souls and Multiple Personality Disorder

When a baby is born, a soul enters the world. When a person dies, a soul 
exits.

Reality is like the Internet. There are legitimate ways for souls to enter and 
illegitimate ways. You could be `born' under your true name, or you could 
get in through the subversive route and infect an outlet susceptible to 
Multiple Personality Disorder, or possess someone.

It's very difficult to detect, of course! When it happens, Call 1-800-EXORCIST

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> Reality is like the Internet. There are legitimate ways for souls to
> enter and illegitimate ways. You could be `born' under your true
> name, or you could get in through the subversive route and infect
> an outlet susceptible to Multiple Personality Disorder, or possess
> someone.

Haha...  but seriously, I know someone who ran a BBS, and his wife had
Multiple Personalities Disorder.  She has 5 or 6 different accounts on
the system for each of her different personalities.  It was pretty funny
to watch the different persoalities talk on the bulletin boards...most
people did not know who those accounts actually belonged to.

> It's very difficult to detect, of course! When it happens, Call
1-800-EXORCIST

Yeah and I'm a trill currently possessing this body like Dax on DS9 hahaha...


But since you brought up what you call "legitimate" personalities, let
me pose this philosophical question to you: Suppose a human is born
healthy, but with no cerebral functions, ie braindead.  Suppose I am an
old man who is dying, but neurology has advanced to a point where I
could transfer myself to inhabit that body, and live normally
thereafter.  Would that be a legitimate soul?  If true names are linked
to biological entities, what is my true name?  How do you define a true
name?  It's not a trivial question because there are a lot of extropians
who would do that if they had the chance...

> > Reality is like the Internet. There are legitimate ways for souls to
> > enter and illegitimate ways. You could be `born' under your true
> > name, or you could get in through the subversive route and infect
> > an outlet susceptible to Multiple Personality Disorder, or possess
> > someone.
> 
> Haha...  but seriously, I know someone who ran a BBS, and his wife had
> Multiple Personalities Disorder.  She has 5 or 6 different accounts on
> the system for each of her different personalities.  It was pretty funny
> to watch the different persoalities talk on the bulletin boards...most
> people did not know who those accounts actually belonged to.
> 
> > It's very difficult to detect, of course! When it happens, Call
> 1-800-EXORCIST
> 
> Yeah and I'm a trill currently possessing this body like Dax on DS9 hahaha...

I thought this was rather tasteless.  MP is real.  My SO is MP.  It's not
very funny.  Do you know what causes MP?  Childhood sexual abuse.

Please think about it the next time you target a group for tasteless humor.
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG			erc@wetware.com			510/659-9560
                   an38299@anon.penet.fi, anon-1157@twwells.com
If you want magic, let go of your armor.  Magic is so much stronger than
steel!        -- Richard Bach, "The Bridge Across Forever"