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I was at an event and a guy named Ed asked, “Who are you?”  I answered truly and said, “Iam” (pronounced, Iam).

He paused, and asked, “Your name is Iam?”   I said, “Yes.  My name is Iam.”

Ed asked, “What is your last name?”  I said, “Thatiam.”  Ed said, “That’s an unusual name.  So you are, Iam Thatiam.”   I said, “Yes you are.”  Ed laughed and said, “Tell me more about yourself, Iam Thatiam.”

“I AM THAT I AM is you,” I said.  “I AM THAT I AM manifests temporarily as Tom, Tammy, Troy, Travis, Toran, Tyler, plus every person, place, and thing. One energy, intelligences, consciousness, one God manifesting or incarnating as many faces.

Ed asked, “Why does the I AM THAT I AM (or Iam Thatiam) manifest as every person place, and thing?”

I said, “For it’s pleasure.  For its joy and entertainment.  To experience being every thing it can imagine.  To experience being you.  For fun. For adventure, challenge, risk.
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Once upon a time Iam Thatiam decided to create a game that combined chess, Monopoly and Risk.  Iam called it The Game of Life.  Iam then manifested as the game board, the pieces and the players by individualizing himself.  Players of the game forgot they were Iam as soon as they sat down at the game board.

Before players of The Game of Life can win the game, they had to go through a lot of experiences.  Players experienced every adventure the game offered, experienced every level and dimension of the game.  

A player wins the game by remembering that the game board, pieces and players are Iam playing a game for amusement and fun.

During the game, the hard core younger players took the game seriously, and were offended when told that life is just a game.  

A player who awakens while in the game has empathy, compassion and love for the game board, pieces and players that do not realize they are Iam.  Awake players continue to play the game just for joy of it, but do not suffer the game.  Awake players are often a pain in the ass to asleep players which is why they eventually retire to a sheep camp in the wild where they can laugh their asses off without offending all the personal, family, ethnic, religious, social, cultural, economic, politically mind-fucked gamers.

Serious gamers are physically, mentally, emotionally attached, entangled, identified with their needs, wants, desires about people, places and things in the game.  They are exclusive, not inclusive.  They want to win the game of life, which means they win if they die with the most game pieces, the most toys.   They have a way the game (life) must go. The real serious game players feel they won when they have more power, wealth and glory than other game players, and if not that, they win if they create a legacy of success (how each game players defines, success).   The Game of Life is one hell of a game.