Posted by: Emsk | 2009-01-07 22:03
Hi Emsk, lovely to hear from you! Yup, still in Japan, will be for a while too I think. If you make it to Japan and are in the Tokyo area, drop a line, I'm sure we can arrange some sort of blogger meetup or something. Though I do hope you won't be bringing Charisma Chap along.
Posted by: ThePenguin | 2009-01-08 13:53
I'd like to see them square off against the right-wingers in the black trucks. First one to blow the other's ear drums wins!
Posted by: Tom | 2009-01-09 11:15
Will do - hoping to come out there pretty soon actually as the work is drying up over here. Thanks for visiting my blog. Charisma Chap isn't quite so bad and I've begun to warm to him. He's a huge improvement on the pure poison of the Ferret. (There's a book coming out of all this!)
Posted by: Emsk | 2009-01-12 18:32
@Tom: That is an excellent idea? Maybe we could get some lions involved too?

@Emsk: I heard ELT in the UK is having a bit of a boom due to the weak pound though? Although whether that will compensate from the general doom'n'gloom that seems to have taken over the place is another question.
Posted by: ThePenguin | 2009-01-16 14:27