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Something about Homura's ascension to godhood to match Madoka's that didn't seem to get mentioned is that while Madoka seems to be seen as an embodiment of goodness, and then Homura her opposite, in another way Madoka actually embodies _death,_ while Homura ends up embodying _life._ Madoka largely acts as a psychopomp, carrying away the souls of Magical Girls when they die so they don't turn into witches, meanwhile... well, Rebellion has a _negative death count._ In addition to just bringing Nagisa, Sayaka, and Madoka back to life, she also seemingly makes them mortal humans again, so they're not even UNdead anymore either. Given that becoming a Magical Girl is often treated as akin to already dying, this would then extend to Homura's actions over the original series, where her whole objective was to prevent Madoka from dying, and then later from becoming a Magical Girl at all. Prior to Rebellion, Homura's witch was even known as the "Witch of the Mortal World," ie _world of the living_ (from which Homura also borrows her weapons).

A series that I feel encapsulates this video that is missing is the When They Cry. Higurashi the underneath layer deals with fighting and protecting god and Umineko is breaking free from being god’s plaything. Also also given your love for Homura it’d love for you to get to know Rika Fuurde/Fredrika Bernkastel who are broken mirror copies of each other

28:41 Small correction - Light wouldn't die from these gunshots. He can see Light's lifespan (it accounts for every non-Notebook death, not just natural) and he said sitting with Light in prison would be a bother.

i'm glad i started following your content, because no matter the subject you manage to make it interesting and deep, this one hits the mark just like the others, thanks for putting out another fantastic video

Man, Canute's developement from timid boy to fearless leader is one of the most intriguing things in the series. "Every father loves his own child." - There are layers to what he says here, I think. With regard to God, the little cracks in his belief system seem to grow bigger. He lashes out at the priest because he simply voiced out loud what may have been brewing inside Canute's own head. What I see in him at that point is denial because his statement creates conflict - what about his own father, the king? He is aware that his father sent him out to die. So where is this "fatherly love" he spoke of? Canute knows what love is, as he received love from Ragnar while he never received affection from his own father. Thus he draws the conclusion that fathers can be cruel, and I think that is what sets him onto the path of rebelling against God. Canute’s father, who set him up to fail, can be paralleled with God, whose trials are too difficult for humans to overcome. The collapse of Canute's belief system later clears his view for a new understanding of love and a new philosophy. Man, what a character!

When I saw the title of the video I started thinking of Madoka Magica: Rebellion and how Homura become Devil itself to get God itself, Madoka for herself. I was happy to hear that it was covered in the video and in an intriguing way. Homura is the villain of the story technically. But her utopia doesn't sounds beautiful and scary at the same time. Many would like to see it happen and the repercussions of it in a hopefully future movie that should continue or even end their story.

I had watched Vinland Saga some time ago and I've recently begun my process of being involved in my local Quaker group. Knut now seems a bit more relatable on a sort of religious or faith-related layer for me. The idea or desire to want to immanentize something like God's Kingdom (or a much more benevolent or good society) isn't rare in religious thought and history, but being able to talk with Quakers about their perspective with this view has been enlightening. Knut coming to realize he has to be active is certainly some thing other groups should realize (tho, arguably with a much more progressive lens...)

Many of your videos have helped me to look inward and organize myself and my thoughts about many subjects. That said, this one hasn't made me introspective so much as its sparked some creative juices in my head and made me excited to pursue a story I'd been meaning to write. Be it a book or whatever, I'm not sure, but I want to thank you regardless.

Loved the video. Thanks for making it.

When I saw the title I could help but think about Youjo Senki and the protagonist’s inspiringly spiteful rejection of a god who shows themself to be real. It brings the idea of persisting against seemingly impossible odds and getting by through reliance on your own true mind, to center stage. There’s just something about that idea of individual choice in a life which, though not predetermined, is so easily manipulated by a higher being.

I've come to love pretty much all of your topics, tastes, and general interests in the videos you make. Perhaps one of my favorite channels to watch.

This was super well made and really thought provoking. Thank you so much for making such great content! The usage of so many different series and the tying together of their themes with the different schools of thought about deities was superb, please keep it up!

I think Berserk has a pretty interesting concept of God "The Idea of Evil" Basically humanity due to the harshness of reality,needed an explanation for all the suffering of the world And thus collectively through the power of belief they created an entity which embodies "EVIL" in other words people created a malevolent God Who in turn served humanity,by creating monsters and sending them into the real world.Thus giving people a phisical explanation for all pain and suffering It's this cycle Humans Birthed the Ide of Evil The Idea of Evil Created the Godhand The Godhand Creates Apóstoles Apóstoles bring fear and suffering to the world, which feeds the idea of evil

I really enjoy these deep talk moments you put out here. I hope Ill be able to support you a bit more in the future. At this time there still is a lot of challenges to meet, before that kind of stabillity sts in. But thank you so much once more, for these shared Minutes of ondering. Y´all, have a great Time

Really enjoy your videos and perspective. Keep it up

Love ya, you do great work and give us all plenty to think on

Great video, defiantly going to check out some others.

In my opinion, the best solution to the problem of evil is what Nietzsche says about suffering. Nietzsche believed that suffering is not a negative thing, nor should we seek to avoid or abolish suffering. Rather, suffering is what allows man to achieve greatness, as only by overcoming and pushing through suffering can we become an improved version of ourselves. People who spend their lives seeking to avoid or minimize their suffering simply won't get anywhere, to accomplish great things requires courage, which means confronting the inevitable suffering of life. It can even be said that it's the people who spend their lives not fulfilling their potential out of the fear of suffering who suffer the most from the harshest forms of suffering: depression and mental illness. The most straight-forward example of this is working out. Exercise and dieting is a lot of suffering, it's only by willingly undergoing this suffering that we can improve our health and appearance. That's not to say there isn't any enjoyment in these activities, but there will always be a certain level of suffering you have to go through. The same goes for learning any skill or performing any job, to improve at any task requires work and suffering (although hopefully you enjoy the activity enough where it isn't purely suffering). Kicking an addiction also entails a lot of suffering, but the rewards of achieving this are obvious. Our animal instincts tell us to do whatever we can to avoid immediate suffering and seek only pleasures, but as rational beings with infinite potential, we have to recognize suffering as a necessary and good force. In the classical hero's journey story structure, the hero always has to overcome a monster or villain to achieve some improvement in his life, there is no virtue if he were just handed his reward without having to overcome anything. It's the same thing for each of us confronting life's suffering. While I don't believe in God, if I did this is what I'd view as the reason for evil, and therefore the reason that God could be truly good despite our imperfect universe.

Came back for another listen☺️ I really enjoy this one

I love this type of questioning of a concept, and it's so fking good that you compiled multiple aspects of this from different animes into one video. definitely a format I love

Great job on this, definitely your best video so far.

Thanks for making this video❤

i really liked this video! it's honestly wonderful

Fantastic video! I thoroughly enjoy it professor.

I love these videos and can't wait for more dude. I don't get to talk much about stuff like this in my day to day life, so hearing someone talk about it is really nice ^-^

I love the topics you cover man, your videos are always fantastic :D

Thank you Prof ☕☺️ I appreciate this every time I come back to watch it again 🥰 wait this is that sonny boy one, I hope we can hear your thoughts soon

I found your channel like 2 days ago and I really appreciate your time and effort into these topics. It helps me think about the choices we make and how it affects us. My mind wanders across these topics without an answer, but these videos are a great representation of the solution to a Curiousity that I have. Thank You

I love your videos! And the various anime you talk about

This video made my day, thank you!

Just stumbled upon this video and had a great time with it! so much to think about, a perspective I (as an X-cradle-Catholic) have never considered but found fascinating!

i've been watching your stuff when I can and I have to say that I love it all :)

All righty!🥳 It’s already off to a good start; I hope to finish this tomorrow, the 21st

Very interesting take! I really enjoyed this. Leaving a sub and this comment for the algorithm

This was a great video to listen to on a cold Sunday morning

I thought was gonna be crazy video but it was actually pretty cool nice job

First time commenting, really interesting video, really enjoyable.

This inspired a great chapter for my next book.

It would be fascinating to analyze The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzimiya in this. Thank you for this profound diatribe.

My brain hurts watching this ....... i should watch it few more times .... anime is the medium which i love to use for learning about philosophy and religion .... im gonna go back to the playlist and have a mini existential crisis now .... happy holidays and god bless 😄

Still envious of your HAIR! Ahem. Sorry. I like listening to your voice during your videos, and when I actually pay attention the production quality is top tier. Thank you for all of your hard work~

I would have loved if you gave more emphasis to the spiral nemesis in gurren lagann's case. It is the most incomprehensible thing, something you can not avoid no matter how much you try when you try to use spiral power without limit. The threat of the spiral nemesis is always there and that is what drove the anti-spirals to be the tyrants that they were. I would argue you can very much understand what anti-spirals wanted to do. If the spiral nemesis didn't exist i doubt they would have gone to such extremes because there wouldn't be something that can destroy everything to prevent. Simon understands the existence of this threat, despite that though he chooses to go against the anti-spirals because he thinks that the spiral race can follow the best but most difficult route: that of self-responsibility. This is why at the end he says "Don't worry, humanity is not that foolish". That is the reason he chooses not to abuse his tremendous spiral power and fade away at the end, letting others like rossiu who are better fitted to manage things. Only when a great threat would appear, would he also come to help but there was no need for that.

I like this. Thank you

Feels good to have seen all but one of these shows

I love watching your videos

another outstanding video good job

The concept of gods in the Xeno series is one of my favorite examples. Klaus/Zanza in Xenoblade is a very interesting example since his personality becomes split, one is almost all powerful and all knowing, but only cares that the world fits his image and he is blinded by hubris, but is eventually destroyed by own creations. He is powerful enough to create a being capable of destroying him. On the other side the architect lacks the confidence and knowledge to do what he should, and only by meeting his creations and having his doubt somewhat dispelled by them is he able to fix things in the end, thus allowing the world to continue existing.

This video really got me thinking. Like, just in general

Bro I’m surprised you didn’t bring up chronocrusade, especially considering the reflection between the concept of what is “good” and “evil”

Thank god, I was about to sit down and eat food WITHOUT some deep content, thanks for saving me from eating in silence!

This is a very well-thought-out video; you were able to put deep and difficult philosophical points in such clear terms. Thank you! One quick thought: have you read the Mistborn Trilogy (by Brandon Sanderson)? If so, I'm curious your thoughts on it. If not, I highly recommend; It's great fantasy and, not only is it entertaining, but the trilogy as a whole also tells a very interesting and unique story about gods, what they are, and how to fight them

The algo sent me this video, i think the youtube gods are blessing you. Good things are coming.

Make a contract, and wish for the power to fight God! Become a magical girl!

Hey man I’m just happy that you like the fact we care. Just thank you man. Can’t really keep saying that enough but you got it and if I miss one I just missed I’ll catch it sooner or later and like it then b

Loved the video and the fact I now know that ergo proxy exists... off I go to watch it!

The 'beating a God through the act of creation, creating a thing that can beat God' really reminds me of the story and lore of La Mulana. The Mother, a godlike being that fell from space, creates life in an attempt to return to the stars. However, time and time again, each new species fails to return her to the stars as she desires and so she wipes them out. Because the task is impossible; the entire game map of La Mulana that you go through IS the Mother's shattered body, barely connected through twisted geometry that makes no sense and outright impossible space. Eventually, one species realizes this and makes humanity, who lacks the incredibly powers and capabilities of the species before them but lacks knowledge of the Mother as well as the restraints the Mother produced lifeforms have preventing them from harming her, allowing them the capacity as well as the means to finally put the Mother down before the wipes out life and starts it over anew once more.

Evil exists because without it, good becomes mundane. You cannot have a wholesome, feel-good story if everything is a wholesome, feel-good story. If a child is given everything they want while growing up, they will believe that this is normal, that they deserve everything. I short, they will be spoiled. They will not experience joy when given a gift, it will merely stave off dissatisfaction. If everything is good, good things will lose their value and become mundane. If nobody ever experienced pain, people would just assume that they deserve everything good, and that they can do nothing wrong. This would most likely result in this person themselves becoming evil. TL:DR, If there is no pain or evil, good things will become painful and evil.

This was cool, and definitely made me think more about something I always spiteful ignored

Great video!

The answer to suffering I find convincing is that humanity rebelled and the universe was watching. The questions raised, was God right, could only be convincingly answered by allowing us to fail. Man can't rule himself.

The english dub of Gurren Lagann is the first anime I ever watched, and core philosophy there is a driving force for me to keep moving forward, no matter what. There's way too much semantics in the world for me to want to take part in things I don't value. If it's not important to me and it's holding me back, I will fight against it. If the opposite's true, i'll go straight towards it unless it becomes something bad. When the going gets too smart, the smart get more dumb. It's the best way forward in a imformation dense world, yeah?

great video

Thanks for the tips, it actually helped. Defeated him first try... Simply eeeezzzz😎👍

Thanks for the tutorial

Time for another banger of a video!

Another great video. By the way why do you have a choker on! Edgy!

I haven’t seen the first one but ergo was amazing I had the first season on dvd when I was a kid

Amazing man

the future is holding something here for you , isnt it ? heheh lovely content

Hey! Just heads up, in your intro you have russian word “Павловна”. It is women’s paternal name, commonly associated with old ladies. P.S. love the content!

I feel like Tanya the Evil has a really interesting concept of a god in Being X and I'd be really curious to hear your take on Saga of Tanya the Evil.

have you planned on making a video on Fate/Stay Night or you haven't watched it yet?

Sweet vid

Look at that, with each video ya get more and more polished! As I said in the past watching you shine diamond in the rough :D! I am an atheist. I don't fight god or life I just go through it and fight when I must, once in a while it brings nice things :D Like your videos.

Great video, man! But I do not agree with what you said in the 'Madoka Magica" part of the video. Homura does not become a witch because of grief for losing Madoka. At the end of the series Homura is quite happy with the way things turned up, even if Madoka is no longer human. In the end, Homura did manage to save Madoka at the end of the series. In "Rebellion", we see that Homura has the witch state triggered from inside her Soul Gem after she was placed inside that special cage the Incubators made. Madoka never removed the system where Soul Gems become dark after using magic power, so it's safe to assume that inside the Incubator's cage, Homura's Soul Gem could not get cleansed using Wraith Cubes (or whatever it was that dropped from killing Wraiths in the Post-Godaka world) - the Soul Gem followed its natural course and darkened, but it didn't turn into a Grief Seed because of the Cage Homura's body and Soul Gem were placed inside of. Other statements I consider wrong was "Madoka was kind to everyone, Homura to none. Madoka was hope, Homura was pessimism." Quite the contrary: there were timelines when Homura was kind and friendly to everyone, especially in the beginning (probably the first 50 time loops). Apart from Madoka, Kyouko was Homura's best friend in other timelines. Homura never truly went along that great with Mami and especially Sayaka, but that never meant she hated them. Also, Homura is in fact the embodiment of Hope in the series: the nature of her wish forced her to be that way. Homura had to believe she can save Madoka, she had to find a way to prevent Madoka's death - that was her only escape from the loop. If Homura doubted herself for a second, doubted the fact that she would succeed in rescuing Madoka, that meant she would reject her wish, and it would have turned her into a witch on the spot. You see this happening in the last episode of the series, where Homura begins to doubt and her Soul Gem on her hand quickly starts turning dark. The wish the girls make to form the contract is by far the most important element. It's not a trade for their lives, but the trigger that causes them to go witch once the wish is rejected. The Soul Gem has 2 ways of turning into a Grief Seed: 1. Natural Timer that needs to be extended via contact with a Grief Seed (once the timer reaches 0, it's witch time). I like to consider Soul Gems to be similar to a time bomb - overuse of magical abilities greatly increases the speed at which the Soul Gem's time runs out. 2. The girls need to regret the wish they made. While despair is another element that greatly increases the speed at which the Soul Gem darkens, it is only when rejecting/regretting the wish they made that the girls turn witch.

Amazing work. We only need technology and long life.

Gideon Ofnir thought you needed to fully understand a god to kill it and then never even tries. In the end, the Tarnished asks no questions and stand sword in hand against God in the final moments of Elden Ring.

Suffering makes the one strong who stand again

My favorite take: reality is a prison, and we must steal the bars with which to craft our heaven

Your really making me want to watch gurren lagen dude, it seems like space dandy meets gundam, You should check out ad astra tho it's good vibes

Amazing as always

You coild also see Serial Experiment Lain as the process of Ascension. That of a limited and material consciousness evolving into a more expansive, but not infinite. Immaterial consciousness operating as a self-aware part of reality. A sentient operating system of consciousness itself imbued with the experience necessary to establish the task by the act of being one of the individuals within the created world.

Wait, go back. That bit about the arguments that can be used for Problem of Evil, having flaws. What are they? What are those flaws? Like Free Will being the answer to the Problem of Evil, what's the flaw in it? Or the reference needed to be be good, is to know that evil is a thing that exist, and thus avoid it? Etc.

Belief is a powerful thing.

"When you fight gods, you storm heaven" -Winston Duarte

Teach me. Im stuck in this "belief"...im stuck..

This is fascinating

this guy is super underrated

I feel like Sunday Without God would have been an interesting entry for this... Even if they aren't directly 'fighting' god it more turns into the characters living and struggling in a world where god's own decisions have left people... unhappy and they're trying to struggle for happiness.

This depends on what you think is good or evil getting past how much that action wouldn't work is it even beneficial to begin with? Would the human spirit even want that change? I fail to see it

Damn, it really is a long video!

That choker looks cute on you! Thank you for the video. Sometimes, I struggle with myself because I have so many things going on with me. It makes me wonder if I only exist just to suffer and that I'm just a plaything to some higher being. Though, I hate every waking moment of my existence, I still would like to think and hope that there's a better future for me.

Yogiri : how ? Idk, they just die.

The thing is, by trying to fight God with kindness, he passed God's test, the test isn't suffering in of itself but it's trying to to live as a good person regardless of the evil that took over the world, the prince's test was to for him to use his power as a royalty to better the world around him,God didn't make the test hard it's man who made it hard on himself, it's not God who made the world so harsh and cruel, humans did, and frankly it's no problem how hard god's test is, when the reward is Heaven itself

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40:03 Thats what im talking about ,HECK YEAH

Keep up the good shit.

The Vinland Saga example contains its own answer to the question it poses. If God had simply fixed everything, Knut would have remained passive and refused to make change. By instead making Knut aware through negative example the price of refusing to use the power Knut had for a positive purpose for the rest of Knut's life and making a living example to emulate for others in a continuing generational way. In short in this example the gods don't usually solve problems, they usually hand the tools down to people to solve the problem themselves.

Read the short story; The Last Answer, by Isaac Asimov it's a neat little on-topic story