I'm actually surprised by your responses here. If a person has cancer, they don't care what caused it. If a person goes to jail, the reason they are there is insignificant. If someone close to you dies, the cause of death is unimportant next to the fact that they aren't there anymore. Hopefully, Lor...

Is it?

Xar wrote:What if, by creating a detailed world, the author were indeed creating it in a reality in which it has physical existence, and its inhabitants are as real to each other as we are to each other here?

Just tell them "I am" sent you.

Well, we don’t know each other but I was struck at your ability to construct your thoughts so clearly that I felt that I would put an end to my lurking & talk a bit. I don’t have long, but I may be back later in the year after this initial visit. My business is generating money & it is an ex...