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« on: 2008-01-02 10:34:54 »
Jejeje... when WWIII is over... IF there is a WWIII there will be no one to fight. I saw recently a very interesting fact: even after years of nuclear disarming it has been calculated that if you put together EEUU's and Rusia's arsenal, you've got enough destructive power to destroy the world around 200 times.
Beliefs are certainly a complex topic. Even a pure atheist like myself must belive in something without having any rational proofs to back it up (such as the hability of makind to not destroy himself), so I don't feel like bashing others for their beliefs. But there is something that just pisses me off. Why must we have some kind of eternal reward (or punishment) to stop us from comitting crimes? We already have our own laws, so we don't need any divine entity to give us a set of rules.
About your theory The Black-caped Man, I've allways thought that FF7 had a very intersting point of view about the life cycle too. It's well know for everyone that matter cannot be destroyed, just tranformed. And thus when you die the matter of your body it's certainly recycled into something else, very much like the way lifestream recycles energy. I can see that FF7 was just an update for your already existing beliefs, but I also understand why Squeeble thought it was a disturbing idea the way you put it at first.
As for the main topic, there has been one sentence of FF7 that certainly helped me. It's something that Cloud says when Aeris dies. I don't know how it was translated in english, but in Spanish it was "Se acabó el reir, se acabó el llorar..." (No more laughs, no more tears...). I used to be very worried about dying, about wasting my life. But after reading that sentence I understood I shouldn't care about that. No matter what I do or don't do. When I die, it will be the end, and I won't feel good or bad any more. I know I could have read this somewhere else, but it had a deep impact for me in that situation.
By the way, my father died when I was young, but I won't say I had no infancy. It just wasn't a very happy infancy...
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Then again, there is something a bit confusing here. Is Sephiroth's will what Kadaj and Co. are following or is it Jenova's will? I think it's the later. In fact, while playing FF7 I came to think that even Sephiroth himself was no more than a Jenova's puppet too.