I don't know Dostoevskii seemed pretty chill about what he was writing. "If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. Or not. I don't know, it's just some thoughts I'm working on. That's a personal opinion, and I don't know how you feel about…
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The unsophisticated way of explaining it would be that if I believe in the Christian religion, I believe in this world and an unseen world, right?
Human existence is imperfect acts done with imperfect knowledge. All of it is that.
It holds for all human endeavors. I like religion because it's the institution that's humble enough to admit it. (Er, among other reasons, natch.)
Absolutely. Some have complained about this being anti-religious, but capturing religion in its complexity is the most pro-religion thing there is. It's the nominal or Tales Of series' use that's insulting.
As @avclub-678004486c119599ed7d199f47da043a:disqus and others said, it might be mumbo jumbo or infantile, but so might our understanding today be considered someday! I err more on the side of "different" than "more/less sophisticated."
Oh, I totally get it, and I agree, mostly because they tried to achieve 2 different tones. I'm a huge horror fan, so I love the cutting down to the essence of things in Bloodborne, but it's a less varied world for it. (Oddly, I think a few more moments of desperation-inducing difficulty would have helped the horror.)
I mean, for anyone who's played early Final Fantasy games, that's basically spot-on.
*single tear*
I'd actually love to hear you on what Dark Souls does better!
Cena also cheated, so you only figured out I wasn't talking about him when I wrote, "whom we all thought was a pretty nice guy."
Speaking as someone who played From's janky ass games before Demon's Souls came around, it is the best game From is capable of making. I genuinely do not know how they can follow it in "the From style."
They could, but even if they did, it would have to be like Dracula, epistolary. Most of the narrative comes in notes and item menu description lore, Western-gamer-style.
Yes, yes, yes, I love this, especially the last part. It works for plot suspense, of course, but it makes sense theologically. There's "what plebians can understand," there's "what educated people can understand," and then, as mentioned, the true nature of the Great Ones is something no one can understand.
Yeah, I think Jake, while great, rolled up "creeds," "baptism," and "communion" into 1 thing.
"What if there is no God" is somewhat a modern problem, isn't it? Private atheism existed, but all societies were just trying to solve the problem of how to live in this god-driven world we know exists! Bloodborne's the 1st video game in a couple of years to make me really think about religion, my favorite thing. I…
I know, sorry. Is "bread" the molecular structure that forms what we know as "American-by-way-of-Europe bread?" Or is bread a concept or entity that we understand in this world?
It makes me sad that people don't really learn theology or philosophy, specifically Greek, these days.
These reviews/comments section about Insanely Great and a gorgeous review of the new Jason? Is it my birthday?