Despair is vanity, just as hope is

Hello everyone, I'm new to Yuri, writing a review for the first time, a lot of advice

Although I haven't been an otaku for a long time, it's only been more than a year, but I've watched a lot of anime. Entertainment works such as anime or TV dramas have two aesthetic purposes, reflecting reality or constructing a world for the audience to escape from reality. At present, most of the works, at least among the ones I have seen, the construction of the world to allow the audience to escape from reality is predominant, and the so-called worldview setting is this kind of negative nihilism (passive).

nihilism). The popularity of hot-blooded anime, even in the case of Harry Potter, attracts viewers or readers mostly in the sense of empathy, that is, the recipient of the artwork fantasizes about itself as some of the characters in order to obtain a pleasure that cannot be experienced in the real world. For example, to uphold "justice", to gain everyone's approval, to establish so-called "bonds", and so on, is more about gaining at least the ability or potential for change, that is, non-ordinary. And most of the character settings of hot-blooded anime are a protagonist who has no talent, and what the so-called hot-blooded efforts eventually become, what goals are achieved, who is saved, etc., fits the audience's sense of mediocrity and expectations of a different feeling. This kind of fascination,In most anime,I will have some more or less。 Even in a work with a negative element such as EVA, Shinji said that others are hell (L'enfer,

c'estles Autres) negative thoughts complete all of humanity, and his own personality is also negative and escapist, but he actually changed the world, taking revenge on reality in a way that destroys others (although in the end it is inevitable that human society realizes that others hurt and hurt others), and this opportunity for revenge is rare in reality, so I still have a sense of identity and yearning for the role of Shinji. However, for the magical girl Madoka,,I don't have any idea at all to become one of them.,Even if it's a round god.,I definitely don't want to be.,It's not because of the fate of their magical girls who will inevitably perish.,Or the fate that can't exist after becoming a rule.,It's actually because of the powerlessness that they can't completely deconstruct the rules of reality after they get the power of reason.。

The nature of the deconstructionism of the magical girl Madoka (Deconstructionism) has been put forward very early, and its principle and angle are nothing more than the deconstruction of the setting of the magical girl in the general sense of this work, and the final deconstruction and reconstruction of the rules of the magical girl by the end of the circle (here, I will complain a little, how similar is the principle of the ring to the Kabbalah Tree of Life...... It's probably a symbol of breaking the rules of the old world and reconstructing it.,But the symbol structure is still about the same.,Didn't destroy all you.,New house.。 ）

The development process of deconstructivism is from existentialism to structuralism, and finally to the emergence of anti-structuralist deconstructivism, which focuses on the value of individual existence, while structuralism attaches importance to the importance of structure over individual existence itself, while deconstructionism doubts the existence of a supreme rule and value of the structure. This work is very successful in the deconstruction of magical girls in the traditional sense, using layers of onion skinning (combat cruelty - headless senior sister, magical girl inhuman nature - soul stripping, magical girl destination - beautiful tree becomes a witch, the value of magical girls - the second theorem of inverse thermodynamics) to expose the reality of magical girls in this worldview, and deconstruct the invincible and costless mindset of magical girls in the traditional sense, where deconstructivism is a method of artistic creation, And the idea of deconstructionism is at most reflected in the behavior of the garden god to change the rules, but as you can see, because the desire is to destroy the witch before the witch is born, that is, to forcibly deprive the "hope" into "despair" and create a gap to do the work, but with the disappearance of the witch, the low-density desperate "Warcraft" appears again. The inevitable appearance of this despair is precisely the expression of Yuanshen's inability to deconstruct the unconventionality and cruelty of magical girls. The magical girl still can't escape the battle.,Despair and disappear.。 This balance of energy consumed by the wishes of magical girls is inevitable.,It's a necessity for the balance of reality.,It's also the despair of magical girls who are gaining unrealistic abilities but still can't completely rewrite reality.。 This coercive balancing act proves that this work is not a completely deconstructivist work, and although the absolutely objective Great Other is not present and the circle god has become the existence of new rules, the basic rules of this world balance cannot be broken. On the contrary, as a witch, the existence of zài, with the purpose of destruction, has a negative concept of the world, the witch of relief (Kriemhild

Gretchen's nature is to absorb all human beings into what she thinks of as the kingdom of heaven, in a sense, it denies reality and deconstructs the rules, because the witch's barrier is controlled by the witch, so if this barrier continues to expand (see the enclosed space of the Liang Palace), it can become a new world that completely deconstructs the rules of the old world.

So I think that this work is just using deconstructivism as a technique, but what it wants to express is definitely not a deconstructionist worldview. Rather, this work focuses more on the meaning and importance of personal existence. The dialogue between Q Bei and Madoka in Chapter 9 reflects the difference between Q Bei and Madoka on the value of life, that is, Madoka attaches importance to the existence and happiness of each individual, while Q Bei focuses on the stability and development of the overall structure of the universe, which is the conflict between existentialism and structuralism. Of course, it is obvious that both the creator and the audience are biased towards Madoka here, after all, we are all human beings, and there is no completely objective logical loop of Q Bei. In my opinion, several magical girls are the symbols of human existence, and their hope and despair are our hope and despair.

Basumi: Senpai is the first and most resentful character of Bento, and she appears in the anime as a kind of senior and teacher, no matter how many weeks of the show. The reason why she became a magical girl was her desire to live (is it to call an ambulance?). She also fulfills her obligations as a magical girl for the happiness of others. However, no matter how strong and powerful the characters seem, the loneliness in human nature is conveyed through the character of Asami. I believe everyone remembers the confession of death in the third episode, although the senior sister is a powerful being, the loneliness in the heart of the strong is also huge, and she hopes to have a comrade-in-arms who can fight side by side with her. For the topic of loneliness, I won't expand on it here, and EVA is more thoroughly dissected.

Sayaka Miki: The most idealized character in the entire anime, she is a human paranoia about an absolutely righteous and perfect morality, and is willing to die for it, but in the process of achieving absolute justice, she has a curse, although her attack is similar to the crucifixion of Jesus, and she is powerless to choose to forgive those who hurt her in the face of blows and pain. Her yearning for sacredness and the suppression of ultimate reality are also symbols of humanity's conflict with reality in the pursuit of ideals, and Madame Bovary can be used as a reference to this character.

Kyoko Sakura: In contrast to Sayaka, she is a representative of realism, admitting that the law of the jungle is the strong, and she is also fully aware of the nothingness of idealized justice, and instead fights only for survival. However, she still has a trace of ideals and romanticism, and finally chose to die with the mermaid witch. This character is completely relative to Sayaka, the principles of the two people's life are completely opposite, but Sayaka's "I'm so stupid" and Kyoko's "It's already such a life, just let me have a happy dream......" shows the fit of the two people's thoughts after the reality washes away.

The three characters mentioned above, for the other two characters, have the meaning of supporting roles, and deconstruct the mindset of magical girls with their deaths, and this deconstruction is for Madoka to see, after all, Flame has known for a long time. The above three characters can be called the other in reality. Needless to say, the remaining two magical girls are the central characters and will be the focus of my analysis.

Xiao Meiyan: I must say, she's a fighter. I even think that it can be compared with the passers-by in Lu Xun's "Passerby". How many reincarnations she has experienced, we don't know, the hurt and despair of each reincarnation, and the things that will inevitably happen in each reincarnation, the things that cannot be stopped, she has re-experienced it over and over again. The struggle she makes in each reincarnation is an attempt again and again in situations where fate is known, or even meaningless. The most painful punishment that human beings can experience is to be forced to do meaningless things in infinite loops, like Sisyphus. However, the meaninglessness of the infinite reincarnation of the flame is based on one's own will. Just as the passer-by's walk is based on the call of a voice in front of him, even though the front is a tomb, death is nothingness, passers-by must go down, in order to transcend death, beyond a spiritual value understanding of nothingness; Flame's walk is a repetition of walking in a period of time, knowing everything that lies ahead, everyone's death, but she wants to seize even the smallest opportunity to transcend this meaninglessness. Her oath of reincarnation "reincarnation... No matter how many times, I still choose reincarnation, countless explorations, looking for the only exit. Find the path that will save you from a desperate fate", Flame's determination to break through the emptiness of the value of human life is extremely resolute. The process of reincarnation of flame rebelling against nothingness and seeking hope is similar to the process of walking against nothingness and seeking the value of life that is not nothing. Her coldness and independence in the later reincarnation does not mean that she has reduced her emotions because of the nihilistic nature of reality and reincarnation and the constant repetition of others, after all, her will is directed to save a specific person, which is the same as the passer-by refuses to accept the favor of the little girl, the excessive bondage of emotions will hinder the walking against nothingness, but this does not mean that there is no emotion, in fact, the emotions of the flame and the passerby are extremely deep. Flame also has uncontrollable emotions in the anime, crying in front of Madoka, which also reflects the nature of Flame to be closer to human than passers-by, she is a warrior but she is also a lonely girl with an introverted nature. The difference between Flame and Passerby's expression of affection is that Passerby resolutely and resolutely rejects the possible obstacles that feelings may cause to walking, while Flame has to control his feelings because of the difference in cognition between himself and the people around him. I say that flame is more like real human beings because ordinary people do not have the spirit of resisting nothingness like Mr. Lu Xun, and they do not have the resolute will of passers-by to pursue the value of transcending nothingness, because the realization of the value of flame is a visible goal and a tangible goal, although it is a Sisyphean pursuit, and the pursuit of passers-by is an experience of ultimate value beyond the nothingness of life, which is unknowable, at least, human beings are unknown and confused about nothingness. It is not rational to support the passer-by to walk, he knows that the front is death or nothingness, according to the general rational thinking, that is, with the symbol of the old man, it is necessary to give up and not move forward, on the contrary, the passer-by is driven by the voice in front of him - an irrational will, that is, the search for value beyond nothingness, which is a level that reason cannot understand. Flame's self-worth is driven by feelings.,But it's a rational pursuit.,She's pursuing the result of Madoka's ability to live without becoming a magical girl.。 Note that emotion, although incomplete, is also influenced by reasoning to a large extent. Her only despair came after she realized that her actions had increased the pain that Madoka might have experienced, because the will to walk was extinguished by acts of resistance, just like the warrior in Lu Xun's "Such a Warrior", who lost his own fighting meaning due to the essence of the object of the battle was nothing. But the warrior chose to "raise the throwing spear", which is a reflection of the fact that after Yan Zaiyuan finally became a magical girl and changed some of the rules of the world, her original will was destroyed by irreversible, she still chose to fight, and in the battle to experience the meaning of protecting this world, to experience Madoka's love, it can be said that she rebelled against nothingness, and the process of finding irrational meaning in existence not only did not end, but also became greater with the lack of value. Compared with passers-by, I respect Flame's rebellion against nothingness more, not because she is rippling black and straight, but because her rebellion is to realize the value she has decided, rather than because passers-by rebel against nothingness in search of value. The reincarnation of flame expresses a sense of absurdity of human existence, the infinite recovery and reincarnation of nothingness, absurdity and meaninglessness, which is the argument of nihilism. The flame symbolizes all confused human beings, searching for the meaning of their lives and never achieving their goals. Despite this, she chooses to move on, which is a portrayal of rebellion against nothingness and despair.

Madoka Kame: Some people say that Madoka is a natural saint, and I agree with her that she is a saint, but it is a little inappropriate to say that she was born, and in a work in the absence of the Great Other, it is impossible to have the so-called character who must be born as a god or a demon, and according to my view of flames, rebellion against fate is also something that this work wants to express. Based on this, I believe that Madoka is not a natural saint Yuanjin, let alone a god determined by fate, but a god chosen by the will to save. As a protagonist, her setting deconstructs the unconventionality of the general anime protagonist, and even we see Madoka's mother's teaching of her to deal with things, it can be said that she is even an ordinary student, her strength is that she has no strengths, her character is kind, a character who is so mediocre that it can no longer be mediocre, and the desire to become a magical girl for the first time is also mediocre to the extreme to save a kitten. Moreover, in the reincarnation where the first 9 episodes are located, she has always appeared as an observer, and her existence has hardly been able to change the fate of anyone. The reason why she is the protagonist is due to the concentration of cause and effect on the one hand, and on the other hand, it lies in the sacredness of her character - fraternity. If Senpai made a wish based on her life, Sayaka made a wish based on her love, Kyoko made a wish based on her affection for her father, and Xiao Yan made a wish based on her friendship with Madoka, then Madoka is the only one who is truly selfless and wants nothing to realize this wish for "others". In the various reincarnations before Flame returned to Madoka and became a magical girl, Madoka signed a contract after knowing the truth about the magical girl, and the starting point was always to save others, and for herself, it didn't matter what happened, as long as she could change the fate of others. This can be seen even when Madoka didn't become a magical girl.,The problem that Madoka and her mother consulted,It's mostly a friend's trouble.,The reaction she should have.,It can be seen that Madoka's own style of doing things has already been decided.,What she needs is some life skills that her mother taught her.。 Madoka is very similar to Jesus in my mind, fraternity, courage to sacrifice, and has become a new value and rule, Madoka is detached from Sayaka in that she does not hold an absolute righteousness, detached from her sister in the fear of loneliness, detached from Apricot in not succumbing to reality, detached from flame in the breadth of love, she does not fight for hope, but is saved by her own love as hope, Jesus can actually choose to save himself when he was crucified, but he chose to be crucified, The reason for this is that Jesus did not need absolute justice from God, (are there those who believe in Christ?). I don't believe it, if it's wrong, welcome to correct it) but to embrace and bear the original sin of mankind with love, to save human beings who are oppressed by reality in sin, just as Madoka does not make a wish for her own existence or the value of the flame, but to tolerate and bear the despair of magical girls with a love that transcends her individual. However, the tragedy of her is also obvious, even if she overcomes all her own despair and creates new rules at the expense of Zào, she still needs to abide by the principle of balance, Sayaka she can't stop it, and there is no way for the humans who have become magical girls to turn back. This is the failure of the deconstructivists, and the sadness that ideals, hindered by the rules of reality, can make changes, but they must not completely destroy the original values. At least, Madoka here realizes the detachment of the meaning of existence, realizes the non-universal value of fraternity as the active state of existence and nothingness, and gets rid of the unknowable fate of human beings for nothingness, but her intermediate absence and ubiquitous presence have not been able to realize all the value, pain and despair still exist, and the value and purpose in the extreme sense, even if it is beyond the existence of the zài, there is no way to achieve and change. So in fact, this anime is an acknowledgment of an absolute rule of existence.

In fact, the setting of this work,Another advantage is that the witch is from a magical girl.,This not only deconstructs the definition of a traditional magical girl.,And a good deconstruction of the binary opposition of good and evil.,Here the magical girl is unjust.,And the witch is not absolutely evil.,It's just that the magical girl is in line with universal values.,Its existence zài is considered to be a positive existence.。 However, despair and hope are still binary opposites in the setting, and I have no objection to this, after all, despair and hope are indeed binary opposites in most people's values and psychology. But for my personal understanding, despair and hope are not two ends of the balance that must be opposed, must be balanced, as Pei Duofei said, "despair is vain, just the same as hope", despair and hope are the same nihilism. The two people who break through the boundaries of despair and hope in the anime are Madoka and Flame, both of whom intend to break through the rules of nothingness and reality with the will to save.

Okay, let's stop writing, in fact, there are still a lot of things I want to say, extreme, words can't describe, the experience of soul self-section, but after writing it, I feel very refreshed, after all, this work is pressed in my heart, and I don't vomit unpleasantly. This is just my own personal understanding, and I don't mean to deny everyone's understanding, and to communicate different understandings of the work, so that I can improve the depth of my understanding.

Appendix:

Some understanding of the setting

About Q Bei: Noting that although Q Bei can realize the wishes of magical girls, he can't control the wishes of the magical girls, nor can he control the wishes of the magical girls, and can be changed by the wishes of the magical girls (after the wish of the gods is realized, Q Bei didn't know that there was a witch as an energy collection method before), and the race to which Q Bei belonged was worried about the heat death of the universe. The wish of a magical girl is not something that can be fulfilled by any wish, and Madoka also gained the god-like ability to fulfill wishes after many reincarnations. When Q Bei popularized the knowledge of physics to Madoka, he mentioned that "this source of energy is the magic of a magical girl" and "discovered" that the emotional power of human beings can distort the theorem of thermodynamics. When Q Bei discovered the reason why Madoka is strong, he also mentioned that the criterion for whether a magical girl is strong is the assembly of its causal lines, that is, the stronger the cause and effect that will be involved in becoming a magical girl, the greater its power. The above reasons can fully prove that the race of Q Bei is not a truth and rule-maker, and it is not an absolutely objective existence of the Great Other.

About the contract: The contract with Q Bei is just an act of extracting the soul to make an entity, so that the emotional energy has a way to be transformed into physical energy, and it is not a sacred contract. The absolute truth of the pact that urges magical girls to fulfill their pact of fighting witches is not the pact itself, but the magical girls' grief

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About SoulGem and GriefSeed: Needless to say, the spirit core is the place where the soul of the magical girl is extracted, and its role is to control the body and release magic (that is, the power of positive feelings), the consumption of positive emotions means the generation of negative emotions, and when it reaches the critical point, it will be broken due to despair and produce witches. The existence of witches is based on the negative feelings in the soul, and the seed of lament is quite the same as a core of collecting negative emotions, when witches eat people, most of them stimulate the despair in the human heart, and lure them to commit suicide, and the collection is negative feelings. The seed of lament that can be obtained by defeating the witch.,Its name is seed.,It means that it can grow.,It's also revealed in the plot.,If you absorb too much, there will be bad consequences.,That is, when you absorb the negative emotions of the magical girl and reach the threshold of generating a witch.,The witch will be generated.。

Some people ask why she doesn't directly turn the magical girl into the kind of non-cruel and costless existence of the magical girl in the traditional sense, this is because she can't, and her wish will never be able to change the balance, the bigger the distortion needs the greater the reverse distortion to counteract, very simply, if the magical girl will appear hopeful, there will be no despair, and naturally the world will be unbalanced and distorted to the point that it is impossible to exist.

About qualifications: There are many references to talent in the work, such as Sayaka's spirit core is more likely to accumulate pollution, while Madoka's qualifications can surpass those of powerful people such as Apricot and Senpai. I think that this talent and aptitude are actually two different things.,Talent is determined by the character of a magical girl.,Aptitude is determined by the attached causal line.。 Talent is determined by this.,In the case of Sayaka.,The speed of the spirit core turbidity,Of course, the difference in the speed of turbidity also determines the difference in the amount of magic power that can be used.,And this talent.,It's determined by the magical girl's own personality ability to endure despair.。 Sayaka is the easiest to accumulate curses in the anime, and she is also the character who is most negatively affected by reality, and Flame has hardly taken the initiative to purify the spirit core in the anime, which shows that after many reincarnation trainings, her ability to endure despair has naturally improved. Qualification determines the size of the magic that can be applied.,That is, the range of magic girl's hope to be able to influence.,This qualification is of course said by Q Bei.,It's the cause and effect that magical girls need to bear.,The more cause and effect that needs to be affected.,The greater the scope of natural influence.。 The cause and effect that Madoka endured after many reincarnations was the huge causal amount that created the zào parallel universe because of her, and in this way, Madoka's qualification was that the causal weight she endured was too heavy, so her magical power was naturally extremely strong. The ability to resist despair determines the amount of magic, and cause and effect determine the strength of magic, which explains why in the week in the dream at the beginning, Madoka immediately becomes a witch of relief after defeating the witch's night with one blow, that is, the magic strength is so strong that the amount of mana determined by resisting despair is exhausted with one blow.

About the size of the wish:Another problem that is not clearly explained in the animation is that although Q Bei said to any girl who intends to sign a contract that any wish can be fulfilled,And mention that with Madoka's qualifications,Any wish can be fulfilled,There is a sense of contradiction.。 I feel that Q Bei has used his classic speaking tactic of deliberately leaving a hole to fill in the hole this time, and any wish here refers to a wish within the magic intensity determined by its own causal amount, and any wish that Madoka says refers to the amount of causality that Madoka bears is so great that any distorted wish can be fulfilled.

About the wish-granting mechanism: As I said above, Q-Bei is not a kind of existence of the rules for wish-fulfillment, it is just a way-style character that allows magical girls to use their feelings as magic. What really makes the wish come true is the energy released when the souls of the magical girls are released.

About reincarnation: Notice Flame's wish, "When I meet Shikame, I want to start over, it's not that I can't protect her, I want to be the me who can protect her." The condition of Flame's reincarnation is to "become the me who can protect her", which means that if Madoka fails to complete the protection in a way that can be recognized by Flame, Flame must meet Madoka again to ensure that the wish for protection is fulfilled. In the third week, the flame changed the date when the fourth week returned, that is, because Yuan asked the flame to save her before being deceived by Q Bei, so the condition of "protecting the circle" changed, and the way of fulfilling the natural wish also changed. And in the end, after the deification of the little circle, the flame still failed in the task of protecting the circle, but the flame did not choose to reincarnate again, this is because she accepted the choice made by the circle, that is to say, the desire to "protect the circle" has changed again, because there is no need to "start over", so she naturally lost the ability to control time and use the ability of the small circle to fight, because her wish became the world that the circle wants to protect, in a certain sense, it still meets the desire to "protect the circle", that is, the desire to protect the circle.

As for why I don't write about the feelings and bonds between them: I want to write about enough people, so I'll write an essay that is purely analytical, Aitsuko's essay is very good, he himself says that he is too cooky, but I was very inspired, and this essay was also written under his influence in a large way.

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An animation to sublimate to the level of ism, value went to this level

Is it that I can't read it or you guys are reading it too well.

This is to engage in scientific research. Is there any analysis from the perspective of storyboarding, the software used to make the animation, etc.?

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I can say some about the artistic characteristics and techniques of the picture, with a little bit of storyboarding

As for the process of making zuò, I don't know

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There are a thousand Hamlets for a thousand readers.

My point is that, strictly speaking, opinions other than the author are speculation.

What ideas does the author want to express, what points of opinion does not express, and from what angle does the animation be made. It's all known only to him.

But I admire this kind of deep thinking. Otherwise, the fast food will not be nutritious.

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Nor can it be said to be speculation

First of all, there is a saying that image is greater than thinking

Then there is the inexplicability of the original meaning of the text

All understandings of the work arise by joining the reader's audience's thoughts

Even if the author is like this, sometimes he will have an understanding of the work that he did not have at the time of creation because of the re-reading or the influence of the reader's thoughts.

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Author: You think too much......

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Well, it's a lot of thinking, but it's fun to think about, isn't it?

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Very nutritious, I think, fun.

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To tell you the truth, because I don't have the thinking of the UP master, I often read this kind of analysis several times

Personally, I think that Mo Shao can go beyond the level of animation itself, causing controversy in many parties, analysis or discussion, which is also a great success.

Therefore, both in terms of commercial effect and topic effect, it is a success.

As for the various religious structures mentioned in the article, I think maybe Lao Xuan himself won't think about it so much, he just wants to make the otaku depressed

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Yes, my original purpose was to express my own understanding, and I didn't say that Lao Xuan wanted to express this

And my subtitle is also "From the perspective of Cunzàiism", that is, there will be a different understanding from other perspectives, and maybe I will have time to write an analytical essay on Madoka from other perspectives

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If you really want to investigate, in fact, the methods used by Lao Xuan are not new, whether it is the structuralism you are talking about, the so-called emotional backheat effect, or the time travel, including lewd beasts...... If you want to talk about the success point of the magic less, I personally think that it completely subverts the ease with which previous magic works can gain power (or the halo effect of the protagonist). Hand over your soul, fulfill your wishes, and finally die a witch. The cruelty of the characters makes it easy for the viewer to substitute and resonate. In the end, including whether the ending is a good end or another nightmare, there is no clear certainty, which is perhaps the most important point

In my humble opinion, it is not enough to see

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Well,I do want to say why Xiaoyuan is on fire.,It's nothing more than the reason you mentioned.,My article,To be honest, I have some ideas.,Confide in the setting of Xiaoyuan.,Hoping for temporary psychological comfort.,At the same time, by the way, practice the pen.,It can be said that many ideas are the products of the image greater than the theory of thinking.,It's just the ideological connotation imposed by me in a certain sense.。

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I don't know where the author was taught?

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Inherited from nothingness

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Although I don't have the patience to read it, my intuition is very powerful

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I feel that such an analysis is far-fetched. It's like a Chinese teacher analyzing the feeling of reading.

However, I am more interested in the law of cause and effect, according to the theory, going back to the past can only change the universe in which we live, but changing the universe in which we live will inevitably have the same thing as the butterfly effect, and it is impossible to encounter what I have encountered. Is infinite reincarnation really necessary?