When I get into a good Tetris routine, my mind will continue to play even when I'm not in front of the screen. There's just this constant background game playing in my head. This might sound distracting, but somehow it's enlightening. It provides rhythm. It provides structure. It keeps my thoughts in constant reorganization, constant renewal.
Overall, I believe Tetris gets my mind into a place and practice where I can more easily answer the following question.
What fits?
What fits into my life, and how? How do I fit into the world?
* My kids are important to me. How do I best fit them into my life? What's too much? What's too little? What do I need? What do they need? How can we best enjoy our time together?
* That friend is not a good influence anymore. The current fit is strained. How much of him is too much?
* This thing I'm doing at work is fun and I love it, but it's not advancing my goals. What fits, what can I keep? What should I discard?
* How will my actions fit into the interests of my family, friends, community?
In the past, in those dark pre-Tetris days, I tended to hang onto bad habits and bad ideas. Inertia is very strong with me. I credit Tetris-brain with helping me break through that inertia on a daily basis.
Soulful Tetris also has the advantage of being absurd enough that I never take it too seriously. Hubris is my biggest problem with organized religion. Tetris is kinda like a form of meditation for the 21st century, nothing more.
Also, it's just a really great game. And I like metaphysical excuses to play it.
I'm scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. So many debates about atheism, Catholicism, Mormons. Deep theological discussions. Discussions on "how to answer the original question". And then I see
>Tetris. Twice per day.
I applaud you in answering the question in a completely unexpected way. Never before in the history of theology has anyone introduced Teris AND kept it thematically appropriate.
What implementation do you use?
I use tetris in emacs, but it is scanning keyboad too infrequently, so at my game speed the level of control is insufficient.
When I posted the question I made sure to not mention religion because my curiosity was more about meditation/alignment with what’s important/practice in term of making sense of the bigger life questions.
When I get into a good Tetris routine, my mind will continue to play even when I'm not in front of the screen. There's just this constant background game playing in my head. This might sound distracting, but somehow it's enlightening. It provides rhythm. It provides structure. It keeps my thoughts in constant reorganization, constant renewal.
Overall, I believe Tetris gets my mind into a place and practice where I can more easily answer the following question.
What fits?
What fits into my life, and how? How do I fit into the world?
* My kids are important to me. How do I best fit them into my life? What's too much? What's too little? What do I need? What do they need? How can we best enjoy our time together?
* That friend is not a good influence anymore. The current fit is strained. How much of him is too much?
* This thing I'm doing at work is fun and I love it, but it's not advancing my goals. What fits, what can I keep? What should I discard?
* How will my actions fit into the interests of my family, friends, community?
In the past, in those dark pre-Tetris days, I tended to hang onto bad habits and bad ideas. Inertia is very strong with me. I credit Tetris-brain with helping me break through that inertia on a daily basis.
Soulful Tetris also has the advantage of being absurd enough that I never take it too seriously. Hubris is my biggest problem with organized religion. Tetris is kinda like a form of meditation for the 21st century, nothing more.
Also, it's just a really great game. And I like metaphysical excuses to play it.