#shhhhh we're not talking about shoko so hopefully she gets spared

[seoafin]

yuuta is likely not questioning his ties to gojou bc it was gojou in the first place who left him with the higher-ups and likely encouraged him to travel abroad. it's possible yuuta no longer feels a sense of responsibility to gojou and yuuta has always been one to act with his heart first, and his heart tells him his friend (inumaki) has been hurt. and this isn't something yuuta can accept. yuuta has the power to act, now, and he will.

i wonder if yuuta's motivation for executing yuuji isn't just revenge (or avenging), but an attempt to find a way to heal inumaki. it's not like yuuta's desperate to work for the higher-ups, it's just the way things are rn and he needs them for his own devices. is it possible he's still working according to gojou's plan? or does he have his own goal separate from the civil war i think is going to happen anytime soon. his immediate goal really seems to be to hunt yuuji down tho lol and smth to do with inumaki

i’m also wondering why shoko wasn't implicated? if i was the paranoid higher-ups, i'd want to cover all my bases, including her who's known to be close to gojou and getou as their peer, as also yaga's former student. i guess they can't afford to lose their doctor in a war, or... (YKW AKUTAMI PLS DONT JINX THIS ONE)

and inumaki’s too far after sukuna’s DE. and it’s just impossible for him to run that fast from the radius if that one map represents the time during sukuna’s DE. he was the only one...in that area. v v easy victim for a quick abduct and decapitation if u ask me. or—he got caught up along the edge of sukuna's "taking megumi into acct” 140m radius DE, the cuts sukuna inflicts are near impossible to heal and the seals are there to keep inumaki from bleeding out, if not emergency aid. BUT THE HIGHER UPS ARE SO SUS

ALSO it's not like yuuta’s incapable of understanding inimaki, so supposing yuuta saw inumaki in person and that inumaki and he were able to communicate, it's likely yuuta knows exactly what happened. he knows he's being manipulated. he's just made it clear he doesn't care.

and the title,, jjk 137: 堅白同異

堅白. gongsun long basically deals in the metaphysical "unviserals"

堅白論 "on hardness & whiteness" = a hard and white stone is 2 entities; basically a hard and white stone can only be a hard stone or a white stone. there’s no "stoneness" of a stone, only the "hardness" of a stone preceived through touch and the "whiteness" of a stone through sight. considering his white horse dialogue, it shld be a hard and white stone is three entities, but i’m not sure either.

basically, he was very particular about names and how they refer to things. all things exist with or without names, but without names there is disorder and no understanding and, thus, no universals or particulars. additionally, the hardness and the whiteness of the stone don’t exist together — u can’t see "hardness" nor touch "whiteness", so gongsun long is like... they are "hiding" from each other so how can one say they are inseparable, such as in "a hard and white stone".

*head in hands* i can't tell if this is referring to the new yuuta or the new rika or the new rika in relation to yuuta or the other way around or yuuta in relation to being a shaman who works for his own interests while working for the higher-ups supposedly...... what am i even saying

sum philosophy stuff, but it does mean sophistry according to jpn dictionaries from what i've seen.

堅白 (jian bai) — from 公孙龙's gongsun long’s jian bai on similarities & differences (堅白論)

同異 (tong yi) — from hui shi’s contract differences (合同异)

all i got from hui shi's he tong yi is that there are similarities in differences and differences in similarities and everything is "relative", but there also is the "absolute". apparently gongsun long's and hui shi's studies were pitted against each other or sth only to be found that they complemented each other ?? IDK

gongsun said that universals are separate entities in perception, hui shi said that the concept of differences are inseparable

堅白同異 means sophistry then does it also reference how yuuji's body is neither "yuuji's" nor "sukuna's" and how there's now a little bit of yuuji in sukuna and vice versa.

i saw someone on reddit say that this refers to yuuta and his opinion on yuji. he only knows of yuji as 'hard' (a vessel for a curse that can kill/harm people) but does not know yet of 'white' yuji (a kind, loving person who wants to be good). later he'll see that both can exist. i also think the "hardness/whiteness" reference is more to the situation in general and yuuji. abt who is telling the story and relaying information. it was mentioned in goodwill event that tokyo folks have a different view of yuuji bc they know him as a person. he’s just a curse to others

on the one hand, gongsun put forward the idea of "li jianbai (离坚白)", and on the other hand, he also put forward the concept of similarities and differences and similarities in differences.

ALSO gojou’s exile is v v similar to sugawara no michizane 🧍

the subtle concept of wu-wei (yin-yang) is def here v v contrasting against western perception of good and evil, akutami did his homework and now there’s too many things in my mind,,, the way i revisited gongsun longzi today for the first time in years bc of jjk,,, the same way i revisited philosophy for this danmei i'm reading LOL. anyways chinese philosphy always make my braincells hurt 😔 so take this with a grain of salt - 🐱

YES!!! I AGREE!!

i’ve seen a lot of posts talking about what’s going to happen if inumaki says he doesn’t want revenge on yuji, but there weren’t any posts about how maybe yuuta doesn’t care!!! i saw a theory on reddit that maybe the sophistry title is about yuuta being manipulated, knowingly or unknowingly?? we’ll find out later

if shoko gets implicated i will pass away. there’s too much angst happening already 😭 but at the same time i do think she’s too valuable for the higher ups to punish her because they need her. even yaga said so

Once again...akutami's mind.....