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these characters don’t act like humans, they’re impersonating them

christianity became synonymous with conquest and those who opposed it leaned into their buddhism rejecting christianity all together

forced conversions, letters sent to the UN for the wrongdoings and persecutions amongst Buddhists

french spread catholicism an emperor proper it up in exchange for taking the throne with aid of the french - emperor later begins to prosecute them and war ensues

confucianism assimilated with buddhism to the point it lost its religious character

Buddhism and Confusacism had to work together, when it came to Vietnam, monks were used politically because they learned chinese characters becoming advisors to kings etc. confuscism took over because of its philosophical prowess and they began to harbor a competitive nature against the monks, so monks withdrew for their place in the courts and the confucians took over

The main character is annoying, all she ever talks about is how nobody loves her no one will blah blah blah, and she’s also stupid. Your friend dies but you can’t wallow in her death so instead of doing anything else to mourn her you decide “Yes! I need to get back on dating apps”, also the lack of care for a literal stalker. And the fact that she doesn’t catch anything

Pierre’s joining of a fraternity is reminiscent of a cult, and I enjoyed the philosophy he discusses with Prince Andrey.

And the discussion of classism, and how easy it is to believe that some people have an innate way of life that they cannot escape, and trying to will only lead to their demise

This book does really wall at following the thought processes of men, especially Pierre and Nikolay, lustful men who understand the fleetingness of their love. As well as Prince Andrey, who hated his wife and was then guilty when she died and all it felt like he could remember was the fact that he did that to her, he as responsible for her death

Prince Andrey and his wife and the contempt he has for her
Princess Marya
Pierre
Characters are very well written and dynamic, when anyone says this book is boring they’re very loud and very wrong