DaedalusHKX's Journal: Fun MMORPG analogy... existentialism, etc.

I once considered this possibility.

Life is an MMORPG or First Person Shooter with RPG elements.

(A grind at the library raises your Knowledge, a grind at the gym raises your STRength and CONstitution, a grind in the wilderness raises your Experience, a grind in a warzone raises your ARMs skill and THAC0 :)

The Spirit... (aka the Player) logs in.
The Spirit (Player) creates a Soul (Account).
The Spirit then creates a Body (Player Character), under that Soul (Account).
The Spirit/Soul then adventures (plays) in that World (Server) using that Body (Character) logged in from the particular Soul (Account).

Thus, if the Body ever dies, during a MMORPG, are you really dead as a player/Spirit? If the Account (Soul) is deleted, is the player/Spirit truly destroyed? Hell no, you just make up a new account, retain your previous experiences in the game, and start a fresh character. The game continues, and like with many games, a lot of nutbag Spirits take the game TOO seriously... and let it rule their lives, which is not much different than the fatass slobs sitting on a couch, who have difficulty getting up to take a piss when the urge strikes them.

Playing a game can be fun, but taking it too seriously can be hazardous to your health. Perhaps the same warning exists on some other plane of existence/awareness to whatever we consider to be our Spirits. Perhaps.

Interesting concept, eh?

Interesting idea

[benhocking]

So, what does reading /. raise (or lower)?

Soul as software/OS?

[RM6f9]

Great concept, useful analogy - still begs the questions: Who/What co-(?)Wrote it, and how much input did the Spirit/Player have into the initial setup of the Life/Character? The extra layer of abstraction is mostly helpful in discussion, for those who can discuss such things without going rabidly fundie...