일이 쉽기 전에 어렵다...

she laughed and said "your dad shaved his head in his 20s too!" a reminded me of a picture i have of my dad at my age.

It's about how that guilt and fear can and is passed down from past generations, and of course you're going to look to them for guidance and wisdom but the only way to get through that is to reject it.

It's about how how you cannot ignore where you're from but you don't need to celebrate the parts of you that bring you pain, you can leave them be.

Look in my eyes.

-If it were about rejecting religion and living in your sins, then Rumi would have joined the demons/they would have found that the demons are just misunderstood. But that's not what happened!

-Instead of the happy ending being Rumi becoming a demon, the happy ending is she chooses to be a Hunter (just like we choose to follow Christ). She rebuilds the Honmoon and defeats Gwi-Ma and the other demons instead of giving up all hope and embracing her demon side. Gwi-Ma tells them they are only their sins and cannot change or improve, and those demons that listen and agree are defeated in the end by Rumi, Mira, and Zoey (and Jinu)!

-Gwi-Ma's voice tells people they are only their sin, so they might as well join him and not try to improve because they aren't good enough to be with everyone else (like what he tells Mira and Zoey and Bobby after the Idol Awards, causing them to almost surrender to Gwi-Ma). This is JUST like that April 2025 General Conference Talk by Scott D. Whiting "Beware the Second Temptation"

-Note The Saja Boys' song "Your Idol" telling the listeners "I'm the only one who'll love your sins"- the demons don't love you, they love your sin. They want you to think that you are your sin, but you are not! You can change! They want you to be miserable like them, and encourage your sin (not you) (but man is that song a BANGER or what)

-But everyone CAN change, even demons- that's the whole point of Jinu's story! No one has gone too far that they cannot repent and turn back towards goodness (aka Christ) (Isaiah 1:18).

-The song "Free" says "we can't fix it if we never face it"- it's not saying accept the dark side, it's saying don't ignore it! As Christians we know we are meant to repent, and repenting means acknowledging we aren't perfect! So instead of hiding and pretending everything is fine, we can face our shortcomings and with Christ's help, can fix them!

-Oh MAN one of the best parts is at the end when Rumi confronts Gwi-Ma after "Your Idol". He taunts her with the fact that everyone can see that she's not perfect, she acknowledges it and tells him that it won't prevent her from creating a new Honmoon, and does so, defeating Gwi-Ma and the rest of the demons in the process. And that's a perfect lesson for us! Rumi lived her whole life thinking that because she was half demon, she didn't deserve to live life until she was perfect. But she learns that she doesn't have to be perfect to fight evil- she just has to do it. And that's for us too- if we wait to be perfect before we go to church or help others or start repenting, we will never get there. But accepting that there is good work to do and doing that good work is what will complete us (like when Rumi still fought Gwi-Ma despite being more demonic than ever) is what helps her get rid of her demon characteristics. And even though she still has scars, they are beautiful and remind her of the price she paid to do good and be good!

Is that what driving is for most people? I looked in the notes expecting to see a bunch of bewildered reactions but everyone is agreeing with OP and it's not that I don't believe you, but like.

I drove for years and hated every second of it because I was constantly aware of the fact that I was in charge of a massive chunk of speeding steel and glass capable of causing death if I sneezed at the wrong moment. Not for a single second did the car feel like a part of me. Driving always felt deeply unnatural and highly dangerous. It is indeed Wild to think that the vast majority of people apparently smoothly mind-meld with their car.

This is the abject reality of a porn-infused society. People are incapable of seeing anyone- living or fantasy- as anything more than a canvas to fulfill sexual desire and fetish fantasies. It’s truly disturbing. People tend to claim only men deal with this and objectify women, but I see so many men objectified and apparently it’s just accepted as normal behavior.