come on, sweet death

Nicholaus 2022-04-21 09:02:51

With the long melody of come on and sweet death, the human completion plan is completed. All people, following their deepest desires, put down their inner defenses, put down the AT force field, and become one with everyone.

If this is the end of mankind, this is the end of mankind, and closer integration with others is the goal of mankind's desperate life, and the human completion plan does not sound bad.

In fact, the pain of life, the estrangement between people, seems to be the AT force field at work——

People always want to close themselves, but lack the desire to connect with others

But even the most intimate lovers can hardly achieve complete heart-to-heart.

Because people always have their own past, and there is always a side they don't want people to see.

People are complex.

The bright Misato also has moments of depravity; the strong Asuka also has moments of fragility; the empty Ayanami also sheds tears.

...

What strikes me deeply are these two sentences:

For Shinji, there really is too much resonance.

Always so wishful thinking that all people in the world are just like myself, kind and moral; always afraid of intimacy, but longing - afraid because of fear of betrayal, longing because this is what the heart wants; always like to escape...

But it was difficult for him to like Shinji—mostly because he hated the weak, evasive self.

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Watching eva left me thinking about life and death for days. Faced with this question, it is difficult to give an answer, and in the end, the result is evasion. To avoid such a question, to avoid the fact that man is mortal.

What makes the Human Completion Program appealing is that being connected to others is exactly what your heart desires the most—call it meaning in life. So longing for love, longing to be one with another, longing to cast off one's own fear of death, longing to be free from loneliness, longing to be free from estrangement.

But in fact, this is probably just an escape—sometimes I escape into the game, sometimes I escape into alcohol, sometimes I escape into a book, and sometimes I hope to escape into love.

It's just hard to accept - what to do when you die.

Running away, it seems that this matter is not something you need to worry about-after all, when it comes, it is not your own decision; when it comes, you can't refuse it.

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But then again: The Human Completion Project, while tempting as it sounds, feels ridiculous when you think about it.

The absurdity is: when we remove our inner defense line and our own AT force field, can I still call it me. The formation of each unique individual is in the constant collision with others, forming its own boundaries and forming self-awareness. Our whole life, we live under the influence of others - from our parents to the words written by someone who died hundreds of years ago. How would I have formed without these influences? Where will I go?

Is it possible that everyone will return to the baby state, ignorant and unconscious - what is the difference between this and death.

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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion quotes

  • Asuka Langly Soryu: Damn, they're persistent! Of course, that idiot Shinji is nowhere to be found!

  • Shigeru Aoba: Soon individual entities will be unable to maintain their separate forms!

    Kôzô Fuyutsuki: The chamber of Gauf is open. The door to both the beginning and the end of the world is open at last.