TELEPATHY
THEORY: Most games create distances between players because each is working for the opposite goal-- I want you to lose; you want me to lose. Telepathy is a cooperative game, it brings us closer to each other -- we're both working towards the same goal of literally reading each other's minds...
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INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Find a Partner to play with and start recording (audio or video)
2. Face each other. Each player thinks of a word. When they have it, they snap their fingers. When both of you snap your fingers, count together 3-2-1, and each of you say your word at the same time.
3. Now each of you think of a word that somehow goes in between those two words, connecting them in some way (e.g. if you said DOG and I said HOUSE, a connecting word might be PET.) Keep going until both of you say the same word -- that's when you've read each other's minds (sorta)!
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4. WRITE a 500 word reflection: What do you think would happen to your relationships if the people in your life had telepathy and would instantly know ALL of your thoughts? What do you think would happen to the world at large? If your relationships, or the world at large, would change substantially if everyone suddenly had telepathy, and so could read each other's minds, does this mean that your relationships, and our world, is built on lies, on things unsaid, on a difference between our internal thoughts and feelings on the one hand, and how we outwardly express ourselves? Are we all being fake?
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