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2024.03.16 15:23 hoodie_grunt Harken! 2Hu Jerk Lore Final, u/SirShadyVI FINAL Part. 1/2 (2hujerk Member Lore.)
I've been wanting to get back in 2hujerk Again, So, With the power of a few songs, (Little V's Cover Of Blow Me Away, And Other Random Stuff.) submitted by hoodie_grunt to 2hujerk [link] [comments] I decided to make this u/SirShadyVI 's Final Lore Post. Just so you know, This is the third part. Link To The First Part: https://www.reddit.com/2hujerk/comments/17ior22/new_2hujerk_member_lore_drop_sirshadyiv_part_1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Link To The Second Part: https://www.reddit.com/2hujerk/comments/1b63to2hu_jerk_lore_continuation_sirshadyiv_lore_part/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button While it is quite the taxing task to go through an entire User's Post History, Let alone someone as big as u/SirShadyVI , I've done this before and I'll do it again. u/SirShadyVI 's Basic Lore was covered in the first post. So need for that. In u/SirShadyVI Last Post We Covered, It left on this one. Take a peek here: https://www.reddit.com/whenthe/comments/1450vu1/i_love_damaging_my_internal_organs/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button An Ascending Gif with the caption above, "How I Feel After Consuming Outrageous Amounts Of Alcohol." I also looked in the comments for anything of note, And I found something VERY Interesting. Apparently, One day when u/SirShadyVI Went to Prom, He decided to get the most drunk he's EVER been in. He also notes that, "decided to get the most drunk ive ever been (which wasnt that much tbh) but i might have drunk a bit too much" This is speculation fuel that u/SirShadyVI Is Actually a Lightweight when it comes to Alcohol. (No Hate.) He also says in the comment, His friends took him to the bathroom multiple times, And that he couldn't remember anything after the second trip. u/SirShadyVI Also states how his friends told him how during his Drunken Masquerade, He laughed at a glowstick and tried to eat it? Thankfully, He didn't do anything stupid and just had a good time with friends. Unfortunately, Nothing else of note in the comments. Moving On. On u/SirShadyVI 's Next Post, It's Another Post On 2hujerk. If you take a peek here: https://www.reddit.com/2hujerk/comments/145veo1/ze/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button It's a gif of Memories Of Phantasm Marisa In Episode One Firing Her Master Spark, With the Caption: "It's Fumover (Japanese Text) MASTER SPARK!" u/SirShadyVI Notes in the comments how it's his proudest creation yet. Nothing else to note, Moving On. u/SirShadyVI 's Next post is another 2hujerk, And a Tierlist. Take a peek here: https://www.reddit.com/2hujerk/comments/1497r09/my_unbiased_take_on_turkey_vs_greece_touhous/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button A Tier List putting different Touhou Characters depending on whether they're Turkey Or Greece Or Not? I don't know, Probably based on the colour of their clothing. u/SirShadyVI Notes how the characters listed in the Neutral Tier "either dont care at all, take advantage of the situation for personal gain, or just hate both" As u/SirShadyVI . u/SirShadyVI Also explains in the comments why Greece And Turkey are constantly at Each Other's Necks. There's another thing of worth in the comments, u/SirShadyVI Confirms he's Greek. Give him a Gyro next time he comes online. He's been offline for Two Months. Nothing more of note within the comments, Moving On. u/SirShadyVI 's Next Post Is Also On 2hujerk. If you take a peek here: https://www.reddit.com/2hujerk/comments/14asaze/i_wont_last_a_second_in_siberia_please/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button It's an illustration of Remilia Scarlet in a Russian Police Uniform, Infront Of A Police Car, Writing on a clipboard. With The caption, "Miss Please, I Have A Family, I Swear I Didn't Say Anything. Don't Send Me To The Gulag, Please Miss, I Beg You." Now, Here's something of note I found in the comments, From a now deactivated user known as, u/TheOrix-LoL "Not much here. On this one, it's just "Scarlet Police", and it also refers to the local area as "Gensokyo". So, "Scarlet police. UMVD of Russia, Gensokyan region". However, there's more in the second art with Cirno in a shop. For example, she has a patronymic derived from ZUN, her surname being "Nebaka" or "Not baka" if translated literally. While, on the back there's a banner that parodies ones in Russia, I believe. Original would read as "The best for children" when translated, and would be hanged over and refer to something like school utilities or toys. In here, the children is replaced by "oni", and the banner was hanged over alcohol section. Chips depicted here actually exist, and it's TV advertisement is iconic. Plus, there's an actual beer brand "Балтика" - "Baltic" with different kinds of it that are distinguished by numbers, and they, I think, refer to how alcoholic the beverage is. "Baltic 9" is legitimate, tho, in here the labels are Japanese and I cannot read them. There's also a small label about the fact that people who were born in december 2004 count as adults on the cash register. The shop itself tries to mimic interior and logo of "Пятёрочка" - literally "Five", which is one of the most popular stores in Russia." Quite Intriguing. Now, Let's Move On. u/SirShadyVI 's Next Post Is a 暁Records Meme. Take a look here: https://www.reddit.com/2hujerk/comments/14astlx/moriya_shrine_is_pleased_with_the_new_pv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button The video is of Myumi and her fellow Haniwa Marching, With the caption, "Me Summoning My 100,000 Alt Account To Like The Newest 暁Records Upload." Unfortunately, Nothing to note within the comments. Moving On. On u/SirShadyVI 's Next Post, It's Another One 2hujerk. If you would take a small peek here: https://www.reddit.com/2hujerk/comments/14blovw/the_consequences_of_the_industrial_revolution/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button It's a GIF of Cirno trapped in a plastic bottle (Baka Bottle) With the caption, "Is It Really Worth It." u/SirShadyVI Notes in the comments how he finished watching Osana Reimu, And how it made him cry. We all did, Shady. We all did. Now, Let's Move On... u/SirShadyVI 's Next Post Is On whenthe. Taking a peek here reveals it: https://www.reddit.com/whenthe/comments/14bw44j/we_were_so_close_to_world_peace/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button It's a GIF of the future with the caption, "Society If The Sub Was Closed For Another Day." Nothing to note in the comments, Let's Move On. u/SirShadyVI 's Next Post Is Also On whenthe . If you are so kind to take a peek here: https://www.reddit.com/whenthe/comments/14cnyp8/were_so_back_lesgoooooooo/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button The Title Of This Post Is, "We're So Back, Let's Goooo." With the previous Baka Bottle GIF. It seems the Sub Was Closed For A Bit, And So, u/SirShadyVI Made a post to celebrate it being reopened. Not much of note within the comments, Let's Move On, Shall We? What Is This?!: https://www.reddit.com/whenthe/comments/14cwf2i/mi_mute_o_toki/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button It's a GIF of a Reimu Fumo through the view of a Peephole with some weird language? Nothing to note in the comments, Moving On. u/SirShadyVI 's Next Post is another 2hujerk Post. If you take a peak here: https://www.reddit.com/2hujerk/comments/14dmfqm/the_strongest/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button It's a rather interesting image of... Three Soldiers, One on the right is standing at ease, The Other, The Same... The one in the middle though... Is doing a Dogeza infront of Cirno who is stepping on them? Unfortunately, Nothing of note in the comments. Moving On. u/SirShadyVI 's Next Post Is Another whenthe Post. Again, A Post relating to when the sub was closed. If you take a look here: https://www.reddit.com/whenthe/comments/14dn3h8/are_we_back_again/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button It's a gif of a Patchouli Knowledge Fumo falling backwards (Revealing Her Fumo Bloomers.) With the caption, "The Universe's Strongest Lifeform After I Show Them The whenthe Comment Section." Nothing to note within the comments... Other than the fact I saw Spiderman 2099 Vore Art. 0_0 Now, Moving On. u/SirShadyVI Next Post Is Actually An Appreciation Post, A Wholesome One. If you take a look here: https://www.reddit.com/whenthe/comments/14do5j2/there_is_no_meme_this_is_an_appreciation_post/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button u/SirShadyVI Even said himself the post is an appreciation post. The post is a GIF Of Mike Ehrmantraut Hugging Walter Hartwell White With The Caption Within The Gif, "Huf :3" The caption above the GIF goes as follows, " whenthe Has one of the best communities I've seen on the internet. We've made it through protests intact, Although, We have no results to show for it, I believe we as a community have grown. Thank you all for being here, And, Making me smile even on my worst days." It's clear in this post u/SirShadyVI Holds a deep affection for the whenthe Community. And I'd like to say the same for the 2hujerk Community, Without u/Luke5353 , I wouldn't be the Lore Master of 2hujerk Unfortunately, Nothing of note in the comments. And I went through all 180. Now, Let's Move On. On u/SirShadyVI 's Next Post, It's a life hack. If you take a peek here: https://www.reddit.com/whenthe/comments/14e5gsl/easy_life_hack/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button It's a GIF of the whenthe Mascot, Vince McMahon, And His Famous Sniffing Money GIF with the caption, "Artists After Faking Their Death So Their Art Can Quadruple In Value." Unfortunately, Nothing of note within the comments. Moving On. u/SirShadyVI Has Ten Thousand Upvotes! If you take a peek here: https://www.reddit.com/whenthe/comments/14e8h4y/why_did_it_take_so_long/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button A GIF Of The "I've Come To Make An Announcement" GIF Of Robotnik From Sonic Adventure 2, With the caption, "It is with Great Misfortune, That I announce I have just gotten my first Onlyfans Bot Follower." Out of the Three Hundred And Twelve Comments, I found NOTHING of note. Moving On. On u/SirShadyVI Next Post, It's Another whenthe Post. If you take a look here; https://www.reddit.com/whenthe/comments/14e9jq6/guess_who_is_going_to_south_london/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button It's a GIF of Walter Hartwell White from Breaking Bad looking at his son, Walter Jr. Having what seems to be a stroke or seizure? u/SirShadyVI States in the comments how he should start learning Vocabulary. Well, Shady. If you're reading this next time you come alone, DO learn vocabulary, Having such eloquent grammar in these times will be quite the Humble Brag. (I Speak From Experience.) Now, Moving On. u/SirShadyVI Next Post is another on whenthe. If you can't tell already, He's a Microcelebrity there. If you take a peek here: https://www.reddit.com/whenthe/comments/14f3qpt/hear_me_out_guys/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button It's a GIF Of Walter Hartwell White From Breaking Bad mixing chemicals together with the caption, "Me creating an elaborate scheme of truth, Lies, And coincidences just to Introduce something I like to my friends." The Song Within This Video Is A Song By 暁Records, You can find the link on u/SirShadyVI Comment. Not much to note within the comments, Except of course.. A User Known As u/Pete-zaTime Actually started reading the Chainsaw Man Manga because of Hentai of a character known as, Kobeni. I would guess that'd be the same for some Touhou Fans, I cannot relate, Though. I got into Touhou cause I kept listening to Bad Apple. Now, Let's Move On. On u/SirShadyVI 's Next Post, It's another whenthe Post. If you take a peek here: https://www.reddit.com/whenthe/comments/14f438e/i_do_not_regret_anything/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button It's a GIF of a Wide Yakuza 0 Kiryu Kazuma walking towards the camera with the caption, "Yakuza And Touhou on their way to run whenthe" Unfortunately, I didn't find anything of note in the comments. Moving on. On u/SirShadyVI Next whenthe Post, It's meme about Turkey. If you take a look here, Please: https://www.reddit.com/whenthe/comments/14hqein/sorry_emre_from_istanbul_but_you_are_not_a_true/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button It's a GIF of a Yakuza Character walking, through buildings while sped up, With the caption, "Mehmet rushing to debate why Corrupt Politician #189 Is The Best For Turkey From His Apartment In Berlin." u/SirShadyVI Also left some insight on why they do that. Let me just copy and paste it... Shady: "balkaners leave their home country (because it sucks) to go somewhere else and live, but they still have pride for their nationality they tend to vote leaders who promise to keep tradition alive, or who will keep visiting costs low by keeping the economy weak this was the case with Erdogan who got lots of votes from turkish people outside of turkey". Gives a very good insight into the world, He is very well read. Nothing else to note, Moving On. On u/SirShadyVI 's Next whenthe Post, It's another life hack. If you take a peek here: https://www.reddit.com/whenthe/comments/14jdhbg/subscribe_for_more_life_hacks/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button It's a GIF of a man wiping his tears with an American Dollar Bill, With the caption, "One Dollar Doesn't Make A Difference MFS When They Take A Dollar To Indonesia." Unfortunately, Nothing to note within the comments. Moving on. On u/SirShadyVI 's Next whenthe Post, He notes in the title how he loves Gambling. If you are so kind to take a peek here: https://www.reddit.com/whenthe/comments/14jdisn/i_love_gambling/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button It's a GIF Of a schoolgirl flipping a coin then shooting it at Lightning speeds? (Noted to be a railgun by the commentators) With the caption, "My Shower Faucet Deciding Whether To Burn Or Freeze Me After I Move It 1MM." Don't we all hate that? Unfortunately, Nothing of note within the comments. Moving On. On u/SirShadyVI 's Next whenthe Post, This one is distressingmemes Worthy. If you take a peek here: https://www.reddit.com/whenthe/comments/14jjiws/the_homeless_man_slowly_turns_around_clapping_his/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button It's a GIF Of Hank Schrader from Breaking Bad having what seems to be an Episode within an elevator, With The Caption, "Me After The Mafia Boss Tells Me The Bully Was Actually My Long Lost Brother, And they were actually trying to protect us from the homeless man." The only thing to note in the comments is how u/SirShadyVI Notes how he phrased it wrong and they're the same person. Let's Move On. On u/SirShadyVI 's Next whenthe Post, It's a post about the bully? If you take a look here: https://www.reddit.com/whenthe/comments/14kf0h4/just_after_we_all_stopped_fighting_what_will_he/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button It's a GIF of Jetstream Sam turning his head around and facing the camera, Then giving his signature White Toothed Smile, With The Caption, "The Bully Turning Around With A Wicked Smile, About To Start His Villain Monologue." u/SirShadyVI Notes how this post is a part of an whenthe Lore Saga. Not much to note here, Moving On. Live Nayuta Reaction(Deleted Post.): https://www.reddit.com/Chainsawfolk/comments/14kg9is/live_nayuta_reaction/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Moving On. And that for now puts an end to this part... Live Karl Of Lordran Reaction: |
2024.03.12 11:31 Ivindin Paprika
submitted by Ivindin to InDepthAnimeReview [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/q7h42h5yrvnc1.jpg?width=850&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=59a72a391b6e69fa47682beef6a6334314d6ef06 They say that with the advent of cinema, which at first was black and white, people who watched movies lost the ability to see color dreams - they were visited only by monochrome dreams. Only with the advent of color cinema and television in the 1960s did new generations again learn to dream in color. If we agree that dreams are the unconscious expression of our experiences, then the influence of television and cinema on dreams raises the question of how much our unconscious experiences reflect subjective experience, and not what we saw on film or television screens (and now on computer screens and smartphones). To what extent is what influences our unconscious drawn from reality, and not from an adaptation of someone’s fantasies - movies, animation or video games? If you look closely at the works of Satoshi Kon, the idea of merging reality and dreams can be seen in almost all the anime he created. It seems that Satoshi was obsessed with it and constantly tried to express it as fully as possible using the artistic means available to him. Of course, obsessed with such an idea, Satoshi simply could not pass by the 1993 novel “Paprika” by his compatriot Tsutsui Yasutaka, which tells about an apparatus with which psychiatrists can infiltrate into the dreams of patients and cure them of mental disorders. The idea of this novel is very reminiscent of the idea of the novel “The Dream Master” by Roger Zelazny, published back in 1966. However, unlike the Zelazny novel I read as a teenager, Yasutaka’s “Paprika” seemed to me so clumsy and mediocrely boring, and the characters so disgusting that I could not bring myself to read this vile thing to the end, and therefore I will further refrain from going into detail comparison of the original source with its film adaptation, which was carried out by Satoshi Kon. Moreover, Kon bypassed and smoothed out the most disgusting parts of the book to the point of imperceptibility. What he retained was the atmosphere of a nightmare dream, close to Kon himself, which is closely intertwined with reality, directly influencing it and becoming indistinguishable from reality. The audiovisual style of "Paprika" is indeed like a dream - from the wonderful, bewitchingly strange music, to the borderline absurd, and sometimes reminiscent of feverish delirium, plot, in which the transition between sleep and reality is often not distinguishable, and to the bright and colorful picture, often ominous and frightening, like a nightmare. As for the plot, as far as I understand, the operating principle of the DC Mini “dream analysis machine” invented by Kosaku Tokito is based on Jungian analytical psychology. The psychiatrist, with the help of a machine, infiltrates into the dream, that is, the individual unconscious of the patient, into his “shadow”, trying to manifest it for the patient’s consciousness. This is what Atsuka Chiba does, but not directly, but with the help of her “shadow” (alter ego). Donning a wig and applying makeup, the stern, cold and purposeful beauty Atsuko transforms into "Paprika" - a cheeky, irresponsible young woman who visits patients "at home" with her DC Mini to penetrate their dreams. And the patients, in turn, literally penetrate her, as Atsuko, “for therapeutic purposes,” copulates with her patients (sometimes with several at the same time). The scene in the hotel at the beginning of the movie, when Paprika gets out of the “patient’s” bed in a robe, taking the DC Mini, is not part of a dream, but a retouched demonstration by Kon of Atsuko’s peculiar “therapeutic practices” in the novel. At the same time, Atsuko considers her sexual promiscuity, committed when she is disguised as Paprika, to be “not real”, since... well, she’s wearing a wig and makeup, and then the patients don’t recognize her on the street, or pretend that they don’t recognize her. However, distancing herself from these actions of Paprika, Atsuko does not hesitate to appropriate all the merits of her alter ego - after all, Paprika, not Atsuko, conducts sessions with patients. In general, Atsuko is okay with hypocrisy and double standards. In addition, she is secretly in love with the infantile genius Tokita, but represses her love into the unconscious (shadow) and cannot (that is, does not want) to accept it as easily as she accepted her penchant for promiscuity. Besides the cold yet promiscuous, two-faced Atsuko, we have the incredibly childish, obese genius Takito, as well as sexually obsessed by Atsuko her colleague (let’s give Kon credit, in the anime he at least made this colleague a man), and another psychiatrist, a manipulative psychopath, dreaming of enslaving the world with the help of a DC Mini, and on the way to this goal practicing hentai tentacles on Atsuko. In general, we have a whole collection of sexual and other mental deviations - and all this, I note, is only among “psychiatrists.” The author of “Paprika” obviously tried very hard, “smearing” his sexual fantasies and mental deviations across the characters he created. I'm not even sure who in this anime (and book) actually needs medical attention. Atsuko's patient, detective Konakawa, against the backdrop of this whole company of insane psychiatrists, looks like a completely mentally healthy and adequate person. The individual unconscious of all the mentioned characters is intertwined with each other and with reality, forming a kind of collective unconscious, over which one of them, the psychopath, is trying to seize control. But Detective Konakawa steps in and saves Atsuko from the tentacle monster (thus realizing his repressed movie fantasies). Atsuko finally accepts her “shadow” Paprika, merging with her inside another “shadow” - the robot Takito. Having gained integrity by merging with the “shadow,” Atsuko is reborn and defeats the monster by absorbing it into herself. The latter, however, gives rise to the suspicion that the entire nightmare dream shown to us is nothing more than a figment of the imagination of Atsuko, possessed by her demons. However, here it is worth paying attention to the oddities of double standards in Atsuko’s behavior, and the whole scene of the caranival of deviations no longer speaks of individually suppressed qualities, but of social pressure in Japanese society. Therefore, in addition to the psychological, it is also worth mentioning the social context of “Paprika”, developed in more detail by Satoshi Kon in “Paranoia Agent”. Contextualism and repressive conformism of Japanese culture do not so much psychologically drive the qualities of individual Japanese into the unconscious (this is more characteristic of the Christian guilt culture), but rather force them to consciously hide these qualities (which is characteristic of the Asian shame culture). Suppressed by social norms, unexpressed desires and experiences under the influence of social pressure find a “path to life” through an “alter ego” that acts “against the will,” a double life, a double morality. Or they are expressed directly by the body through psychosomatic disorders. Or the person simply commits suicide. There is also a socially acceptable option - immersion into the dream world. Driven into Japanese “cultural-corporate” ethics, a person suppresses his individuality and turns into a kind of robot, for whom it is only permissible to perform a socially useful function (is this where the frequent allusions associated with robots in anime and Japanese culture come from?) and to imitate, because there is no longer any room left to express “one’s own.” The unnaturalness of such “instrumentalization” of the individual is obvious and the unexpressed desires and qualities of the “pseudo-robot” are brought to their extreme manifestations and, as a rule, are channeled through socially acceptable forms - through the “dream world” of anime and manga, with its cruelty, sadomaso pornography and “kawaii” - in general, the satisfaction of suppressed desires for every taste. However, if the throughput of socially acceptable forms is not enough, then the “sewer” can break through, releasing all the accumulated “crap” onto the streets of reality. Hence the nightmarish carnival - everything suppressed and hidden has broken through from the unconscious and suppressed into reality and is marching through the streets in an eerie march. And all this “shit” was absorbed by Atsuko. In addition, she also absorbed the opposing “repressive” shadow of a man who was trying to control the world. It’s hard not to assume that this is a kind of feminist manifesto (I note that the heroines of Satoshi Kon’s films are women and he is close to the female worldview). The woman defeats the repressive patriarchy with her boundless tolerance and absorbs all deviations, instead of suppressing and excluding them. Inclusiveness instead of excommunication. If this is the solution proposed by Kon, then it is wrong. Fantasies of “dream masters” like Kon, their waking dreams, capable of influencing the viewer’s perception of reality through cinema and television screens, often completely replacing real experience, are probably intended to help in “freeing” the viewer from his “shackles”, through incorporation “liberation ideas” into dreams broadcast to the viewer (cinema, video games, anime, manga, music, etc.). Kon not only tried to apply wrong sollution to the problem, he tried to impose it on the viewer through artistic means. But the solution never lies in imposing a “useful” ideology on the viewer by indoctrination through “waking dreams” - the entertainment industry and the media. As sentient beings, we primarily process reality through our consciousness, that is, by organizing facts into understandable narratives (stories). The very description of reality is at the same time its construction, since it gives meaning to the chaos of facts in order to organize meaningless phenomena into a structure processed by our consciousness. Therefore, narratives (stories) are our tools for structuring reality and comprehending it. Science creates stories (hypotheses, theories, laws, principles, axioms, equations) that help us structure and comprehend reality in the most verifiable way. Art creates stories (literature, film, fairy tales, paintings, poetry) that help structure and comprehend reality in a more immediate and personal way. However, stories, both in the form of art and scientific theories, can misinterpret reality either intentionally (falsely) or due to misunderstanding (mistake). Such false stories create a false picture of reality, thereby distorting the picture of the world. Once a narrative (story) is internalized by people, it becomes their worldview and they adapt all the facts to fit this internalized narrative. If a narrative is false, people will ignore and omit facts that contradict the narrative and/or misinterpret facts to fit into the narrative. Moreover, most people tend to internalize stories that appeas and flatter them. This is where indoctrination comes into play. The ideological narrative creates a “useful” for an ideologist interpretation of reality, appeasing wishful thinking of targeted audience. This creates a convenient lie that one can rely on to feel entitled, feel offended, victimized, and avoid responsibility. And so on until a collision with reality occurs. But even a collision with reality may not help if the story is internalized on a subconscious level. Indoctrination works the same way as psychological trauma or mental illness. By appealing to the desires of the target audience, ideology combines facts into a distorted picture of reality, which has its own logic, or does not have it at all, but is firmly incorporated into the subconscious. Similarly, paranoid delusions can be very logical and coherent, where facts are falsely combined into a fictional schizophrenic narrative. Getting rid of ideological indoctrination can be as difficult as of childhood psychological trauma, which can distort the perception of reality to such an extent that no amount of psychological help will help a fully grown patient. In a certain sense, ideological propaganda is artificially induced madness. A society instilled with a false interpretation of reality, aa insane society, becomes dysfunctional and will gradually collapse. Because reality itself is not a social construct. The delusional belief of ideologues (including some philosophers, scientists, politicians, journalists, activists, and artists) in their power and right to replace reality with false narratives is the highest form of solipsism. All it will do is traumatize and cripple individuals and society to the point of no return. This is the danger of trying to bring ideology to stories, both scientific and artistic. And those who try to impose an ideology must be responsible for its consequences. The current ideological narrative exploits a hyper-feminized tolerance, which many derive from the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and the works of neo-Marxists such as Marcuse and Derrida, and which René Girard has seen as a reactionary attempt to appropriate and distort the Christian concern with victims after the Nietzschean attempt to force humanity to abandon Christian compassion was defeated. Metaphorically Satan imitates Christ and tries to overcome Him by virtue signaling radical concern for victims. This narrative attempts to attribute a lack of compassion to "toxic masculinity," offering instead "all-salvation" through the feminization of culture and politics with a hyper-tolerance that absorbs all otherness and all deviance, instead of suppressing and excluding them. Inclusivity instead of excommunication, femininity instead of "toxic masculinity" will provide "heaven on earth." Such a narrative is imposed by fashionable ideology. However, this decision is obviously wrong. According to Girard, such a hypertolerance is designed to discredit and finally overcome Christian compassion. Like everything brought to absurdity, devoid of limits and rules, compassion turns into a cancerous tumor, a nightmarish terror that narcissists and psychopaths use to intimidate and corrupt people, and impose a totalitarian mindset ("repressive tolerance" by Marcuse). However, it is not necessary to push tolerance to the extreme to see the falsity of the universalism attributed to it. The solution does not lie in social acceptance and tolerance of all “repressed” qualities and desires, including deviations. Perhaps, here I should explain what our “shadows” are. These are repressed "qualities" or desires that characters are unwilling to acknowledge, let alone display publicly. The repressed qualities torment people because they are not acceptable for some reasons, but people are afraid that the "shadows" are who they really are. For example, we all have moments in our lives when we catch ourselves thinking and feeling that our thoughts and emotions are, at best, creepy, if not monstrous. But this does not mean that we are all scoundrels and monsters (although some of us are). Once we recognize the existence of such thoughts and emotions as parts of ourselves, we gain the ability to subjugate and control those parts. This is what happens with proper awareness and acceptance of the "shadow". We do not become shadows, but by acknowledging the existence of shadows, we can control them rather than being controlled by them (becoming monsters). Accepting the “shadow” is like admitting your alcohol addiction, which is a necessary step to overcome it instead of becoming an alcoholic. Admitting that you are addicted to overeating is a necessary step to control your appetite and avoid gaining weight. Having a tendency to overeat does not mean that your true self is a glutton. However, if a healthy appetite, as a part of being human, turns into an unhealthy one, and you are unwilling to recognize that appetite as unhealthy, it can completely consume you, and gluttony will define who you are. So it is with the “shadow” - its awareness and acceptance means acquiring conscious control over it, instead of the shadow controlling you through the unconscious. Fashionable ideology suggests a twisted "acceptance" of the shadow - instead of being aware of and controlling it, it is suggested to "tolerate" the shadow by surrendering to it, letting the shadow control you, and ultimately accepting it as your essence. It invites you to be consumed by your shadow. Accept your gluttony, say ideologues, instead of controlling it and enjoying food, let gluttony take over you, because it is not one of the mortal sins, but "body positive". Embrace promiscuity as your sexuality, instead of controlling it and enjoying sex within the confines of marriage, let it take over you, for it is not one of the deadly sins, but sexual liberation from the yoke of oppressive patriarchy. Accept your envy, because it is not at all a shameful desire to appropriate someone else's, to devalue other people's achievements, to be ungrateful and to humiliate those better than you, but a desire for equality and democracy, feminism and the fight against the patriarchy of white men. A person is inspired by the permissibility and unlimitedness of desires. All ethical restraining factors are declared "repressive". Why, say ideologues, restrain sexual desires within the framework of marriage, the opposite sex, or even the human race? Why have and commit to one woman when you can have sex with many different women without any strings attached? Why submit to a man, if you can simply use him through manipulation, get rich at his expense, and then devalue, castrate and leave him, and also pretend to be a victim and blame him for everything? All the hidden desires that a person relegates to his "shadow" are declared by fashionable ideology to be sacred and to be "released" and tolerated. They should be "celebrated". Fashionable ideology exploits the worst in a person, declaring the shameful to be respectable and virtuous, the immoral to be ethical. All that is base and abominable is not simply tolerated, but is celebrated and proclaimed the height of virtue. All this is done with the help of mass media, politics, art and mass culture that distort reality. Of course, special attention is paid to envy. As pointed out by C.S. Lewis, claims for equality, outside the purely political field, are made only by those who feel inferior in some way. What they express is an itchy, burning, twisted sense of inferiority (shadow) that one refuses to accept. And therefore resents any advantage of another; denigrates him; wants his destruction. One suspects that every simple difference is a claim to superiority. No one should be different. Under the name of envy, this desire has been known to people for thousands of years. But until now they had always considered it the most hideous, as well as the most comical of vices. Those who were conscious of envy were ashamed of it; those who did not realize did not spare it in others. The wonderful novelty of the current situation is that you can sanction it - make it respectable and even praiseworthy - by using the word "equality". Under the influence of this spell, those who are inferior in any or all respects can work harder and more successfully than ever before to bring everyone else down to their level. This is a huge general movement to discredit and ultimately eliminate any kind of human excellence - moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not noticeable how equality is now doing the work that the oldest dictatorships once did, and by the same methods? One of the Greek dictators sent an envoy to another dictator to ask his advice on the principles of government. The second dictator led the messenger out into the grain field, and there he plucked with his cane the top of every stalk that rose above the general level. The moral was simple. Do not allow primacy among your subjects. Let no human live who is wiser, or better, or more famous, or even more beautiful than the mass. Bring everyone to the same level; all slaves, all numbers, all nobody. All are equal. Thus tyrants have always practiced equality. But now "equality" can do the same work without any other tyranny but its own. Now no one needs to walk the field with a cane. The small stalks now bite off the tops of the big ones. And the big ones start biting off the tops of themselves, in the desire to be like others. Awareness of and acceptance of the a “shadow” in no way means its acceptability and submission to it. On the contrary, it means preventing a shadow from controlling consciousness and gaining control over the shadow itself. For example, Atsuko's awareness of her repressed sexuality does not mean that sexual promiscuity is acceptable. She simply should not deny and suppress her sexuality, but accept its existence and learn to control it, turning it into a morally acceptable head start - getting married and “tormenting” her husband with sexual harassment. Takito's awareness of his infantility does not mean that he should avoid all responsibility and henceforth behave like a child in everything. He should accept his infantility and channel it into creativity, into new inventions, without spreading it to other aspects of his life, where he needs to behave like an adult man. By the way, if there was a way out for the main antagonist-psychopath who was trying to control the world, then the solution for him would be to realize and accept his low level of empathy by finding socially acceptable forms of self-realization. For example, it is known that surgeons, judges and law enforcement officers have increased aggressiveness. However, they channel their sadistic and psychopathic tendencies into socially acceptable and useful forms. After all, not everyone would dare to cut living flesh with a scalpel, detain an armed criminal, infiltrate a criminal organization, or send a person to prison for decades. Thus acceptin shadow means turning what could be vices into virtues, instead of becoming enslaved by vices. Nevertheless, at one time “Paprika” charmed me not at all with its, perhaps erroneous, moralite. You can get purely audiovisual pleasure from this anime, without really thinking about the meaning. The plot is quite dynamic and twisted, with elements of suspense and mysticism characteristic of Satoshi Kon. Well, Satoshi’s directing and editing are simply amazing - on the level of the old Hollywood masters. Add here good animation, a beautiful picture, a beautiful main character (in both of her guises) and excellent music, season with a fair amount of surrealism and you get “Paprika”, ready to charm and entertain you even if you are not ready to think about the plot. |
2024.03.10 22:39 EssentialPurity On why I stand for overly sexual art "despite" being Christian
This is for the gits stalking my post history because they can't beat my arguments so they need to Poison the Well and rationalize their wrongness, and also for legitimate people. submitted by EssentialPurity to u/EssentialPurity [link] [comments] The Lord has made clear that whoever shows favour and charity to His brethen have done so to Him and shall be rewarded accordingly with Eternal Life, while the ones who didn't shall be openly rebuked by Him and punished for disobeying James 4:17 on Him by proxy. (Matthew 25:31-46) And as one of the souls the Lord has put on earth for many purposes, one of them being watching people on whether they're keeping Matthew 25:31-46 (and mainly to announce His imminent coming), I say that the "dregs" and "degenerates" of the anime community are well into sheep-to-the-right territory in my books. I attribute the earthly factors of my livelihood in my entire adult life to one ultra-awesome CS professor I had in college who showed me that women can be great programmers and inspired me to follow her steps into Game Development, and mostly to all the people who supported me in my former days as Hentai artist. NSFW art has allowed me to attain finantial independence and escape a toxic and abusive home and survive until the Lord found me. If it was not for "degenerates", I'm dead sure I would have offed myself and robbed the Lord the chance to work His Grace. Also, for most of my life I have been unpopular and the odd one out, so when I first began to post my art on social media, it was a first for me to receive praise and appreciation. My art has always been very sexual in nature because I have been early exposed to porn, so it was really a game changer when I found acceptance for this characteristic of mine. So, long story short, for all I know, the only real good people in this world are true Christians who truly love their neighbour even if the neighbour is a crazy girl like me (such as my church brethen) and shameless and unprudish weebs in 4chan-style boards, forums and social media who support with money and positivity my fellow artists. Everyone else will puff up because they follow one or two arbitrary standards of "decency" and thus pridefully look down on others, and crony up to keep the downthrodden down over excuses of "meritocracy" and "punishing bad behaviour", which is, needless to say, very unchristlike behaviour and as a servant of Christ I can't help but at the very least call it out. The Normies of this world have received proverbial five talents from God and instead of using them love, serve and prop up those less fortunate, they buried them to serve as secure backing for the fiat currency of a huge and enduring Cool Kid's Club. And this all goes hand in hand with the Lord's practice of hanging out with the tax collectors and sinners. The Normies of His Ministry's times were snobbing out His blessings and even outright calling Him crazy and saying He expelled demons by the power of Beelzebub. Meanwhile, the "losers" were going out of their way to even get near Him no matter the cost. Those who really converted abandoned their sinful and godless ways, while those who simply assented to the Gospel just continued living as before but sometimes warming pews. The Lord knew that "losers" are the best, and went as far as founding an eternal and victorous Church over the backs of communist "losers". Thus, my intended audience is the kind of person who is as christlike as unbelievers can possibly be. The kind of people who would bring an actual Revival to Christendom should they believe and repent, instead of the self-righteous kinds of only LARP as Christians because they hate the Left and couldn't care less about anything in the Bible else than moral prescriptions to thump on people. And then, there is no real biblical argument against the kind of NSFW art I make, because Matthew 5:28 is not a prohibition against finding sexy girls sexy, it is just the Lord emphasizing the Tenth Commandment (not to covet your neighbours' wife), that's why the original Greek and several non-English translations use the word "wife" instead of "woman" in this passage. God is not such a cruel and uncaring slave owner that would make Humans with a natural inclination to liking pretty beings and things and then callously make it a sin to work as He intended. Whoever has such a negative view of God to the point of sheepishly assuming that He is a huge sky killjoy is a very false believer at best. And don't get me started on the topic of masturbation. Now, just to clear an assumption, I'm not on the side of real bad things such as blasphemous art and apostasy and real sexual sins such as pederasty, adultery and fornication. I will always stand by God and His Word. Also, I posit that my audience needs to sincerely accept Jesus Christ as their sole and sufficient Lord and Saviour and confess His Name to actually be able to redeem the rewards for their goodness. I shall not tolerate full ungodliness. My friendliness shall only go as far as the Gospel is allowed to go. That's all, for now. |
2024.03.09 22:43 USERNAME_OF_DEVIL [Fate/Apocrypha] A Bad Character Design can ruin EVERYTHING (To me at least).
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2024.01.31 16:37 Melliane The Last Boss in Persona 3 (Long Post; Minor Spoilers From Other Entries)
“The mother of all Shadows and bringer of death since ancient times. If she awakens, ‘the Fall’ will occur.” - Persona 3 Portable (I wanted to use the japanese version, but I haven’t found any perfect save for P3P/FES in japanese, or a ISO for Vanilla)That’s almost everything that the game says in relation to what Nyx is, and it’s just a repetition of what Ryoji explained in December. There’s some interesting comments the cultists give during January, like how it “will change the flow of causality” or is an “Absolute Will” (“普遍の意志”, or “Universal/Omnipresent Will”), but their nature is obviously biased. It’s not until the release of the P3 Club Book that its lore becomes clearer, and which I’m going to summarize as it follows:
“The Shadows we hold in our psyches themselves are not just mere prisoners, but have become an essential part of the inner structure of our minds. Without a Shadow, a mind - especially one as highly complex as that of a human being - cannot function properly and ceases to work, as if it had been lost entirely.” – Ikutsuki, P3 Club BookThe shadow men, apathy syndrome, mental shutdowns, and psychotic breakdowns… All of them are manifestations of what happens when the Shadow of an individual is disturbed or destroyed: the collapse of the individual psyche or soul. That means it’s equally valid to affirm Nyx is the origin of both all Shadows and souls in the series, becoming even clearer when see how the personality module of the anti-shadow weapons, their “papillion heart”, is made out of plumes of dusk, crystalline fragments of Nyx’s body. This is further strengthened by Sho Minzauki’s second personality, born out of the plume implanted on his brain, and Metis as the Shadow of Aigis, bearing the name of Athena’s mother and her Persona being the embodiment of the soul in greek mythos.
“What I released from the Trapezohedron just now was the half of that woman that could not come to life until now: her complexes, her emotional trauma–her suppressed Shadow, if you will. And you learned on the other side what happens should you kill the mind’s Shadow, didn’t you? How ironic that it was all of you who made her this way.” - The Faceless God (Nyarlathotep’s Avatar), Tatsuya’s Scenario (referencing Yukino’s end if he Shadow jumps into the abyss).
“If we erase a Palace, there is no doubt that the person’s distorted desires will be erased as well. But desires are what we all need in order to survive. The will to sleep, eat, fall in love–those sort of things. [...] If all those yearnings were to vanish, they’d be no different than someone who was shut entirely. They may even die if they’re not given care.” - Morgana, Persona 5
“Mitsuru: These people are Persona Users who appeared in “Megami Ibunroku Persona”, “Persona 2: Innocent Sin” and “Persona 2: Eternal Punishment”. As far as we can see from what’s been shown on television, they seem to be living peaceful lives right now.Even the plumes of dusk, and thus the body of Nyx, have the same properties to alter reality, and emit readings similar to “living beings” despite being deadly to life on earth.
[...]
Akihiko: Still, those guys are Persona Users, right? They have the potential, yet I haven’t heard anything about people like that trying to help out with the things that have been happening here in the Minato Ward…
Mitsuru: Well, you have to consider that not all of them might be Persona Users any longer. [...] According to the staff, in our game, the “Value of Life” is defined by the sudden changes in time and space that our wills can bring about. We’ve already explained that Shadows have the ability to manipulate space-time, so the same might be true for those they dwell in, us living beings.” - P3 Club Book
“From the first, people have had a tremendous power in their souls over the flow of reality. [...] Yes… The power that created your world is the same as your inner strength… In this collective unconsciousness, it’s possible.” - Philemon, Innocent Sin.
“Similarly, in connection with the raven as the name for this situation, we must consider the creative night mentioned in an Orphic hymn, which calls it a bird with black wings that was fertilized by the wind (pneuma). The product of this union was the silver egg, which in the Orphic view contained heaven above and earth below, and was therefore a cosmos in itself, i.e., the Microcosm.” - Mysterium Coniunctionis.Within the context of cosmogonical eggs, the hindu hiranyagarbha can also be rescued, described by Jung as “the collective aggregate of all souls”. The relation between these two eggs and Nyx as the “mother of all” is quite obvious, but more important it’s the fact that its core is a giant, golden egg… cracked – the universe has already been born. But as I wrote in my previous post and as implied by hiranyagarbha, the universe born out of Nyx is equal to the collective unconscious and thus humanity, harking back to other traditions in which the archetypal man is born out of an egg.
“The phenomenology of the "child's" birth always points back to an original psychological state of non-recognition, i.e., of darkness or twilight, of non-differentiation between subject and object, of unconscious identity of man and the universe. This phase of non-differentiation produces the golden egg, which is both man and universe and yet neither, but an irrational third.” - Archetypes and the Collective UnconsciousQuite self-explanatory, don’t you think so? It even explains why Nyx is an “alien Star Eater”, for its true nature is what lies in the state before the separation of “heaven and earth”, before the divide between unconsciousness and consciousness. This liminal state is even reflected in its body which exists as both information/though and matter at the same time, in-between the physical moon and the deepest abyss of the Sea of Souls as per Elizabeth’s route in Arena (“最も深淵なる場所だ”), or how even the Club Book describes its main body as “neither organic nor inorganic” ("有機物とも無機物とも判断しかねる外見である") – completely undifferentiated.
“七つの地” は神をシンボライズした “セフィロトの樹” と上下逆向きで対応しており、テベルは根本の基礎部分にあたる “イェンド” に相当する。”And according to the same source, Tartarus is made out of Shadows and the psychic stratum of humanity:
“The “seven earths” correspond to the Tree of the Sefirot, which symbolized God upside-down, with Thebel corresponding to “Yesod”, being the root of the foundations.”
“これは、タルタロスが基本的にはシャドウと同じ精神体によって構成されているからで、言ってみればその場所の記憶のようなものが構造に反映された結果そうなったもの。同様にタルタロス自体の内部構造も精神体からできたもので、タルタロス構造に取り込まれた精神体の記憶のようなものが反映されている”So more reason to think Nyx, in essence, was the preconscious state of humanity and life before it crashed. It’s the unknown, unconscious godhead in which there is no difference between object and subject, acting as its own “universal individual” in a dormant, sleeping state. It’s pure coincidentia oppositorum.
“This is thanks to Tartarus being fundamentally composed by the same psychic nature of Shadows, as if the memories of the research facility were reflected into the structure so to speak. Similarly, the internal structure of Tartarus itself is made up of such psychic substance, and as such it’s as if the memories of that substance were reflected and taken in by Tartarus’ architecture.”
“The moon with her antithetical nature is, in a sense, a prototype of individuation, a prefiguration of the self: she is the “mother and spouse of the sun, who carries in the wind and the air the spagyric embryo conceived by the sun in her womb and belly.” This image corresponds to the psychologem of the pregnant anima, whose child is the self, or is marked by the attributes of the hero.” - Mysterium Coniunctionis.Such an image is alchemical in nature, describing the nature of “Queen Luna” (a symbol for both the feminine essence of nature and Nyx) as the mother and partner of “King Sol” (the masculine essence, and in this case Death), which ultimately join in matrimony to achieve the “philosophical stone” – oneness with the world. I doubt I have to explain how the Fall acts as the “shadow” of such a process, ending with the death of all living beings. Though it’s also interesting how is related to the Avatar as such, whom only isn’t only found at the top of Tartarus or “tree of death”, meaning it acquired the same dignity as all other mythological primal humans, but it’s also androgynous in appearance – both feminine and masculine natures are necessary for wholeness, be it conscious or unconscious.
“The “eye” evidently stands for the female genitals, as is clear from the myth of Indra, who, as a punishment for his wantonness, was smitten with yonis all over his body, but was so far pardoned by the gods that the shameful yonis were changed into eyes. The little image reflected in the eye, the “pupilla,” is a “child.” The great god becomes a child again: he enters into the mother’s womb for self-renewal.” - Symbols of Transformation.Yep… But at any rate, returning to the Avatar, his speech about the arcanas returns once again, since it includes all the arcanas from the Fool to Death, passing through the twelve intermediary ones, with each one representing one of the “hours” within a clock. This implies the Fool and Death stand outside of the cycle of time somehow, and since the Fool it’s the “beginning of life” as per Edogawa’s lecture on japanese, it’s not surprising to connect the card with an infant… like Pharos – Death itself.
“最後に発現する “世界” あるいは “宇宙” のタロットには、卵のような形のウロボロスの輪に囲まれた女性の姿が描かれている [...] 二ュクスの中心核は、そのウロボロスの形にも似ている透明な輝く卵の姿をしていた”More telling, the core, despite being the cosmic egg and having the light of creation (or “libido”, the name put by Jung to describe “psychic energy”), only uses “Death” to attack.
“In regards to the final manifestation of the “World” or “Universe” tarot card, a feminine figure encircled in an egg-shaped ouroboros ring is depicted. [...] The shining, translucent egg acting as Nyx’s core resembles the shape of the ouroboros as well.”
“What the god-sun speaketh is life.For Abraxas, in its primitive and unconscious brutality, it’s life and its origin, the endless cycle of death and rebirth, just as the Star Eater holds the Fool and the Death as one and the same. They are the flow of time, the drive that created everything from the unconscious as the savage demiurge. They are the endless conflict of life.
What the devil speaketh is death.
But Abraxas speaketh that hallowed and accursed word which is life and death at the same time.
Abraxas begetteth truth and lying, good and evil, light and darkness, in the same word and in the same act. Wherefore is Abraxas terrible.
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To look upon it, is blindness.
To know it, is sickness.
To worship it, is death.
To fear it, is wisdom.
To resist it not, is redemption.” - Seven Sermons to the Dead
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