User blog comment:Silver-Haired Seireitou/Sei-san's Classroom: Beyond the Spiritual Skies/@comment-3001427-20120625163956/@comment-2089817-20120625202858

Well, at first, since this was written by Chrono, I'll address my statements to him. Alright, Void?

Okay, well, to start. About the physics part of it. You know me to be very offended when my knowledge in a field that I am deeply involved in is called "ignorant". In no way did I say anti matter and reishi behave the same nor that they are the same, but in comparison to regular matter, one can consider the concepts similar, as they are both not regular matter but are still capable of some level of interaction. And I made it clear by addressing both of them that anti matter and dark matter are two different substances. I take offense to it when you infer that I am not aware of that simple fact, but perhaps the way I worded it caused one to believe that I was calling them the same thing. But I was not. Anyways...

Moving on. I don't plan on enforcing my view or trying to justify it. The purpose of this blog was merely to spark some small and experimental paradigm, and see how others would think about it. In that regard, I enjoyed reading your thoughts on the matter, and I will say this. I agree with you on several points. Residual self image as well is one concept I find to be one of the most perfect ways to explain reishi composed beings and their behavior (especially since that concept was also used in the Matrix, which is one of my favorite movies, or rather three of my favorite movies). However, the tone you use in this response sounds more like a professor lecturing a student about how they are thinking about this in the wrong way, and in that, I find myself disagreeing with you. As many have said, and used this excuse, I shall use it as well. You may decipher Bleach's concepts and contexts as much as you want, but because you are not Kubo, no matter how much research you put into this matter, if Kubo himself never explains what reishi is at its deepest core or how it truly works alongside matter, everything you say about it is nothing but an opinion at best, and therefore, it holds no higher merit than any opinion I could come up with or anyone else could. After all, this isn't chemistry or physics, where the experiment's results are what you use to base theories. This is an opinion at best, so for the future, I'd like to ask that you use that sort of tone and not as if you're calling me an idiot for not going by what you think is correct. I know you didn't literally, but the way I analyze your tone in your critique, that is how I take it.

That being said, as I mentioned before, I do agree with you. And honestly, I believe if I tried to argue this space concept versus the residual self image concept, it would be a losing battle for me. But as I also mentioned above, this blog is not meant to. If anything, I was just throwing something onto the burner for everybody to look at and maybe even spark a few ideas in some people or have them either agree or disagree (which the latter is what your opinions side). In no way do I plan to justify this concept or put too much effort into challenging someone's different opinion with this one.

And yes, you're right. At times, I do confuse the two words.