short story 59: Melting

Jeff Wilson · 25 Apr 2014, 00:22 · from 2014-April.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:22:42 -0500
Subject: (urth) short story 59: Melting
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On Thu, April 24, 2014 15:41, Marc Aramini wrote:
> CONCLUSIONS:
> The theological implication that human identity will one day
> vanish and melt into something else, like that ice cube which has
> temporary
> form and assimilates back into the river, equating life with the thought
> projection
> of the deity, seems the most likely explanation for what is going on here,
> but
> that irritated ?I?m getting tired of all of you? remains disturbing.

The projection of the dying man's sensations onto the party's attendees
makes me think it is some kind of nested reincarnation, and the "tired of
him" voice is his atman remarking on a lengthy enfleshment, and "tired of
all of you" suggests to me that the dying man is the atman's tulpa, as
perhaps other people may be; I seem to recall it is "allowed" for one
person to be reincarnated as multiple people.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >

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