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Spend your life enjoying it and helping others enjoy theirs. As the universe unfolds, we've only got this one brief moment of consciousness before we disappear, we have to make our life filled with as much happiness as we can. And help others fill theirs.
Have you looked into Epicuianism? Sounds like what you wrote fits.
Purpose in life? I'm not American, sorry
To crush my enemies, see them driven before me and hear the lamentations of their women
To annoy my wife.
To make as many people as uncomfortable as I humanly can.
You decide it yourself, thus it's for you to figure out. Personally, I like little things. Like pop rocks I bought earlier. I think they worth living a little, aren't they?
Crush the patriarchy and bring about equity and equality. And jacking the hogโฆ
Being as comfortable as possible
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
On a cosmic timescale, facilitate a world with minimal suffering and maximal fulfillment.
I'm on a life-long quest to finding the EXIT from this matrix. For this I have to become the supreme lord of Holy C
To work for some asshole and make just enough money to get by.
I'm just here to raise entropy.
To cut all ties, live in a penthouse, and never go onto the ground again until my body is found after dozens of amazon boxes at my door prompts a wellness check. I refuse to live as a permanent victim used to inspire actual people to not be outdone by something below them. I refuse to be marijuana and nicotine users' emotional punching bag. That's all I'll ever be in society if I don't cut ties or die.
ideally producing scientific research and art but in practice I'm just trying to minimize my own suffering :/
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.
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
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 spend time with the people I love.
To enjoy the world and minimize how much I prevent others from enjoying it as well.
To end it peacefully
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.
Nothing!
curiosity
To get as close to my true self as possible.
Why do you think there's a true self if you're not close to it?
The true self changes slightly with each new experience. So I can get close to it but I will never be it.
Currently just trying to be a girl, be kind, and trying to help the people around me.
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.
I try to follow a set of rules which define how i should live my life written in my own words, which essentially restate the golden rule/10 commandments/fundamental tenets/etc. I read them as myself, as if I'm giving advice to myself. Pronouns can be tricky. I don't follow them perfectly and often will tweak the wording, hoping to avoid misinterpretation.
I call them my veritaclaritives. (veritas + clarus = loud and clear truth; probably bad latin)
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Always look out for #1
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Always be prepared for a #2 (e.g. romance, friendships, shit)
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Only desire what you require
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It's only theft if they need it more than you (emphasis on NEED)
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Create more than you consume
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Help people up, more and before you put anyone down
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Treat everyone as a friend until they prove otherwise (emphasis on both THEY and PROVE; the golden rule)
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Make amends with your friends, before an unexpected end (r.i.p. Nivec)
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Keep your friends close, be your own worst enemy
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If thoughts of any enemy anger you, you've already lost (note plural)
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Destroy enemies until they are unable to do you harm
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All enemies can be defeated through unconditional love.
These are more rules than a purpose, but do you think these rules are guiding you to a specific purpose?
The purpose of life is to live.
My purpose in life is varied and technical and super-great.