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Reviews for "SS - The Flower of Life"

Crop circles?

While I have no doubts about the existence of other life in the universe, crop circles have been proven to be man made. And what is "Spirit Science"? Sounds like another term for Creationism to me. Very nicely done and genuinely interesting, but I do agree with JustAnotherUser. You can't really call it science when it's based on spirits.

Animation's good, but idea sucks

You draw conclusions where there aren't any, and that flower is very intricate and you can make thousands of shapes from it. Also, you use the bible as verification for your claims. Not only is it pretty stupid that you had to go all religious, but everybody seems to forget that the Torah came BEFORE the bible. The bible is a knockoff. After that, you had to go and pull the fucking alien card. People who actually believed your lessons in the first placewere probably the only ones who fell for that

Holy shit.

This was great. The first comparison that jumps to mind is Extra Credits on The Escapist. This, though, discusses spirituality rather than games, and uses what more detailed pictures to get its point across. In short, it's a good video.

Going a step further, I love that you are choosing to examine metaphysics, physics, philosophy, spirituality, and reason all in the same place. It's a great premise for a series and I am fascinated.

There's not a whole lot to say after that which remains in the parameters of a "review", so I'll leave it on this note: Don't be concerned by those that choose to mock and ignore you. What you're doing is great, whether it's based on science or psuedoscience. Please do continue. I'd love to learn more. =)

Had to log in for the first time in three years...

...just so I could write a review for this. While I do appreciate the effort in animation and voice acting, I remain somewhat skeptical of the idea you present in the animation itself. Granted, I have not yet watched your other movies of this series, but I think it's safe to say they're quite like this one.
Now, you clearly draw conclusions where there are none. The reason why your "Flower of Life" is found all over the world is obviously because every civilization developed a higher form of culture which, of course, included the discovery of certain geometrical figures. That's the same reason why the swastika is found all over the world in these old cultures as well.
Trying to merge science, or rather pseudo-science like the one you're presenting here with the bible is always a touchy subject, which is why we're stuck with such horribly stupid ideas like creationism, so I'm not even going to comment on your theory that the bible backs up your claims.
As for your "egg of life", yes, zygotes spread with this pattern, because they have to stay together to form, oh, I don't know, a living being at the end. This is just nature being as economical as possible.
I didn't really get the part where you were talking about the Periodic table, probably due to my stupidity, so correct me if I'm wrong but you're basically saying that it's structured after six arbitrary geometrical shapes? If so, why a pyramid and not a different polyhedron? The ancient Greeks knew and studied a lot of these, you know. The table was actually drafted after a lot of complex observations about the elements, including mass, number of electrons, their behavior in chemical reactions and so on.
Now, what really bugs me about your theory is that you base it upon "spirits". Seriously, what is a spirit? It's not a scientific unit, which means anything based on it is not too scientific either because, well...it cannot actually be measured. I mean, sure, if you base a philosophy on a udjat drawing circles, that's perfectly fine, but it sure will not explain our existence or rather our origin.
Since I know that most of Newgrounds are 13-year-old fanboys who can't even come up with the patience to read a single paragraph, I shall now offer the tl:dr: version of my review.

Nice animation, nice voice-acting, but you're just drawing conclusions where there are absolutely none. It's all just a series of coincidences.

Know this sentence? That's how most of these wacky conspiracy theories are easily explained. For instance, people like to point out how the assassinations of JFK and Abraham Lincoln are somehow linked because they took place exactly on the same date 100 years later, the murderers had the same birthday, etc. See how a series of absolutely random events somehow seems to make perfect sense and build up a theory? In hope that this isn't just some elaborate trolling scheme, I leave you with a 3/5 and a 5/10 for your efforts and the quality of the animation.

RiverJordan responds:

Well the series is called "Spirit Science", i am explaining what spirit is through the process of the series, i don't have the time to do it in just 10 minutes.

As for "why a pyramid and not a different polyhedron", because they're not platonic solids. They're not arbitrary, there's only 5 of them in existence.

Not going for originality I see?

I'm going to guess and say that you were influenced by Extra Credits in some way? But I'm not going to take away points for not being original, because nothing is original these days.

As for the flash, I'd say it's pretty good. It's a bold step away from the constant dick jokes and videogame parodies that Newgrounds usually has. Keep making more.