G'Day All!

(And yes, Aussies still use this greeting on a regular basis, although
Tourists who are unlucky enough to only ever visit the 'Little
Americas' of our Main Cities may not hear it...  Hey, the City Folk
even named a sports club 'Broncos', rather than 'Brumbies'...)

Thanks for going over the Theories I had, & for pointing out counter
arguments to them, going from canon.

Could you please answer a couple of other nagging questions I've got?
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#1- when we first see Rei#1 in the TV series (episode 21), she is with
Gendo, & the top of her head is about the bottom of where Gendo's belt
would be.  Official art of Rei#2 (or Rei#3) in her plugsuit has her
almost as tall as Gendo's shoulder.  Life-size models of Rei in her
plugsuit quote her as being 157-160 cm tall.

Official illustrations of Rei#2 have her drawn with the 6 heads tall
format, & Chibi Rei is about a head, a head & a 1/4 (Rei#2 head sizes)
shorter compared to Gendo's Torso.

Using the info above I checked official illustrations, & standard
Pediatric Growth Charts.  From my calculations, I estimate that
Rei#1's body was too big for a five year old, & is closer to that of
child in the 9-10 year age range.

MUCH closer!

If as others have said, Rei#1 was only 5 years old when she died, did
that refer to the actual age in years of her (Rei Clone) body's
existence, rather than its (Rei Clone's) apparent physical
development, & also of the number of years in which her mind (Rei's
mind, NOT Lillith's Soul) actually had time in which to grow & develop
into the child Rei#1 was?

Admittedly, Gendo IS one the two tallest of the Main Cast, with only
Fuyutsuki coming close to him (then Kaji), so any child would look
shorter in comparison to Gendo than when compared to other people...
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#2- when Shinji is rebuilt by Unit 1 (NOT by Ritsuko), it happens
after his entry plug disgorges his plugsuit & the LCL that is supposed
to contain him.  We hear a noise & see that a naked Shinji is lying in
a pool of liquid on the catwalk some distance from Misato, & just
below the 'core' of the EVA.  However, we also notice that the catwalk
is DRY between Shinj's pool, & where Misato is.

Since this indicates that Shinji was NOT rebuilt from the contents of
the Entry plug, but from materials obtained from elsewhere in the EVA,
this raises a serious question.

If EVA's are Clones of Angels (Kaworu calls Unit2 'Adam's Dark
Shadow', meaning it doesn't have the Light of Adam's Soul in it), & if
Angels are NOT made of normal terrestrial material, it follows that
EVA's are also NOT made of normal matter.  If that is so, is Shinji
now made of Angel material like the Eva's are?  Remembering of course,
that the LCL used in the Plugs is supposed to be material from
'Lillith' down in the basement to start with.

If so, is this proof that the information in the Human Genome can be
'recreated' using Angel material?
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#3- Is Ritsuko really such an authority on EVA's?  Can she be wrong
about the important matters?  After all, Ritsuko DID say 'That's not
possible' when Unit 1 moves on its own to project Shinji.

I ask, because it was pointed out that Ritsuko WAS an authority on
EVA's, especially Unit 0's motives when going berserk.

If this is so, then Ritsuko's denial of the Tank Clones being Human,
but just 'things with human form', would mean that Rei#2 is NOT human,
but merely looks like one.
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#4- When Shinji was absorbed, his Mind/Soul still existed as 'Shinji',
even though his body did not.

Since in the NGE world a 'person' can exist separate to their body, or
even WITHOUT a body, does that mean a person can be created without
the need for a corresponding body?

What about a fictitious character that a series of perople will
impersonate?
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#5- A birthday is the day on which you celebrate being born.  Since
all REAL humans are gestated to parturition (birth) within the wombs
of their mothers, we all have birthdays, even if the person is removed
from the
womb by a Caesarean or other medical operation.

However, if you were never IN a womb, but only in some sort of
glorified Petri Dish, are you still 'born' when you are removed?  Or
are you merely 'decanted', like microbes & fungal cultures?

A human 'Birth' (of whatever type) involves a baby leaving from within
another Human's body.  But, could a child that had never been inside a
person's body BE considered to be 'born'?

If a person has not been 'Born', how could they then have a
'birthday', a day on which they celebrate an event they never
qualified for?
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#6 - When you prepare a cake for a party, you usually make it from
scratch, using raw materials.  However, when you 'prepare' a car for a
journey, you check the tires, the oil level, water in the radiator
etc, rather than 'make' or assemble the car from scratch.

What did the 'preparation' of Clones in Terminal Dogma really entail?
And is what we've read in the English Translations of EVA a true &
literal
translation?

Or is it just 'close enough'?  Could it be that translation has
'dulled' the truth of the story, like what happened with so many other
Anime, like 'Card Captors'?

How would we know if errors/mistranslations/'story fade' has occured?
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#7- I noticed in a previous post that information & dialogue from the
'Director's Cuts' of the TV series was used to counter the points &
theories I raised.

Do you also use material from the Manga version of NGE to further
refine your theories & 'world view' of NGE, or do you prefer to only
use the various TV & Film sources?  I ask, because in Japan, different
storylines are often used in the conversion from Anime to Manga & vice
versa.

Yours, dbmacpherson@INHIBITIONSuq.net.au
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