Comments on: Through the Summer Door http://alphavilleherald.com/2005/03/through_the_sum.html Always Fairly Unbalanced Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:18:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Kim Charlton http://alphavilleherald.com/2005/03/through_the_sum.html/comment-page-1#comment-47292 Kim Charlton Sat, 19 Mar 2005 05:50:54 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2455#comment-47292 > Are these electronic images a deliberate subterfuge, > a slight of eye trick to deceive me about who the blonde really is? > Or am I supposed to share the consensual unreality, > this shared dream, and accept this electronic playroom > for the mind and eye, and take everything at face value? Interesting questions. The answers depend on your answers to two other questions: What is the intend of that 'cute blonde' you were so obviously fond of, in SL? (Does she see her avvie as a mask in front of the real (?) person? Or is her avvie her personality - at least while she is in SL?) Even more important: Are YOU willing to see SL and the people you meet in SL as 'persons' or do you want/need to see them as an 'avvie' with a real (?) 'player' behind? What is reality? The concept, that reality is what we perceive as such is more than 2000 years old. I tend to see the people I meet in SL as ... people. Their personality is what they show me, what I perceive. If they mix in a little of their real life into that personality is their decision. I do not need that 'background' to decide if I like or dislike someone. Someone can be an asshole IRL and a pleasant person in SL. Maybe I will like him or her. It does not matter to me, what the real (?) personality is. > Are these electronic images a deliberate subterfuge,
> a slight of eye trick to deceive me about who the blonde really is?
> Or am I supposed to share the consensual unreality,
> this shared dream, and accept this electronic playroom
> for the mind and eye, and take everything at face value?
Interesting questions. The answers depend on your answers to two other questions: What is the intend of that ‘cute blonde’ you were so obviously fond of, in SL? (Does she see her avvie as a mask in front of the real (?) person? Or is her avvie her personality – at least while she is in SL?)

Even more important: Are YOU willing to see SL and the people you meet in SL as ‘persons’ or do you want/need to see them as an ‘avvie’ with a real (?) ‘player’ behind?

What is reality? The concept, that reality is what we perceive as such is more than 2000 years old.

I tend to see the people I meet in SL as … people. Their personality is what they show me, what I perceive. If they mix in a little of their real life into that personality is their decision. I do not need that ‘background’ to decide if I like or dislike someone. Someone can be an asshole IRL and a pleasant person in SL. Maybe I will like him or her. It does not matter to me, what the real (?) personality is.

]]> By: Neal Stewart http://alphavilleherald.com/2005/03/through_the_sum.html/comment-page-1#comment-47291 Neal Stewart Fri, 18 Mar 2005 00:41:59 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2455#comment-47291 Maybe evolutionary psychology still shows its face here in SL? Avatar-choice can be an indicator of good intellectual health :) We cannot look to leprechaun-lovers for the survival of our species :) Maybe evolutionary psychology still shows its face here in SL? Avatar-choice can be an indicator of good intellectual health :) We cannot look to leprechaun-lovers for the survival of our species :)

]]> By: Urizenus http://alphavilleherald.com/2005/03/through_the_sum.html/comment-page-1#comment-47290 Urizenus Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:11:05 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2455#comment-47290 I like the idea of "pay forward." It makes me think of SL as a kind of chain letter: "help 7 n00bs or you get 10 years of bad luck. Pass it on. I like the idea of “pay forward.” It makes me think of SL as a kind of chain letter: “help 7 n00bs or you get 10 years of bad luck. Pass it on.

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