NGEFan

NGEFan t1_jb2cpr7 wrote

I don't know, anyone can call any piece of literature pretty basic philosophy. One thing I will say in counterpoint is I've seen more in depth discussion of NGE on forum.evageeks.org than I've seen online for most or all of the fiction I've seen read as part of university philosophy classes. But I'm not sure that matters either. If even one person finds the ideas of the first ancestral race more interesting than Meursault or some much deeper fiction than I can imagine, who is anyone to say they are wrong?

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NGEFan t1_j27uio1 wrote

Well for one thing, the north or south direction is always stated first. So the words would be northwest or southeast. Still, why southwest instead of northeast? I imagine south because you go south to get closer to the equator where it's warmer. Maybe west because the U.S. is in the west and even if you travel to New York, it's still the "Western world". Even Europe is considered "West despite being the eastern portion of most standard maps, it's still west of the true "East" that is associated with Asia, which is itself often divided between "Asia" and "South east Asia".

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