Subject: [FFML] Re: Youmas Attack the United States.
From: Salvador Escrivá
Date: 1/8/2004, 3:43 PM
To: 


Well I do not know about other countries, but here in Spain,
the army (each of it's sections) has holy days. As in religious
celebration, not days of from work. I have seen dogs being
blessed, horses, a goat, etc, not to mention swords, banners,
guns, etc. In an extreme case I have heard that during Santa
Barbara someone had a fighter plane blessed. I can easily
inmagine that military organizations all over the world would
also have similar traditions. It is possible that it can be more
common in the old continent, but I can not belive it is exclusive
to Europe.
And that is not taking into account the Pope's personal guard,
and some of remains of the old knightly orders. They may not
be their old glory but once the deamons start to pop, faith in
them againg would surely grow back.
And in all muslim areas it could get worse, the terrorist of one
country is the hero of another. Some of the members of this
organizations consider themshelves holy warriors. It may be
that their only crime is being manipulated.
Also is there a proper faith that is effective or just the plain
conviction on something. If it is the first well thats the afterlife
for you, but if it is the second, I have to pity those deamons.
There must be millions of people who belive in diferent things
than I do but if they really belive, Why would it not work?

Well that is my opinion, which could be wrong, green, or
whatever you like.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <sebastien-renon@club-internet.fr>
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Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 5:31 PM
Subject: [FFML] Re: Youmas Attack the United States.






Well, it was an interesting take on the possibilities of such a
situation, but...

On Jan 8, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Firethorn wrote:


It was discovered that blessed bullets, especially from
certain pious individuals, were more effective.  It certainly resulted
in
certain priests being, well, marked as fraudulent.  Our reaction was,
well,
extreme.  This was a HOLY fight.  Many mullahs were torn apart after
their
'blessings' proved less than effective in killing the beasts.


Er...am I the only one who found this part lacking in sensitivity?
There are pious muslims just as there are pious people from any
religion. You make it seem like only Christian blessings have any
effect, when the Senshi are certainly not Christian.

Peter



I was going to adress this point, but firethorn has answered it already.

That

said, and considering the statement that what matters is the faith of the
blessing man, you can draw two conclusions :
First, even pagans, boudhists and so on are able to bless ammunitions.
Second, if what is important is faith, non-blessed rounds used by a real
believer (in whatever) should at the very least be as usefull.


There are a few other points beside that one I'd like to raise.

If I remember well (I've never been much of a SM fan), youma are after

people's

life energy, ans they usually try to get it throught somewhat subtle means
(they're not that stupid or mindless, and are ordered around by Beryl's

generals

who are anything but stupid). The rampage usually starts when the senshis

find

out about their latest scheme. There must be somekind of reason to explain

the

way they act in US (outside Japan ?), maybe somekind of wild ones or

something.


Another thought is, the best way to unite Humanity is to give it a common

foe,

which has been adressed somewhat with the 'alliance' between USA and

China, but

seems somewhat lacking (maybe it's just me). On the other hand, the

generals

seems smart enough to ally themselves/manipulate with some human nations
(especially those really ressentful against US).

One last thing is that if there are report about people fighting youmas

with

unorthodox means (namely, the senshis), you can bet your ass every and any

kind

of intelligence service will investigate - I'd guess it wouldn't take more

than

a couple of months before they know the 'civil' IDs of the senshis. Taking

into

account that whatever country they're from, these agencies don't play

fair, I

would imagine two possible outcome of such a situation. Worst case

scenario,

they kidnap them in order to use them (through brainwashing)/try to

understand

and replicate their power. The outcome of such an occurence would really

be ugly.

But even if the officials do play nice (I'd imagine something along the

lines of

Ultimates' Fury 's attitude with spiderman), it could turn dark - "We

can't

afford to lose you, you must be protected when you're not transformed..."

or

"Senshi, please teleport to whatever location for the 16th case of the

week.

What do you mean you're exhausted, there are people dying out there..."

Anyway, these are the few thoughts this piece inspired me.


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