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Ryan Boddy asks: When your soul exits and your body expires, what happens to your online avatars?
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|7.6.04 @ 1:11AM|#
Since the body surely outlasts the person, although decomposes, why can't the avatar outlive the person as well? Or the other way around. I've had plenty of avatars and web pages go 404 and I'm still here.
|7.6.04 @ 12:12PM|#
But, online avatars ARE our souls. Hey; I think I just invented a new religion!
|7.6.04 @ 12:49PM|#
Those are not your avatars, those are your virtual body thetans--but nice try. Let us know when you make your first million. :)
heh heh...
|7.7.04 @ 7:23AM|#
Oh, great, another transubstantiation argument. That went really well the first time around...
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