>:From one point of view life is
>> just a game, with winners and losers. If there is no game, then
>> everything is the same. That is the desired goal for the suffering one,
>> but the sorted one realises that the intrinsic sameness of things is
>> boring, and magically creates goals, possibilities that call to be
>> realised, and that, when realised, will temporarily upset the 'balance',
>> whatever it was. The Dance.
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> Are there not also games without winnners or losers, just players?
>"Finite and Infinite Games", describes the difference.
Yes, of course there are games without winners or losers, but there are
games with winners and losers too, and those are quite legitimate as
games too. My point is that there is nothing intrinsically spiritually dodgy
about winning/losing scenarios.
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Guru George