

originally posted by: jazz10



Mark my words. End the unnecessary pain and suffering. End poverty and homelessness. Stop replacing manual labour with machines and robots then persecuting those who have inevitability been put out of work because of it. Stop with the wars and conflicts that are ultimately started because of inequality. Stop wasting more than another needs to simply survive. Stop putting a price tag on treatments for ailments and illnesses that are cureable. Raise the bar to which is a basic standard of living, daily food intake, water, clothing, education, sanitation. Ebola for instance.........living in squalor no sanitation, clean water and a basic calorie intake yet on the other side of the planet they shoot for the stars? I'll stop there.

Whew! Good. Because if we are avatars, none of what you wrote counts. It's all fake and you are controlled by a teenage alien still living in his Mom's basement. It's all an MMORPG, and what MMORPG doesn't have decent wars and battles? They all do and because this is all a game, none of your silly moralistic trivia and outrage over same amounts to anything. You were programmed to think that way so you'd be a better player. Congrats for following the script.We do the same thing. We emulate our makers by creating games, making models from dollhouses to trains. We invent worlds and populate them, make our characters have wild adventures in places like Narnia and Middle Earth. We make movies and pretend they are real. We're compelled to do it, and if we pay attention, that's the answer to life, the universe, and everything.Now, here's the thing. When you "die" (which you won't, really) you'll get to meet the kid who's been controlling you your entire life and he'll say, "Good job. OK. Your turn!" And he'll give you the joystick and give you the opportunity to make your own avatars and have your own adventures with them. And, because you are who you are, some of them will have the same attitude then as you have now. The idea will be to see if you can manipulate them into a higher level over time. The more XP* they have the stronger they will become and the higher level they will be. And the higher level you will be because when they gain XP, so will you. You won't worry about your own experience as an avatar any more than when you awake from a dream, you'd want to go tell the dream it was fake. Besides, your new experience will be a lot more fun.That's how this works.Believe me or not. You'll find out the truth soon enough.* XP = Experience Points