The Golden Sphere of Possibility

[P3nT4gR4m]

Change "religion" to "religion/philosophy/way of getting through this life without killing yourself".

I'll change it 'Crutch/Shackles' if that helps

Are you saying you have no belief systems, or that yours is as much of a crutch as everyone else's?

My belief system is a scaffold. I can and actually make a point of, constantly adjusting it in light of new insight or just to try it out. I am aware that my beliefs are merely best working hypothesis at a given moment. It's really more like science than religion.

[LMNO]

And so, why cannot that be a factor/aspect in the proposed Game?

You seem to imply that you take things you find/discover and use them as you see fit.

Why couldn't you deconstruct other belief systems for this purpose?


Methinks you kneejerked at the word "religion".

[Triple Zero]

we already seem to be playing this game

troof.

so what is again the change we're trying to create?

tell people how to play the game?
to make the game more interesting?
to stop spoiling the game for others?
to make them more skilled at playing?

or the cliche, to take it less serious

[LMNO]

I say, to show the possibilities available.

[Mangrove]

nfor the love of christ, why do i never click 'stayed logged in' and instead get kicked out every 60 minutes??????

ok..

what i was going to say before the logging out (and taking my dog out for it's mid afternoon poop) was:

every person i've ever encountered who said 'nahh man, i'm a skeptic...i don't have any beliefs' have, invariably, had beliefs.

what they probably should say is:

"while i don't subscribe to any well known belief system as posited by religion or other philosophical construct, i do, nevertheless have beliefs that i have neither anaylyzed in any detail nor attempted to form into a cogent whole. as such, my psyche is a rag tag collection of whatever nonsense has drifted past my transom."

[AFK]

we already seem to be playing this game

troof.

so what is again the change we're trying to create?

tell people how to play the game?
to make the game more interesting?
to stop spoiling the game for others?
to make them more skilled at playing?

or the cliche, to take it less serious

the game has no gameboard?

[LMNO]

nfor the love of christ, why do i never click 'stayed logged in' and instead get kicked out every 60 minutes??????

Profile options, FTW.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Methinks you kneejerked at the word "religion".

Absolutely! I kneejerked at the whole notion of religion. As I expect many people will be inclined. By all means plagiarise the mainstream but give not one iota of credit to their camp. It's too much of a mental quagmire to be pointing at and saying "look over there". I'd rather say "dont look there" but if I had the choice I wouldn't even mention it.

[Cain]

nfor the love of christ, why do i never click 'stayed logged in' and instead get kicked out every 60 minutes??????

ok..

what i was going to say before the logging out (and taking my dog out for it's mid afternoon poop) was:

every person i've ever encountered who said 'nahh man, i'm a skeptic...i don't have any beliefs' have, invariably, had beliefs.

what they probably should say is:

"while i don't subscribe to any well known belief system as posited by religion or other philosophical construct, i do, nevertheless have beliefs that i have neither anaylyzed in any detail nor attempted to form into a cogent whole. as such, my psyche is a rag tag collection of whatever nonsense has drifted past my transom."

You sounded like Ayn Rand there.  Not that thats always a bad thing (not in this case), but even so....

[P3nT4gR4m]

I say, to show the possibilities available.

[Thurnez Isa]

nfor the love of christ, why do i never click 'stayed logged in' and instead get kicked out every 60 minutes??????

did you at least click it this time?

[Mangrove]

never read any.

does ayn rand also rant about profile options and takes dogs out for poops?

[Mangrove]

nfor the love of christ, why do i never click 'stayed logged in' and instead get kicked out every 60 minutes??????

did you at least click it this time?

yes. 

[Cain]

never read any.

does ayn rand also rant about profile options and takes dogs out for poops?

No, but she did say

"As a human being, you have no choice about the fact that you need a philosophy. Your only choice is whether you define your philosophy by a conscious, rational, and disciplined process of thought and scrupulously logical deliberation ,Äî or let your subconscious accumulate a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, undefined contradictions, undigested slogans, unidentified wishes, doubts and fears, thrown together by chance, but integrated by your subconscious into a kind of mongrel philosophy and fused into a single, solid weight: self-doubt, like a ball and chain in the place of where your mind,Äôs wings should have grown."

,Äî Ayn Rand, from Philosophy: Who Needs It?

[Cain]

She still talked absolute crap about the free market tho/