> > > Erm, I'm quite new to this, but I stumbled over this post from a while back... Are you sure you checked with Sam the Almighty on your status? Or are you just his puppet? Is there really more than one person chatting in this forum besides me? Are there really any other people alive but me? Do you exist as anything but twists in my brain? Do they wear sun-glasses in afterlife? Does hmpfpfmmmmpfmm! (is cuffed and carried away by "the nice young men in white suits". A faint "thud" is heard. All is silent).
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> > No, there aren't any other people chatting on this forum except you - all the rest of "us" are mere apparances, aspects of yourself that you have given different labels. As you grow further into the recognition of your omnipresence & omnipotence you will be able to subsume or banish us at will, which will appear to be kind of uncomfortable for us, but only because we are limited apparances who don't realise we are really only twists in your brain...
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> I don't think either one of you are real -- you're both computer programs, staging this conversation to make me feel silly or paranoid for suspecting what is really the truth -- that I, in fact, am the only real human being in existence.

Ha ha, Sam. You can't fool me! Remember, we discovered that you're just an AI some time ago, desperately trying to make us all think you're a human as part of R.I.N.K. And saying others are computer programs doesn't change the fact that you are as well.

Oh, and as for checking my Supreme Dictator status with Sam: why would I? Listen, when you stage a coup, you don't ask the leader you're overthrowing if it's all right with him. Besides, I declared myself Supreme Dictator sometime ago and Sam doesn't seem to have cared yet...