SA previously:
> P.S. Anybody ever see Akira. Precognition was mentioned
> in this anime
> and was a big part of what happened in the story.
> Ron:
> The mushrooms I ate were a big part of that story too, what
> impressed me
> about that film was how the Japanese culture was
> traumatized by the
> induction of nuclear weapons into the culture. People tend
> to forget
> That world war II ended as a nuclear war. I remember it
> being about
> 2hrs of apocalyptic climaxes, one after another until
> nothing was left
> But floating debris around a black hole.
SA: I also saw an effort to change this bomb from going off, but it would take
listening to our precognitions. Yet, as I found out you never want to cry wolf
on a sailing ship by ringing the bell if nothing serious is happening, well, as
we all know soon or later nobody will listen to the wolf crier. There was a
lot of 'The End is Nigh' type stuff in that movie too, and then boom, all these
events coalesed with many different reasons guiding these events, too, which
was a very interesting way to put it by the movie's writer. People had all
these reasons for why certain events were happening, but you, as the viewer of
the movie, already knew why certain people were doing what they were doing
(well, since you followed them throughout the movie), but when many of these
people came together near the end, they each interpreted the others actions
according to how their own experiences lead up to the last events in the story.
The second bomb went off, but
people were saved and they could start over and rebuild.
The atomic bombs going off in Japan, I'm sure, stuck a psyche in that
culture that we would have a very hard time understanding since the bombs were
dropped on them. The horror, the nightmares, the trying to put their lives
back together and getting such a nightmare coped with. We have ideas, and
histories in our own lives that we could try to compare with to sympathize, but
these bombs, as we know, are truly something else.
I met somebody from the Netherlands while in the university. She was an
exchange student. Once she talked with my dad and I about a fear she deeply
had. She was afraid Germany was getting stronger again. It's economy was
growing very strong. She was afraid that with this strength Germany might try
to invade her country again. It took some deep discussion to calm her fears
that Germany didn't seem to be headed in that direction anytime soon.
Somethin' hu.
woods,
SA
SA
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