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: [[Nethersphere]] is mentioned in the following passage: ''"Seb described the Nethersphere to CSO Matthew as having a range of names, including the afterlife and the Promised Land. (TV: The Caretaker)"''. Various "mind-upload based afterlives" should have their own pages, where it can be freely commented about their relationship to the mythical/mystical true "Afterlife" described on this page. However, the two should not be mixed. And too many stories dealt with afterlife in too many ways for any one of them to be giving the true origin of the mythical afterlife. This article, thus, requires no emphasis on any artificial "afterlife" in particular. [[User:Amorkuz|Amorkuz]] [[User talk:Amorkuz|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:51, August 12, 2018 (UTC) | : [[Nethersphere]] is mentioned in the following passage: ''"Seb described the Nethersphere to CSO Matthew as having a range of names, including the afterlife and the Promised Land. (TV: The Caretaker)"''. Various "mind-upload based afterlives" should have their own pages, where it can be freely commented about their relationship to the mythical/mystical true "Afterlife" described on this page. However, the two should not be mixed. And too many stories dealt with afterlife in too many ways for any one of them to be giving the true origin of the mythical afterlife. This article, thus, requires no emphasis on any artificial "afterlife" in particular. [[User:Amorkuz|Amorkuz]] [[User talk:Amorkuz|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:51, August 12, 2018 (UTC) | ||
:: What I was thinking was more along the lines of a paragraph explaining that there were ''many'' artificial afterlives over the years, some explicitly going on to feed legends of the Afterlife in general; and possibly suggesting that some accounts imply such afterlives were the only truly existing ones and the rest was myth. | |||
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:: I was certainly not advocating that the article lean ''towards'' the idea in particular that the Nethersphere or the Testimony or any other such faux-afterlife is the source of the legends; but the possibility ''is'' raised in-universe and it seems worthwhile to mention it. | |||
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:: There's clearly something to it as well, if I may go on a tangent — one delving in complicated ethical problems about the nature of self, of course. [[Rassilon]] was brough 'back to life', back to a body, from his imprint in the [[Matrix]], and from then on no one questions that this is the “''real''” Rassilon, resurrected, not just a doppelgänger. Yet if the Afterlife works as it is described in the ''Ghosts'' audiostory this page draws from, does that means that the original Rassilon's "soul" had moved on the moment his original body had died? There are many other such issues lying in the corners of the DWU. --[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:01, August 12, 2018 (UTC) | |||
