My Theory on Life

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ok, im not going to write out my theory, instead, I am going to make an analogy to explain it…

We are all dogs, and our life is a bag of dog food-

When it comes time for the dog’s dinner, it sees its owner open the closet, grab the bag of food, and pour it into the bowl. The dog thinks the bag will always be in the closet, and will always be full. The dog is never the wiser of all the things that it takes for the dog food bag to get to the clost.

The dog doesnt know that the owner picks the food up at the store. Doesnt know that the food gets to the store by a truck, that is powered by gasoline. Doesnt know that the gasoline is refined by machines somewhere far away. Doesnt know that inorder to make the food, someone has to plant weat, then harvest it using machines. Doesnt know that the machines are made in a factory, using refined metal, and to get that metal, it takes more machines, and oil, and power, and workers, and food for the workers. Doesnt know any of that.

The dog thinks it knows everything about the dog food bag, and that is, that it is in the closet, and is always full.

Well man kind is just a bunch of dogs, and our bag of food is our understanding of life and the universe, we think we might know, but we really dont…

But there are always those dogs that go to the store with their owners, or sniff the bag when it’s empty…

—pardon any errors in spelling or what ever, its 1:38am, and i need sleep----

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egh… so waht is everyone’s opinion on this

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interesting

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hm i donno about that, but it does seem somewhat likely (keep in mind i’m a christian)

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Really nice! I often compare life to a giant RPG game. I’ll explain in a few mins once I find the best way to write it down in text :slight_smile:

Cheers!
Kirupa :bandit:

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cough did someone say ‘cross-post’ cough :wink:

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I disagree. I think you have drastically over simplified everything. There is much that we don’t know about the world around us, and there is much we do know. Why does everyone care about solving the questions that have no answers? Is it that important to know if god exists? Is it that important to know why we are here? How the planet formed? Whether it was creation or evolution? To me these things don’t matter.

Its not that I don’t understand the processes. I just don’t care.

[edit]I merged the threads. No reason to post twice…[/edit]

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omg jubba! :stuck_out_tongue:

cough did someone say ‘cross-post’ cough :wink: :wink:

[size=1]giggle[/size]

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huh?

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sorry, I got in there before your [EDIT] :wink:

i’m just so quick, what can I say :stuck_out_tongue:

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riiiiight.

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I see life as a giant RPG game. Even from the beginning, you have very little control over your life. Your Creator (it may be whoever depending on your beliefs) assigns you to the tutelage of guides (your parents) who hopefully take good care of you for the first few stages of your life. In the beginning they pause you every few seconds and explain what to do and what not to do. As you keep moving around the little village you think that the village is your world. You see plenty of your guides and other family. You soon reach a point where the only times you see your guides or hear from them is when you reach the tough, critical portions of this game. Their advice is invaluable, and you realize the importance of their advice the less you see or hear from them.

As you start maturing as a character you realize that the characteristics you were born with are good for some tasks and useless in others. You socialize, study, and struggle to improve your existing skills and acquire new skills. The world becomes a bigger place - far bigger than the little village that you once started this game in. After all your adventures and learnings, you realize there is so much to this world that you do not understand. Why is it that my character was not blessed with the characteristics this other character has? Why am I not able to scale this wall? What exists beyond that cloud in the distance? Who created me - what programming language was I created in? Why is that character so much different from me? You are not able to answer these questions, but it doesn’t hinder you. You have your own set of quests to finish. You continue with the hope that one day you will find answers to these questions.

Day in and day out, depending on the skills you acquired in this game, you go from adventure to adventure. You go through life, gaining levels, and facing new characters, larger opponents, and more complex levels. The skills you learned and your courage play a role in the difficulty of your adventures. The higher your skill level, the easier are the adventures. The more difficult the adventure, the greater the reward. Often times, your reward for the adventures is gold or some object of value which you can use to increase your inventory. It bothers you that there are other characters who simply step over boundaries and walk through walls without having the skills that you possess. You begin to see that this game isn’t always fair.

Through all this, you learn about pain, suffering, love, joy, loss and everything in-between. You occassionally go back to the village where you started this game and you realize that the characters you loved as a beginner and admired as a zealot are no more. Your world starts shrinking again. The choices you made in your quests determines what/where your next quest will be. In this open-ended RPG called life, you never know when the quest you just returned home from will be your last. As you are nearing the end of this RPG game, you can only hope that your input in this game was of some lasting value to your environment. You realize that your resume was just a waterdrop in a shallow pond bombarded with waterdrops from billions of other characters - the ripples which start of strong and fade in the distance. Alas, your time in this game is over. It is time for this account to be deleted from this world…

{I really should stop playing Zelda :ub:}

Cheers!
Kirupa :rambo:

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levels up :wink:

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*Originally posted by Jubba *
**I disagree. I think you have drastically over simplified everything. There is much that we don’t know about the world around us, and there is much we do know. Why does everyone care about solving the questions that have no answers? Is it that important to know if god exists? Is it that important to know why we are here? How the planet formed? Whether it was creation or evolution? * To me these things don’t matter. *

Its not that I don’t understand the processes. I just don’t care.

**

Looks like your closet door is shut.

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did any of you ever play ultima online?

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*Originally posted by Surface *
**Looks like your closet door is shut. **

No, my door is open. I just don’t care about the ways of the world. It doesn’t concern me.

My feelings about this mainly have to do with my religious beliefs (or lack there of). If there were more to this world than just life, death, and decay, then these processes would matter to me, but since I am merely here to live my life and die nothing matters.

oh, and I hate analogies.

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actually, upon thinking about it, I agree with your last statement. My door is shut, but I shut it. I have no master. :slight_smile:

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well we have something in common, our relegious beleifs(or lack there of…), this theory doenst have to do with relegion, more like… the universe, and the way things work.

anyways, with your * relegious beleifs *, you will probobally really like my theory #2, because it supports them, sorta

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I realize that your theory has nothing to do with religion, however your theory makes a few assumptions that I don’t agree with

  1. assumes that each person has a (figurative) master.

  2. assumes that everyone should care about more than just that bag of dog-food.

:slight_smile:

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1.well, i didnt mean that everyone has a master… I just couldnt represent it in anyother way then the dog and its master,

  1. doesnt assume that they should care about more, it says that most dont know more, and I beleive this is true