Talk:Silver-Eyed Warrior/@comment-35434444-20181204090925/@comment-35434444-20181205181801

Sentry616, you're hardly an idiot for not being able to understand kanji. Even Japanese people have thier difficulties with them.

Anyway, it's sort of missing the point. Even if I wrote 無敵 as muteki, it would still be unintelligable because romanization, like hiragana, can only tell you how a word is pronounced.

It would be like reading the words, "Also sprach Zarathustra." You might take a shot in the dark and get the sounds right, but you're no closer to knowing what part of speech it is, what grammar applies to it, what each word means, much less make head or tail of the sentence as a whole.

People try desperatly to put of learning kanji by using romnization and kana as crutches, but there's just no getting around it. The sooner you get the kanji down pat, the sooner you can start to real progress with Japanese.

73.Anon.52, I'm not quoting anything in particular. I just looked at the page and let my fingers fly.

The first sentence is an allusion to a quote by C.G.Jung: "I would rather be whole than good." It referes to the process of self realization that was primarily inspired in Jung's work by alchemy.

The philosopher's stone is an analogy for a person who so abounds with wisdom and life experiance that everything he touches turns to gold, which is to say that every thought and motion of his reveals the glory of god. (Although silver may be more appropriate here.)

The rest is a mixture of Buddism, Hinduism, but most Taoism. I think the Tao de Ching, The Doctrine of the Mean, and the I Ching in particular were floating around at the back of my mind, but that's just a guess on my part.