soulless_shadow wrote:
God would be "playing possum" if it didn't actually die. But it did.
You're confused here.
According to the 'transformation' theory, Harry thinks that 'God' is the demonic entity whom the glowing woman transforms into. He shot it with his hunting rifle until it disappeared. For all intents and purposes, Harry *thinks* he has killed God then and there, and that the Glowing Woman is Alessa. However, according to the 'transformation' theory, that Glowing Woman is just a dying God transformed back into the Glowing woman.
So yes, God is indeed *playing possum* by feigning death.
soulless_shadow wrote:
Tricking Harry into taking the baby and then really dying isn't playing possum.
According to the transformation theory, God feigned death when its demonic form fell to the ground and disappeared/transformed back into the Glowing Woman.
soulless_shadow wrote:
If the God didn't really die, then why create
in an effort to be re-born at a later date?
I'm not claiming that God didn't die, nor am I claiming that that is what you are asserting. What I am pointing out is that your interpretation of events could be described as God 'playing possum'. Pretending to die one minute before you actually die is still playing possum.
But again, what I call it isn't *that* important, it's semantics and of no real consequence. What *is* important is that your overarching theory conflicts with in-game occurrences, occurrences in SH3, and the SH1 guide book.
soulless_shadow wrote:
I never said I dismissed anything. You must be taking notes from Tillerman with the assumptions (@ Tillerman
). I simply haven't had a chance to look through this, that, and everything else in an effort to be well informed enough to come up with a theory. That's kind of different to "dismissing it off hand".
But you already have come up with a theory, and when challenged by its internal inconsistencies, just shrug your shoulders and go "Pfft, I dunno". As you said yourself, this discussion has been going on for upteen pages. Surely you would have come up with a reason by now? Perhaps you need to consider your interpretation of the events of Silent Hill 1, given that all available evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the Glowing Woman = Alessa.
untamedbananaslug wrote:
And the 'Daddy' comment in the Good endings was not simply a mindfuck? What about the 'Daddy' comments by Cheryl on the telephone in the school, and on the television in the mall? You're just changing the rules whenever it suits you to do so that your theory appears plausible.
Could be all mind fucks. That's up to you. Seeing as phone and tv Cheryl happen
before God is born, I like to think that a small part of Cheryl still exists within Alessa. Well, enough to subconsciously reach out to Harry anyway.
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That's rather obvious, given that in the mall, the image of Alessa is next to that of Cheryl. Gee, could the creators be trying to tell us something about the nature of Alessa and Cheryl? Likewise, when we hear Cheryl's voice endgame, it's reasonable to assume that the creators are giving a big hint regarding the nature of the glowing woman.
[quote="soulless_shadow""]
Book of Lost Memories does indeed mention Alessa a few times. But you've just come into this thread after a whole discussion about all the inconsistencies that appear in not only the translations of Book of Lost Memories, but the actual original text itself. Let's not get back into that though. You could just read back through the thread, or I could just copy/paste.
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So you used an ambiguous statement from a book which you admit is riddled with inconsistencies to support your argument? Are you that desperate to support your axiom that Glowing Woman = God and only God.
Just from a cursory reading of the Endings, I can say that nothing in their contradicts the 'Glowing Woman = Alessa' theory, while there is a shitload of information in there which contradicts the 'Glowing Woman does not = Alessa' theory.