> Which leads me to think that it was just a spiritual thing (eat your buddy to grok him) which doesn't make sense since the body wasn't really you, and once you've left the shell there's really no point...

I read a story like that awhile ago. It was about this old man who thought that by killing people and eating them he would absorb their memories and their wisdom, but all he got was their cruelty and jadedness, which he realized made him unfit for heaven. Then it got weird.

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