>>4371498You are right that 'normal' lives cannot exist for Rei. She is not a normal person and such imagined worlds are just fantasies.
The true relationship you speak of, you know of, is the ceaseless Bliss, the beloved Deae regnum, the longed-for, material Weltreich that would bring an end to all man's troubles in one fell swoop. That place, that state --- both encompassing physical and mental existence united in and by the Soul and Rei, though outside dimensional time --- is what we seek, having seen a representation of it in the Instrumentality of Evangelion. Rationally, we may be led to the opinion that it does not exist here, or at the minimum that there exists no proof of it. But only the ignorant think they know everything and only the fool thinks there is nothing left for him to learn, so, in that sense, hope, ironically, in agreement with Yue remains alive for as long as we are, for so long as we are living we may pursue knowledge. Then, in equal irony, after we leave this place, we definitively learn the truth, though take it with us.
Thus the blind live in and for the search of something they cannot find, then die enlightened, unable to share what they have discovered. At least, that is as it seems. This realization seems to be the font of Despair, of Destrudo, as it is the rational mind's dissonant crashing with the spiritual resonance of Her call, which seems to be fulfillable only in dying, which we are wont not to do, as it ceases, seemingly, our ability to have influence on the only world we know, which means the end of our journey. But in many cultures, it is not so, and how are we to say what awaits us at the end of time, when death shall be no more? At the end of death, when time shall be no more?
