My package that is coming today and more that’s coming tomorrow…
Other than that, nothing else and I’m bored too.
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@J.L.O. Do you think that Tolkien would have liked Journey to the West? Or at the very least, understood it?
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My god, when I order something that is coming today, my focus and concentration is so completely focused on the item I am getting, even happens when the item comes the next day.
I can’t relax and keep my mind on other things. It’s crazy and frankly annoying as all hell.
When I get this package, hopefully, I can retire early and get some serious sleep because I surely need it.
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Oh, he would understand it, just like CS Lewis would (irrelevant of agreement). They were intellectuals of their era, on fantasy and how it intertwines with reality. I don’t think it would be either man’s style since CS Lewis is highly allegorical, and Tolkien is more immersive and alien (outside Tom Bombadill), so both men would fall to either side of this story.
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I don’t think neither would have really jived with a story that features a monkey tricking monks into decapitating themselves. No, really.
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They would have read fairy tales that do just that.
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The question is going to surround the core reasons why this death was tricked into. There is some alien-ness to asian cultures when it comes to drastic cunning as morally sound, but fairy tales are pretty dang questionable in the West, too.
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Ah I see. But I was just thinking about the trope of a blood knight and how it’s seen as a neutral trait in Asia but almost always villainous in Europe and North America. H’m.
I mean, you could say that they deserved it, but Monkey is by no means a paragon of moral virtue and christ-like love.
These were men of war, whether or not they wanted to be. Tolkien lost many of his friends in WWI, mind you.
They are NOT modern west where death is automatically an evil thing, as they had to face death themselves.
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In fact, there’s some question as to whether or not our fear of death is pure evil and maybe Asian cultures have a better grip than modern Western thought.
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I do appreciate that they appreciate that the world goes through cycles of life, death, and rebirth rather than seeing the world as being just being a linear line from birth to death. Some occult traditions in the West do recognize this but it isn’t a mainstream belief.
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It’s still there, far more than expected.
But Tolkien’s view was that we wouldn’t crave stories that promised some iteration of eternity if we weren’t meant to be eternal. And it was his beliefs that shifted Lewis from atheism in to Christianity.
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Hubby just bought Dragonball Superhero. I thought I died laughing at the last few, but this one I’m dying.
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I’m yearning again. And I came across a Spotify playlist titled: stop yearning man you’re scaring the hoes. Maybe it’s true. I need to stop yearning, stop my heart from brimmething over lest I frighten the objects of my affection 
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You won’t be thinking about yearning when you listen to this
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My package came last night at around 9:00 PM and I love it, but I need to get more pillows and stuff.
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Alvaro Diaz is what Bad Bunny wishes he could be, but will never become. Alvaro is much superior to Bad Bunny in every single way, including aesthetic.
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I got another thread similar to this one. 
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Replace educational television with youtube media analysis. James Somerton gets this sort of reaction out of me every time she talked.
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