Thursday, May 19, 2005

did jesus play games?

I often wonder what the childhood of Jesus was like, and from the Gospels we can glean very little, most of the stories of Jesus' childhood surrounds his birth, but there is one time, when he was twelve, (so that's like jr high age?) and his family went to Jerusalem for the annual Passover celebration, and amonst the high traffic and confusion and many relatives, Joseph and Mary lost their child, and Jesus was no where to be found, so they went back to Jerusalem to search for him and after searching for three days, they finally found Him in the temple, teaching the Scriptures... and to me, I see this as this is what Jesus did for fun, teaching the people Scriptures... that this was His joy and desire...

so I think the purpose of a game often times is to have fun, and fun can be redefined and changed, for example I can thinking dancing is silly and weird for a while, until maybe one day I experience dancing in a whole new way that makes me wanna dance all day long, or maybe you can abstain from things you consider fun in order to pursue another means of having fun, so like giving up videogames to spend time visiting and talking with people with the hope that the latter will be transformed into what you truly enjoy doing...

but games do act as some sort of common ground for which people of all types can come together and bond over some sort of common event, or something like that...

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