Originally Posted by
Ricky
Originally Posted by
Melike
It is said that Steward had became another 'thing' because of the lightning. Which is similar to the event in The Astronout's Wife. I thought an alien consciousness
had been put into the real Steward's body during the happening.
See, that's exactly what I thought: that some kind of alien "soul" was placed into Steward's body via the lightening, kind of like in War of the Worlds. Steward was reporting back to his employer (the other aliens) about the test and humans' reactions to it, which would explain why he looked genuinely suprised and touched when Norma said she felt compassion towards him--because he had grown accustomed to the idea that all humans were immoral.
A theory I had regarding this was that because of Norma's compassion towards Steward, the test and outcome of it will begin to change little by little with each couples' desicion until it is finally passed.
Dark Tower VII Spoiler:
That is cool! If we were sure it was a test to pass the purgatory to reach the other life or a higher level of being, this would be the best explanation.
*I wonder if there is something, some image or story that we, people here, can not associate with Dark Tower?
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Originally Posted by
Ricky
Originally Posted by
Melike
After Arthur had stepped into one of the water doors Nora asked him what he saw in the light. Arthur said that it was a place, neither here nor there, but somewhere in between, a place where the sidewalk ended.
At first, I thought that place was a kind of purgatory.
Yup, same here. I think that's the only hint of purgatory that we got, but I think it's enough. But something I've never understood about purgatory portrayed in movies and books: how does one die in purgatory?
That's really weird. And cruel.
What do you think that happens to a guy who died in purgatory?
Originally Posted by
Ricky
Originally Posted by
Melike
They are pushed to the choices, not by their free will, in my humble opinion. I also believe that even they haven't done anything else(like making you lose our job of need money) and asked you to push a button to earn money, and accept to be responsible for a person's death, naturally your thoughts would be canalised into the river of ''acting'', instead of not to do something.
So your thoughts are that no matter the circumstances, decisions are solidified by morals? That's kind of what I was thinking too. Though I'm having a hard time disputing that Steward
didn't sabotage their lives to make them push the button. Hmm...
I believe desicions are solidified by the three musketeers; id, ego and superego. But when the conditions change and get harder, id gets stronger and ego can not balance basic and primitive part of subconscious with superego, anymore.
Originally Posted by
Ricky
As for the button pushing being linked to the gun's trigger...I still have no idea what to make of that.
Remember Arthur C. Clarke's third law: ''Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.''