(01-19-2021, 03:03 PM)jafar Wrote: "Cheat Code" is a gaming terminology referring to 'things that you can do to complete the game with least time and least effort as possible' or in other words it can also be meant as 'skip some part of the experience that the game has to offer'.
I know, I grew up playing the NES, and still know the Contra code lol.
My point is, and it's a semantic one, that to play the game is to understand the game, to understand the hardships, the unfairness, the struggle, and gain that experience. And thru that experience you learn what is actually important, which is you don't need to play that particular game anymore. There is no shortcut, no easy mode, it is the experience you sought after. You will dwell inside the game as long as you need to, and put it down when you are ready.
We all have different games, or constructs, that we get trapped into, and we only evolve out of them when we are ready, when you finally understand why it is not necessary. That isn't a cheat code, because cheating is not allowed in 3d (LoC), you set your own evolutionary goals. If that involves easy mode, then fine, but others may have a higher demand on their spiritual development and get caught in deeper wells.
People who drink too much or smoke usually know it's bad and need to change, they have the knowledge but are missing something that will catalyze the change. Simply knowing that it's bad for them, and they just need to quit, isn't enough, they continue until what needs to be addressed is resolved, the root emotional cause, otherwise a new habit may form to compensate, and you may not even realize the significance of it because it seems unrelated. The point here is, you don't even know what the game is, you don't actually understand what game it is you need to quit yet...you haven't identified it because you haven't even perceived it yet. There is no cheat code for a game you don't even realize you are playing.
Anyways like I said, it's just semantics, to me using the word "cheating" is a misnomer, you simply cannot bypass and make anything easier, it is what it's supposed to be. Like Ra (annoyingly) says, there are no mistakes. No energy is wasted, it's what it needed to be. What we are talking about here sounds more like a characterisation of hindsight, 'if only I had done that instead', or 'coulda shoulda woulda' syndrome. It always looks different in hindsight, when you retrace your steps backwards, it's why people fall for the fallacy of determinism, because the mind/body/spirit dynamic is more easily erased from that historical record, and everything seems more obvious. But if you went back in time and took a shortcut, you would alter your future self, and be less experienced for it, even if it just was more time in limbo. You cannot estimate what effect it will have, even if it just seems like it was 'a waste of time'.