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Quando il gioco e finito, il re e il pedone vanno nella stessa scatola. (When the game is over, the king and the pawn go in the same box.)

What exactly does she mean by this?

  • 05.26.2012 4:08 AM PDT

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That means that when you put the pieces away, the go into the SAME container, that there is no 'real difference' between any of the pieces of the chess game EXCEPT that which the game infers. Taken farther, that means that no person is any better or worse than any other person, no matter how rich or poor, how intelligent or how stupid they may be, especially where God is concerned. Once the game is over the king and the pawn go back to the same box. Once life is over we will all go to heaven. Same meaning ... different syntax.

Google does wonders..

  • 05.26.2012 7:08 AM PDT


Posted by: chills pills
That means that when you put the pieces away, the go into the SAME container, that there is no 'real difference' between any of the pieces of the chess game EXCEPT that which the game infers. Taken farther, that means that no person is any better or worse than any other person, no matter how rich or poor, how intelligent or how stupid they may be, especially where God is concerned. Once the game is over the king and the pawn go back to the same box. Once life is over we will all go to heaven. Same meaning ... different syntax.

Google does wonders..
Pretty much what I got from the line of dialogue upon reading it.

  • 05.26.2012 7:14 AM PDT

Multi-trillionaire modern cowboy.

That's right.

Halsey said it in The Fall Of Reach, did she not?

  • 05.26.2012 8:37 AM PDT

If good looks could kill, I'd be a weapon of mass destruction.

Q: Hey, what did Hitler say to the black jew?
A: Get to the back of the oven.

That death is the only guarantee in life.

Regardless of how rich and powerful you are, or how poor and weak your are, some day you will die and stand on an even plane with the others.

[Edited on 05.26.2012 9:29 AM PDT]

  • 05.26.2012 9:03 AM PDT

Posted by: HammeredTurnip
Posted by: Pirated Goods
Why is hammer such an as­shole?

How about I hammer your as­shole.

Once the game is over, which can be inferred as life, everyone is equal. The king's (Who are the richest and most powerful) to the pawn's (weakest and poorest) all share the same fate and are all equal.

  • 05.26.2012 9:58 AM PDT
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"Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before." - James T Kirk

It's what Catherine's mother told her after her first game of Chess.

  • 05.26.2012 3:58 PM PDT

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Posted by: Sierra 1993DJC
Quando il gioco e finito, il re e il pedone vanno nella stessa scatola.
Umm...

I don't speak derp.

  • 05.26.2012 4:20 PM PDT


Posted by: OdorousLicense3

Posted by: Sierra 1993DJC
Quando il gioco e finito, il re e il pedone vanno nella stessa scatola.
Umm...

I don't speak derp.


So I'm guessing you've never heard of Italy....

  • 05.26.2012 4:48 PM PDT

Vengeance only leads to an ongoing cycle of hatred.

Hmm...interesting.

  • 05.26.2012 4:54 PM PDT

No matter your status in life, the lights upstairs will always go out.

  • 05.26.2012 8:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: Terror Q
Halsey said it in The Fall Of Reach, did she not?
I don't remember, I don't think so. I know Halsey's mother said it, and obviously Cortana thought it was of significance otherwise she wouldn't have chosen it as her first words. Some people are mentioning heaven, but Halsey was atheist.

  • 05.28.2012 3:38 AM PDT


Posted by: chills pills
That means that when you put the pieces away, the go into the SAME container, that there is no 'real difference' between any of the pieces of the chess game EXCEPT that which the game infers. Taken farther, that means that no person is any better or worse than any other person, no matter how rich or poor, how intelligent or how stupid they may be, especially where God is concerned. Once the game is over the king and the pawn go back to the same box. Once life is over we will all go to heaven. Same meaning ... different syntax.

Google does wonders..


Minus all the religious stuff.

  • 05.28.2012 4:40 AM PDT

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This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

Posted by: bagan bodies 2
That death is the only guarantee in life.

Regardless of how rich and powerful you are, or how poor and weak your are, some day you will die and stand on an even plane with the others.

  • 05.28.2012 6:04 AM PDT

Questions lead to learning, learning leads to kowledge, knowledge leads to understanding, understanding leads to peace.



"I would kill to get a killionaire... 10 times... digitally."

No matter what happens, you all have the same ending. Except for Master Cheif for some reason. He just won't die.

[Edited on 05.28.2012 9:34 AM PDT]

  • 05.28.2012 9:33 AM PDT

It means that in the end, no matter what social status you were, everyone dies.

  • 05.29.2012 5:53 PM PDT

You may be a king or a little street sweeper, bur sooner or later youll dance with the reaper.

  • 05.30.2012 1:07 PM PDT

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She was creating supersoldiers by kidnapping children. Their lives would be so drastically different and harder than those they protected and those they fought. People would die before the program was over, and this quote is rather prophetic, that no matter what happens, everyone dies one day. Ash to ash, dust to dust...

  • 05.30.2012 6:35 PM PDT

It may have a more profound meaning, such as the conclusion of the Covenant/Human war. Or just her repeating what Halsey was told as a child.

  • 05.31.2012 2:47 AM PDT

"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't."
-- General George S. Patton

I am merely a soldier in the massive army commonly known as the Internet.

That's for you to decide.

  • 06.04.2012 4:45 PM PDT