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Originally Posted by billionairekid  My problem is that from a spiritual standpoint, his description of the human game really bothers me. I've been having trouble with it all night. I can't accept that I'm here to play a game that I can't win. As he says, what the heck would be the point? Can anyone provide help? |
You might get some use out of the concept outlined in
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse.
"Infinite games, on the other hand, do not have a knowable beginning or ending. They are played with the goal of continuing play. An infinite game continues play, for sake of play. If the game is approaching resolution because of the rules of play, the rules must be changed to allow continued play. The rules exist to ensure the game is infinite. The only known example is life. Beginning to participate in an infinite game may be involuntary, in that it doesn't require conscious thought. Continuing participation in the current round of game-play is voluntary. "It is an invariable principle of all play, finite and infinite, that whoever plays, plays freely" (p. 4)."
Or, as
Vonnegut would say, "we're here on Earth to fart around"
Since at least my mid teens I've mostly seen life as god playing hide and seek with itself. It's interesting as I come across more books written along similar lines.