If we are merely todays pawns in tomorrow's game of life, would it be safe to say that the moves we made yesterday were somehow anticipated? And therefore are our actions of today blocked and directed by the alterations made to foil our movements tomorrow; and by doing so brought our plans to an end before the action could be taken?
2007-10-18 01:02:14 · 8 answers · asked by M.S. Mom 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Not quite.
We're microscopic chips of paint on the pawns of the game of life...
.... Well.... some of us get to be strands of the felt on the underside.
Life doesn't even know we as individuals exist: we're just part of a piece which is, in turn, going to be swept away before too long.
2007-10-18 01:07:54 · answer #1 · answered by Lucid Interrogator 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are the pawns and the players who move the pawns as well. The real mover of the pawns is non-moving eternal, and that heritage of ours has been forgotten.
Once the eternal side is enlivened, all of it will make sense.
2007-10-18 08:57:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes we are. God, that we believe is so good, ain't good at all...
If He created the whole world, so humongous in size with all it's planets, huge oceans, land masses, and all that lives and all the stars in the sky...with ALL THAT ABILITY, then why didn't He squash Hitler like a bug and all his Nazis before they murdered over 6 million Jewish people...and why didn't He prevent any and all suffering and death before it even began. Yes, He does use us as pawns...and I don't find it amusing.
2007-10-18 08:23:01 · answer #3 · answered by birdtennis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are not pawns-although some power freaks would like that to be true. Never kiss a** and know the Bible. You cannot go wrong! Heady stuff...
2007-10-18 08:11:19 · answer #4 · answered by Thomas E 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you a philosophy PHD? Nice exposition. Once an old man was asked by a reporter at a nursing home, 'How do you occupy your day?'
He replied, 'I get up and read the obituaries. If I'm not in it I get breakfast and go from there.'
2007-10-18 08:42:20 · answer #5 · answered by peter s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you accept determinism as a p[hilosophical position, then you will have to say this. if everything is predetermined, as determinism says, then one has no role at all in life, he is just an actor predestined. But determinism is not agreed by many Phihlosophers, and they have a counter philosophical position called freedom.
2007-10-18 08:08:16 · answer #6 · answered by Dr. Girishkumar TS 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pawns? Perhaps- but it's no game; life is deadly serious!
2007-10-18 08:43:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
life is a chess and we are the players...
but in the battle between good and evil then we are evil's or good's pawns...
2007-10-18 10:16:17 · answer #8 · answered by Karol 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋