Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31283382-20150404011045/@comment-26091912-20150407132644

Skitzo1 wrote: Kman111 wrote: To say that Aizen has "eternal life" is a misnomer, because it implies disassociation with the cycle of transmigration, therefore he has no beginning. It also implies he has no end, rendering his immortality absolute rather than potential, therefore to kill him is a physical impossibility.

What you could say is: Aizen can live on indefinitely, but it's extremely difficult to kill him using conventional means; assuming the Hogyoku can be destroyed. That statement you stated is partially wrong about the eternal life thing. Saying something such as "To say that Aizen has "eternal life" is a misnomer, because it implies disassociation with the cycle of transmigration, therefore he has no beginning. It also implies he has no end."

Basically you suggested he has no beginning. However you already addressed him with a name and a gender in your statement, something with both a given name and a gender is already living because it indicates it is organic and lives, so it had a beginning because you mistaking addressed that yourself. Rendering your statement of having no beginning, incorrect. What you should have said was "To say that Aizen has gained '"eternal life" is correct, as he never possessed it to begin with, because at some point in time he could have in fact died. Although in mose senses you could have meant "Eternal-life" which is life after death in Christian theology, realistically his "life could be eternal" which is a more practical way of addressing it.

Besides the term eternal life for Aizen is incorrect and correct. Even though Kman111 associated the cycle of transmigration with Aizen's being and his spirituality he also compared it to a Christain Theology which is Eternal Life whereas Transmigration is Sikhism. Rendering the statement obsolete and void as it was pointless to compare the two in the first place because there is no life after death, it is simply life again that leads to death.

The correct phrase is eternal as it is the same meaning as immortal, due to gaining such, Aizen no longer has an End unless all things end. Which would be a reason why he would seek to help stop Yhwach, is everything he lives in turned to nothing Aizen would no longer be in a place with an end or beginning he would be in fact, nothing, in nowhere with nothing. He wouldn't even have immortality in a literal sense because he is no longer in a place where end or beginning has any meaning. It would simply just "be" there would only be present, in all honesty "present" is just a belief, realistically for a human the term present in non-existent. With no universe or plane there is no time, without time it is utterly pointless to suggest anything has an end without anything in existence to measure it because there would be no existence just nothingness. That is to assume that if all the realms do collapse that there wouldn't be a merged realm and there wouldn't be nothingness.

The way Kubo and Central 46 addressed it is, Aizen is simply immortal, he cannot die, which means he has no end, but it is such a grandiose word and in Manga the impossible is possible so by all means even though Aizen is immortal if there is even a slight way of killing him that renders the statement incorrect in the first place.

I didn't contradict myself, your entire response is basically a tautology. The very definition of the word 'eternal' is that without beginning or end. Since Aizen has a beginning, he also has a potential end, regardless if he is now immortal. Therefore the term "eternal life" is slightly inaccurate to describe a status that could change in the future.