I think I figured out the meaning of life...

Apr 15, 2005 03:43

I have a theory about the beginning of everything that's sort of creationist and sort of Big Bang and basically goes like this ( Read more... )

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tian_shi April 18 2005, 20:57:44 UTC
Have you ever seen Evangelion? It has very similar ideas disguised in a mecha anime.

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morgen_stern April 18 2005, 21:04:18 UTC
>.<;;; They're not Mechas!!! Their living, biological genetic creations imprisioned within robotic armor to control their volital natures, and infused with the spirits of dead women/dummy souls copied from the 17th Angel Tabris.

In other words, yes I've seen it. ^_^

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tian_shi April 18 2005, 21:17:03 UTC
OH! I didn't know they were copied from the 17th Angel Tabris. Coolness. I went through an EVA obsession phase during sophomore year...

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morgen_stern April 18 2005, 21:22:31 UTC
Yesh, I believe that's where the dummy-plugs got their 'soul' from for the mass-produced EVAs. It's been a while since I watched it myself, but it left an impression on me (which was apparently obvious in my 'meaning of life' rant. The series also made me more appreciative of boundaries as a means of definition, rather than strict obstacles to 'freedom'. I can't discuss the matter in classes or the like with out picturing Shinji floating in a field of white.)

I had a professor here at USC that actually tried to *instruct* us in Evangelion, but as he was an ass and didn't even watch the series the whole way through, he severly butchered his interpretation of it and *insisted* on discussing the EVAs as pure machines, y'know, even though they have things like teeth and eyeballs and the BLEED!!!

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tian_shi April 18 2005, 21:25:32 UTC
Wow, that's pretty avant-garde. I almost wrote a philosophy paper on it, but decided our conservative professor probably can't handle it. Although I'm not sure which is better, not given a chance to discuss it in an academic sense, or having the professor butcher the series.

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morgen_stern April 18 2005, 21:34:47 UTC
Considering he thus abused it to the malleable intellects of some 15+ students who'd never seen it before and would prefer to just swallow what the prof. says, hook-line-and-sinker than to think for themselves... I think the prof. butchering it was worse.

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