Yeah, faceless is good...

[jackofallgeeks]

It's an interesting thing, this Internet. I would dare say it's the closest we can get to an abstract, immaterial, mutable plane of existance. There are few, if any constants. Gender is meaningless - I am a man only in as much as you precieve me as such. Were I more feminine, and/or no designation were made, one could reasonably assume I were a woman. Similarly, age is insignificant - if anything at all, it is an arbitrary convention we place on eachother.

More than anywhere else, and Entity Online is nearly pure intellect. Your existance is as mutable as you allow it to be, and one can be taken only as what one presents. It's really quite fascinating if you think about it.

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[surichan.livejournal.com]

Well, you ARE a lesbian...

(and I think you've been reading far too much of that one guy who makes himself a girl thingiemabob...or talking to Miss Jennifer... ::grins::)

And Apparently, So Are You

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

In a limited way, you're right, both NJ and Kincaid may have nudged the idea. But Gender is really only a piece of it, and a small piece, at that. Unfortunately, I lost steam far too early, and as such it seems my focus is merely age and sex, which it's not.

My whole fascination, and the point I don't think I quite presented, is that THIS is about as close as we come to being pure intellect. As such, yes, Age and gender are insensible, because a educated intellect exists as such regardless of those factors. Likewise, you're whole perception of me is based simply on what's presented - most prominantly, what I present to you. Granted, in your case, you know me in the Real World. Most of my Friends here know me. But, I don't believe either Mel or Kincaid has ever so much as seen a picture of me, nor have any of the random people I stumble upon, or those who stumble upon me.

My point wasn't that the Internet is a medium for altered existance, but that the Internet as such is a different sort of existance all it's own. As such, the idea, I like to believe, is independant of any single influence I've had.