So you're simply trolling around by dismissing the theory with nothing more to say. Thanks, that clears up everything.
Well, maybe you should consider why I'm dismissing the theory. It isn't because of the evidence, it's just strange to imagine.....like imagining Genta kissing Ayumi....or Gin dressing up as Vermouth....
Do you even know what you wrote here? If I was "influenced" by your logic, I wouldn't have said it, because then it had meant that I agree with you (which I'm not). Are you saying that your logic is greater than mine, therefore I should be influenced by it? (that's the way it seems to me).
You think there is logic in "everyone is influenced by everything" but this is simply an insult towards so many artists who came out with original ideas of their own. You basically say "their ideas were influenced by experience and ideas of other people" You simply dismiss the originallity of everyone, and that is plainly stupid. If people didn't come up with ideas of their own, with no relation to the influence given by other people, the world would have been much more different than it is today.
People who search for the logic are doing it with SCIENCE, and influence is the LAST thing but scientific.
Your way of thinking isn't logical, it's simply the easier way to escape the logical way. It's so easy to say "he was influenced" or "due to his experience blablabla..."
Actually your theory is LESS scientific. My second major is a science: psychology. Scientists believe everything is influenced and began with something, even human life. Many biologists believe in evolution, which is started from influences in the atmosphere. The genes we have are also triggered by something....or an influence. Otherwise, there is no meaning for the word....
No one is as original as they want to be. INFLUENCE is the essence of science my friend. Maybe you should re-evaluate that. People don't like to hear the truth of science and logic because it sounds less than happy. Yes, it'd be an idealistic world to say we are all original, when realistically, we are all influenced by each other. It is why there is such thing as growing and development, main scientific terms.
your views are more idealistic, and more optimistic about human life than scientific and realistic.....which you can believe if you want to.
I don't know one artist that wasn't influenced by an artist before them. Michael Jackson wasn't just original. Elvis Presley, his father, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder influenced him and his music. Heck, his dancing wasn't his own. He was inspired and influenced by a magician. If there is no influence there is no inspiration. Lady Gaga got her style from Madonna. Mozart was influenced by his father and his teacher, who was als a famous musician, who was influenced by classical music during the day of ancient Greece to creat the pieces.
Which is a proof that you're simply trying to mock me now and ignoring the facts. Are you that desperate?
I agree with Chekhov, isn't that a proof that I can agree with someone's LOGIC? Unlike your "logic", I can find sense in what Chekhov says.
You have just proved yourself to be influenced by Chekhov's logic. And his facts appeal to you, which influenced you to believe them. I wasn't trying to prove anything. I just thought the idea was funny....it is strange for me to imagine Akai behind the face of Okiya. Are you forcing me to imagine that without a laugh? If so....it'd be very hard to do...
which I don't think you'd be able to stop me from laughing even if Akai was Okiya. It's that strange for me and random.
You're just amazing, to think that you would go so far even for this scenario and actually try to explain it with your so called logic.
People don't become crazy due to influence. Mental diseases are passed in the genes and make people mentally ill. Some people simply born the way they do due to their genes.
Mental diseases are resulted from something too. Meaning influenced by something. If it is passed down, that means it CAME from somewhere, meaning from a family member. That means that gene has influenced the body of it's ancestors.
That's the way you interpreted what I said? You failed miserly to understand the point, then. I never said the scenario was about influence. I asked you if you can explain it with your oh powerful unknown force you call influence. No one said they were influenced. You simply again went in the way of "they were influenced" so easy to say something like that, ha? You are the type of people which science prove to be wrong in their views.
Well, that's the difference between me and you. I don't view your views as WRONG but as different. Far more of optimist than I am, I would say....but most of the scenarios you have told me to explain with my "logic" can be explained by me. And you would listen and respond, showing me that you are influenced by what I say, even if you don't agree with it. It influenced you to react. Science proves that there is no right or wrong answer. It is what humans will accept or won't within their societies.
seriously...? ::)
It's like saying "I don't want to argue, but you are wrong"
It IS an arguement then. If you don't want people to reply back to what you say, then don't post at all. If you don't want to argue with what people are telling you, then don't reply, just leave the thread, and then there won't be an arguement.
If you have an opinion and you post it in a forum, then be ready to defend your opinion. Why is it OOC for Akai? ("for me" isn't what will make it credible). If you are simply saying your opinion, and don't intend to defend it, sorry, but as I said, you're just trolling.
I never said anyone was wrong, did I? I just said it's strange to see akai as Okiya EVEN IF IT WAS TRUE. I am not saying anyone is wrong....but no one is right either, because none of us are Gosho. So just about anyone's theory could be right.....even if that person doesn't feel the need to prove it.
I defend my opinion by saying it: Akai being Okiya behind the mask is HILARIOUSLY random for me.
If I say I'm going to stab soragirl for stealing my name, will you get mad?
No.....if I say I like all the episodes with Akai....but I hate the episodes with Okiya because he's just weird....do I need to prove myself?

What if I thought he was a weird dude because he never opens his eyes? Will you get mad then and argue back?
Especially with someone who wasn't even arguing with you? This disucussion was between me and Chekov.
However, if you really want to know why I feel it is weird for Akai being behind the mask of Okiya is because Akai didn't come off as a guy who smiled a lot, and cooks, and squints without opening his eyes....To see Akai impersonating this type of characters seems so far-fetched to me, based on how Akai came off to me, that I would laugh my head off.
Akai seems to be this intense person, who is just like Gin in demeanor, only he's the good guy. He seems like a loner, like he hates to talk, and he seems to be an "in-your-face" type of dude. Plus, I have never seen Akai disguise himself before, and would be interested to know why he chose such an alias.....a squinty-eyed dude, with pink hair, and cooks......it would still be laughable when he takes off the "mask....
IF this theory is proven to be true by Gosho.