Many children stop playing tic-tac-toe as they realize the game is futile. What things in life should we recognize as being futile?
2007-09-01 13:00:52 · 16 answers · asked by guru 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Basically all "quick fixes" are futile in life. All solid genuine "progress" takes time and effort. Ultimately in the long run whatever your heart needs is not futile, but perhaps will take ages to attain.
2007-09-01 13:09:08 · answer #1 · answered by the Boss 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/futility
None; the word is exclusively self oriented, it does not include possibilities for others. The spirit only responds to things of negativity or positivity, not zero values. Something better comes along and time is limited. If we looked at something as futile because of its simplicity, then the Olympics would be futile. Are the Olympic games futile?
The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.
2007-09-01 20:42:42 · answer #2 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even the game Tic-Tac-Toe is not futile.
It is a basic game of strategy that is used to pass the time.
Futility is sweeping a dirt floor, mopping up an artestian well or trying to weld rust.
2007-09-01 20:13:01 · answer #3 · answered by wi_saint 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
tic tac toe is not futile. don't let anyone tell you that it is.
futile is thinking you can change someone other than yourself.
futile is me trying to stick to a diet..
futile is trying to change the past.
2007-09-01 20:43:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every challenge is futile once accomplished...
That's the great lesson of tic-tac-toe...
2007-09-02 00:43:50 · answer #5 · answered by Paulo M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A believer would say that it is futile to try and have a life of love, peace and joy without a relationship with God.
2007-09-01 20:50:56 · answer #6 · answered by ignoramus_the_great 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WE ARE BORG.
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
PREPARE TO ASSIMULATED.
Seriously, expecting your government to be good is futile. There are too many selfish, powerful people out there. Plus corportations have decided that goodness is not profitable and governments are run by corporations. (Sorry to burst you bubble so bluntly; any of you who where still asleep to the way things really are.)
2007-09-01 20:16:41 · answer #7 · answered by ta 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doing the exact same thing over and over again, yet expecting different results..... Tic - Tac - Toe.
2007-09-01 22:31:43 · answer #8 · answered by peggy m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to ask for complete peace of mind...is futile.
to search for the meaning of life is futile.
to keep on living this #@!$*@! life of mine is futile.
to hope for my salvation is futile.
my desire to find sense in anything is futile.
2007-09-01 20:36:17 · answer #9 · answered by ♥Slide♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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What's futile?
Trying to control birth knowing full well that the Condoms you use have tiny holes in them.
2007-09-01 23:16:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋