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July 12, 2008 at 22:43:24

The Everything Game

by W. Christopher Epler (Bill)

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What would you do if you began to realize you were playing a vast social/political/worldly game whose number one game rule was that the game wasn't really a game at all?

 

The problem is how would you communicate this to the other game players?  After all, wouldn't they be mystified or offended or even threatened if you suggested they were "lost in a game"?

 

Let's think of this as the "Everything Game", because it would be a game, so to speak, without boundaries.  So long as you played the game, you would be defined by the game and you could never, never find any secret, hidden place within the game in which the game wasn't king. 

 

Even if you tried to stop playing the game, that would just be a new variation of the game.

 

You could take drugs; go to Tibet, pray, meditate, be a scientist, whatever, whatever, but the Everything Game would always have the last laugh. Paying bills, getting into arguments, going to funerals, watching movies, fantasizing about the future, regretting the past, etc., etc., etc.  All Everything Game.  

 

Now let's imagine that you woke up from this game, like waking up from a nightmare or a waking dream.  You just "snapped out of it" and were living and breathing in a non game place or dimension. 

In fact, what if the social/political/worldly game turned out to be "you"? 

 

Then what?

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I guess I consider myself a philosopher in the traditional sense (although finishing off a Ph.D. in academic philosophy). I try to be interested in everything, the things of the mind, the body and the feeling. I make my living as an IT consultant and a technical writer. I raised my three daughters as a single father.
Robert HoogenboomI guess I consider myself a philosopher in the traditional sense (although finishing off a Ph.D. in academic philosophy). I try to be interested in everything, the things of the mind, the body and the feeling. I make my living as an IT consultant and a technical writer. I raised my three daughters as a single father.

The idea is not to wake up suddenly. It would drive one mad

with horror. The idea is to wake up slowly, helped by the people who have gone before, who are now awake in the strange dimension called consciousness, looking on on the game. This is called the "first liberation". Then I must learn to stay in that strange dimension of consciousness when the game finishes. This is called the "second liberation", or the creation of a soul.

Drive late at night with the radio on. Don't you ever get the strange sensation that this man, the radio announcer, talking sensibly, is fast asleep? Don't you then at times realise that the whole world is fast asleep, unaware of the game?

Sydney, Australia

by Robert Hoogenboom (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 162 comments) on Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 4:37:51 AM
 


A liberal American, PhD mathematician, bipedal Earthling.
W. Christopher Epler (Bill)A liberal American, PhD mathematician, bipedal Earthling.

waking up from the dreamer

Yes, walking around and living our lives can happen in a nonstop coma.  Relatedly, waking up is less the waking up of the dreamer than the waking up from the dreamer.  Craving ends not by obtainly the craved.

Bill 

by W. Christopher Epler (Bill) (208 articles, 44 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 454 comments) on Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 10:54:06 AM
 

 

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