The Great Game

[purplemonster]

The other day my girlfriend broke up with me (using so many cliché s that it was funny), but i realized that all the while she was doing it i was finding the hidden meaning in it... i even got it right, if with only slight enjoyment. but just wanting to see if anyone else has found themselves playing

[Mr Ares]

Have I ever found myself playing Daes Dae'mar? Given that it is just another name for politics, and given that I used to work in politics, no. I have never played the Game of Houses. Do you think that's why I did so badly?

[MikeRiley]

We call it reading between the lines. Everybody does it to one extent or another. Most of us don't go out of our way to plant false info around to make people kill each other though.

[42Bonzo88]

    Quote from MikeRiley: Most of us don't go out of our way to plant false info around to make people kill each other though.

 

      Actually, that was how the Spanish American War started. Two newspapers were trying to best each other and when the USS Maine blew up they blamed the Spaniards and we went to war. Later they found out the Maine blew up from a bad generator. Pretty sad huh?

[purplemonster]

ROFLMAO... we just went over that today in us history class

[metria31183]

We call it reading between the lines. Everybody does it to one extent or another. Most of us don't go out of our way to plant false info around to make people kill each other though.

 

Office politics goes on in every company.  People have been known to plant false info to other people loose their jobs.  It's the same thing just on a different scale.

[MikeRiley]

I didn't say it doesn't happen, I said most of us don't do it to the point that it kills.

[42Bonzo88]

    I agree that our 'civilized' society doesn't go as far as killing very often. But if you use it to destroy a person's good character, fired from a job, lose a marriage, be put in jail while innocent, etc. In my opinion some of those can be almost worse than death.