To make as many people as uncomfortable as I humanly can.
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?
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Being as comfortable as possible
To get as close to my true self as possible.
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
Help each other.
Everyone is born evil, the purpose is to realise we’re one. It’s a long cycle and we’ve done well in the last 100 year vs 1000 years
Hard disagree. I think we’re born stupid, that’s very different.
Honestly, your comment sounds a lot like the “original sin” shit that the Christian church tries to push.
Well I’m probably wording it wrong or you’re reading it differently.
But, what I mean is every individual has their own journey towards their maturity when they realise helping others is the way to go.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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 used to be flourishing as an artist. Now I’m just trying to not end up in a camp within the next 4+ years
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.
