I have some interesting ideas about Berserk and since Miura have already included some advanced concepts from philosophy such as idea of evil , some stuff from Nietzsche and some 4d math concepts, this is maybe not so far fetched. This was supposed to be a post in Femto's "On the current status of Berserk and stuff..." thread, but I wrote a lot of stuff so I though that this deserves to go as a separate thread. Please do not put this thing into Interstice just yet and try to bear with me(at least for some time)
First I need to explain some interesting concepts ,like chaos theory, for you. I am neither a mathematician nor scientist, so my explanations will probably be a bit too simplistic, but I'll try to give you a basic idea. Before 19th century it was generally believed by philosophers of science that everything that happens can be classified either as a rule or as an anomaly. It was believed that everything behaves according by some rules and that those rules are only ocasionaly broken, creating an anomaly. No one was very interested in those anomalies, and it was believed that anomalies have little or no influence on big picture. That framework of thinking was set up by Aristotle who believed that there is a world of pure ideas, and those ideas we can see on earth when they are mixed with matter. This process is ,however, unperfect. So everything has it's essence, it's idea.
In 19th century, however physicists, matematicians and others began to understand that this model is not as helpful as it looks. It was discovered that anomalies can accumulate, grow, somethimes even creating new rules. Thus new way of looking at things was invented to replace Aristotle's "essentialistic". Aristotle's way of thinking is still used today, when we measure something using a ruler we usually measure it several times and then calculate arithmetic mean in order to weed out anomalies. His model is, however not very helpful for determining some large scale stuff, like origins of life. Theory of evolution is a great example of a theory in which mistakes can become useful(but please do not turn this into evolution vs id debate, if you want to discuss this stuff use separate thread and I'll be glad to join).
Chaos Theory (aka Butterly Effect) was invented by a meteorologist Edward Lorenz and it was a huge blow for both essentialism and causality. It is very hard to explain that theory, but it can be generally said that Edward Lorenz discovered that in equations designed for predicting weather there are many small things that can make big consequences. In equation 7.56 + 5.22= 12.78 if you replace 7.56 with 7, result will be only slightly different. In some weather equations ,however, if you replace 7.000004 with 7, result may be totally different. Small wind can, over time, turn into a huge tornado, same way as a small vibration in air caused by a rifle can cause a huge avalanche. Fortunately for us, Edward Lorenz discovered some way to find order in the chaos, and we call his methods Chaos Theory. Before Chaos Theory it was believed that you only need to know things that have huge influence on other things in order to determine chains of causality and to predict (or change) future.
But what does all this have to do with Guts' sword-swingin'-gunpowder-abusin'-settin'-shit-on-fire rampage? Guts is a great example of anomaly gaining momentum and going berserk. Godhands do not seam to believe that small things can cause big problems (It was Slan who said that one fish can not change flow of the river or something). Since unplanned birth, he was messing up their plans. When he was saved by Skull Knight (another anomaly), he had learned stuff about godhands that no one else knew so he can now influence things in a way no one else can. This whole thing seems to be a critique to a causality. Also godhands are led by idea of evil which is also Aristotle's concept.
As Femto (a guy from this forum, not Griffith) wrote:
First of all, it means that Skull Knight's prophecies are moving in place. You can almost feel his shadow looming in the most recent chapters because events he foresaw are starting to take place. This of course means, that the bigger wheels in the story are finally moving and, like I said somewhere, we can finally pull back and look at the big picture.
Second, Guts is slowly becoming more powerful. Not only can he (potentially) control the armor now, but Schierke is able to cast magic from within, which makes him more of a powerhouse than he already is, not to mention the fact that the Dragonslayer is slowly becoming imbued with magic and the experience he's ranking from all those battles. I know that it was "cool" that Guts was killing Apostles on human strength alone but c'mon, if he slays the God Hand with a slab of metal and his human flesh, then that means that they weren't really that strong to begin with. Him becoming stronger means that his goal becomes more feasible and that, in turn, is more exciting for us readers, as opposed to seeing "I'll never have to strength to kill gods, but I'll sure as hell try!" for god knows how many chapters.
See? prevous anomalies are gaining momentum, making their own rules. Idea of Evil is no longer only force able to change course of things.
I'll post more later, but now I have to work.
Let the river flow backwards and drown the godhand 
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