Science catches up to the New Sun

Jeff Wilson · 13 Dec 2008, 06:07 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:07:24 -0600
Subject: (urth) Science catches up to the New Sun
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Matthew Keeley wrote:
> We have Eva fans here? And I thought I was the only one.
> 
> I'd love to have an involved debate, but I think I agree with
> everything you said. I do think Eva is atheistic (or I think I do) but
> a Buddhist brand of atheism as opposed to a Death-of-God sort of
> atheism. The end of the show harps so damn much on relativism that
> it's hard to conclude otherwise.
> 
> Video for the initiated: Shinji's voice actor, frustrated at the end
> of the show (some language)

Not all of Evangelion's ambiguity is on screen: I had similar baffling 
experience "meeting" Asuka's US voice actress at a con. I kept hearing 
Asuka's voice in the tiny tower room with me but could not see the 
person, until I realized Asuka's 15-yr-old-voice was living in a body 
about four decades older.


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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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