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Do you see life as a game, a battle, a journey; none or all of those things?
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Icy North Posted Jul 18, 2013
It's a bit odd seeing life as a game, when games are effectively simulations of life events.
One of those events could be a battle, or a journey, and your game could simulate that.
The self-referential nature of this question is doing my nut in.
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Bluebottle Posted Jul 18, 2013
Life is like a 'life is like' conversation...
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The Man On The Flaming Pie Posted Jul 18, 2013
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans
(Beautiful Boy - John Lennon) 
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Peanut Posted Jul 18, 2013
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interesting stats, h2g2
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Peanut Posted Jul 18, 2013
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U14993989 Posted Jul 18, 2013
There are a few philosophers on these threads that would suggest life is a meaningless accident irrelevant to the functioning of the universe 
. But is this theorem unfalsifiable, because if it is unfalsifiable, the same philosophers tell us that such a theorem is itself meaningless .
Personally I think life is like music while the music last (as per TS Eliot)
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quotes Posted Jul 18, 2013
>>It's a bit odd seeing life as a game, when games are effectively simulations of life events.
Perhaps that would be a fair reason for seeing life as a game then.
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Dr Anthea - ah who needs to learn things... just google it! Posted Jul 18, 2013
life is like a reality tv show where you are the star and the fates really are watching everything you do and punishing you accordingly
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KB Posted Jul 18, 2013
I've been working on this problem for a few years, now, and I think I've decided that life's a kind of a whirly thing. Investigations are still ongoing.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jul 18, 2013
Personally, I think this life IS a dress rehearsal, and everybody has got on the wrong costumes. 
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TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Jul 19, 2013
That seems very likely.
Or perhaps the director has gone for lunch.
TRiG.
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Yelbakk Posted Jul 19, 2013
Life is like a movie by David Lynch based on a book by John Irving.
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Sho - employed again! Posted Jul 19, 2013
blimey - in that case the soundtrack is by Leonard Cohen.
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ITIWBS Posted Jul 19, 2013
All of life is a continuous process of equilibrating (or slam-banging) between dynamic opposites.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jul 19, 2013
Life is a Cabaret.
Or a bowl full of cherries [except that the cherries ain't there]
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