Darkness again - why is it good. And some FMA Wrath.
Someone opened a topic on the "Crimson Circle" message board in which they were asking "Do we really need to experience the dark?". Here is what I wrote:
"IMO, the service that the darkness does to us - it puts us in touch with our own power, with the God inside of us. If we choose to give up, it eats us alive. If we choose to be in our power, in our Divine presence - it serves us. It dares us to be no less than we are."
I didn't like that this person was implying that the darkness should be rejected. Let's face it: all of us have been touched by the darkness in that way or another. I personally am done with the method of considering myself less valid because of my life circumstances and such. (And let's not discuss cases in which what we call today "horrible" was used in the name of God.)
Which brings me to three scenes from FMA. First: Roy killing Lust. She died respecting him, because he did not surrender to a supernatural threat that Lust was, but stepped into his full power and managed to overcome her. As he himself says in a later chapter: "I have never felt more human than when I fought the homunculus Lust". The same with Marco finally collecting himself to destroy Envy's big body. He finally managed to do fight instead of running under a tremendous pressure (both mental and physical, hehehe) that Envy put on him.
And which brings me to the final scene: Roy asking Wrath why won't he live the human life, if he remembers that he was human. IMO, Wrath was completely right when he told Roy that he and his "siblings" are proud being who they are. IMO he was right because he should not be rejecting this part of himself, especially if happened against his will.
And especially, as we see from the manga, when the humans themselves assisted in these deeds.... So - that brings us again to what I wrote first.
"IMO, the service that the darkness does to us - it puts us in touch with our own power, with the God inside of us. If we choose to give up, it eats us alive. If we choose to be in our power, in our Divine presence - it serves us. It dares us to be no less than we are."
I didn't like that this person was implying that the darkness should be rejected. Let's face it: all of us have been touched by the darkness in that way or another. I personally am done with the method of considering myself less valid because of my life circumstances and such. (And let's not discuss cases in which what we call today "horrible" was used in the name of God.)
Which brings me to three scenes from FMA. First: Roy killing Lust. She died respecting him, because he did not surrender to a supernatural threat that Lust was, but stepped into his full power and managed to overcome her. As he himself says in a later chapter: "I have never felt more human than when I fought the homunculus Lust". The same with Marco finally collecting himself to destroy Envy's big body. He finally managed to do fight instead of running under a tremendous pressure (both mental and physical, hehehe) that Envy put on him.
And which brings me to the final scene: Roy asking Wrath why won't he live the human life, if he remembers that he was human. IMO, Wrath was completely right when he told Roy that he and his "siblings" are proud being who they are. IMO he was right because he should not be rejecting this part of himself, especially if happened against his will.
And especially, as we see from the manga, when the humans themselves assisted in these deeds.... So - that brings us again to what I wrote first.