Re: [-empyre-] discussion on Second Life in another list

["Ana Valdés" <agora158@gmail.com>]

That's the people choosing for their avatars animal furs and other
"androgyne" aspect.
Definitely, a qeer race, to follow Ricardo's reasoning!
Ana

On 8/8/07, sdouglas@uoguelph.ca <sdouglas@uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>
> Interesting! A "furry" Other.  Is there a race dimension to SL, too?
>
> Quoting Ana Valdés <agora158@gmail.com>:
>
> > The only people trying to do different things in bodies are the
> > "furries", people with animal atributes and it's a real hate campaign
> > against them. Weird.
> > Ana
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 8/8/07, Helen Varley Jamieson <helen@creative-catalyst.com> wrote:
> >> i agree with you, ana, & with whoever it was who
> >> said why can't we walk thru things. & why do we
> >> have to be human? is there a way to make your
> >> avatar be, for example, a fuzzy blob?
> >>
> >> >Interesting discussion! I approached SL with enthusiasm and built a
> >> >house (with stairs and doors and bought  sofa with a script who showed
> >> >my avatar crossing legs and smoking). After two weeks of flying ballon
> >> >and swimming/diving, attending a church meeting for a new religion and
> >> >gambling some Linden dollars in a virtual casino, I dropped the whole
> >> >project.
> >> >Later on I went into again, visited my lonely house, wathered the
> >> >virtual garden with virtual water and went into the Port, my friends
> >> >Art space. I was the only visitor then. I was later invited to a
> >> >concert and made my avatar jump with others in an avant garde dance
> >> >performance reproduced in "real life" and in SL.
> >> >After three months I really felt I exhausted the possibilities of
> >> >travel and interaction in SL, too much replics and reproductions of
> >> >"real things", furniture you don't need (an avatar don't need sleep,
> >> >sit on a couch or eat sitting near a table), clothes you don't need,
> >> >houses with living rooms and stairs and gardens and windows you don't
> >> >need.
> >> >
> >> >I feel that it's a really waste to have an universe you don't need to
> >> >respect the laws of gravity and other physical borders and not use the
> >> >"impossible" ways to perform. Why cars in SL? Why ways and motorways
> >> >ending in the void? Why are we so obsessed with the reproduction and
> >> >multiplication in an endless linear mainstream?
> >> >
> >> >Ana, really curious and eager to convert to a believer!!!
> >> >
> >> >
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> >>
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with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you
will always long to return.
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