So that explains the term zombie not existing but that doesn't explain why there is not a substitute close to it. Walkers sounds contrived, the term doesn't make sense in a world where there must be literature on the subject of other beings that are similar to zombies if not zombies themselves. Like i said I don't read the comics nor watch the show, so I don;t know if the terms undead, living dead, ghoul, or what have were thrown around. My problem is isn't even the fact that they don't use the term zombie, it's that from what i've seen, there is no one who seems to believe that this walker epidemic is rooted in supernatural origin. I don't know it's even touched that anyone believes that as a viable reason for why they exist. Its a virus, and that I do know, but does every single character also know that? If so how? Why? I find it hard to believe that there are no religious factions that are spouting doomsday shpeel about this epidemic, there are no people who have started using this opportunity to push their own wild agendas by blaming insert race, religion, sex, etc. here.
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RE: The Walking Dead (AMC series)
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RE: The Walking Dead (AMC series)
I don't watch the show or read the comics at all but I have a question; Why don't any of the characters call them zombies or some other term for living dead? I've seen clips here and there and I've had some people talk about the show with me, but I can never get an honest answer on why it is, in a world where religions and religious mythology exist that there is no record of the term living dead, undead, zombie, or some variant of these terms. It's inconceivable that in world where people have judeo-christian values, as wells hundreds if not thousands or millions of other religions and cultures inter-mixing, that there is no universally or at the very least unique colloquial term for zombie. It boggles the mind. Why do they call them walkers? I mean I know why they call them walkers, but it doesn't make sense. For that to happen in this world religion as well as believers in the superstitious or supernatural could not exist. There are millions of books that could not exist which would in turn mean that some of the books could not have helped shaped the modern cultural landscape that exist in the walking dead. So then is there no term for vampire? Werewolf? Ghost?
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RE: Chapter 901: Even If You Die, Don't Die!!!
Considering Raileigh went swimming from shabondy to kuja's island I don't think that would be a problem for fishmen.
Problem is, in this arc it seems everybody is willing to die for SH but the connections are not so emotional to be felt under your skin. Also, SH seems to be just fine with people dying for them, I don't get the point.
Except that, I enjoyed Tottoland until now, I will hold my thoughts until the very closure, cause I think that would change a lot.
Germa isn't fighting to protect the SH's because they feel obligated to or because of sanji, as far as I can tell their sole reason for doing so is to piss off BM. They want revenge for the wedding incident and helping the SH's is just one more thing that would piss her and her crew off.
Capone only helped because of the deal he made with Luffy to begin with and then the second deal later with Sanji. After He delivered the cake he only cared if the SH's got away beaus he didn't want his efforts to go to waste.
The Fishman Pirates are only really there to help Jinbei get away. They pretty much state that when they arrive and as they leave. The fact that he's apart of the SH's now won't deter them from protecting their former captain.
Most of their current allies are only protecting them out of necessity, pettiness, or a sense of duty. Technically the only one's you should feel slight emotion towards are the Fishmen who are willing to die to ensure their former captain has a safe journey.
And as far as them caring…they seem to care about Pedro's death...but with everything happening around them they haven't had the proper time to grieve.
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RE: Fairy Tail Series IV Discussion
What's that you say? Only dragon slayers can defeat dragons?
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Are you sure?
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Are you Positive?
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I don't know…
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I think you lot might be talking out your ass.
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RE: Fairy Tail Series IV Discussion
Welcome to troll town, population: everyone who still considers this manga somewhat good.
Really, I've seen dumpster fires that had more going on than what's happening in this arc
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RE: Fairy Tail Series IV Discussion
The more that the age in which zeref lived in is revealed the less sense a lot of what he does makes, not that it made ny sense to begin with in context of the character
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RE: Bart Simpson Thread XI: The Movie - The Manga Adaption - The Animation
I thought he died after sasuke was born? Also, doesn't reincarnation imply that the soul that inhabited his body was never his own, but someone else's to begin with? So if he died and then was brought back to life then what about his soul? if it's technically in sasuke then isn't he then a soulless ragdoll monster whose only drive is nothing more than the desires of the previous inhabitant of his body? He would then have none of his own and all his feelings of hatred or affection or whatever it is he feels toward the first be false? Wouldn't he essentially be a nobody? Isn't he Xehanort at that point?
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RE: Bart Simpson Thread XI: The Movie - The Manga Adaption - The Animation
If madara is supposed to be a reincarnation of one of the sage's sons then how can sasuke also be that same reincarnation if madara is still alive? Reincarnation implies that a previous version of the reincarnation of the original carnation is dead, or at the very least, the original carnation is deceased for there to be considered a reincarnation to come afterward, so how can sasuke be one if madara is still alive, doesn't that imply that all of sasuke's decisions have nothing to do with predestination at all and are instead just his own shitty decisions he made because he's a shitty person?
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RE: Fairy Tail Series IV Discussion
So he didn't want be immortal, I'll give you that, but my point is that he would have stumbled across the secret to immortality eventually in his research. Because it's reasonable to believe that once you've figured out how to bring people back to life your not too far from figuring out how to stop death entirely. His immortality, even with regard to the killing everything he loves side effect, should not have hindered his research, but instead bolstered it. Which is another thing, what does the whole kill everything he loves side effect even mean? Because he was killing people and animals in general, he says because he loves life in general everything around him dies, but that doesn't make sense you would think after awhile he would then stop loving life, but even if he did would that stop the problem? Also, how did he come to that conclusion that that's how his power even works?
Alright, gods exist, but as far as I'm concerned there less fantastical beings with awesome power and seem to be more like very powerful celestial spirits. If maybe they had been introduced before celestial spirits or even been given some elaboration beyond the exposition that was necessary to explain someone's ability, then I would the I wouldn't be doubting their existence in the first place. That's what I meant by this isn't chekhov's gun, because gods and celestial spirits are pretty much presented the same way except one just seems like a stronger version of the other.
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RE: Fairy Tail Series IV Discussion
1. That was a given it would have been hard for me to mess that bit up
2. The manga says cursed as if that's supposed to make a difference, whether he was cursed or not the point is that he gained the power to kill anything within a certain radius of him and at the same time became undying.
3. Immortality is the logical conclusion to resurrection. The whole point of bringing someone back from the dead is to nullify their death, therefore immortality would be the ultimate nullification of death. Clearly if you're going to research how life and death tie into magic you're going to come across immortality at some point, it's a given.
And the whole "he became suicidal because of the lives he had taken" is ridiculous, so essentially he got what he wanted, he was immortal and he could kill on a whim. so instead of researching more how his power worked he instead decided to mope about his curse which was not a curse technically and plot his own demise4. I'll give you the demon thing; but to be fair have gods really been established in this universe? really? a few mentions here and there, someone says that some guy got cursed by the gods, or it just as well could be some form of magic that has yet to be fully researched, that one time someone summons a "god" to a battle field, even though we know for a fact that celestial spirits exist and can pretty much be summoned under odd conditions. just because you mention a god here and there doesn't mean that gods exist. this isn't chekhov's gun.
5. This is a problem, did he create the demons first and then make the replicant-brother or the other way around? Because the way the demons tell it, he made them and then he just disappeared, so they decide to create as much death as possible to summon him to them so they can then kill him, but they can't, because according to him they aren't strong enough, but he wouldn't know that unless he had already allowed them to try and kill him. And then he made a replicant. I would also like to point he must have achieved that whole, researching life goal thing, because he gave life to demons and a replicant. On top of that immortality thing it looks he's coming out the winner in this thing.
6. The point is that he just wandered the world instead of trying to be productive, if it was me and i was trying to kill myself, i would make that a 24/7 job, there would be no slacking. If I wanted to be dead, as he states he so badly wants it, then it needs to be today, everyday, until the day i get the job done. And i'll know it's done because I'm dead.
7. This is where plot comes in, because it's ridiculous to believe that up until this point he had not been able to communicate with anyone at all if he had been able to talk to mavis, and i say up until this point because were painted a pretty good picture of that whole killing-fucking-everything-within-a-fifty-foot-radius-of-me-thing rather well. Yeah there are cool down periods for his killing-thing because he can't control it so, even by his own admission, this doesn't make sense so i stand by my statement. She was some random girl he met, as far as we the audience are concerned that's what she is, unless plot dictates anything to the contrary, reasonable observation dicates she's some random chick. And her friends and her struggle, as interesting and maybe sympathetic as they seem, should be nothing to a man hell-bent on his own suicide. And he does leave for an unspecified amount of time, i never said he didn't give a reason for why he left, and when he returns it seems he just returns to guest star as the script to deliver exposition. I'll give you the not-aging-because-of-messed-up-spell-thing, but you have got to admit that entire exchange would have only made sense if his intentions were to be malicious and to screw over a random stranger because he was bored or crazy from immortality.
8. I'll give you that. Hell, he might be clone or maybe just another replicant like natsu. To be fair though, the chapter before this does imply that mavis has done the deed, Zeref is mentioned as having a son, and there is that one scene from 450 where they kiss and it's implied they did the deed. So there's that. Unless she died in the very next scene, but I doubt that because mavis is the one telling the story and it would only be natural for her leave out that part where she bones fairy tail's greatest enemy.
9. You say that but as igneel pointed out that dragon-slayer isn't the same as him. And if the case were that he couldn't kill him, why does a man whose goal is to kill himself care about a dragon from his own time, care about dragons in general, yeah they killed his family but he never said he had a grudge against them. He just wants to kill himself. trying to turn him into this master manipulator and grandiose bad guy doesn't divert from the fact that suicide is his main goal.
10. I'll give you the natsu thing, but adding the element of time travel has officially screwed with the time of events in this manga. the time-line is all over the place starting about right after or before he created that replicant.
11. He defeated his own demons, he sealed them back in the book and took the book for himself. Why? I don't know, i was just messing around with that last bit, but it does bring up a good question about his motivations for creating what was compared to him basically fodder. Fairy Heart will kill Mavis, she says she'll disappear once it's removed or something along those line. Before, she was sealed in the magic-rock-stuff, then she foolishly got out. And as far mister hard-to-spell-and-pronounce's-name is concerned i already explained his irrelevance in Zeref's life story. I would like to point out that by not acknowledging it you agree that Zeref is in some weird murder/suicide pact with his replicant-brother that said replicant-brother is clearly unaware of.
12. I wasn't going to bring it up, but yea, I know how he became emperor, I even know why, i was just messing around with that. The real question is what purpose does becoming emperor or any sort of leader serve a man whose mission in life is to die at the hands of his replicant-brother who he sent to the future to help the dragons defeat a dragon-slayer who they helped create, but couldn't keep in check?