Rizwan Virk
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So that's one of the reasons why.
But there are consequences within the game.
And for the characters in the game.
For the NPCs that you're killing.
Those are all real consequences within the game.
But when you look at it from outside the game.
And so like the Eastern mystics have been telling us this and turns out in the Judeo-Christian Islamic traditions, the Abrahamic religions, they've also been telling us this, that the world is Maya and they use metaphors back then.
So, you know, all these religions came about a couple thousand years ago.
And so they had to use metaphors.
that were understood by the people back then, right?
And so they used whatever, the metaphor of the dream was a key metaphor, that the world is like a dream.
Or that the soul puts on the body like a set of clothes and that when you die, you take off these clothes and then you're back to the soul, whatever that happens to be.
They don't really define what that is.
In fact, they use the exact same metaphor like in the Bhagavad Gita.
They use this clothing metaphor and then Rumi, who's become popular in the West and was a
was an Islamic Sufi, you know, a poet, but also a mystic.
He used the exact same phrase, right?
He said, you put on the body, you put like a series of clothes.