that can't be won? Like Pac-man, you think you just play as along as you can, but in the end the game can't be won -- eventually, Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde just get too fast; and when you're dead, you're dead. Christianity is more like the crane machine. You might have to put in some money to play, but if you put in enough, you get your reward in the end.
Wouldn't you rather get a reward, than to realize that you put in a lot of effort for nothing?
2007-09-21 11:14:46 · 25 answers · asked by Pull My Finger 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'd *rather* get a reward, sure, but that doesn't mean I will. Reality doesn't conform to my desires, nor to yours.
2007-09-21 11:20:18 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 7⤊ 2⤋
Great metaphor. Why are you bothering to put money into a game when logic tells you there are no prizes. Its like the ring toss game at a carnaval. Don't you find those players stupid. Instead, the video game palyers are enjoying themsleves, know exactly what they will and won't get out of the game and aren't under any delusions that they will win some big prize that they can never know about until they're dead!!!
2007-09-21 11:22:47 · answer #2 · answered by davster 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Sorry, I spent most of the 80's in college, not playing video games. I am reaping the rewards of that work quite well thank you very much and I have no one to thank but myself.
2007-09-21 11:51:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
hey when I arrive at death I dont want to do it with a perfectly preserved body and mind! I want to skid in sideways with a bar of chocolate in one hand, glass of cider in the other with a totally worn out body shouting woo hoo that was FUN.... I enjoy every minute of the arcade game thank you
2007-09-21 11:35:09 · answer #4 · answered by turkeyhug 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's for "nothing"
I spend my days trying taking care of my family and friends. It's very sad that you consider all the love and happiness in this world a waste of time, simply because there's no "reward" for it.
You must be one of those people who wouldn't turn in a wallet unless someone offered a cash reward for its return.
2007-09-21 11:21:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
nope.
I think that if there is a god, that he would accept an atheist before he accepted a christian.
Atheists are people who can think for themselves and they don't need the rules of a "god" to help them through life.
Won't you wish you would have had some fun on earth when it turns out there is no god or 'reward'?
I know I would if I were you.
2007-09-21 11:24:43 · answer #6 · answered by Pandora 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I put a lot of effort into NOW, not later. I want to be happy NOW, I want to change the world NOW and I find it horrible to know that some people don't do things NOW because there might be a later ...
2007-09-21 11:22:04 · answer #7 · answered by Maria - Godmother II of the AM 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Actually, I think religion in general is more like that machine that pushes the tokens towards the edge, except they never fall off.
2007-09-21 11:24:14 · answer #8 · answered by Brandon's been a dirty Hore 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I had a TI99/4A pc, and considered one of my well-liked video games on it grow to be "Tunnels of Doom". It grow to be a D&D knock-off, and the pc generated various random ranges of dungeon. I additionally enjoyed the interactive fiction video games, the two from Infocom and from Scott Adams adventure. I nonetheless have the lost Treasures of Infocom in this pc. For arcade video games, i think of that my all time well-liked grow to be Arkanoid 2: Revenge of Doh. I knew each and all of the tricks, and that i ought to triumph over the sport. I extensively utilized to love Rolling Thunder and Elevator action plenty, too. I lived in Las Vegas interior the 80s, and there have been various arcades that have been open 24/7, the two as standalone arcades or as a on line casino attraction. I in no way have been given into playing, yet I enjoyed my arcade video games. in the present day, I quite have various collections of arcade video games for the PS1 and PS2, and that i've got a SNES, a PS2, and an XBox 360 console, all of them waiting to play. I additionally very own a NES, in spite of the undeniable fact that it is not hooked as much as a television, and that i think of it is lacking the ability grant.
2016-12-26 21:35:53 · answer #9 · answered by cassone 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought Sue was a ghost in pac man.
2007-09-21 11:21:36 · answer #10 · answered by atheist 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I always lose those crane games. And with pacman, at least you get to eat those little cherries and stars
2007-09-21 11:21:05 · answer #11 · answered by lindsey p 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋