Life is a Puzzle

[JosephThePoet]

Compare life to a chess game, a movie and a puzzle.

In a chess game you think the whole game through before making a single move. Continuously throughout the game, before making your next move, you think the game through to its conclusion. Life is like that. Before anything happened, everything was thought of. As things happen, the conclusion is still thought to. Nothing will happen that God hasn’t first thought of. Earth is just a piece of a pawn, as are the other worlds in this and other dimensions, in the game of life. Each individual, in their own world, is but one of the games pieces.

In a movie everyone acts out their own character part. In real life we all choose our own character. Sometimes we feel compelled to act a certain way in a given situation, because of our belief that others want us to act that way. Sometimes we bow to this feeling, or to other people’s wishes, when we would have preferred to have acted differently. We are all actors.

The lead markings from a pencil joining the numbered dots on a page, or the pieces of colored cardboard when joined together, create a picture. A puzzle is a combination of things that, when combined together, create the whole or finished product. If you combine the thinking of chess and the acting of movies, then you have the absolute knowledge of the puzzle of life.

 

[The Nihilist]

Didn't you already post this? Maybe 6 months ago?
Also, I think this post says almost nothing, and what it does say is wrong.

 

[ArchaicTruth]

While it is poetic I suppose, I'm going to have to agree with RecoveringPhilosopher...

 

[The Nihilist]

there should really be a different subforum for poetry

 

[Idea]

Compare life to a chess game, a movie and a puzzle.

In a chess game you think the whole game through before making a single move. Continuously throughout the game, before making your next move, you think the game through to its conclusion. Life is like that. Before anything happened, everything was thought of. As things happen, the conclusion is still thought to. Nothing will happen that God hasn’t first thought of. Earth is just a piece of a pawn, as are the other worlds in this and other dimensions, in the game of life. Each individual, in their own world, is but one of the games pieces.

In a movie everyone acts out their own character part. In real life we all choose our own character. Sometimes we feel compelled to act a certain way in a given situation, because of our belief that others want us to act that way. Sometimes we bow to this feeling, or to other people’s wishes, when we would have preferred to have acted differently. We are all actors.

The lead markings from a pencil joining the numbered dots on a page, or the pieces of colored cardboard when joined together, create a picture. A puzzle is a combination of things that, when combined together, create the whole or finished product. If you combine the thinking of chess and the acting of movies, then you have the absolute knowledge of the puzzle of life.

I am not an actor, nor am I a pawn. I am a child of God with free will. I hate fake people who do nothing but act - rather you yell in my face and be honest then put on some fake little smile -
I detest those.

Live open, honest, sincere - to thine own self be true - You can choose to be a pawn if you want, but it is a sad shallow choice.

Prov 12:22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

2 Cor 4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

2 Cor 1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

Love - an end of living in front of people, and a beginning of living with them. - Lusseyran

What you have described is living in front of people... which is how everyone seems to start out...

 

[The Nihilist]

Idea actually makes an interesting point. Too often, philosophy is done in an oven. An empty, dark room in which one tries to address the metaphysical issues of the world in solitude. I think what Idea was pointing out is that this is disingenuous, and that we are in fundamental ways social creatures. Aristotle was well aware of this, as was Arendt. Good call, Idea.

 

[quatona]

Life is a Puzzle

And there was me thinking life was a roller coaster.