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Immortality has been a dream of human beings since the dawn of time. Mankinds fascination with cheating death is reflected in scientific records, mythology, and folklore dating back at least to ancient Egypt.

Now, Ray Kurzweil, a former Google engineer, claims that humans will achieve immortality by 2030 and 86 percent of his 147 predictions have been correct.

Kurzweilspoke with the YouTube channel Adagio, discussing the expansion in genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics, which he believes will lead to age-reversing nanobots.

These tiny robots will repair damaged cells and tissues that deteriorate as the body ages and make us immune to diseases like cancer.

The predictions that such a feat is achievable by 2030 have been met with excitement and skepticism, as curing all deadly diseases seems far out of reach, the Daily Mail notes.

Kurzweil was hired by Google in 2012 to work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing, but he was predicting technological advances long before.

In 1990, he predicted the worlds best chess player would lose to a computer by 2000, and it happened in 1997 when Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov.

Kurzweil made another startling prediction in 1999: he said that by 2023 a $1,000 laptop would have a human brains computing power and storage capacity.

Now the former Google engineer believes technology is set to become so powerful it will help humans live forever, in what is known as the singularity.

Singularity is a theoretical point when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and changes the path of our evolution, LifeBoat reports.

Kurzweil, an author who describes himself as a futurist, predicted that technological singularity would happen by 2045, with Artificial Intelligence passing a valid Turing test in 2029.

This tests a machines ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

He said that machines are already making us more intelligent, and connecting them to our neocortex will help people think more smartly.

Contrary to the fears of some, he believes that implanting computers in our brains will improve us.

Were going to get more neocortex, were going to be funnier, were going to be better at music. Were going to be sexier, he said.

Were really going to exemplify all the things that we value in humans to a greater degree.

Rather than a vision of the future where machines take over humanity, Kurzweil believes we will create a human-machine synthesis that will make us better.

The concept of nanomachines being inserted into the human body has been in science fiction for decades.

In Star Trek, tiny molecular robots called nanites were used to help repair damaged cells in the body.

More than ten years ago, the US National Science Foundation predicted network-enhanced telepathy sending thoughts over the internet would be practicable by the 2020s.

Ultimately, it will affect everything, Kurzweil said.

Were going to be able to meet the physical needs of all humans. Were going to expand our minds and exemplify these artistic qualities that we value.

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Pope Francis waves at visitors gathered in St. Peters Square at the Vatican after praying the Angelus June 18, 2023. The pope published an apostolic letter for the 400th anniversary of the birth of French philosopher Blaise Pascal June 19. Photo: CNS photo/Lola Gomez

Dear Father, I understand that Pope Francis has recently issued a document on Blaise Pascal, speaking of his contribution to the question of faith and reason. What can you tell me about it?

The Popes apostolic letter, Sublimitas et miseria hominis, The grandeur and misery of man, was issued on the occasion of the fourth centenary of the birth of Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), the seventeenth-century French mathematician, scientist and philosopher.

The document is filled with quotations from Pascals Penses, his most well-known work of Christian apologetics, compiled and published after his death from his notes and manuscripts.

The pope mentions how, as a Christian, Pascal wishes to speak of Jesus Christ to those who have hastily concluded that there is no solid reason to believe in the truths of Christianity. For his part, he knows from experience that the content of divine revelation is not only not opposed to the demands of reason, but offers the amazing response that no philosophy could ever attain on its own.

This consideration of the relationship between faith and reason is especially important today, when the whole notion of objective truth is contested in a post-modern world.

From childhood, Pascal devoted his life to the pursuit of truth. By the use of reason, he sought its traces in the fields of mathematics, geometry, physics, and philosophy, making remarkable discoveries and attaining great fame even at an early age, the pope writes.

Yet he was not content with those achievements. In a century of great advances in many fields of science, accompanied by a growing spirit of philosophical and religious skepticism, Blaise Pascal proved to be a tireless seeker of truth, a restless spirit, open to ever new and greater horizons.

The pope highlights how Pascal never grew resigned to the fact that some men and women not only do not know Jesus Christ, but disdain, out of laziness or due to their passions, to take the Gospel seriously. If he were alive today, Pascal would have ample reason to lament this sad reality, just as he did four centuries ago.

One of the topics that runs through Pope Francis document, and of Pascals writings, is that of mans search for meaning.

Pascal writes that when the human person does not find true meaning in his existence, he distracts himself with what is around him.

What is it, then, that this longing and this feeling of helplessness cry out to us, if not that man once enjoyed a true happiness, of which there now remains but an empty trace that he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things he lacks what he cannot obtain from those he has, Pascal said.

Yet none of these can provide it, for this infinite abyss cannot be bridged except by an infinite and immutable object, which is God himself.

Pope Francis writes: In the end, both for the age of Pascal as well as for our own, what remains the greatest and most pressing question? It is that of the overall meaning of our destiny, our life and our hope, which is directed to a happiness that we are not forbidden to imagine as eternal, but which God alone can grant.

He goes on to quote from the Penses: Nothing is as important to man as his own state; nothing to him is as fearsome as eternity.

Pascal wrote powerfully on the immortality of the soul and life after death. Once again, Pope Francis quotes from the Penses:

The immortality of the soul is so important to us, something that touches us so deeply, that we need to have lost all feeling to be unconcerned with knowing what is at stake

And that is why, among those who are not convinced about this, I would distinguish clearly between those who make every effort to investigate it, and those who go about their lives without being concerned about it or thinking of it.

Pope Francis comments: We know very well that often we attempt to flee death, or to overcome it, thinking that we can banish the thought of our finite existence or remove its power and dispel fear.

But Christian faith is not a way of exorcising the fear of death; rather, it helps us to face death. Sooner or later, we will all pass through that door The true light that illumines the mystery of death comes from the resurrection of Christ.

This short document makes for very good reading and I highly recommend it to all.

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EIR LEAD EDITORIAL FOR SATURDAY JULY 8, 2023 Villainous Vilnius NATO Summit Spiritually Preempted by Schiller Institute Conference in Europe

July 7, 2023, 2022 (EIRNS)While the July 11-12 Vilnius NATO conference will, in all probability, constitute a self-blinding exercise in arrogance, incompetence and hubriscontinuing what historian Barbara Tuchman called the march of Folly into the jaws of an unthinkable thermonuclear Helltodays Schiller Institute Conference in Europe offers a form of Promethean forethoughtan alternative to that self-destructive path. The world need not be tragic; neither wealth, nor power, nor force of arms, nor murder need triumph over those that believe in the unalienable rights of humanity. Ideas, indeed, when embodied by individuals in touch with the immortality of humanity, are more powerful than weaponsincluding thermonuclear weapons.

The foolish, fatal choices being offered in the upcoming discussion, such as the de-militarization of Russia, putting nuclear weapons into Ukraine, or a joint European Defense Initiative to make Ukraine a top production site for weapons (in a country where people are now protesting the lack of graveyard space), managed by the financial ghouls of BlackRock, are each more insane than the other. In reporting these options to the July 7 weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition, Schiller Institute founder and leader Helga Zepp-LaRouche said, So, I think that if you look at all of these things, it becomes very clear that our task is to make the International Peace Coalition grow, and make it grow also in all the areas which are affected, which is essentially the whole world. It is extremely urgent, in order to get to the point where confrontation is being replaced by cooperation....

Between now and the August 6th 78th anniversary of the nuclear destruction of the city of Hiroshima, a Metanoia must be experienced in the trans-Atlantic worldan uncomfortable, perhaps painful recognition, not of past crimes, but of the fact that today, now, it is only our inaction that will destroy, through thermonuclear folly, all the historical work of humanity, and even the very noosphere in which humanity exists. How do we bring this about? Educator Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) offered this biting exercise in Metanoia. He used the true nature of war, especially religious war, to brutally inform all those who would dare to see themselves as God might see them, of the hypocritical character of their exercise of prayer, and of the truly profane nature of their religious fakery. In honor of Vilnius, we include it here:

The Lords Prayer on the Field of Battle

Let us now, says Erasmus, imagine we hear a soldier among these fighting Christians saying the Lords Prayer.

Our Father, says he.

Oh, hardened wretch! Can you call Him Father, when you are just going to cut your brothers throat?

Hallowed be Thy name.

How can the name of God be more impiously unhallowed, than by mutual bloody murder among you his sons?

Thy kingdom come.

Do you pray for the coming of His kingdom, while you are endeavoring to establish an earthly despotism, by the spilling of the blood of Gods sons and subjects ?

Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.

His will in Heaven is for peace, but you are now meditating war.

Dare you say to your Father in Heaven, Give us this day our daily bread, when you are going the next minute to burn your brothers cornfields, and had rather lose the benefits of them yourself than suffer him to enjoy them unmolested?

With what face can you say, Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us, when, so far from forgiving your brother, you are going, with all the haste you can, to murder him in cold blood for an alleged trespass, which, after all, is but imaginary?

Do you presume to deprecate the danger of temptation, who, not without great danger to yourselves, are doing all you can to force your brother into danger?

Do you deserve to be delivered from evil, that is, the evil being by whose spirit you are guided, in contriving the greatest possible evil to your brother?

Yet there are persons who, while they pass over altogether the impiety and unchristian character of war itself, are horrified at a battle being fought on a Sunday!

War, especially total war, is something that the human race must now outgrow, or be killed bypossibly in the next weeks or months. Decades ago, economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche discussed the significance of Erasmus, and his truth-yielding, intelligence-increasing method of biting irony, in a short pamphlet titled: What Really Are The Labor Committees? The Lessons of Erasmus and Franklin. One idea-dense paragraph from that document states:

It should be emphasized that the poor fellow who insists that the basic struggle today is between socialist and capitalist factions thereby exhibits the fact that he is ignorant of both the entirety of modern history, and of present-day realities. The struggle within European and European-related civilization since the A.D. 1266 defeat of the heirs of Frederick Barbarosa, and the death of Alfonso the Wise of Castile in A.D. 1284 has been and remains a life-and-death struggle between humanism and nominalism, a struggle of humanists to save humanity from the hell to which nominalism (for example, empiricism, positivism, linguistics) has repeatedly degraded societies, the hell into whose radioactive embrace modern nominalism (for example, monetarism, neo-Fabianism) is impelling humanity at this juncture.

An example of a world-destroying, radioactive nominalism, that has become very popular and will be repeated all over Vilnius, is the formulation: We are engaged in a war between the democracies and the autocracies. These terms, especially the term democracy, are today wielded as psy-war weapons against hapless citizenries. The United States, for example, was explicitly not founded as a democracy, but as a democratically representative republic. In such a republic, the deliberations of a single individual, in dialogue with colleagues, and even adversaries, have the power to change the direction of the entire government, and under certain circumstances, even humanity.

Indeed, that is exactly what a powerless Lyndon LaRouche did in the 1980s, vis--vis President Ronald Reagan, with his policy of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Citizen mobilization of the Presidency on matters of policy, was also done by Martin Luther King vis--vis JFK/RFK, and was done by Frederick Douglass with Abraham Lincoln 100 years earlier. Conversely, in the above-cited passage on Erasmus, the term humanism is used by LaRouche in its proper meaning, as opposed to its modern, atheistic misuse. It is the opposite of a nominalism. We explain.

St. Joan of Arc, Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Charles de Gaulle, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Mahatma Gandhi, and the John F. Kennedy of the American University Peace Speech are each very different human beings. They represent different times; they hail from very different origins; they each encountered very different circumstances. What do they have in common? They each show that when the cause of humanity is interiorized by an individual, over and above their individual station in life, they implicitly bend toward the arc of the moral universe, and the arc of the moral universe, in turn, bends toward them. This is a simultaneous action. It appears from the outside as though the designated individual possesses some great, unique personal power, but they are merely, momentarily, for the duration of their mortal existence, what the poet Shelley called the awful Shadow of some unseen Power which floats, though unseen, among us.

This power to access the arcthe directionof the moral universe, is unique to humanity, but is available to all. Accessing it requires that the individual see humanity, not as an aggregate, but as physically primary, as a One. That is what is properly meant by the term humanism. This connection to the moral universe (for which there is another namewhat Vladimir Vernadsky identified by the term nosphere) is accessible to every individual as an unalienable right, but only as that individual regards her/his life, liberty (freedom) and pursuit of Happiness as identical to the life, liberty and Happiness of humanity as a whole. It is as much an unalienable obligation, as it is an unalienable right. The science of Physical Economy is the ongoing, durable realization of this immortal mission for humanity. That was the occupation and specialty of Lyndon LaRouche, a field that is not only unrelated, but opposed to monetarism, that is, the majority of what passes for economics studies in America today, a set of unspeakable practices inimical to the founding of the nation.

Helga Zepp-LaRouches Ten Principles of a New International Security and Development Architecture, starting from the standpoint of happily proclaiming that man is fundamentally good and capable to infinitely perfect the creativity of his mind and the beauty of his soul; and being the most advanced geological force in the universe, ... proves that the lawfulness of the mind and that of the physical universe are in correspondence and cohesion, and that all evil is the result of a lack of development, and therefore can be overcome.

So, rather than the shadow of doom that already slouches over Vilnius before it commences, humanity can choose the narrow but clear path to human progress that the Schiller Institute has outlined for nearly 40 years, and that now, today, in Europe, refutes the trans-Atlantic and world tragedy that need not happen.

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EIR LEAD EDITORIAL FOR SATURDAY JULY 8, 2023 - Executive Intelligence Review (EIR)

Theres something about mythical fantasy Korean dramas that really appeal to me maybe its the way the characters are woven seamlessly into the storyline.

We all love K-dramas because they take us into a fantasy world. But, unlike your usual crime and romance dramas, these six mythical fantasy K-dramas will take you on a fairytale journey through their impressive plot, quirky characters, and awesome production.

This show needs no introduction, and any real k-drama fan would have seen Goblin before. The series stars heartthrob Gong Yoo as a military general, Kim Shin, during the Goryeo dynasty who was reincarnated as Dokkaebi (Goblin) with an immortal life sounds like a blessing? Well, not when youre a 900-year-old guardian of souls.

While the Dokkaebi tries to find the human bride to end his immortality, he crosses paths with the Grim Reaper (Lee Dong Wook) and Ji Eun-Tak a high school senior whose mother was saved by Kim Shin many years ago.

One day, Ji Eun-Tak tells Kim Shin that she knows he is the Goblin and that she is his bride. Is this high school senior really the true goblin bride? And does she have the power to end Kim Shins misery?

Available on Netflix.

Most people would visit pochamacha (or korean street dining) for its snacks and drink some soju. But in Mystic pop up bar, you get more than just a unique dining experience. The mysterious pop-up bar run by Wol-Ju (Hwang Jang-Eun) only operates at night as do most pochas and is frequented by two groups of people; regular folks like you and me, and the dead.

Fun fact: Wol-Ju herself has a pretty sad backstory and she is actually a 500-year-old ghost who has been reincarnated to help the people on earth. Together with her team, Wol-Ju will visit her customers in their dreams and help them resolve their grudges.

If youre looking for something heartwarming yet packed with comical scenes, this drama is certainly one to add to your watch list.

Available on Netflix.

You might have seen this new Twilight-esque mythical fantasy k-drama flooding your TikTok feed. This said drama is Heartbeat and it stars the charismatic Vincenzo actor and 2PM member, Ok Taec-yeon. Taec-yeon plays the half-human half-vampire Sun Woo-hyeol who wants to ditch his vampire self and be a real human man. If he wants to become a man, he has to lie in a special coffin for 100 days. But, as life would have it, his 100 days rest quickly gets interrupted.

The person who interrupted Woo-hyeol is none other than Joo In-hae (Won Ji-an), who is known by those around her to be a very cold-hearted person. Funnily enough, she ends up being the reason why Woo-hyeol wants to become a human.

The show follows Joo In-hae as she goes from becoming the sole-inheritor of Sun Woo-hyeols mansion to being Woo-hyeols love interest. Will this love story be a tragedy or romance? Only one way to find out! All I will say is Im only one episode in but Im already hooked.

Available on Prime.

This is hands down my favourite drama that stars IU and is probably the first drama that comes to mind when you ask about mythical fantasy k-dramas is complete without this mention. In Hotel del Luna, IU plays Jang Man-Wol, a greedy and suspicious soul who has spent thousands of years (unwillingly) acting as the CEO of a hotel. But this isnt your ordinary hotel. Dressed behind an old and run-down building located in the heart of Seoul, the hotel transforms into a luxurious hotel for both the alive and the unalive.

Man-Wol is bound to this hotel so that she wont go berserk and act on her hatred and thirst for revenge. Until she can manage her emotions, she is bound to this odd establishment forever. But things slowly take an interesting turn when Goo Chan Sung (Yeo Jin-Goo) shows up. His frugal nature might just be what Man-Wol and the hotel needs.

Available on Netflix.

Echoing similar vibes to Goblin is Doom at Your Service. But from the get-go, the show sets out to tell a much different story. The series follows Dong-kyung who is about to die from a terminal illness. One day in a drunken stupor, she makes a wish for the world to end. Her wish catches the attention of the deity of doom, Myulk Mang (Seo In Guk). He strikes a deal with her: that they have to live together for 100 days before he grants her her wish.

But of course, its not as simple as it seems and its not a true Korean drama if there isnt some element of love involved. Upon meeting Dong Kyung, he finds her delightful and is fascinated by how her wish wasnt to get her life back because thats what most of us would wish for.

This mythical fantasy k-drama will leave you feeling warm and fuzzy on the inside, while also embracing the little joys of life.

The Uncanny Encounter is actually based off a pretty popular webtoon Amazing Rumour by Jang Yi and a bit like ghostbusters or X-Men. The series follows a team of counters or people with extraordinary powers who have the abilities to sense and fight evil spirits. These evil spirits take on the form of regular folk and they gain power each time they kill someone.

Its nice to see a superhero series set in a country outside of America and it seems only fitting that the series is set in the land of K-drama. This whacky mythical fantasy k-drama definitely breaks away from the regular mould of K-dramas although there is your typical romance plot but if theres one thing for sure, you can certainly expect a ton of action in this series.As far as mythical fantasy k-dramas go, this one certainly checks all the right boxes.

Available on Netflix.

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Naruto created by Masashi Kishimoto is a smash hit in Japan and worldwide. Naruto Uzumaki, a teenage ninja with the spirit of the Nine-Tails Fox imprisoned within him, is the protagonist of this series, which takes place in a fictional world populated by ninjas.The first half of the series follows Naruto as a young boy, while the second half, titledNaruto: Shippuden, jumps ahead to show him as a teenager. The Akatsuki play an essential role in the series, particularly inNaruto: Shippuden. The Akatsuki are a group of some of the fiercest rogue ninjas.

Each Akatsuki member is a feared criminal, and their crimes frequently include murder and acts of terrorism. Initially, The Akatsuki was established in the Hidden Rain Village by Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato to establish world peace. However, after Yahikos death, a disillusioned Nagato (also known as Pain) gained control of the group and shifted its focus to enforcing peace through fear and control. Under Nagatos leadership, the Akatsukis primary goal became to capture all Nine-Tailed Beasts, powerful monsters imprisoned within select individuals known as Jinchuriki.

The Akatsuki want to capture these monsters so they might wield their incredible power and take over the world. Since Naruto is a Jinchuriki himself (and thus a host for the Nine-Tails), he is a frequent target for the Akatsuki. Akatsukis involvement in theNarutoseries sparks numerous storylines and conflicts. They are the main bad guys, always lurking in the background and setting the stage for many fights and story arcs inNaruto: Shippuden.Considering each members abilities and feats shown in the series, here is a tentative list of Akatsuki members ranked by strength.

Although Zetsu isnt necessarily one of Akatsukis most powerful fighters, he poses a serious threat because of his unique skills. Zetsu is essentially two entities in one: Black Zetsu and White Zetsu. White Zetsus ability to blend in with the environment makes him an invaluable surveillance and intelligence-gathering resource. He can also convincingly take on another persons look, making him ideal for covert operations. Moreover, he can imitate their chakra signature, making it difficult to tell him apart from the original. The ability to heal people is another of White Zetsus specialties, which can be crucial in combat.

On the other hand, Black Zetsu possesses a whole new set of abilities. Created by Kaguya tsutsuki, he has extensive knowledge of the shinobi worlds history and secrets, making him a valuable strategic tool. Most crucially, by connecting himself to his hosts, Black Zetsu can influence their activities to some level. This skill makes him extremely dangerous, especially given his ultimate objective of resurrecting Kaguya, the progenitor of the chakra and perhaps the most powerful character in the entire series.

Hidans immortality is his greatest asset. He may not have a wide variety of skills, but his unique brand of immortality, toughness, and the destructive nature of his curse ritual make him a challenging foe to defeat. Hidans ability is linked to the Jashinism that governs his life. Through a curse ritual, he can become practically indestructible by collecting and consuming his opponents blood.

After performing this ritual, Hidans opponent will take double the damage done to him no matter where they are. Hidans opponent would suffer an identical wound if he were to stab himself. Because of his immortality, Hidan may deal lethal blows to himself (and, by extension, his opponent) yet emerge unscathed. However, Hidans immortality has limitations. While he can survive fatal injuries, he can also become paralyzed. Amputation of his limbs, for instance, would leave him conscious but defenseless.

One of the most vital members of the Akatsuki is Kakuzu, a rogue ninja from Takigakure with an S-rank who stands out thanks to his exceptional skills and extensive experience in battle. Because of the way Earth Grudge Fear has shaped his body, he may use it as an offensive and defensive weapon. Using this method, he can detach, reattach, or even replace any portion of his body by manipulating a web of invisible black threads.

Kakuzu may gain the lives of his defeated adversaries by stealing their hearts and incorporating them into his body. These auxiliary hearts can keep him alive even after being struck repeatedly with lethal blows. The stolen hearts also grant Kakuzu mastery over the ninjutsu of the wind, fire, water, Earth, and lightning elements. Because of his proficiency with so many different elements, he can tailor his strategy to counter any opponent. His power and the resilience of his threadlike body make him a formidable opponent who can take a lot of punishment without going down.

Despite being the only woman in the Akatsuki, Konan has always proven to be a formidable opponent. Konan received extensive training in the ways of the shinobi world from Jiraiya one of the famous Sannin enhancing her physical prowess and tactical understanding. Paper Ninjutsu, which she uses significantly thanks to her ability to channel chakra into paper, sets her apart as an adversary. She can shred her body into thousands of paper sheets for attack, defense, or surveillance.

Her fight with Tobi in which she nearly defeated him by turning a whole lake into paper explosives is evidence of her ferocity. Konan co-founded the Akatsuki and played a crucial role as a strategist in the groups operations. Although Konan lacks the overwhelming destructive talents of some of her Akatsuki companions, she is one of the most vital members of the Akatsuki, thanks to her unique abilities, strategic intelligence, and leadership.

Sasori also known as Sasori of the Red Sand is a powerful puppet master and poison user, making him a fearsome Akatsuki member. Sasori, a talented puppeteer from Sunagakure, the Village Hidden in the Sand, turned his body into a puppet and became immortal. His many human puppets have kept their real-life skills and are his principal offensive tools.

The Third Kazekage, often considered the most potent Kazekage in history, is just one of Sasoris approximately 298 puppets at his disposal. Sasori isnt just a strong guy; hes also a poison expert. He developed a lethal poison to lace nearly all his puppets weapons. His strikes are so powerful that even the most minor scratch might be lethal.

One of the most influential members of the Akatsuki, Deidara is a former shinobi from Iwagakure, the Village Hidden in the Stones, known for his spectacular artistic ability and unconventional fighting style. Deidara, an artist at heart, sculpts numerous explosive constructions from clay and explosive chakra to utilize in combat. The mouths in his hands and chest allow him to shape the clay into various flying munitions, from small, quick birds to enormous dragons.

Because of his unconventional combat technique, he can adapt quickly to any situation. He can fight from a safe distance while delivering powerful assaults on his foes. The C4 technique is Deidaras crowning achievement; he used it to make a gigantic clay figure that, when detonated, disperses minuscule bombs into the atmosphere that may cause cellular devastation. To counter this tactic, you need either specialized knowledge or lightning-fast awareness. Deidara is also a cunning strategist who frequently employs the arts of deceit and misdirection to trick his foes into falling into his traps.

Kisame Hoshigaki a native of Kirigakure is feared for his monstrous strength and enormous chakra reserves, which are on par with that of a Tailed Beast. These things, plus his lethal weapon Samehada (Shark Skin), make him a terrifying foe. Kisames already remarkable reserves are bolstered by Samehadas ability to absorb chakra from opponents, allowing him to fight for extended periods without tiring.

Furthermore, the swords devotion to Kisames chakra makes it impossible for anybody else to utilize it without risking rejection and injury. Kisame is particularly unique because of his mastery of water jutsu. He can conjure up vast pools of water and use them to drown his foes or launch devastating blows. He has a distinct home-field advantage thanks to his signature technique, Water Prison Shark Dance Jutsu, which can flood an entire battlefield.

Former Konohagakure ninja Itachi Uchiha is an influential Akatsuki member thanks to his exceptional genjutsu skills, brilliant strategy, and mastery of the Sharingan and Mangekyou Sharingan. Amaterasu an inextinguishable black flame that he can direct at will, and Tsukuyomi an extreme form of ninjutsu that can manipulate the perception of time and cause immense psychological trauma, are two of the most dangerous abilities in the Naruto universe that Itachi has access to thanks to his Mangekyou Sharingan.

In addition to the Totsuka Blade and Yata Mirror, he also owns the Susanoo, a gigantic warrior avatar with nearly perfect defense. Itachi is a superhuman fighter and a fantastic strategist and thinker. Hes so wise that he can see through the guise of his enemies strategies to counter them with his own. He can maintain his composure in the face of grave peril thanks to his keen ability to draw logical conclusions and steady demeanor.

Nagato, commonly known as Pain, is one of the most vital members of the Akatsuki and serves as the groups de facto leader. His ability to use the Rinnegan, the most prestigious eye technique inNarutohistory, is the primary source of his strength. With the help of the Rinnegan, Nagato can employ the Six Paths of Pain, a technique in which he assumes control of six different bodies each with its own unique set of skills.

This provides him access to a wide variety of powerful tools, including the capacity to attract and repulse items (Deva Path), the manipulation of souls (Naraka Path), the summoning of a wide variety of creatures (Animal Path), and more. They can battle without fear or fatigue since Nagato controls their bodies from a distance. By himself, Nagato is a strong opponent as seen by his defeat of the powerful shinobi Hanzo and the destruction of most of the Konoha village.

Under his codename Tobi, Uchiha Obito is one of Akatsukis most formidable members. He is powerful because of his Uchiha heritage, the Rinnegan he possesses, and the Sharingan located in his right eye which gives him access to the ability to manipulate dimensions. The Kamui, a powerful Mangekyou Sharingan technique, resides in this eye, allowing him to turn invisible and teleport himself or others to another world. Because of this, when his Kamui is active, he is virtually immune to physical harm.

Once Obito controls the Rinnegan, he can wield the Six Paths of Pain, allowing him a wide range of destructive powers, such as manipulating gravity and bringing the dead back to life. In addition to his impressive strength, Obito has mastered the Ten-Tails, making him their Jinchuriki and giving him immense new abilities. Obito isnt just incredibly talented and a master manipulator and strategist. While remaining largely unseen he exercises complete authority over the Akatsuki and uses them to advance his ambitions.

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