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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 minutes ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 34 minutes ago

Help each other.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 43 minutes ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 43 minutes ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

To be exploited in every way possible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

To be happy and enjoy things, and to make others happy in return! ❀️😌

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

To spread my genes around, mostly

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

ideally producing scientific research and art but in practice I'm just trying to minimize my own suffering :/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 25 minutes ago

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).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Spite a bunch of fuckheads and make some cool software whilst not forgetting to have fun along the way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

To spend time with the people I love.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

The purpose of life is to live.

My purpose in life is varied and technical and super-great.

[–] HobbitFoot 19 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HobbitFoot 1 points 5 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Correct the mistakes of my ancestors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Can you elaborate on what mistakes they did?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

LOL I'm even a java developer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Remarkable. Why do you think it's you that should do that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Your descendants, hopefully.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

That's just kicking the can down the road.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

To work for some asshole and make just enough money to get by.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 28 minutes ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

To reduce human suffering by some degree, even if it's insignificant in the big picture.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

To enjoy the world and minimize how much I prevent others from enjoying it as well.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Pretending that working my ass off to make a ton of money (not for the sake of it, but because I don’t want to work my entire life) will eventually pay off.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago

I'm just here to raise entropy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Currently just trying to be a girl, be kind, and trying to help the people around me.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

To enjoy myself. What exactly that means, changes over time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

To end it peacefully

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

To "live", and by "live" I mean experience and creat Art. I don't need more nor less.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

...to do my best, to do my duty to God and my country, to be square, and to obey the law of the pack.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

I have lots and lots and lots of dreams.. And lots of issues

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