Meta-Rules

Some worthwhile points can emerge from unpromising sources. This is one such. Life is not a rehearsal; It is your one and only time.

From http://thefaithfulscribe.blogspot.com/2007/08/education-of-roserose-by-glides.html

It’s like a game—moving from level to level, personally constructed for my learning. I play, I learn, I play better. The game has rules, and meta-rules.
Meta-rule 1: recognize you are in a game. You always called it “life” but it has a game structure, game goals, game involvement.
Meta-rule 2—discover the rules.
Meta-rule 3—break the rules. Hack the game.
Meta-rule 4—make up new rules, suitable to the occasion.
Meta-rule 5—learn to handle the apparent chaos of transition/transformation created by making up the rules as you go along.
Meta-rule 6—find the orthogonal move and escape the game.
Meta-rule 7—become a game-maker. Invent your own games and their rules.
In a meta-game, the rules are games in and of themselves.
The meta-rules concern the structure of consciousness. - Drivel cut out..........