/lit/ - Literature

>>20149638
I don't care about you or your enemies. You can devour each other and I will simply congratulate the winner and pay lip service to his delusions. Politics is for people with money

Tamaki - Beautiful Fighting Girl

Beautiful Fighting Girl. You'll want to ignore the translator's introduction tacked on by the University of Minnesota. They are trying to make sexual attraction to 2D blue haired women palatable to 3D blue haired women for sales purposes.

>>19226460
based

>>19192535
/lit/ frequently discusses the ontology of being a cute girl

>>19069764
Eva has more in common with tantric buddhism than western occultism. A lot of what happens just has a sort of buddhist feel to it even with the relatively speaking "exotic" use of western exoteric and esoteric terms. The "Angels" that get fought during the monster of the week phase of the show aren't actually representatives of an omnipotent creator god at all (God curiously doesn't exist at all, even with all the other references that should implicate him, e.g. Lilith, Adam, Dead Sea Scrolls; just never shows up), but are attracted to whatever NERV has in their basement. They are entirely controlled by desires and left as these sort of enigmatic abstract beings, but later revealed to be alternate evolutions of humanity, so cosmologically speaking they are like devas or asuras. The Angels are effectively wrathful deities coming to devour humanity, but humanity, by wielding the less abstract but demonic-looking Eva series as super-bodies is able to manifest AT fields in order to dissolve the Angels (and in some cases literally integrate them instead of being the other way around, being destroyed by them). After each deity is vanquished or conquered by the pilot, who is fulfilling a ritual manual he is not aware of, he is able to complete the Tree of Sephiroth (which functions as a kind of mandala) and thereafter enters into a sort of bodhisattva state of being able to manifest reality at will. But Shinji doesn't have any use for these godlike powers to rewrite the universe because he is too emotionally disturbed, lacks compassion, etc. He nihilistically tangs everyone because that's what he thought he wanted for himself and then applies it to everyone (In rebuild 4 he makes everyone into the cast and crew of his personal fantasy, which is a similar sort of selfish use of godlike powers attained through tantra). And so having reached the ability to end cyclical existence he decides to reside within it after all and rather than obliterate everyone returns them to the world to pursue their lives as he will be free to pursue his, because one is not liberated by fear; nirvana=samsara. I think if Eva were a serious engagement with western occultism and not merely an appropriation of it by the pop culture of a Buddhist country it would have made sense for God to be encountered somewhere in the series, perhaps even antagonistically. But Shinji or the other pilots never meet the western God, they only enter into a womb or matrix realm which manifests their mothers, or whatever else they can load from their minds into it.

>>18945650
we live in a society, acephalics need to rise up...
>>18946012
>why write a lot instead of a little
you must be new to philosophy

>>18904949
A lot of what happens just has a sort of buddhist feel to it even with the relatively speaking "exotic" use of western exoteric and esoteric terms. The "Angels" that get fought during the monster of the week phase of the show aren't actually representatives of an omnipotent creator god at all (God curiously doesn't exist at all, even with all the other references that should implicate him, e.g. Lilith, Adam, Dead Sea Scrolls; just never shows up), but are attracted to whatever NERV has in their basement. They are entirely controlled by desires and left as these sort of enigmatic abstract beings, but later revealed to be alternate evolutions of humanity, so cosmologically speaking they are like devas or asuras. The Angels are effectively wrathful deities coming to devour humanity, but humanity, by wielding the less abstract but demonic-looking Eva series as super-bodies is able to manifest AT fields in order to dissolve the Angels (and in some cases literally integrate them instead of being the other way around, being destroyed by them). After each deity is vanquished or conquered by the pilot, who is fulfilling a ritual manual he is not aware of, he is able to complete the Tree of Sephiroth (which functions as a kind of mandala) and thereafter enters into a sort of bodhisattva state of being able to manifest reality at will. But Shinji doesn't have any use for these godlike powers to rewrite the universe because he is too emotionally disturbed, lacks compassion, etc. He nihilistically tangs everyone because that's what he thought he wanted for himself and then applies it to everyone (In rebuild 4 he makes everyone into the cast and crew of his personal fantasy, which is a similar sort of selfish use of godlike powers attained through tantra). And so having reached the ability to end cyclical existence he decides to reside within it after all and rather than obliterate everyone returns them to the world to pursue their lives as he will be free to pursue his, because one is not liberated by fear; nirvana=samsara