... Who told Pakku about 'Azula tried to smother me'? Seriously, that's private information. (And what's a curmudgeon like Pakku doing anywhere near the healers' work?)
*shrugs* Beats me, on both counts.
I don't really think the politicians vs. beat cops/White Lotus vs. yaoren comparison checks out. For starters, the White Lotus was never presented as having much if anything to do with spirits, what with Iroh being the only member who's had any known dealings with them outside of (presumably) normal religious observances. They're intensely concerned with obtaining world peace, but that's not really the same thing. Secondly, the yaoren don't do enough ground-level work. I honestly do not recall a single instance of any of the yaoren characters going out and looking to see if there's any trouble, which I believe is one of the duties of a beat cop? Be that as it may, the White Lotus and the yaoren actually seem to operate at the same level spirit-wise, the yaoren just have the dubious fortune of being easier to submit complaints to.
Not helping is that we've never really seen the yaoren operating in the way that's "usual" for them - Zuko's new at this, and he's juggling a whole bunch of other protagonist stuff at the same time, Shirong's even newer than Zuko, and Langxue is more there as a repository of knowledge from his past life than anything. Trying to commune with Asagitatsu while dodging Koh and Makoto probably isn't what a yaoren's usual job is, but I don't think we've been given a good sense of what a typical day for a yaoren even looks like.
Actually, is it just me or does Vathara have trouble understanding religion and religious impulses? First she strips Koizilla of its religious significance, then she fails to understand important Air Nomad doctrines about non-violence and detachment, and now she's either completely forgotten or never knew about 'reverent fear', or the awe and trepidation natural to encountering something that much more then you. 'Then Job answered the LORD: "Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer Thee? I lay my hand on my mouth.' (Job chapter 40 verses 3-4)
Especially considering some of what's coming in the next chapter, when Zuko and Iroh's conflict finally has it's big blow up - no, I'd say it's not just you.
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*shrugs* Beats me, on both counts.
I don't really think the politicians vs. beat cops/White Lotus vs. yaoren comparison checks out. For starters, the White Lotus was never presented as having much if anything to do with spirits, what with Iroh being the only member who's had any known dealings with them outside of (presumably) normal religious observances. They're intensely concerned with obtaining world peace, but that's not really the same thing. Secondly, the yaoren don't do enough ground-level work. I honestly do not recall a single instance of any of the yaoren characters going out and looking to see if there's any trouble, which I believe is one of the duties of a beat cop? Be that as it may, the White Lotus and the yaoren actually seem to operate at the same level spirit-wise, the yaoren just have the dubious fortune of being easier to submit complaints to.
Not helping is that we've never really seen the yaoren operating in the way that's "usual" for them - Zuko's new at this, and he's juggling a whole bunch of other protagonist stuff at the same time, Shirong's even newer than Zuko, and Langxue is more there as a repository of knowledge from his past life than anything. Trying to commune with Asagitatsu while dodging Koh and Makoto probably isn't what a yaoren's usual job is, but I don't think we've been given a good sense of what a typical day for a yaoren even looks like.
Actually, is it just me or does Vathara have trouble understanding religion and religious impulses? First she strips Koizilla of its religious significance, then she fails to understand important Air Nomad doctrines about non-violence and detachment, and now she's either completely forgotten or never knew about 'reverent fear', or the awe and trepidation natural to encountering something that much more then you. 'Then Job answered the LORD: "Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer Thee? I lay my hand on my mouth.' (Job chapter 40 verses 3-4)
Especially considering some of what's coming in the next chapter, when Zuko and Iroh's conflict finally has it's big blow up - no, I'd say it's not just you.