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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Graystone who wrote (10472)	2/10/2002 1:21:16 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 28931

I will have to think about your post for a while. It interests me, but I'm not sure whether I agree or disagree with it.

To: Graystone who wrote (10472)	2/10/2002 1:31:16 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 28931

I find your post so interesting, I will take it line by line- if that is ok with you. If not, it is too late, and I'm sorry. "Symmetry applies to the relationship that exists between your digital self and your real self. (1.Exact correspondence of form and constituent configuration on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane or about a center or an axis. See Synonyms at proportion. 2.A relationship of characteristic correspondence, equivalence, or identity among constituents of an entity or between different entities: the narrative symmetry of the novel. 3.Beauty as a result of balance or harmonious arrangement. - I'm not sure I see how any of the definitions of symmetry fit people on the net. Some people are pretty much who they are, some people are not, some people actively try to be people who they are not- and all this to various degrees. I have trouble seeing how symmetry has anything to do with it. . This symmetry is not based on any choice you make but is a result of everything that you actually are out there and everything you choose to express in here. I can see how this might be true of the relationship between 3d self and net self- is that what you mean? Most of the discussion on this thread centers around the real world and many of the observations do not apply to avatars. It is difficult to sustain strong memes in here, meme valency causes counter-memes to appear and the attractive force of cybergravity results in spectacular collisions, I like it. The ensuing destruction releases lots of energy and that is always usable in here.I tend to think meme collisions here just generate nothingness, but that's just my pov Time symmetry is something that does not exist between this place and taht. What I mean by this is that how many hours you spend online bears no relation at all to the strength of your digital projection. Money cannot buy you a strong coherent avatar, it can only pay for a high speed connection. A strong digital projection requires the handling of even toxic memes, something that is clearly impossible for those bound in any rigid structure. Do you think this is really true? Of course it would depend on how you define a toxic meme- could you define that for me? I like the personal vessel concept, a complete truth can be fashioned within the bounds of the consciousness, when that happens, times up. this is not clear to me- could you explain this? I enjoy lunch out there a lot more than in here, beer and companionship can be found in both worlds. So true"