"sanjian" <sanjian@widomaker.com> wrote in message
news:xVyza.71989$_e6.16278@news2.east.cox.net...
> Blade wrote:
>
> >> of a missing woman, and the resultant confusion / odd
> >> behavior (especially since no one TELLS Rei she's
> >> got a high voltage soul in a low voltage body) HARDLY
> >> constitutes lack of completeness.
> >>
> >> Wanna try again?
> >
> > Nope.  You might make an argument she's a whole BEING from that (from
> > a certain POV), but that hardly makes her as whole PERSON (in its
> > colloquial definition of meaning "human").
>
> Well, since I was the one to pose the question, I guess I should
clarify...
>
> To me, Rei isn't a whole person much in the same way I wasn't until
recently
> (which is what got me thinking about it).  Simply put, there's something
> missing inside.  While she may go though life surviving, she really isn't
> alive.  It's like she's living simply because she was told to, much in the
> way I was living simply because I refused to take my own life (but if I
> happened to lose it, no big deal).  Think in terms of Evanessence's "Bring
> Me to Life."
>

Sounds familiar :-/

cOwMoO