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>>4339430If you ever have a possibility of doubt or confusion. Please do ask and I will try to help in the understanding of these seemingly "explicit" words. As expected from the wise side of EVA. Understanding and the will to understand comes too. That's why my heart was moved. I found people who feel like identical copies of what I have been searching for. And that's where my love for this community grows. A gift that keeps on giving. This community. Thank you.
>>4339543Till the end of the world.
>>4339554Indeed.
>>4339543You are a loser please go find friends
>>4339680I'm ok with that. It's ok if you fall. It's just that if you don't get up you'll never learn from your mistakes. And the reason behind your outburst. I hope that insult was enough to satisfy you inner hatred. Please, calm your demons and find peace. It's for the best.And about friends. Am I not surrounded by them? Have I not acknowledged my brethren? Find peace.
are you guys okay?
>>4339695Amo te frater. Tua vita ac scientia orbem terrarum auget.
>>4339703Boni sumus, tamquam verum aliquis hoc in mundo possit.
>>4339705Divulgare me verbum voluisti. Sic feci.
>>4339772Not you apparently...If you wish to not be part of this "commune", feel free to leave and don't look back. At least don't bother the peace that exists without of course your intrusive "outbursts".Either way I hope you find calm and reason. That's what I learned from Rei.
Rei is so lovely.
>>4339703Been better.
Is there a specific number of "wings" Rei/Kaworu had in EoE? I mean the final form. I know for a fact that NGE had a sweet tooth for changing art direction sometimes. I just hope they didn't mutilate the form in some shots. Not that I'm sitting duck. I'll look into it myself too.
>>4341220Ah, 12. The number of the apostles and the number of the months in a year. This will do.Again as said before. The art in the anime is art enough. Nothing will surpass it.
>>4341221Well, John also saw twelve stars upon her head (I have seen artists mimic this description, but they sometimes show a different number, for some reason), as well as twelve gates and twelve foundations of the walls of the New Jerusalem (which Shinji seemingly rejected...); and in the obscure tradition there are twelve constellations of the circle of the firmament in the highest Heaven. There is much that can be done with it all. I just hope to see it through in my lifetime.
>>4341225"Seek and ye shall find"As with most things. The only one standing in the way of knowledge is one's own dispelief or acceptence of rules that block that path of knowledge.Defy one to gain another. The chance is always there. Our will is the one that decides the path. But all paths have one end. It's how we've walked it. That's what leaves a legacy. And the will to leave a specific legacy, changes the way we walk our path.
>>4341245*disbelief
>>4341318>faggotshit
>>4341368Yeah, I've never understood what's going on in that image you quoted. Just seems weird and pointless. Then again, many fan made images are totally out of character, for Rei and for others.
>>4341402I only saw blue hair in the OP. It's best that we keep it that way.
>>4341456No, you're right.
>>4341527All is good.
At one point in the Original NGE I was expecting them to pull a "Simon and Nia" like scene with Shinji and Rei in Eva Unit 01 entry plug fighting final boss-tier Angel. As usual, we were robbed.I know Episode 8 happened, but that just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
>>4342320Interesting to consider, though obviously GL postdates Eva by, what, a decade I think? But yes, I agree that Gainax fumbled the ball with Shinji and Rei's relationship throughout the original series; they recovered somewhat at the end and with EoE, but it still left much to be desired, to me at least, right now.
>>4342327Sometimes I wonder in my own mind and recreate or reconstruct how "it would have been". Trying to improve what you can't. But at least you can try. Some things are set in history and one that is best left be.
>>4342327I just realized how>>4342341 sounds. I did not mean it. I meant "what you can't" as in "what I can't". Just to be clear.
>>4342530Wonder which sealife insect ir beetle was Eva Unit 01 based on. I know the inspiration, but what base animal?
Not AI
>>4342953>Not AILike if that matters when you're posting fetish art.
>>4342973Haha, no shit. Made by men or by code, it's all the same slop. I have an ontological argument that there actually is a difference, but that's beside the point here.
>>4342983It's (not) that bad
>>4342983On another topic, it took me way too long to realise that the plugsuit of Rei has a function to take off the arms of the suit. I always thought they were cut off or ripped when she was having "surgery".
>>4343004That sentence is as confusing as the names of the Rebuilds that I haven't watched.
>>4343006I also thought that up until now, seeing as how it seems to be one cohesive suit that's slid on. Where is this function detailed?
>>4343011Maybe the orange line is like a sign where to slide/rip it off?
>>4343015Perhaps the Groundwork or other note books explain it somewhere. Regrettably, I don't yet know Japanese. Still, it makes sense, and it looks indeed like the suit can detach right along those orange lines. That, or the EMTs were simply very precise with their cuts.
>>4343017Well, the plugsuits were replacable and if I remember correctly, everytime after a battle the pilots got new ones. Of course I could be wrong. That would explain cutting the suit.
>>4343017I know that>>4341565 is fanart, but looking at the original designs the leg parts of the suit may be removable too. Making it a somewhat swimsuit with arm and leg parts.
>>4343018>>4343033I agree, I think we can make that judgement based off of the original design. And yes, I also recall that a new one is given after each use. Probably the sterility of a fresh suit helps with the synchronization by the removal of biological 'noise' so to speak.
How would Rei do in prison?
>>4343040We're all in prison. This mortal flesh that divides this earthly realm from the one behind the sun. Suicide is the illegal escape. Death from natural causes is comparable to time served. Make of it what you will.That's what I learned from Rei
>>4343044Hah. Spit in the Demiurge's face by living a moral life in pursuit of Truth, hoping to find freedom along the way, I say.
>>4343052I may come off as silly, but what are the intentions of the Demiurge? What's up with him? What does it want? I have read about Gnosticism, but it all just comes off as putting Satan from the Bible into the place of God (YHWH) and calling it a day. Switching places if I may.
>>4343055I only know enough to know that I know nothing.
>>4343058Fair enough. Sometimes it's best to know not of the things that do your undoing. Sometimes it's best for the stream of life to set in and sweep you into the path you must be in.We do these things unknowingly every day. By living we fulfill the path that is unseen. To know more is a choice. And choice is something that is not bound by destiny or fate.That's the meaning of "free will".And freedom is the difinition of "good" and "evil" roaming freely. Otherwise it would be order under "good" or order under "evil". Which is not "freedom".
>>4343068I am not sure I can choose anything, to be honest.But for clarity, I meant 'freedom' in the sense of freedom from ignorance about the world, which to me is enlightenment, and of freedom from this world, which seems to be what Instrumentality is (and that seems to be an enforced Order, as well), not 'freedom' in the sense of liberty of choice or of personal will.
>>4343070Guess it's between "good" order and "evil" order then. There's no middleground for both side's pull in the way's they are. And both are so deep in society and roots of man.
>>4343074You'll get no argument from me against that. The 'good' Order is supposed to be what the Eschaton is, even if it has to be imposed on us. Otherwise the world is driving towards recursion, obliteration, or an eternally dreadful existence.
>>4343075The only problem I have is how it was presented in EoE. I guess you can't present the entirety of possible reality in fiction.
>>4343078Of course not.
>>4343079Not just that, but the fact there is no "good" in EoE. Therefore what is Rei in EoE? Anno mixed 2 things toghether. Satan/Lucifer and Jesus. Putting a cross in the last circle of hell based on Dante's Divine Comedy. Insted of the encased devil in ice we have Lilith crusified. There were no definitions of good in EoE. Humans living in hell and fighting Angels? What the Hell? And then making a mass sacrifice to enter the now released demon in the final act against "God".What is Rei?Not just that. Kaworu is based on Ryo Asuka from Devilman as a typical "Rebel angel". That unifies with "lilith" to create a giant hermephrodite.What is Rei.Not just that Ryo Asuka and Rei Ayanami. Ring any bells?It's Devilman rebuilt in the vision of Anno. Taken and reshaped.
>>4343083Questions with no easy answers.
>>4343085Or maybe it's the answer for all those questions.I just don't see how Jesus and Lilith go hand in hand. Especially since Lilith is considered "Mother of demons".Or just the fact that the faggotry between Shinji and Kaworu was just like in Devilman between Akira and Ryo.One light haired and other with darker tone.Devilman, Devilman Lady or maybe even Saga may have all the answers to the world of Neon Genesis Evangelion and End of Evangelion. Because it's based on Devilman like any other "Manga" or "Anime". Devilman manga didn't deny the world of Bible. It took it showed from the perspective of Akira Fudo that had a Devil inside him. Of course through the Devil's eyes "God" is seen as "Evil". It's a perspective. Something Eva doesn't have.Eva re-shaped the world and the meaning of "good" and "evil". That's why it doesn't make sense.
>>4343088This I had not considered. I will need some time to think about it.
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