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

[morgen_stern]

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

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[tian_shi]

Have you ever seen Evangelion? It has very similar ideas disguised in a mecha anime.

[morgen_stern]

>.<;;; 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. ^_^

[tian_shi]

OH! I didn't know they were copied from the 17th Angel Tabris. Coolness. I went through an EVA obsession phase during sophomore year...

[morgen_stern]

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!!!

[feye_morgan]

Pretty interesting view! And yeah, it does make sense. Except, I'm going to be a picky astrophysics major and point out that the Universe isn't actually collapsing back onto itself. It probably never will, in fact, since the expansion of the universe is actually accelerating.

And no, you don't know me. I'm just a reader of Kyoudai who stumbled here. ^^;