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The Eight Winds Cannot Move Me

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The ninth wind is the strongest.
- I love when a short chain of two comments have the same upvotes. People came here, liked the comments and thought:
  "Yep, succinct. No notes."
  and moved along.
  Beautiful.
   
  Ahhh now I've fucked it
  
  Confucious say, man who fart in church must sit in own pew.
  
  It was the friends we made along the way
- Really came here with variants of the same idea but you nailed it lol
Sounds like the Chinese variant of Diogenes at work, I'd love to hear more details - was this something that really happened or a clever tale constructed later? If those people were real, what else did they produce?
- Apparently the poet was "Su Dongpo" and the friend was "Fo yin" if you google the names together, this story comes up.
  Super random but there is also apparently a dish named after the poet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongpo_pork
  
  Damn, this guy went super hard.
  On the Birth of a Son
  Families when a child is born
  Hope it will turn out intelligent.
  I, through intelligence
  Having wrecked my whole life,
  Only hope that the baby will prove
  Ignorant and stupid.
  Then he'll be happy all his days
  And grow into a cabinet minister.
  
  Thanks, that should be enough for diving down a research rabbit hole!
- Some hot air, I’d imagine.
- All parables and proverbs are made up, with old characters added to give fake legitimacy.
  
  Even star wars?
  
  Very true - although I'd add an "almost", at least in a few cases, authentic letters - or for the modern era, recordings - can at least root the fundamentals in something that actually happened. (Although even then, whatever gets tossed around as a parable/proverb will be heavily embellished and/or stripped of context, of course).
  
  Now you gonna tell me old man Yu didn't have his family raze down that mountain?
who decides how many winds there are, anyways
- When Chaos energy enters into the material world; the Choatic energy refacts into eight winds of magic.
  There is:
  Hysh (Light)
  Chamon (Metal)
  Ghyran (Life)
  Azyr (Heavens)
  Ulgu (Shadow)
  Shyish (Death)
  Aqshy (Fire)
  Ghur (Beasts)
  
  Fart
  
  i love when lists like this include “metal” bc you can get a vague idea of when they were conceived.
  it’s a little like how everytime a standout hit movie or game comes out, without fail it’ll be topping “best x of all time” lists for a year or so. at least until the next big exciting thing releases lmao
  
  I think you forgot Psychic, Water, and Fairy types.

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