Welcome to my blog. Many people have in the past asked me to make a blog for my musings, analysis, rants, and the stuff that goes through my mind. People tell me: Oh, Miracles and Magic, you are so smart! You are so wise! Oh, how you know everything! You should start a blog or something! Well, now here it is. Behold: The Blog. THE Blog. My Blog.
In the past, I used to extensively post anonymously to 4chan. Beware that some of my style and humor have stuck from that time; it might be too subtle for some to grasp. Indeed, I wager that the divine and sublime insights which shall henceforth be revealed to the greater public in this place are bound to be so far beyond the reach of the common rabble that they will not understand anything of what is spoken here. But those who truly understand will know that it is the truth! Know that I do not mean to address the great unwashed but only the most sublime of minds and only the enlightened among men. Indeed, perhaps only God himself will understand what is written here. But then again, that is okay.
What? You think I am being arrogant? Or I am being ironic? I assure you, neither could be further from the truth! Now enter, ye who seek the truth no matter where; ye who were washed ashore onto my domain.
I found myself in a dark forest and the straightforward path was lost. But that has been long ago. I have systematically ventured down to the bottom of the abyss - the actual bottom of the abyss - and found the light at the bottom. So now what sayeth thee? Oh, you braggart! Oh, you ignorant fool! You are claiming things that no man may speak of! Yes. That's exactly right. I am, and I do. I will do what I must because this right here is the actual truth. There simply is no humble way to say the things that I have to say. And seriously, this is what you need to hear to regain your life.
The topic of this blog will, for the time being, be anime.
You think that's such a trivial topic? That anime and video games are trivial little things? You think that there is such a thing as "arbitrary" in this world? There isn't; here is the most intelligent thing I know up front (for free): The set of all things is small. You probably did not understand this sentence. What it means is that in every category there aren't actually that many things. One of the biggest lies you have told yourself is that there are infinitely many things and so much stuff in the world. There isn't. Every domain can, in a very reasonable amount of time, be understood to a degree where you have a general grasp of what is going on there - where the absolute heights of mastery are no longer unknown unknowns, but just regular old heights that you did not reach for lack of practice.
Here is what you have to understand: Mundane things are not mundane at all. There is no such thing as just "entertainment" or "just a joke"; actually, there aren't any jokes at all without a grain of truth. I have come to regard "fiction" as "speculative philosophy". When reading Alfred North Whitehead's magnum opus Process and Reality, I understood that all of his philosophy is basically fiction, and yet it is not a very good kind of fiction - Ironically, the one thing that he is right on is fiction itself; even if he himself is not a very good fiction writer. The corollary to his writing is: All fiction is philosophy (and Ironically, what he wrote was just a bad piece of fiction - Apart from this one very critical insight).
So now I am going to go and write rants about anime with the intent to save the world. Because that is the situation that we have currently: For whatever reason, it pleased God to use anime as a vehicle to manifest divine revelation and answer the great pressing questions of our age. Anime, by the way, is proof that God exists. Hallelujah!
One critique that will immediately spurl up is: "You have always started from a Chrisitan perspective!" Nothing could possibly be further from the truth! I started as a nihilist - in utter darkness, I had dismissed everything, all hope, all morals, all reason, all meaning: Let go all hope, ye who enter here; this is what it means to venture intop the abyss! Just like homura under the arc of Triumph, I encontered Madoka (Magica), this is my story. I went down many paths, and I ignored all christian elements in Madoka because I had encoundered christiantiy before. The things that I knew as "Christian" was the "Jesus who loves everyone equally" and a modern protestant christianity, where even a notion of hell or moral standards is seen as an outdated, medival idea. What I knew as "Christianity" is something that I always knew to be a lie, however the lie was even greater - it was that this horrible abonimation had anything to do with christiantiy at all! A modern "church" with female pastors, which dismisses the law, and whores after the fancies of the current times is no church at all but a synagogue of satan. So no, I did not start from a christian perspective, I investigated every possible other avenue. However uppon encountering real Christianity what happened to me was that the insights I had found inside of Madoka Magica, are and had always been the true message of christianity. It just made sense, it was the same spirit. Therefore there is no doubt inside of me that Christiantiy is the truth, because after all the "truh" is a singular little thing, and if it is made manifest - wherever it is made manifest, by the law of metaphysics itself, it will converge onto itself. As it is written: Seek and you will find!
The biggest challenge of this blog, and at the same time its greatest aspiration, is to bring to you the full analysis of Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion.
MAKE NO MISTAKE
I have spent the seven years that I had time since I saw it analyzing this work. I have put in an effort into it that surely no one on this planet has matched; not even the authors have any idea what they wrought.
Let me give you some of the conclusions without further ado:
Among many others. This is just the tip of the iceberg. But so much for now, the point is that it is too grand for me to just write it down piece by piece, it needs to be structured in a way to really show the grand whole and it is really hard to start. I am afraid at the end of it all this will not be a place for you to start. It is an end of a journey, the final conclusion you can only understand once you have sailed all the way around the earth.
For something easier to digest I suggest this one: suspended in dreams on the Mitakihara loop line. The author puts so much together, but he just cannot bring himself to believe in the only conclusion that is left for him to make. Though so God wants we shall show him the error of his ways all the same. It was indeed me all along who left a certain comment on his blog so long ago. Even then I understood so much, but only now am I ready to bring it upon the people. Maybe I am; maybe not. May God give me the wisdom to write it in a way to further his glory. Amen.
Now that you have read the introduction, you are very welcome to checkout my Musings which are essentially a collection of articles which have the purpose of conveying general ideas and concepts to the reader. Or you may wounder through my various Analyses of different specific aspects. The difference between those two is that Musings are more complex and convey holistic concepts, while an analysis is limited to a single specific subject. For now this is the strucutre I have decided on, subject to change in the future if a better pattern is revealed onto me.