Subject: Can you tell me, Socrates, is life a game?
From: L. Manning Vines (lmanningvines@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 02 2001 - 03:38:54 GMT
Stranger, you must think me a specially favored mortal, to be able to tell
whether life is a game: so far am I from knowing whether or not it is a
game, that I do not even know what a game itself is. I have to reproach
myself with an utter ignorance about games; and if I do not know what a
thing is, how can I know what its nature may be?
Okay, so I'll stop pretending to be Socrates. My point is that going back
and forth about life being or not being a game isn't worthwhile unless
everybody knows what the hell the other guy is talking about. Perhaps
insofar as a game is X, life is a game. But this conversation isn't making
any more sense to me than would, say, a slogan on a t-shirt or bumper
sticker.
Some part of me can't believe I'm talking about this, although I guess it's
not much worse than arguing over the One and the Many.
-robbie
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