I’d like to believe life is an open world video game, and not a hard-scripted movie.  If it is a video game, I suspect that accessing hints/tips/tricks/assists—perhaps even cheat codes—are a matter of focusing on the present moment, and allowing relevant information to arise through intuition and synchronicity. 

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7 responses to “Musings”

  1. If life is a video game, i would like to change games, please, something with love, peace, fariness, happiness and rules that everyone obeys.

  2. If life were a video game, perhaps we could find the developer and ask him (or her) to fix the bugs … It seems to be very much an ‘early alpha’ product release. 😉

    1. I hear you. I’d also be happy if we had explicit guidance from the get-go

  3. Life is what I believe it is…

  4. If it were a movie…can I be played by Molly Ringwald?

  5. I’d like to believe that too. Not so much from a simulation perspective, but the idea for videogames came from somewhere. We all have internal algorithms, and we have the ability to recognize others and aggregate data, so it posits that videogames/living in a ‘system’ of zeroes and ones might make a lot of sense.

  6. A video game? It would seem my controller only has two buttons: -Total annihilation- and – off-

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