Conspiracy theories seem to go too far and extreme really. I believe that the government has lied and covered up things from the public, and well, some politicians (such as Hillary) have gotten away with too much because they use other things to get public support, tearing away from the real deals at hand. I do think we have serious issues with the Federal banking done and all that and that there was a huge scandal involved but not enough people bothered to do anything back in the Depression. I do know of cases that involved politicians and corporations that get off quite easy for things. As for whether Area 51 houses alien tech and such, I really do not know. I believe there is a strong possibility there is alien life out there but whether it would bother to come and deal with humans who can't even get a decent space program going and get a ship out of our solar system, ...what use are we? Even if aliens could come here from light years away they'd be so much more technologically advanced than we are and we'd look stupid to them. I don't really know whether to discredit the theories surrounding Area 51 or not. For now I just leave that open as unknown. As for the Illuminate stuff, I don't really buy that much. Also, there are other groups such as the Free Masons that have gotten a lot of slack for 'conspiracies' and yet they really don't seem to be doing anything that wrong as they are accused of. Of course, being as secretive as they are, it merits that people will gain suspicions. So in the end, I think that without the ability to properly investigate claims of conspiracies, we can only pay attention and do so much as we wait to learn truths. There are some really rotten conspiracy theories out there and I don't give them anything more than a nod of the head, acknowledging I've heard them, until I can see living proof. I do check into some of them, and know some are quite true but the worst ones usually don't seem to be. However, I also think that some of the worst rumors are distractions from the ones that are actually out in our faces that no one is doing anything about, even if the stories are covered in actual news reports.
That's the line there. You said something that seemed to be implying that the human race and science are destroying it. Did you mean they are destroying religion? If so, I did indeed misinterpret what you said and my apologies.
I so agree. The Org -controlled- Heartless. Xigbar corrupted a dragon to become Heartless, Luxord made a Heartless and was controlling it, Saix showed he had control over them and could make them do what he wanted, etc. They were not -nice- people. It's one thing to feel benevolence for their situation but they -were- murderers, pure and simple. Why people continue to feel they are innocent because they just wanted to be 'whole' is not right. There are serial killers who killed people to be 'complete' too. They have a lack of emotion as well. There was even one who killed to drink blood believing he had to in order to live because he felt he was decaying. The Org did -not- know for sure their mad plan would work and this guy did not obviously know what he was doing was going to work either. They simply -believed- it would work and obviously not all of them did as Axel left and so did Roxas. Some others such as Marluxia and Larxene obviously did not care for things either and Vexen as well. It is clear the Org was mainly held together by Xemnas believing and forcing that on others. The plan was wrong and yet followed through to sacrifice the lives of others to do this. Sora isn't the villain. It's extremely clear. I don't see why people also keep saying we don't 'know enough'. We do. About the only thing we don't know is -why- Xemnas chose to do this direction and what his actual true motivations were after, which still won't justify the deeds themselves. It will however, make it more clear why he chose such drastic measures and was fanatical about it.
Nobodies are incomplete beings that are born anew with a new body created from memories and their souls. They lack emotion or a Heart. However, they have the memories of having those emotions, as Saix commented on, which is why he said he knew how to hurt a Heart to Sora. Roxas may have been different as he also seems to be closely related to Ven and may have been Ven in essence, but with no memory due to Sora only being a Heartless for a short time. Sora felt his memories fading as he was a Heartless, but it was all restored by Kairi, so Roxas took very little with him when he was 'born'. However, it is possible, since even Axel asked Roxas if he thought he had a Heart or not, that he did. He may have had a piece of his Heart, but obviously his body was created the same way the other Nobodies' forms were, since Sora did become a Heartless. I doubt he had his -whole- Heart since Xemnas probably would have picked up on that, but it does seem possible he did have some of his essence. His emotional displays of rage, irritation, agitation, frustration, sorrow and all seemed real enough. As for Axel, you can -tell- he had no Heart himself but he truly wanted one. He over dramatic displays and emphasizes what he says with gestures and speech, or he under plays them. This was the case with all of the Org. They over emphasize or under emphasize the things that have to do with showing what they 'would' be feeling if they had a Heart. Roxas was not quite the same and his 'emotional' reactions seemed genuine enough though of course, it was probably not enough again for Xemnas or Saix to catch on. I seriously doubt Roxas could have gotten away from the Org if they had suspicions because Xemnas would have wanted to study him closely. I do think having the Keyblade though should have tipped Xemnas off. It may even be the Keyblade that helped Roxas to have a piece of his Heart at all and I do think there is a connection there. Getting back to Axel though. Axel -really- wanted his Heart back. Xemnas comments on it as though it were a weakness and made Axel unpredictable but foolish. Axel also said to Sora that he and Roxas made him -feel- like he had a Heart. I would say that Axel was just as much a Nobody as the others were, but he was also empathic and cared to try to feel things off others for different purposes than the other Org members did. I think all of them were empathic and able to sense what the Hearted folks felt but Axel was truly the only one to try to inspire 'positive' feelings in others and wanted to feel them through those people. Roxas probably made him more aware of it, and Axel did spend time dealing with Sora too, who off and on in CoM he sort of aided at the same time as doing other things. What makes Axel unique is he was trying to be part of a more positive deal and perhaps he could have attained a Heart or a pseudo-Heart the way he wanted to. All of the other Org members seemed content to try to manipulate people to darker tendencies and destroy them emotionally, such as Xaldin, Larxene, Marluxia, Saix, Lexaeus, Zexion, Vexen and Xemnas. Think of how they used their abilities to try to corrupt Beast, Sora and Riku. About the only other person I can say that tried to do something else as well was Demyx, who I just think was entirely along for the ride and convinced he needed to be -good- to live in the Org. He didn't have the cahunas Axel did to abandon it, but if he had, he might have been in the same scenario as Axel.
Sora didn't treat the Org like dirt. The only one that is at all questionable is Demyx who he called on the carpet pretty coldly. There was -no one- else he mistreated at all. Considering all the mind games done to both Roxas and Sora, as well as Riku, and the fact they were killing tons of people for their 'right to exist' and surely would not have strayed from it, I am failing to see how he was treating them like dirt. He was out to 'stop' them. He even tried to -talk to- Xemnas and change his mind. The only one questionable of treatment was Demyx who already had messed with Sora earlier, but I can see some possible redeeming qualities in him. The others were not going to be swayed and Xemnas had way too much power for them to bother with it. Axel and Roxas were the only ones who decided to get out of it and to do anything better at all. I really am at a loss why people think the Org were so abused by Sora. He did what he had to do or else worlds were going to die as people already had. Yes, Riku seemed to show some more empathy and even conversed with Axel and Namine more and left DiZ because of his seeking revenge issues, but Sora also was being forced to follow paths which were orchestrated by the Org since Roxas ran off and was rejoined with Sora. The Org was -not- innocent. It's not the point that they had a -right- to live as others did. The Org abused that right by threatening and following through with a plan made for around near a decade, which consisted of destroying others. That kind of behavior -must- obviously be quelled. None ever asked Sora for help to find another way to do things or he would have definitely tried. He could have even been duped worse for his kind heart and sympathy. Why should he care though for people that are doing what they had done? There was nothing showing him any good at all. Riku had more sympathy but he also remembered Castle Oblivion and was caught between DiZ and the Org after he defeated Xehanort's Heartless. He did see things more clearly but he also was not going to just let the Org do what they were. No one could afford that.
I totally understand. I'm American and tell people they are speaking English when they say that. I usually hear most people say 'English' since that is also what we take in school. It's not called 'American'. Some people though do try to separate it, both on the British side and American side and I think it's pretty lame. Most of the time, sadly, it's 'scholars' that say there's a division and as I said above, it's rubbish because there are several languages that are spoken and modified to regions and yet they are still called what they are. I'm totally with you on that pet peeve. =:)
Well, what I meant in short was that any god cannot be disproved or proved. So though I consider none really exist, at least how people have accounted for them, I don't consider any to be more false than any other. I consider in the end that Thor and Horus are just as real as Yahweh is, if that makes the thought more clear. Otherwise, yes, I agreed with what you were stating and religion does hold people back and tries to stagnate people into a train of thought. I do not want to 'condemn' people for believing in something I don't, of course, but I do see the awful effects that religion has done and people often try to say they do 'charity' to counter the argument that there are idiots out there who are killing, harming, doing passive aggressive or violent behavior to others for feeling different, and some of these people too give to charity. In the name of any deity, atrocities have been done and to me I think something needs seriously evaluated when little kids are even threatening others of an eternal after life of torture casually and learn this from adults. I don't agree with raising children under 'promise' and 'fear' and letting adults have the right to do so instead of teaching them neutral lessons and letting -them- decide when of age instead of threatening to disown them...I just think religion is a bunch of unneeded brainwashing. There are too many people out there that stupidly believe that humans can only -be good- under the threat of eternal damnation, and that we should be good because some guys were martyrs and we should be that way too. They have -no- concept of how to live without that and so torment others who don't want it in their lives. This is why I say religion of any kind can be very harmful. Some people handle it a lot better than others but there are -way- too many people that abuse it and I cannot see 'Science' in itself as harmful at all. It is encouraging people to -think-. There are some scientists that do 'bad' things, but in the end, if they do, they are also taken care of and dealt with and punished to the extremes of the law. The same cannot be said about religious people that do wrong. In fact, even if someone is religious, if they go to prison they can get out by being religious, reborn, etc while I don't see any such rewards to people for stopping the belief in Yahweh or Allah. It's horribly imbalanced and the law should not cater to such things. Hope that makes more sense on what I was trying to ramble on with.
You are mistaken. All the things I mentioned were done before the fight with Demyx. I even looked it up in the book. Also, it was very clear that though Maleficent thought she was something else, she was nothing but a tool as well. The Org were not good guys, no matter how you try to make it seem so. They sacrificed others so that they could attempt to 'exist' and in the end at least they -had- some kind of existence. Things could have been different for them had they actually asked for help and were not out already employing a planned scheme that had been set up years in advance.
I do know that at any age truly, the stuff of conspiracies that float around can seem very intimidating. It's great to speak out about them and get people's opinions and such. I definitely do not ever want to think we have to have our young etc with chips put into them so they can be tracked and I would think many others also would not allow such a thing to happen. However, again, is there really -proof- out there that says such a thing will happen even if it 'could'? A lot of things could happen but it doesn't mean they will if people stand together and speak about such things and know their stances early on. I suppose I am not really afraid of a more unified world with a 'functioning' sort of UN deal instead of what we have now. I can't say I am overly patriotic or anything and always have considered myself more a person of the 'world' than of a nation or state. So I can't say I 'fear' the Amero anymore than Europeans feared the Euro. I do think that the Federal Reserve and all should be abolished and it has put our country into terrible debt but I do not fear a legal tender or better relations and gates opened between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. In fact, I think it is a good idea in some ways because it would aid in stopping some of the corruption of Mexico that horribly affects everyone any way with all of the immigration illegal issues. It would make it so Mexican people could also be paid more what they are worth and give corporations something to think about when they move to Mexico to hire cheap labor and steal our jobs etc. We've always, even if Americans and Canadians tease each other, had good relations with Canada and I don't see anything wrong with that either. It's not like we are saying we will no longer be 'American' to do this. Canadians will still be Canadians etc. Having one money system though that all 3 countries could use could make travel more productive and also aid businesses and people wouldn't have to pay a mint to get some exchange money because places do charge to take in tender and exchange it to the country's. We aren't going to stop being 'nations' though just as the Euro didn't stop the nations over there from being their own. It just is a way to financially ease up on things and I think it would benefit us. The chip deal is the situation I worry most about but I'm not about to overly worry because I know for a fact that something like that has to be voted on and the more people who know about it and disagree, the senators and our representatives will HAVE to refuse it. That is what the power of lobbying and being involved in politics at all enables you to do. So to alleviate the fear, the best thing to do is watch, pay attention to votes and such and if you disagree, find others also who do not like it and go do something such as petition. Our government is -strong- in its way but really like Cin said, if this was likely to happen and the government did not want us to know and they are so evil, we would not have this conspiracy at all. I do think we need to do more about our banking system all around to save people from being in debt, our government being in debt etc. That seems more a feasible conspiracy that we really should be addressing instead of fearing the Amero.
If you even look at the scene with Axel and Marluxia, Axel never even -had a chance- to attack Marluxia once he hid behind Namine and then Sora rushed in after Axel said what he did. I doubt Axel would have just chopped through Namine to get to Marluxia and Namine was no angel. She sat there and manipulated Sora's dreams through force and she did worse to Riku, who she didn't even bother to help. She also messed up Riku Replica very badly and never even apologized to him even after he saved her life by attacking Marluxia in a surprise attack. Sora showed he had a lot more depth than Namine did, and so did the Riku Replica. In the end though, due to how fast Sora comes in and Marluxia tells Sora that Axel is going to attack him and Namine...you really never know what Axel was going to exactly do. He may just have tried to toss her to the side or something and well, Marluxia did traitor and had no regards for the other Org members at all or any honor for that matter, hiding behind a girl like that and yet trying to be so big. I think the worst thing Axel did in CoM was probably getting the Riku Replica to get rid of Zexion and then setting him up to die at the hands of Riku who was very hurt by it all. I'd consider that the worse crime than Namine's deal since there's nothing showing what he would have done. It'd have been different if Axel actually did anything in the scene at all with Marluxia. In my opinion, really, Sora should have questioned the scene more and probably Axel and Sora could have dealt with Marluxia's Replica easier, but Sora was also having memory issues. I do agree he had his share of villainous things he had done, but he also changed and the Org itself was a nest of deception. He did what he needed to in order to survive. It's clear all of them in some way or another feared the 'Superior'.
Prior to that, there was the problem with Xaldin trying to kill off Beast. Next is the fact that the Org had placed Heartless around on worlds to get more Hearts and were using Sora to gather them up after they had taken Hearts and multiplied which sent the Hearts to the pseudo-Kingdom Hearts of Xemnas's. Demyx also stole the item and attacked Sora down in Hades's realm. Demyx had stolen the Olympus Stone and the first time he was seen running by, he was let to go, wasn't he? Really Heartless of Sora to do that, hmm. Next, Port Royal, apparently Luxord is the one who stole the Aztec Gold and put the curse on Jack and the others. He was also building a Heartless that later would be seen. In Twilight Town, the real one, there were also Nobodies running around rampant doing things. Then there's Hollow Bastion where people were attacked as you mentioned. Also, Xehanort who later became Xemnas corrupted the computer and Sora and party had to learn that Ansem and Xehanort were two different people etc. Sora was not being -asked- to help. He was being -told- he had no choice but to help. He was used. Roxas ran away to find out his purpose which had to be more obviously than killing a bunch of Heartless to give the Org power. Sora was being attempted to be beguiled to aid the Organization and they did not EVER tell him what was truly going on or their predicament or he might have tried to offer any other solution. Saix was down right obnoxious with him and mentally trying to scar him, also spreading a lie that Riku was gone etc. Also, the Nobodies were attacking BEFORE Sora encountered Demyx. The Dancers and such were at the Bailey and there were droves of Heartless around that they had put there. Demyx was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. There were a ton of Nobodies and Heartless to defeat before he even got to Demyx. Their plans were well under way and Sora had little to do but try to save people from the Heartless and the Nobodies prior to meeting Demyx. Xaldin also had already proved there was no -talking- to them. Admittedly, Demyx was nothing more than a tool to the Org and may have been -salvageable- but by this point after all Sora had gone through, he wasn't feeling like being a 'nice little naive boy' anymore. I was surprised at his reaction to Demyx really, but he had already had to face Demyx once who was reading off a card saying to either bring Roxas back or deal with him. I did kind of lose a bit of respect there for Sora but I do see why he was so irritated and frustrated. Xemnas and Saix clearly were operating very closely together and wanted things their way. The Org never was 'asking' Sora anything really but more saying he -had to- comply with what they wanted. Axel even was pointing out what they wanted with him and trying to sway him while Saix was trying to make like the Org was -good- but anyone could see through Saix's lies and mental persuasions. They were not what I'd call -evil- but the Org was definitely a force that needed to be stopped. Again, you fail to answer about what do you do about people that just sacrifice the lives of thousands of others, possibly more than that, just for their own benefit?
Yeah, this is why Goofy gets turned into a turtle or tortoise. The shell on the turtle represents a natural body armor and Goofy is a defender who uses a shield as his prominent weapon. I doubt it had anything to do with his intelligence or how fast he moved otherwise.
I don't think he 'deserved' to die. He had changed a lot of things about himself and grown as a person despite being a Nobody and all the hang ups that brings about. He was dastardly in CoM but he was pretty missioned to have to be so with his title in the Org and his honor that he took in completing his jobs. He was also protective of Roxas even then and dealt with Vexen at a key point when Vexen might have told Sora too much. Axel did change things around for himself and sacrificed himself so that Sora/Roxas could go on and do things and stop Xemnas. He knew it was the right thing to do (at least to him) and did so with a devotion to friendship few people with Hearts show. I don't think anyone would say someone who actually did a whole switch around in character and actually also asked for forgiveness would 'deserve' to die. He was sincere. However, since no one actually went to kill him any way and he did what he did of his own volition, it's not so much a debate.
CoM was done about I believe 2 or 3 weeks after KH ended. It was not that long a period of time. Sora slept for a year though.
Technically Oblivion was stronger than Soul Eater in stats if we want to be looking at it that way. I do think though it was just a strategy to prevent Roxas from using both blades and tossing the weapon again at Riku which could have taken him off guard. Better to be safe than sorry.
Sora wasn't out to -destroy the Organization- and there are so many posts already about how Sora is such a murderer despite the obvious facts that the Org is NOT innocent and were themselves mass murdering people and destroying places so that they could 'exist'. Whether someone can emphasize with the Nobodies and their plight and situation, villainizing Sora is not the way to go. He was doing what he had to do. He was being manipulated by the Org, people were being turned into Heartless and the Nobodies were releasing them on worlds in droves. Kairi was kidnapped, etc. They were -not- good guys. They had ended up in a bad situation but Xemnas and the top 6 were lame enough to put themselves in it in the first place, AND they had the memories of the deeds they committed prior to becoming Nobodies. I do believe Xemnas had an ulterior motive to why he wanted to get stuck as he was and then move out of it which I think will be explained more in BBS and perhaps 358/2 Days, but in the end, he went about things very poorly. Just because you may emphasize with a killer does not mean that you should just let the person keep on killing which is exactly the situation Sora was placed in. Roxas ran away due to not believing in what the Org was doing and even in the end, Axel, one of the Org, became 'disheartened' by their activities and knew they were wrong and he wanted his Heart back just as much as any of the others. Though I do think some members could have been different had they decided to not do the schemes and had more regard to others who actually were whole instead of making more Heartless and people stuck in the same situation they were, then sure, they deserved that chance. I could see that Demyx perhaps might have been able to be swayed and Sora was harsh with him, but really Roxas and Sora had to do what they did, as did Riku. Would -you- just sit there and say that some group of fanatics could kill others with no regards but for their own selfish existences and plots? Could you just sit there and let people lie to you, steal from you, take the lives of others and use you as a tool and then say you'd just take it? Sora in some scenes, such as after fighting Xigbar, did show remorse and confusion. He wasn't a cold calculating killer, even with the information given to him. I can say I would have been 'wiser' than Sora, but I'd have had to choose my side because the Org definitely declared theirs. Even if I could feel sorry for them, I'd still have tried to take them out because they have no rights to kill others so they can exist; especially since some of them willingly put themselves in that position in the first place.
Well, I don't think most Americans really care. The spelling is different with some words with the letter 'u' in them but it's not like many of us do not recognize the words or sometimes use 'u' in them too. I really don't separate American English and British English that much in the end. I see no reason to. As I said, many words that aren't local 'slang' terms are the same and if we use them instead of the local terminology we can all comprehend each other. It's to me the same as when French and French-Canadian dialects differ but it's still the same language core, which is French. Or Spain Spanish speakers and Hispanic Spanish speakers have different slang etc and accents too. English isn't the only language to go through these changes and people feel that each is different in a way, but as long as we can understand the actual words that aren't local slang (and many of us do pick up on local slangs of other territories any way by chatting with each other) then it's still English, French and Spanish.
This was seen in Zeitgeist and well...I don't see the personal implanted chip happening. Many people would disagree with that and I'd pretty well be one of them. As for the Amero and all that, it is being discussed but -nothing- is final. The Euro seems to do quite well and that is all the Amero is, is currency similar to how the Euro functions. As for cards with more information and stuff on them, this is done for reasons that it would have medical information as well as driver's info, and such to try to help people on a convenient card instead of carrying 10 cards on us for the same function. If it could be made with the thought of identity protection that would prevent the thefts easier, I might be for it, depending on what would be included in it. It could certainly help make people's lives easier. As for shutting it off and the person doesn't 'exist' ...not sure how that would happen.
The problem here though is that you say science tries to destroy it while religion tries to make things better. I would have to strongly disagree with that. Many of the wars fought throughout history had nothing to do with 'science' but instead with biases people had towards one another and a common one is religious intolerance. Sure, some groups of people who are religious give and do charity but so do many people in science. We would not have wondrous technologies now to aid people if it wasn't for the scientists who work day and night toiling over medicines, vehicles, containers, transportation, food growth and storages etc. No war I can think of was fought because of 'Science' itself. People 'use' science to aid them in destroying but also in creating things. Religion is stagnation and tells others that if they don't believe they are condemned to eternal suffering and that you do good things because you fear a bad afterlife. Science doesn't fear a bad afterlife. It tries to take care of things now in life and make things easier. To save the world in many religious people's minds is to turn everyone over to that same religion that group is. It robs people of personal choice and independent thought. I consider that slavery should not be tolerated, especially against a person's very will to be something else and believe in other things. Diversity is what allows us to invent, create, and not stagnate or be dominated by one thing. I don't consider that a peaceful thing at all. Charity also is something I debate when groups do it because there is a -serious- personal gain. If I give someone money for medicine, food or what not, I expect -nothing- in return. Not a thank you or anything. It's theirs. I don't expect them to read a book, tell them to go to Church etc. That is not compassion to me. I'd say all in all, religion gives nothing more than science ever has and has done a lot more damage. A gun can't kill a person if it's sitting on a table. A microwave can't kill a person if used the way it's meant to be used. That's science. Religion that encourages someone to kill or tells people that it is saving people by converting them to their beliefs through acts of 'kindness and generosity'...that's manipulation. What exactly is 'science' manipulating? It's a search for truth, exploring, inventing and creating. It's understanding. It's not carrying out anything on orders of destruction. Fundamentalists do that.
It's pronounced Deh-mix, I believe. It seemed pretty straight out though the 'y' can sometimes be a yeh sound, in this case it's a soft 'i' sound. However, it also might be Dem-eekz because of the 'I' being the sound of a strong 'e'.
