Originally posted by AllanklesWhat is concrete is that Final Crisis never would have started without Darkseid's mastery of the ALE. Morrison unequivocally states that his mastery of the ALE precipitated the cosmic war. Precipitate means "to abruptly and directly cause." It doesn't merely mean precede. It means to abruptly and directly cause. Your statements are completely ignorant of everything that has been shown to contradict your opinions. Mastery of ALE precipitates cosmic war. Ray's statements. Mr. Miracle's statements. Cain/Spectre's statements. Omega Finder Beams. ALE is not just mind-control.
You pick and choose little elements here and there that don't even qualify as concrete evidence. What is concrete is that DS created a singularity with his destructive energies. What is concrete is that time and space only crumpled upon DS' active involvement, nothing of that nature was shown to happen before FC 5.
Originally posted by AllanklesIt doesn't mesh with yours either. In fact, it outright contradicts yours. Which is the point. Ray's statements don't mesh with yours. In fact, it outright contradicts yours. None of your cherry-picked statements contradict mine.
Which doesn't coincide with anything else you've mentioned or don't you see that? Also Miracle states (in the same scan) that Darkseid is dragging down the universe, i.e. he's using a singularity to crumple space-time towards Earth where the ALE awaits its victims.I don't know what's difficult to grasp there.
Your argument is wholly based upon a poor or misleading grasp of basic sentence construction. Just because Darkseid is the subject, does not disprove that the ALE is also involved. Example: "Thanos replaced Eternity's importance with his own." Do you have to interpret that sentence as: "Oh, well... they only mention Thanos, so it must only be Thanos' personal power." Does that sentence as constructed, completely disprove that the Infinity Gauntlet was involved? Absolutely not. Neither do the statements being thrown at me. That's why absolutely nothing you guys have said so far does a single thing to disprove my assertions.
HOWEVER, when you read the statements I've been throwing at you, they are completely dispositive of Darkseid's personal power being involved. Why? "It was exactly 5:30 PM EST. That's when time, space... everything cracked." Why is that completely dispositive of Darkseid using only his personal power? Because Darkseid hadn't manfifested yet. And the occurrence is simultaneous with the timing of Mokkari releasing the ALE on the internet.
Not only that, regular human beings shoot friggin Omega Finder Beams out of their eyes when possessed by the ALE. How much more obvious can you get, that the ALE isn't just mind-control? It actually makes all existence you. And that directly coincides that all reality/space/time would crumple onto you and you'd be all that's left. How hard is this to grasp? No amount of equivocation or errors in reading sentences will change this. The ALE is more than mind-control.