Fui convidade pelo Rev. What’s-his-name a algum tempo para participar do fórum americano / britânico discordiano “oficial”, digamos assim. Pra não postar erros gramaticais em inglês, traduzi um texto do meu blog e pedi pra que meu professor de inglês desse uma olhada. Ele corrigiu, e eu postei lá… Essas foram as reações quanto ao texto, que foi esse aqui:
Payne disse:
My thoughts: I prefer to win. I fuckin HATE losing. At anything.
The best way to win when it seems you can’t is to change the rules, usually without telling anyone. This could be called cheating, but from “their” side, it’s called good government.
And winning should always be defined by what YOU think is a victory. Don’t let anyone else tell you what is a victory, and what is a defeat.
Triple Zero disse:
ok what about the “breaking out” game? you know, the game of freedom, where you break out of a prison wall just to find yourself surrounded by another wall ..
it’s a game you can’t win, but a lot of people here would agree that the important part is 0) being aware of the game and 1) playing the game. because you’re not going to win, ever.
Depois que eu respondi ao primeiro comentário, Payne disse…
ot telling anyone you have changed the rules is the FUN part though.
Certainly for me.
In any case, actions speak louder than words, as the saying goes. If you act to your own set of “rules”, to achieve whatever result you are looking for, you are telling everyone in the most direct way possible that you have changed them to suit yourself.
Then it’s up to them to figure it out for themselves.
You said earlier that life could (should?) be approached as the art of playing games, and not a game in itself.
Maybe my approach to these matters comes from the fact that I like to play dirty, nasty, bitter games, where proclaiming your “rules” can and will bite you in the ass.
It works for me.
E então Cain disse:
Most games are horribly limited in their rules, anyway. Like Poker, for example. Or indeed, most forms of gambling. Pseudo-chance systems, the lot of them. Only within a very limited range is everything down to luck. I prefer reality, it always contains the truly unexpected, somewhere along the line.
Acho que esses comentários me foram muito valorosos. Mesmo. Sério, sempre há um jeito de expandir um pouco mais as próprias idéias. =)
E pra fechar, um comentário que eu gostei pra caramba (o atual último), do What’s-his-name?:
Tags: Discordianismo, Fórum, internacionalI dug this Rev. CK. Great entry! Look forward to more.
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