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   XPost: soc.culture.native   
   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   In article <5hm5gatc2uss1go5ah36cfor9kobsfcpqd@4ax.com>,   
    me  wrote:   
      
   > David wrote:   
   >   
   > > ... I am hoping to graduate ...   
   > >and fully become an avatar/ ... ... .   
   >   
   > When playing a video game, I am   
   > being involved as being as an   
   > avatar type of sorts.   
   >   
   > That little animated dude/critter is me. I am it.   
   >   
   > Of course it's a subset of me, naturally.   
   >   
   > To be an avatar, one may wonder,   
   > an avatar of what?   
   >   
   > An avatar of something greater?   
   >   
   > Would the avatar then, not be that thing?   
   >   
   > No matter how small a subset?   
   >   
   > What do you hope to be an avatar of?   
      
   I don't claim to be an avatar of anything but do   
   claim to be an avatar type, i.e. to be similar to   
   those who have been said to have been avatars,   
   such as Krishna and Rama.   But I do claim to   
   be able to temporarily align my soul with the   
   soul of any other someone.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton  dalton@nfld.com   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   "Cryin' who's your partner, who's your darlin' who's your baby now?   
    Who wakes up at night to pull you in?" (Cheryl Wheeler)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)