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Role playing in the RPG..

by Leviathan ⌂, Hotel Zanzibar, Sunday, June 16, 2013, 16:46 (3974 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Hah, wow. You couldn't possibly enjoy your life AND enjoy pretending to experience another one, could you?


Isn't the desire to experience another life such, because your life lacks whatever it is the imagined life has? Regret.

It doesn't have to be motivated by regret - it can be motivated by wonder and curiosity.

You can live in the past, the present, and the future, or nowhere or nowhen at all, and learn things from it: new experiences, new ideas, new perspectives to change your present life, to influx it with new ideas and emotions, ways of thinking on a problem you've never thought before... It's empathy, it's education, it's shifting the paradigm. And it all can benefit your own life.

Actually, some of the people I've met who are really into various forms of role-playing, like D&D and Renaissance Festivals, tend to enjoy their own life more than the ones who mock them that I've met.


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