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’m just here to raise entropy.
To work for some asshole and make just enough money to get by.
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
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.
To enjoy the world and minimize how much I prevent others from enjoying it as well.
How do you do the first?
Personally, I indulge my wanderlust and love of good food.
It doesn’t feel like you’re living a cliché? “Food and travel”?
I don’t give a shit. It’s fun as hell and I get to cook wonderful food for the ones I love.
Nothing wrong with living a cliché
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).
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.
Nothing!
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.
Why would you wish that upon them?
There’s nothing better then a good poop.
It’s a solved problem: metamucil.
Every poop good, good poop is no longer special.
Opens amazon tab
To quote Carl Sagan, “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
Correct the mistakes of my ancestors.
Remarkable. Why do you think it’s you that should do that?
Who else will?
Your descendants, hopefully.
That’s just kicking the can down the road.
Can you elaborate on what mistakes they did?
Inventing Java.
LOL I’m even a java developer.
I love Java!
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.
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.
Any hope that your art will change the world?
To crush my enemies, see them driven before me and hear the lamentations of their women
