ST> For one; If Red was around then we can be sure that everyone else
 ST> probably survived too.
       Well, how do you know that?  All the humans could have been destroyed 
and Red XIII survived because he wasn't human.
 ST> Two; If Meteor did destroy all humanity then that mean's that Aerith's
 ST> Holy spell, her death, and all of the spirits of the Earth that came to
 ST> her call was in vain.
       Not Meteor.  Meteor didn't even touch the planet.  Holy would destroy 
everything that was bad for the planet.  Meteor was stopped and humans were 
wiped out because they caused more damage to the planet than not.  (my 
opinion)
 ST> Three; there was also the sound of human children laughter in that 
nding
 ST> with Red's decendants.
       That could e the sound of the deseased (spelled right?) children that 
was at Kalm and around the world.
 ST> Four; It was lamented and remarked in the game by the main characters
 ST> that the world should not rely on Mako energy, so the abandonment of
 ST> Midgar was probably testiment to humanity's return to relying on more
 ST> Earth-friendly energy resources.
       I agree with the part that the world should not rely on Mako.  But 
humans did and was draining the planet and Holy took them away because of 
this and other reasons.
 ST> Five; the full impact of Meteor was necessary to destroy the Earth. The
 ST> fact that it was heavily damaged on two instances removed the threat of
 ST> total destruction of the human race.
       It was heavily damaged but it could still destroy a big pat of the 
earth.  Holy destroyed the human race, not Meteor.
 ST> Six; the planet wanted the human race to prove itself. I think that
 ST> Cloud and Aerith did that beyond any doubt. If not then the planet
 ST> would not have responded.
       I beleive that the Planet thought that the human race was bad because 
it was draining the life force.  Just because a small group wanted to stop 
it, that doesn't mean the whole human race wanted to.
 ST> But my main belief comes with Aerith herself, and the fact that she
 ST> materialized at the last moment, along with the spirits of all who
 ST> had gone before, and what they did to Meteor is what saved the world.
       I don't think that she materialized.  I think she was seen by Cloud. 
Cloud saw her in his mind.
 ST> If Meteor *had* struck then there wouldn't have even *been* a Midgar
 ST> that we saw abandoned. That, and I prefer to think that all of the
 ST> work that we did in the game didn't go for naught. :)
       True, if meteor did hit, Midgar wouldn't be there.  I think you 
miss-understood me.  I think that Meteor didn't hit and that Holy got rid of 
it.  Holy also took out the human race because they did more against the 
planet than for.  Only animals survived and Midgar was... Well, You saw it.
       And why is it that they never showed any human 500 years later?  They 
showed Red's race and some seagulls.  The children's laughter was an echo 
from the past.  Or it could be their spirits floating in the life stream.
       All the above is what I believed happened.  I'm not really arguing. 
Let's keep the dispute up.  I want to know what really happened.  You're the 
only one I know who has a different opinion about the end. 
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