From: Jei (jei@cc.hut.fi)
Date: Wed Jan 28 2004 - 08:58:30 MST
Well, here's mine, let's call it Jei's Law:
The people who do best in life are absolute pessimists. -
They never fail to achieve at least their own worst nightmares
and thus experience only over-achievement and pure success.
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, David McFadzean wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mermaid"
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> > The Law of the Game (or Lucifer's First Law)
> > Those who are doing best in life are playing it like a game.
> >
> > [Mermaid]this is vague to me. it begs the question of what 'best in life' really means...apparently, one is a winner if one
> decides that he has won and when he will win the game. its like playing poker with oneself?
>
> [Lucifer] It is the nature of concise laws to be vague.
> The point is to explore the consequences given the
> tentative assumption that the law is true.
>
> > [Mermaid]On the other hand, if we are to assume that all of us are playing the same "game of life", what are the rules of the
> game? If you really think about it, people who want to play the same games form groups and play against each other. e.g. All the
> employees of a corporation play a game within the confined by the corporate rules.
>
> [Lucifer] The game of life consists of all the games you are in,
> consciously or unconsciously. I suspect most games are participated
> in unconciously in which case you are more like a pawn than a player.
>
> > [Mermaid]If I can alter Lucifer's First Law, I would say that those who do best in life are those who play the game after they
> pick their team and opponents well.
>
> [Lucifer] Of course you may alter it, but then you have to give it
> a new name. Your variation is now Mermaid's Law.
>
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