On a cosmic timescale, facilitate a world with minimal suffering and maximal fulfillment.
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2024
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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't have one. I just do what I can to be a good person and that's it. And I'm ok with it.
Nothing. Purpose implies the potential for failure and while there are certainly circumstances that I would consider personal failures, there are none so great that they would invalidate my existence.
That said, I have a vision for my life and the state of the world that I would like to see realized. I want to see a world where climate change is taken seriously and recognized as the imminent threat that it is. It will be waiting on the other side of every economic crisis or war that man chooses to wage.
To be exploited in every way possible.
I used to be flourishing as an artist. Now I'm just trying to not end up in a camp within the next 4+ years
The purpose of life is to live.
My purpose in life is varied and technical and super-great.
To spend time with the people I love.
ideally producing scientific research and art but in practice I'm just trying to minimize my own suffering :/
Pretty sure that's what everyone is doing. It helps to help others, where we can, in my experience. Focus on love, beauty, goodness. We can hyperfocus on the ugliness and easily fall into the abyss of despair, rather than the abyss of freedom (within personal constraints, obvs).
I don't know.
It's to overcome challenges and become a better person. To not live like an animal, to have morals, strength of character, treat others well, help other people.
Basically the opposite of what the TV and social media is telling us.
Is it?
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To be happy and enjoy things, and to make others happy in return! β€οΈπ
To spread my genes around, mostly
Stop licking every railing in the Eaton Centre, please.
Spite a bunch of fuckheads and make some cool software whilst not forgetting to have fun along the way.
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.
To work for some asshole and make just enough money to get by.
Correct the mistakes of my ancestors.
Can you elaborate on what mistakes they did?
Not necessarily them personally but previous generations of British colonialism really (deliberately) screwed over the indigenous people in my country in a multitude of ways.
Every descendant generation since has benefitted from that to the detriment of indigenous generations. I, and my children, benefit from it daily with superior schooling, housing, health, wealth, etc.
Even the smallest things (e.g. voting for progressive government, volunteering, learning the language and culture, advocacy) that I can do to helps mitigate some of that harm.
Inventing Java.
I love Java!
LOL I'm even a java developer.
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I'm just here to raise entropy.
To reduce human suffering by some degree, even if it's insignificant in the big picture.
To enjoy the world and minimize how much I prevent others from enjoying it as well.
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My purpose in life is to produce poop and pee. I work hard so that I can afford food and water so that I can eventually poo and pee. I have an urge to reproduce so that my children can also poop and pee.
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To enjoy myself. What exactly that means, changes over time.
Find out who I really am
The Great Work. Hermetic kabbalah makes sense (psychology cloaked as religion, since humans are adverse we may be a little messed up and inner work is the only way through, and out). I'm just now scratching the surface but I'm digging it.
Currently just trying to be a girl, be kind, and trying to help the people around me.
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Nothing!
Pretending that working my ass off to make a ton of money (not for the sake of it, but because I donβt want to work my entire life) will eventually pay off.
To end it peacefully
curiosity
To "live", and by "live" I mean experience and creat Art. I don't need more nor less.
If I made it with honesty and care, it may not change the world, but it surely changes the people who will do it.
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