The Enlightenment of Godzilla, a surprisingly controversial topic. As undersood by P.K. Harvey (the Heretic): Whoa! The flash of instant enlightenment! I think you're onto something here! I'm not thinking of those eaten by Godzilla so as of the big green guy himself. How many rebirths has he taken just to keep rolling out sequels? All this time I thought they kept making the movies so they could guarantee employment to legions of Japanese actors who can speak without being in synch with their own lips. Now I know better. Godzilla builds up huge karma by stomping replicas of Tokyo (whether it's good or bad karma is another discussion), and the sequels get made to provide him with the rebirth resulting from this karma. It's a cinematic presentation of David's cause and effect, with Godzilla as a latex costumed, zipper-up-the-back metaphor for the superstitious masses and "Timmy" (or whatever they call the little kid in shorts and baseball cap in the particular movie) representing David or maybe Nichiren himself! See? See? Over the course of his various rebirths, Godzilla advances from his state ofignorance and superstition to become a bodhisattva, saving us from Megalon (who, of course, ignorance and superstition himself). Timmy crying "It's Megalon! Save us Godzilla!" represents the Lotus Sutra! Yeah! That's it! They quit making sequels because Godzilla finally quit stomping replica's altogether and gave his full attention to Timmy! Now I know what to do! I'm gonna go out and get myself some shorts and a cap...I'm gonna...I'm gonna...Well, maybe one more double espresso first... *-* And now we turn to David Cole (the anti-P.K.): Such analogies have not escaped me either Pk. No doubt Godzilla is the respresentation of deep karmic guilt emanating from the Japanese shame of their previous slanders. They attempted to behead Nichiren. They burned monasteries etc. The True Buddha called Japan the evilest country in the world. They are also the only country so far to have atomic bombs dropped onto their cities. That is no doubt cause and effect. As far as Godzilla, it is true that he did change his karma and became a bodhisattva of monsters. He like all demonic forces pledged in the infinite past to protect the votary of the Lotus Sutra. in find we could compare godzilla to the "dragon king" who in old Buddhism was really a Cobra snake but in the chinese renderings he was actually just like Godzilla. When Godzilla was designed, he was madeled after a chinese-like conception of the Dragon King. Dragon Kings are called "Nagas" So Nagarjuna was named after the Dragon Kings who gave him some Mahayana Sutras. Godzilla has clearly been a collective expunging of the Japanese guilt. The trinity concept is also useful here. Papa Godzilla, Baby Godzilla and the Holy Ghostzilla.......What happened to Mama Godzilla? Wouldn't that be a Quaternary reality? Oh wait Godzilla wasn't Catholic he was strictly a monkish, castratoid.