[MD] Play

[MarshaV]

Greetings Ian,

Isn't the difference between game-living and game-playing 
awareness?   And what is the definition of 'psychological essence'?


Marsha


At 03:20 AM 3/7/2009, you wrote:
>Hi Mark,
>
>That is the psychological essence of "game" - guessing the game of
>"others" whilst being concerned about how "they" interpret what you
>reveal about "your" game. The game of life.
>
>Of course playing (recreational) games is different - rehearsals and
>scene settings for the real living thing. The distinction between
>game-playing and game-living can be quite blurred, but the root of
>recreation is no coincidence - re/create.
>
>Regards
>Ian
>
>On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:21 PM, markhsmit <markhsmit at aol.com> wrote:
> > Hi Marsha,
> >
> > I like the ones by RD Laing in Knots:
> >
> > They are playing a game. They are playing at not
> > playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I
> > shall break the rules and they will punish me.
> > I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Willblake2
> >
> > On Mar 2, 2009, at 6:38:36 AM, MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:
> >
> > Here are some interesting quotes.
> >
> > -------------
> >
> > "You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play
> > better than anyone else."
> > (Albert Einstein)
> >
> > "The true object of all human life is play."
> > (G. K. Chesterton)
> >
> > "If I get to pick what I want to do, then it's play...if someone else
> > tells me that I have to do it, then it's work."
> > (Patricia Nourot)
> >
> > "Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will
> > assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the
> > play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of 
> the ordinary."
> > (Cecil Beaton)
> >
> > "What we play is life."
> > (Louis Armstrong)
> >
> > "Life must be lived as play."
> > (Plato)
> >
> > "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we
> > stop playing."
> > (George Bernard Shaw)
> >
> > "Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a
> > child at play."
> > (Heraclitus)
> >
> > "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a
> > year of conversation."
> > (Plato)
> >
> > "Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel."
> > (Jimi Hendrix )
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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