From: John Jurgens (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Sun Feb 01 2004 - 01:31:19 MST
[Blunderov]
Hi everybody. Just got back from a road trip and have been trying to
catch up with Virus.
Of course this particular thread has gripped my attention more than
somewhat and it put me in mind of a George Santayana remark to something
like the effect that the pleasure of chess is deeply connected to a
primal desire to overcome opposition.
So I began rooting about to see if I could find the actual quote - it
fits in with my project "life is struggle"* quite nicely - and instead
found:
<major digression>
http://www.avendano.org/quote/
(Quotes, aphorisms, laws and thoughts)
My atheism is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods
fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human
interests.
George Santayana (1863-1952)
</major digression>
I find myself in a bit of a quandary w/r to Lucifer's First Law. I would
agree with it but only in the sense that 'playing it like a game' means
using strategies learned from games in living.
'Game' it seems to me, has as a central component of its meaning the
understanding that the outcome of the game is trivial. Stated another
way, if the outcome of the game has an importance which extends beyond
the game itself, then it is no longer a game (Of course if the game is
considered to be a superset of life then all outcomes are trivial, but
this smacks suspiciously of begging the question.)
So, I suppose, a lot depends upon the value that is assigned to the
outcome of life.
Is it a brief strut and fret upon a fleeting stage? (Trivial)
Is it that solemn ceremony, the Passing-on-of-Light? (Non-trivial)
In either event I am remain convinced that The law of struggle
(Blunderov's law)* is unfalsifiable.
Best Regards
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