Question:
Is life a game?
Colleen
2015-08-31 11:49:30 UTC
It seems like to be considered normal in this world, you have to play the game of life. And it all seems to revolve around money.
169 answers:
?
2015-09-02 16:06:35 UTC
I think is really depends on the person that's viewing life. Kind of like a glass being half full or empty. A lot would make it a difference of definition and others think it's just rude to call something as important as life a game. It's all perspective.



However that being said I do believe that it is a game. One that we are forced to play whether we like it or not. The only difference is we all are playing the same game but view that way to win it in many different ways. For example. Some think obtaining money and power is the way to win. Others believe that doing good and living a respectively holy life according to their religion is a way to win. Others just try not to put out on the street. The only thing that we should be concerned about is how we live our life and if we consider ourselves to have won or not.



Of course there is a lot more to it but I'm not writing a book here. Best advice is to know what you want (aka: how to win the game) and do everyone in your life to get to that point.
?
2015-09-02 15:56:00 UTC
I think is really depends on the person that's viewing life. Kind of like a glass being half full or empty. A lot would make it a difference of definition and others think it's just rude to call something as important as life a game. It's all perspective.



However that being said I do believe that it is a game. One that we are forced to play whether we like it or not. The only difference is we all are playing the same game but view that way to win it in many different ways. For example. Some think obtaining money and power is the way to win. Others believe that doing good and living a respectively holy life according to their religion is a way to win. Others just try not to put out on the street. The only thing that we should be concerned about is how we live our life and if we consider ourselves to have won or not.



Of course there is a lot more to it but I'm not writing a book here. Best advice is to know what you want (aka: how to win the game) and do everyone in your life to get to that point.
Georgia
2015-09-01 17:17:39 UTC
A very subjective question... I'm assuming the term game equals fun here? Otherwise I would say life is very much a game, a very hard and sometimes rewarding one. Level infinity to be reached... but the rules are never fair, consistent and you're playing the biggest MMO there is! We're all on the same team, but trying to do different things with different people… Lets just say the developers really need to patch this one to death, or it's a huge social experimenter they want to be chaos. Then is it just them playing a game we're simulating?

Many say life is an illusion, something that exists for a time before returning to the universe as base atoms if not smaller constituents. So in this sense, yes reality is an illusion of the present and can be taken less seriously (as a game).

But of course because we interpret and interact with everything through our own senses and experience, we are often restricted to what we are taught/perceive and it seems very far from a game to most...

Some people have more fun taking the world as a game, but that requires a lot of fearless drive in my opinion. The world is generally not run by men of equality and fun, there are rules, fears, oppression, restrictions and bias everywhere. You would really need to reject all these factors, loosing yourself to moral or immoral purpose to play it like a game. Life seems too serious otherwise :P

Yet some are blessed with the ability to perceive and reject the constructs we hold dear, they are truly wonderful and bizarre at the same time (but so is the nature of the universe, the biggest game alive). I am very jealous of such people, they can have more fun, play more games and achieve more change, if they are not perceived as a threat by powerful parties in the process.

I do believe you need to play life as a game to the best of your ability, you can shape and change it's opressive nature to bring out the brighter more hopefuls sides and even reject popular society games all together (self sustainable and alternative movements, etc...). But in the end it comes down to what you believe you can do, the amount of power or what level you think you are, the alliances you make or don't, and how much punishment you enjoy in a game :)

Life can always be called a game I believe, but who is playing it, what the rules really are, is it any fun and to what end??? It changes so much, who knows?
Naguru
2015-09-01 04:48:13 UTC
Life is a game just like all the other games. The only difference is that life is the only game that we don't realize is a game. Each of us has made up, largely unconsciously, a set of rules (our values) -- based on our worldview and our beliefs -- and we think our rules are right and inherently true. And everyone else's is wrong. Sorry to break the bad news: Ours aren't right and theirs aren't wrong.



I'm not suggesting that we do anything different than what we are already doing. All I'm suggesting is that we acknowledge that what we think is real is actually a game. We made up the rules and now we can play the "life game" full out; we can be happy when we "win" and dissatisfied when we "lose." But realize it is only because we said so.
skumpfsklub
2015-08-31 18:25:42 UTC
Definitely not. To be in a game (without viciously sodomizing the term 'game') you must for a time tame life and keep it away from the playing table. You don't and mustn't cheat---because that is perverse action that defeats the purpose of your games, where people take a few minutes relaxing at more-or-less leisurely tinkering with toy problems modeled from real life..



The game is never played for the stakes one has at risk in real life; you're expected to survive the play of games---toy wars for which you needn't conscript the peasantry.



In a true game, there is a semi-cooperative framing aspect; the players expect to improve their game-playing through these practices, possibly with some spillover effect 'in real life'. (Similarly, in true sports, isolated martial skills are practiced and governed to create battles in play that your boys will survive without great injury.)



On the whole, I prefer cleverly written games to these poorly designed dumbshows with which our lives are furnished. Even if I ' IRL win' there in that 'IRL game,' there's something unsavory about the unnecessary earnestness that surrounds such 'IRL play'. Uniforms, authority, laws, customs, fashions, status, you know, all THAT crap.



And if you tell me "Life is a game," I know that you mean to cheat as soon as possible. Or, if you cheat in a game you've agreed to, you will demonstrate that you can never be trusted in real life. There is a relationship between 'game' and 'life.' 80% of us don't really understand it in any depth.





Note: See if you can find a copy of ACQUIRE. Worth the time and money to pick one up. Enormously playable game, devised over fifty years ago. The point I make here is that ACQUIRE's an important recent game you've likely never even heard of it, so how usefully can you speak of the relationship? You need to roll dice and shuffle the cards a bit, maybe try a checkers variant. Add your real life experiences to that, and you have a good stew.



I'll back off now.
marisa
2015-09-03 00:35:51 UTC
Life is not a game!! Money might be important to our lives but other factor also needed to go along either. You cannot rack up points in the game of life by only making money, winning status, prizes, or anything like that. You also need love, friendship, etc too. Money may be the most obvious measurement of value in this system. The more money you have, the more you are “worth” in the game but not really in life.



Some of the people they are not that rich. Didn't earn a lot money but their life can run every day by love or other factors.No one has any more value or worth than any other human.



Do what you do in life out of love and true desire. Not because you believe it makes you “worth something,” or racks up points in some crazy game of life Monopoly.But there are other ways to rack up “points,” depending on what you believe in.
shereen
2015-09-02 05:55:26 UTC
interesting question and very open to interpretation.

if it were a game i suppose it could be akin to texas holdem, whereby you go "all in" without knowing a single card that will be dealt.

as you live your life, the flop appears, nothing you can do tho, you are already invested, all you can do is decide if you would have done anything different if given the chance again

then the river comes, based on your decisions made on the flop (youth) this might help or not, you can decide what the river is because it still makes no difference, you are commited. your upbringing may be out with your control but later years are based on them. if you were lucky enough to get three of a kind you might be wanting the 4th you might want to see if u have the 4th anyway. if you have nothing in the flop then you might want to go twice as hard for the ace in the river or you might give up and expect nothing but a lonely 2, point is it is your choice.

the turn is what you choose to believe, god, buddah, allah ahteism, what ever, a very powerful card depending on how you yield it. again without a proper flop its more or less useless, without you choosin wisely in the river it could lead you the wrong way. this choise isnt always yours and is never urs alone. the dealer selects this card in conjunction with you based on your life.

although the turn comes last of the 5, it can be determined during the flop or any other point. you might have inside knowledge for a larger period of time ever before the river and it can influence your pick of this card, it can also destroy you, imagine it represented by an ACE (who wouldnt pick the highest card) but your interpretation of that ace might make it count as high or low, is it the highest or the lowest? remember it is a communal card so everyone can see and react too it.



so we have our five cards but its not a game yet, not until you know what your two blind cards are. where were you born, when were u born, who were ur parents, who ruled the land. these cards are very difficult to play correctly. as you are already invested before you know what they are. but they can have a phenomenal effect on the other 5. both good and bad, they represent luck and how its favours nobody but it is fixed. you can turn bad luck and low cards into a win but it isnt easy and you can lose strong hands with over confidence or arrogance.



thats how i see it



if u win u win, it can be up to you

but not always
Charlie
2015-09-01 10:21:36 UTC
Life is a game in which,depending on who you ask, only has one continue. There are rules and they can be broken or changed. There's resources. Yet most importantly there's a goal: To live your life to the fullest and only when you can look back and see you've lived life and if it were to end at that moment you wouldn't ask for that green 1up , those 100 rings, that last continue to redo and make everything you wished you had or hadn't done right. There are no save files so be careful.
?
2015-08-31 16:28:06 UTC
Life is not a game that revolves around money.. not the real meaning IN life. Yes, we need money to survive. We work hard for those reasons.. but remember to play hard too. Live, Laugh and most of all LOVE.. Love is the main reason we are here.. Or should be. Without it.. you have nothing... If you feel you have to compete, you are doing it wrong. Be YOU.. and no one else. When you understand that it is not a fight "against one another", but that it is all about helping one another, then you will really know what is most important in living the best life you can. People.. they are all that matters. Not money. Money comes and goes.. It is just pieces of paper... Love lasts forever.
No More
2015-08-31 13:29:01 UTC
You either joined the wrong game or the players make you feel that way...

life is so much more!

It's about people, kindness, sharing, helping each other... not getting rich, but being content with the simple things.

Life wasn't meant to be an awful thing... many things are society's rules, not the only ones you can follow though.

Instead of money and trying to beat everyone else... try other ways and working together.

Not everyone thinks money is the answer to life.

Enjoy your family, friends, neighbors... learn to trade and do things just for the kindness of it... learn a new game of life.
?
2015-09-01 00:41:34 UTC
Most people forget:



Visit a hospital, where limbs are severed, or hearts are transplanted.



Visit a prison, where the worst of humanity are caged like animals, yet somehow survive the brutality and degradation and punishment of it all.



Visit an old folk's extreme care home, where senility and alzheimer's and whatnot challenges the $15 dollar an hour workers, who have to deal with formerly dignified human beings now reduced to crazed elderly patients who sometimes fling their own poo against the wall.



No. It's not a game.



It's a Carnival Freak Show.
Scorpion
2015-09-02 09:30:45 UTC
I would say that life is a game.
Fort Erudite
2015-09-02 19:13:17 UTC
In some western cultures there are certain individuals who have a bad attitude that life is just a series of silly games to be played with money, inflated egos, and stirring high emotions. Most of them believe that only the strong and competitive will win. The rest are just losers who end up in the gutter, and humiliated.

Such is life!

That is not the case with most intelligent and mature minded people in this world.
?
2015-09-01 12:26:10 UTC
Its a game as much as it is serious and real. To some capacity we all exist and like a game life has rules. Made up rules like laws of the government and seemingly unmovable rules like the laws of physics. And like a game the rules can be broken, the rules of man and nature. But unlike a game, once one dies the game is over, this is the reality of it all. Its not about winning cause everyone will lose a life, But how you play.
new_bumble_bee
2015-09-01 22:38:33 UTC
Life is a breeze and the human race and the earth is a better place if we love our families however it could be a game to some extent but at the same time you have to refer to that old saying it's all fun and games till someone gets hurt
?
2015-09-02 05:28:42 UTC
Yes life is a game. Why ? Because there are "winners" and there are "losers". But all comes from hasard so the luck is here (or not) also. It's like a lotery, a die roll, if you have the double 6 you win or... you lose. But I've noticed people who succeed in their lives are mean, they treat other people in a very bad way, that's why I guess they succeed in their lives because they let no one disturb their plans and they don't hesitate to crush the weakest like an ant. And in general, the weakest are the nicer in this world, it's a shame because they are like losers but they are not. They are wonderful persons. It's just that they are too nice so everyone takes advantage of them. And they don't have any luck, they don't find any apportunity. Well, yeah.. a game. And sometimes it's better to cheat to succeed, like in card game. We are in a jungle and the "strongest" are heathen.
Captain
2015-09-04 09:17:31 UTC
Life is like being in the game, not the game. In a game, the person you play as fights to stay alive and prosper. A game is a lot different when you're in it than actually playing it.
Paul
2015-09-01 07:16:48 UTC
Life starts out ok but it is an illusion, in the sense your parents are alive for your childhood and that is your safety years and learning years. When my parents passed away I was hit hard with depression and a lost feeling major! to make thing compounded my parents did a lot of things I never had to do and I took them for granted. But I do not anymore I wish I could have a do over.



but as time wears on yes money does play a lot in the daily life situation. without money no food in time no house (due to medical problem)

today's society and a few rude people in it
jw
2015-09-03 08:44:05 UTC
Life is a do-it-to-yourself process.

But step off the curb at the wrong moment and bam, your dead, or worse crippled for life.

That's the game.

The game can change as you go.

Video games show that - they get tougher each round, until you fail.

Learn to quit before you lose.
Robert
2015-09-02 23:10:07 UTC
Life is a torture method. You're put on this earth to suffer. You're constantly being shown happiness you can never have, no matter how hard you work. Any slight amount of happiness you manage to achieve is greatly overshadowed by the pain and suffering you have to endure on a daily basis. The only ones who can win at life are the ones too stupid to realize how **** everything around them is. Life is a game, but you're not the player. I believe some sadistic being watches over the earth and enjoys watching us suffer.
2015-08-31 22:04:46 UTC
Is life a game - Yes

Is life a dream - Yes
NOMAR
2015-09-01 17:19:30 UTC
Yes life is a game...
Joseph
2015-09-01 19:26:47 UTC
Life is a game indeed. A game of creating & experiencing VALUE... We value many things; free time, subjects of interest, health & fitness, deep healthy relationships, feelings of adventure & feelings of purpose, love, growing, learning, peak experiences, feelings of being highly esteemed and significant, money and the many uses it brings. Money is only one kind of value...



Money buys the collective human effort... That is a tremendously valuable thing indeed. Money is important for #1 not living in extreme poverty and #2 being able to control the collective human effort for your intended purpose whatever that may be...



But do you know what is more valuable than money??? The wisdom to use it for the most valuable purposes... That's right. Only the most valuable purposes like freeing up your time by using $ to get out of debt because with time you can do almost anything. Or for freeing up your aging parents time so that they can spend their last years doing what they love with the ones they love instead of at work. Or for transitioning yourself into a career that you yourself love doing so that you can love your work for the rest of your life. Or for helping out humanity at large in lasting sustainable ways etc...



You know what is not very valuable uses for money. A bigger house, a newer car, a ton of entertainment etc...



Don't follow the masses. They are all following each other... Follow your heart, that will lead you to fulfillment and THAT is how you win the game of life... Money is a tool to help to a degree along the way that is all...



It is a fact that most people use $ to rent a wealthy lifestyle living in debt and living at work to pay for it... But the uber wealthy are usually those that used $ to free up their time so that they can do what they loved, and when they do what they loved in a way that created value for others in a marketable way, they then became wealthy as well... Be in it for the freedom not the money, then you can have both...
?
2015-08-31 19:28:44 UTC
What happens to a car if you douse it in oil? It becomes a mess. What happens to a car with no oil? It seizes up. Past the issues revolving around poverty, money is a curse rather than a blessing. If you get confused between needing to thrive and needing to wallow in conspicuous consumption, then you have lost the game. The most valuable thing you have is time. A close second is that one friend who won't bullshyte you.
?
2015-09-01 06:53:46 UTC
Yes, life is a game. the goal is to make as much money as you can and to help others along the way who are playing the game.
?
2015-09-01 09:06:20 UTC
yes it's a game and like every other game there is some rules and goals and your score in this game Determined your real life after death .

director of this game will be Judges you and we ( REAL Muslims )

Believe the Most Losers are the people who think they have the Best Performance but they are in perdition and they do not know it .
Generali
2015-09-04 18:56:17 UTC
The game revolves around winning, no matter how you define it.



Those who want to win more frequently make sure they are basing their efforts on what really is, not what was guessed, or said by someone else.

The most reliable way to do that is to use the essential relationships of life in a simple mantra. Since our minds are so filled with fears, fables, fallacies, it is necessary to make some effort to bae the mind on reality, rather than error.
?
2015-09-03 05:28:06 UTC
No, life is not game
sara
2015-09-02 03:10:11 UTC
Life is like a box of chocolates you never know what ypur going to get next. So I say life is not a game but a mistory.
?
2015-09-01 10:19:17 UTC
I say yes, life is a game. Life is nothing more than one long trip to a playground. We are only alive for a limited time, so get out there and live it up. Do whatever you want to do because tomorrow you may be dead.
Groove doctor
2015-09-01 21:12:51 UTC
Sure is. But the next question is what is the all-encompassing game being played?



When you realise the nature of the ego's illusion, you'll understand that it's all a continual game called 'the universe pretending not to recognise itself'. If this makes no sense to you, and you're curious to be entertained by the rules of this largest game, watch Alan Watt's talk "are we really being honest with ourselves?"
?
2015-09-02 08:20:28 UTC
Life is a game. You can choose to be a passive player and stay stagnant as the majority of the population does or you can be an active player such as inventors and innovators have been. It is a game that is only limited to your imagination.



I hope I answered your question correctly.
Night
2015-09-02 09:29:29 UTC
My life is not a game for sure.
Ashley
2015-09-02 00:34:00 UTC
Life is a game. More like an adventure type. Choose a path for your destination. But you wont know where your going and you wont know which path to take. Only choices you have in this game is to enjoy the journey or don't. The more you enjoy it, the easier it gets. The less you enjoy it....The harder it gets.
Voltaire
2015-09-04 06:28:04 UTC
The label game is subjective to your own perceptions. Without those perceptions it is what it is. You can look at it as a game. As far as money goes, it's essential for your survival. You may not attach importance to it to determine the quality of your life, it doesn't do that.
?
2015-09-02 05:53:41 UTC
Yes, life is a game; a very complex game. People always assume that life is merely a flip of a coin; however, it is much more complex like a twelve-sided dice and like a game there are "Winners" and there are "Losers, all orchestrated by the enigmatic, yet cruel and sympathetic, game designer we call "God". unfortunately, like a game, there are those who would cheat, even if it means hurting those around them.
MD. EKRAMUL
2015-09-02 11:41:17 UTC
Existence is often a sport exactly like all the other video game titles. The sole big difference will be that will existence is the merely sport that any of us miss is often a sport. Every one of all of us offers comprised, mainly unconsciously, a set of principles (our values) -- according to our worldview and also our thinking -- and also we believe our principles tend to be suitable and also inherently legitimate. And also everyone else's will be wrong. Sorry for you to bust your negative media: Mine usually are not suitable and also their own usually are not wrong.



I am not necessarily indicating that any of us do something distinct from that which you already are doing. Most I am indicating will be that any of us recognize that will that which you believe will be true is actually a sport. All of us comprised the principles now we could perform your "life game" total out and about; we could possibly be pleased whenever we "win" and also dissatisfied whenever we "lose. inch However understand it truly is merely because we.
?
2015-09-03 18:20:39 UTC
No its not a game at all, nor is it a mystery. We know everything when we are born but we learn new elaborate comcepts from the adults around us. This is explained in this book Easy Manifesting by Sabrina Woodson. I highly recommend. Very cheap and short read, but it explains A LOT of these types of questions
Athena
2015-09-02 20:25:15 UTC
No. Life is not a game. It's an opportunity to overcome evil with love. I know it sounds corny, but I really believe that. We're all born to resist evil and spread love, real love, not material love, or just lust. Yes, I'm a Christian, go ahead and laugh, but I still stand by my beliefs.
Dallas Marie Pak
2015-09-02 17:16:39 UTC
Matters how people look at it. To me, some days are a game and others is a journey. I can only wish that I have gotten to my destination some days also, but then I sit & realize that it's better sometimes to enjoy the journey while you have it. Enjoy it while it lasts. Because one day, it may be taken away, without a warning.
Sharif
2015-09-02 04:58:42 UTC
Life is a game and you make the rule.
gnnfeifn
2015-09-01 23:06:10 UTC
It is more than a game
Ron
2015-09-01 18:23:30 UTC
Yes
Oleg
2015-09-03 11:57:48 UTC
Yes, you are right, it all seems to revolve around money. You're talking about something that hurts you the most. And you are right, because you suggested this. Everybody is right. But the truth is only one: outward things reflect yourself. So, play this game, chose a role and play this game. All in your hands.
Adullah M
2015-09-01 02:01:16 UTC
In this materiallistic world mankind need money to buy for their living ,since baterring is out of date .

We still do not know what would be the system of monetary in the next century.

But right now the game of life is moving in this fashion ,so money is still playing its role as the media in transaction.
?
2015-09-01 18:31:41 UTC
I was told that as "The Game of Life" there are three rules:



1. You have to play (born into life) and you don't make the rules.

2. You can't quit (Suicide is a BIG No-No). You die at the end.

3. You AREN'T ALLOWED to win.
?
2015-09-04 08:49:22 UTC
Life is not a game! this worldly life is trial for the people from the ALLAH to know how loves Him and who do not!



Life is not a game when it's about Paradise & Hell!!!
one who enjoys learning
2015-08-31 11:51:35 UTC
Yup I've played Life. Good board game that revolves around money!



Update: your question also appears under the "Video & Online Games" subcategory.
?
2015-09-02 01:28:31 UTC
Life can be **** but if it is a game we are a player an d you're in control of your moves
?
2015-09-02 04:58:05 UTC
Actually life is real game .
2015-08-31 19:24:24 UTC
Not so much a game for money, but for power. Just having money is not enough, that is why some rich people are desperately unhappy. Most people find it fairly easy to make money, even lots of money. Power gives them something else.
Jason
2015-09-03 18:30:15 UTC
Its a game in a way that you have to play by other peoples rules
perfectlybaked
2015-09-01 17:18:17 UTC
I know a clown (not a literal one) that seems to think it is.



This dufus will do stuff like jump off of staircases or eat pinecones just to garner attention.



He is also a notorious job-to-job journeyman.



Some people think life IS just a game.
Nate12
2015-09-01 19:49:48 UTC
Life is the most challenging game yet. I have a college degree and no job right now and I'm very discouraged. Could it get any worse!
?
2015-09-02 09:26:09 UTC
Life is allmost like a game
?
2015-09-04 01:15:28 UTC
The meaning of life is art and performance, however you want to express those things (just about anything can be an art form, when you think about it). Everyone who hasn't caught on to this is the audience.



Money is just a means to an end. Food, shelter, water, and self-medication of your boredom. It offers nothing else but greed, loneliness, and regret.
?
2015-09-02 08:16:24 UTC
Life is a zero sum game.
?
2015-09-01 09:30:51 UTC
If life's a game, then I'm on the losing side.
?
2015-09-04 10:35:23 UTC
A game of chance. Because with life, you just never know what'll happen from one minute to the next, but you take a chance and live it to its fullest.
2015-08-31 19:31:47 UTC
No. But studying is a game and most of life is spent studying.
Abrar Benazeer
2015-09-03 12:17:56 UTC
Not really a game. Life is a path with hills, obstacles and rewards
Joshua
2015-09-01 13:58:54 UTC
Yes
The Mikel
2015-09-03 10:40:42 UTC
G*D is all alone, having killed off the older gods.

So G*D is like a child playing in its Sandbox with the toys (US).

And the "heaven & hell" the religious want us to believe in as separate places are actually this very earth. When a body dies the spirit is released for G*D go re assign to a new body. Where is on earth and to what community the child goes, is "H&H".



So yes, Life is a Game .... to G*D.

Or not if you don't want to believe.
?
2015-09-01 12:51:30 UTC
If you want it to be: yes it is, however, you have free will you can stake your life, which way will you go, to a eternal reward for a god life, a life that follows God's will? Or a life that corresponds to someone else's will?
2015-09-01 23:51:53 UTC
Yes I think life is a game, for example go and look up the meaning of: Dismal Science



Here is a link to the meaning of Dismal Science:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/12/why-economics-is-really-called-the-dismal-science/282454/
Plogsties
2015-09-02 05:32:24 UTC
You COULD view it this way - a game in which you need to ACTIVELY choose from alternatives to maximize the outcome. But it NOT like a computer game in which all is reversible.
?
2015-09-03 21:06:31 UTC
Certainly not! God wants us to enjoy ourselves by keeping fun it in its proper place, however we need to have respect for life—both our own and that of others. Having respect for life includes having the right view of fellow humans.



As far as money is concerned, having the proper use of money is approved by God. It would be wrong to conclude that the Bible condemns money itself or any of its basic uses. The Bible shows that money provides a practical defense against poverty and its attendant troubles, enabling people to procure necessities. King Solomon wrote: “Wisdom is for a protection the same as money is for a protection.” And: “Bread is for the laughter of the workers, and wine itself makes life rejoice; but money is what meets a response in all things.”—Ecclesiastes 7:12; 10:19. The fact that money itself is not condemned in the Scriptures should not blunt Paul’s warning. Christians who begin to love money are vulnerable to all kinds of problems, the worst of which is that of straying from the faith. Also, the difference between normal desire and greed might be likened to the difference between the small campfire that cooks food and the blazing inferno that consumes a forest. Wholesome and well-placed desire can be constructive. It motivates us to work and to be productive. Proverbs 16:26 says: “The soul of the hard worker has worked hard for him, because his mouth has pressed him hard.” But greed is dangerous and destructive. It is likened to a desire out of control.
?
2015-09-01 19:24:39 UTC
Visit an old folk's extreme care home, where senility and alzheimer's and whatnot challenges the $15 dollar an hour workers, who have to deal with formerly dignified human beings now reduced to crazed elderly patients who sometimes fling their own poo against the wall.
Sink
2015-09-01 01:14:26 UTC
What's money got to do with life? It's just a bit of paper.
Maylee
2015-09-02 20:09:25 UTC
"Game, my a**. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right - I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game."

-Holden Caulfield
Philip
2015-09-02 10:20:28 UTC
Life can be anything you want it to be. If you want to be say, successful in a leading career, you have to play the game, be the best you can be.
2015-09-04 02:52:55 UTC
You can treat it that way if you wish, but some parts need to be taken seriously. Just remember that life doesn't play fair and ALWAYS has another dirty trick up its sleeve. Time isn't on your side and ultimately you are going to lose.
2015-08-31 21:53:41 UTC
No. It's serious business. It's our opportunity to get to know and serve our Creator and Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, and to be prepared for eternity with Him. Most people are wasting their lives and will be in for a nasty surprise when they die. I recommend that you read the New Testament, starting with the Gospel of John, for more information.
CECIL W
2015-09-01 01:58:48 UTC
No. But games are made of life. That is how games are concieved.
?
2015-09-01 20:16:35 UTC
Excellent question! You know, Islam says there is actually a purpose to life, and that is to worship the one who created you, God. He is one, and He deserves your attention as He is the one who provided you with life and with abundent (large amount) of blrssings :) So, no, life is not a game. It is a test to stay faithful to the One and to please Him by not disobeying Him... If you are interested or would like to know more, please visit WhyIslam.com

Have a nice day :)
d_r_siva
2015-09-01 02:49:34 UTC
Knowledge is power in this game of chances in life



http://www.iied.org/knowledge-power-game-chance-called-life
Jack
2015-09-02 04:11:44 UTC
Yes
?
2017-03-05 10:21:27 UTC
1
Allison
2015-09-02 09:37:11 UTC
Yes and God is the player :) I love being a part of this game as I love challenges!!
?
2015-09-02 19:44:19 UTC
Well, I believe it's a test to see what direction you are going in the after life.
?
2015-09-01 04:29:16 UTC
yes life is full of bad and good games!
SHAH AL IRFAN
2015-09-04 14:04:27 UTC
Yes
Happy Dude
2015-09-02 00:45:45 UTC
It's a game... But you have to play it seriously!
2015-08-31 11:50:07 UTC
Yes
Benjamin
2015-09-01 05:48:21 UTC
Not particularly. Can be. W/e. You'll always lose if it were a game of health because there's always death. Maggot hospital.
2015-09-02 14:12:23 UTC
***Spoiler Alert!***



Life is a game and whatever you do the outcome is the darn same, death. :|



It sucks, we should all go back to playing Skyrim, at least in that you can reload!





( Sorry my answer was a little silly, but this topic needed a laugh. ;) )
PB&Jplez
2015-09-03 17:26:58 UTC
Life is a duration of time... Money is an agreed upon method exchange of value for goods or services...

Have you decided what you want for yourself during this time? , and if you have, how much money will it cost to acquire these things, finally by what means do you want acquire this money?
2015-09-02 08:43:51 UTC
In a nutshell if your not rich or good looking society tells you are ain't **** so basically I lost the game
acharjeesatya1
2015-09-02 01:43:08 UTC
No, its not a game.
2015-09-02 00:48:56 UTC
it seems life is a game to exist here when you are not necessarily want so
say
2015-09-04 11:53:15 UTC
yes

life is game

and human

is assumption of existance
Lapiz Dominoes
2015-09-02 05:04:50 UTC
It only seems that way when one seems to think one is winning

financially or any which way..;

Otherwise..reality hits like a mack truck, alas -

Unless you are one of the one in ten thousand

who is enlightened,

then it only hits like a 2 - cylinder motorcycle accident

with cosmic airbags (I believe).



Lapiz Dominoes.
All hat
2015-09-01 04:35:10 UTC
Some people think it revolves around money. And certainly you need some amount of money to live comfortably. But other people think it revolves around love and happiness. Vastly more practical, imo.
je.crab
2015-08-31 16:55:56 UTC
life is a wild game for the hunter that knows the upper game is for supper
idle.fan
2015-09-01 13:30:08 UTC
In Central Africa, life doesn't revolve around money at all, because they have no concept of money.
Zigi
2015-09-02 06:30:06 UTC
life is a game to determine whether we spend eternity with God in heaven or the evil one in hell
SKnice
2015-09-03 01:54:25 UTC
Life does revolve around money here on earth. Yes, it sucks!
Debra
2015-09-03 18:43:18 UTC
we do need money and it does seem like a game
teba
2015-09-03 07:39:46 UTC
I think life isn´t a gane (only for those you have millions) but a single person can enjoy it
?
2015-09-02 06:54:22 UTC
Only if you have a roof over your head and enough food on the table to think of such abstract nonsense.
?
2015-09-03 13:49:23 UTC
No! Life is a given gift which can be lost.
livenicetimes
2015-09-02 04:13:08 UTC
No, life is life.
rpm
2015-09-02 19:17:04 UTC
Life at all levels and all forms is competition.
?
2015-09-02 08:08:10 UTC
Life is what YOU make of it. If you seek money then your life will revolve around money, if you seek power then your life will revolve around seeking power. If you seek Love and understanding then your life will revolve around that.



It is up to you.
?
2015-09-02 22:59:49 UTC
No. Life is meaning full.
soha
2015-09-03 11:55:48 UTC
a serious game which not only we don't start it but also we could not finish it. we dramatically have to continue to it.
jhilu
2015-09-01 10:23:28 UTC
YES LIFE IS A GAME AND CHALLENGE.......
?
2015-09-03 12:54:56 UTC
Porbably.
2015-09-01 16:54:19 UTC
Some user's directions given in: "The Path of the Higher Self;" "The Yoga of Nutrition;" "For Couples Only;" "Conscious Capitalism;" "The Great Divorce."
Jade Adevai
2015-09-03 03:40:10 UTC
well life is life
Art
2015-09-07 09:44:30 UTC
Money can make it easier , money can make it harder . The ultimate goal is to live long and prosper , it doesn't hurt one iota if you enjoy it along the way.
2015-08-31 13:24:53 UTC
That's only the condition of your particular circumstance. It is not like that for all people everywhere. It doesn't have to be that way for you.
Atheist Christian
2015-08-31 11:52:19 UTC
That's the wrong game, bro. The real game is about happiness.
?
2015-08-31 12:57:29 UTC
Life is a competition.
?
2015-09-03 08:09:21 UTC
No life has no purpose
?
2015-09-04 01:17:02 UTC
its all about money

and if you get money you can live otherwise not

so its a game
2015-09-02 15:05:33 UTC
trump hogan 2016
?
2015-08-31 11:51:47 UTC
Well, unless you are independently wealthy and do not need to work for a living, that is a big part of life.



No job, no food, no home = Not winning.
?
2015-09-01 15:29:06 UTC
yes
?
2015-09-03 14:22:26 UTC
nope.. its not a game .. you have to be serious about life.
Labidi Aymen
2015-09-04 13:39:02 UTC
fuking hardest game
?
2015-09-02 05:09:20 UTC
no, but, asking the most stupid ambiguous question IS a game and YOU win
Geri42
2015-09-01 18:58:00 UTC
"Life's a dance you learn as you go. Sometimes you lead; sometimes you follow"...
?
2015-09-02 12:08:37 UTC
Yes money is points
weather
2015-09-01 14:37:40 UTC
yes
?
2015-09-03 06:09:19 UTC
Money may provide you sustenance, but sustenance isn't money in itself.
?
2015-09-04 11:51:11 UTC
no.i think life is a exam.If we win 1st then we will go to Heaven
2015-09-01 20:44:16 UTC
no because you can quit a game unscathed
Safaa Merzah
2015-09-01 13:18:10 UTC
Yes and yes.
?
2015-09-02 08:13:25 UTC
life is a dream!
2015-09-01 19:41:41 UTC
No, life is a privilege.
2015-09-01 15:01:25 UTC
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?
2015-09-02 03:26:59 UTC
No. Life is a disease, sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
2015-09-01 21:18:14 UTC
yes
?
2015-09-01 10:29:53 UTC
Yes i think so
Zara
2015-09-02 02:17:53 UTC
Its even not less than a movie.
2015-09-02 23:15:33 UTC
Fo' sho!... Or dont u think what/who ever created us is fvckin crackin' up right now!!?...
Aiden
2015-09-04 13:04:31 UTC
No. Why? Because you can't revive once you've died.
Allie
2015-09-02 07:49:08 UTC
Sort of
?
2015-09-03 15:05:58 UTC
life is a challenge,.
STORMY K
2015-08-31 12:33:34 UTC
I agree again life sucks . so grasp each fleeting spur happy minute when it passes your way>
?
2015-09-02 15:42:46 UTC
It certainly seems like it is.
craig
2015-09-01 20:56:18 UTC
Not raely
Maiz
2015-09-01 20:05:52 UTC
I believe it is in all honesty
?
2015-09-09 04:36:05 UTC
ya
?
2015-09-03 00:58:17 UTC
ya
?
2015-09-02 22:47:57 UTC
no, life is not like game.it is beautiful .
JOHN
2015-09-01 07:48:23 UTC
Yes and here's why . . . .



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG3f3Nab1DA
?
2015-09-01 14:22:24 UTC
yea
Marco
2015-09-02 09:47:19 UTC
yeah , its tuff, gotta win it bro
lifereaper7
2015-09-02 17:27:10 UTC
Its a movie and you die at the end.
2015-09-01 15:47:25 UTC
yes, and most all of us are pawns
2015-09-01 10:55:55 UTC
It is a test.
cameron
2015-09-01 10:30:32 UTC
NOBODY knows 😦😬
mordecai
2015-09-04 09:21:44 UTC
damn mang, money is money, but you can't money if you No money. you need money to money
emoapple
2015-09-04 13:47:39 UTC
don't think so
Teodor
2015-09-01 08:32:43 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5jDspIC4hY

Watch this :)
?
2015-09-02 20:11:42 UTC
No
2015-09-01 05:19:31 UTC
No
Nathan
2015-09-04 09:43:11 UTC
depends on what it is
Estellethe
2015-09-02 16:00:51 UTC
no idea sadly
Nutzu
2015-09-02 11:48:44 UTC
Sometime is it.
.
2015-09-03 12:46:22 UTC
yeah it is
?
2015-09-01 10:40:37 UTC
no, because if it was i could cheat.
Andrew
2015-09-03 05:53:40 UTC
no. its a highway
?
2015-09-02 12:55:38 UTC
i believe it is
?
2015-09-02 11:04:16 UTC
No.
2015-09-02 19:16:40 UTC
THIS is DEFINLITELY true
Erica S
2015-09-03 15:52:00 UTC
it is.


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