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Vous avez sûrement vu circuler sur internet des images de Glièse 627-c montrant des fosses communes remplies de cadavres de Globstiblocs, accompagnées d'accusations selon lesquelles Gùlguʁnakjsam commettrait des crimes de guerre. Attention, ces images, bien que réelles, son sorties de leurs contextes ! Les autorités de Gùlguʁnakjsam ont déjà entamé leur enquête pour déterminer si son armée a ou non commis des bavures. Ne vous fiez pas à la propagande pro-terroriste !

Il y a quelques semaines, nous déplorions la mort de plusieurs médecins et journalistes humains installés sur Glièse 627-c dans le cadre de leur travail avec l'association "Médecins Interstellaires". Malgré une vidéo floue qui semblait montrer des missiles similaires à ceux utilisés par Gulgurnaksjam frappant leurs vaisseau à plusieurs reprises, et des cris, à peines audibles dans l'enregistrement, qui selon certains voulaient dire "à l'aide, les vaisseaux Gulgurnaksjam nous attaquent !"; rien de concret ne permettait de dire ce qui leur était arrivée, et la thèse privilégiée par les enquêteurs étaient celle d'une attaque des terroristes Globstiblocs. Jusqu'à aujourd'hui. En effet, Skrragolgo!ʁak a depuis déclaré qu'il avait bien tué des humains, justifiant qu'ils étaient "sur son chemin".

Il semblerait donc que ces sots se soient mis en danger et aient par la même occasion entravé l'effort de guerre Gulgurnaksjam. Skrragolgo!ʁak a ensuite rajouté :

"Ma volonté est celle de l'univers, la mort est le destin de ceux qui s'y opposent."

Questionné par une journaliste extrémiste sur la légalité de son intervention, il aurait répondu

"Il n'y a nulle loi plus haute que ma parole, ni plus haut magistrat que mon canon".

À méditer ! L'impertinente journaliste s'est par la suite suicidée d'une balle d'antimatière dans le dos.

I left went down the stairs from my apartment and saw a poster. It said one of the inhabitants had reported seing strange dark silhouettes and hearing demonic laughs in the building stairs.

I didn't take it seriously. In fact, I found ot so risible that I laughed out loud as I left... But the laugh came out quite demonic.

When I first learnt English, I thought this type of formulation only worked with a few verbs like "do", "have","should" (ex: "Should I do this? No, I shouldn't.")

More recently I also encountered "Need I?" and "needn't", tho they're more rarely used. But this got me wondering, is it still an exceptional construction, with "need" being one of the exceptions, or can it be done with every verbs? For example, are the following sentences correct:

• Read you mangas? No, I readn't them.
• Grow they potatoes? No, they grown't these.
• Sounds it like a good idea? No, it soundsn't.

I know talking like this would raise a few eyebrows, but does it break any established rule?

Meme/fanart of the great webcomic

I posted this as a comment on the last episode of Lain on some site about a year ago, later to see it was removed for allegedly being a spam. The chatGPT stuff from before reminded me of it so I went to fetch it:

Ok, so this is my second watch, so here's what I got out of it. It should be noted that I only have a very shallow understanding of Christianity, Gnosticism, idealist philosophy and the internet. I don't know if this is enough to understand this anime, but I'll try.

First off, we can all see the biblical symbolism of this anime : Lain is basically the Christ : She is from an ideal world (ideal in the sense of idealist philosophy, which is to say "may of pure idea", as opposed to the material world). She is sent to the material world with the purpose of bringing humans away from the corruption of the flesh and towards the ideal. Here, the ideal is what they call the subconscious link which connects humanity. The wired (which is pretty much the internet) is just a way to lead people to that ideal; it connects people via machines, but once they are truly connected, the connection can persist directly between souls and neither the machines or even the bodies are necessary anymore.

Masami Eiji therefore pushes towards that : The total forfeit of the material world in favor of the ideal world. Therefore, he wishes Lain to act as Jesus not in his first coming, but in his second coming, the Apocalypse.

But then it gets interesting...

Shunning the material world and praising the ideal is present to some extent in Christianity; and was taken the furthest by one of it's early, now extinct version : Gnosticism. I'll explain it fast : Basically, the supreme God and the Demiurge (creator of the world) are two very separate entities, respectively called Monad and Yaldabaoth. Monad exists in a world called "Pleroma", which could be translated as "Plenitude", along with the eons, which are just alternate aspects of himself. Yaldabaoth was created by accident by one of the Eons. It was imperfect, and therefore banned from pleroma, so it then created a world for itself outside of it. That is the world we are born in, but we have the possibility of becoming ideal and going back to Pleroma, and Monad sent the Christ and the Holy Spirit to guide us there.

The Gnosticist mindset is clearly the one held by Mashima Eiji. He wishes to take the role of the Holy Spirit and have Lain take the role of the Christ.

But the words of Alice convince Lain to reject that role : She realizes the physical world is precious as it is and decides to leave it intact.

I think the father she the sees is therefore akin to the Father in the holy trinity (or Monad). The sentence"You love them, don't you" means he understands her desire to leave the world as it is and acknowledges that there might be worth in the physical world.

In a way, it explores the same themes as Evangelion, and I think there is some inspiration from it. It just has a different take on similar themes, and I think it's complementary to it in some ways.

I didn't really explain what Lain was... I'm not sure I perfectly understand it myself, but I think Mashima Eiji did create her, as a vessel for a part of the souls that is common to every human... I'm not sure what part tho... Is she the incarnation of specific emotion common to all humanity ? Or rather an amalgamation of different emotions from everyone ? I don't know.