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[โ€“] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 17 points 1 year ago

I'm just here to raise entropy.

[โ€“] papertowels@lemmy.one 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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
[โ€“] BreadOven@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] onlooker@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] xylogx@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

To quote Carl Sagan, โ€œWe are a way for the cosmos to know itself.โ€

[โ€“] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

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[โ€“] Maeve@kbin.earth 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

To crush my enemies, see them driven before me and hear the lamentations of their women

[โ€“] viralJ@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have you looked into Epicuianism? Sounds like what you wrote fits.

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[โ€“] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

To make as many people as uncomfortable as I humanly can.

[โ€“] nicomachus@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (3 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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[โ€“] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Correct the mistakes of my ancestors.

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[โ€“] mobsenpai@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

To end it peacefully

On a cosmic timescale, facilitate a world with minimal suffering and maximal fulfillment.

[โ€“] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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.

[โ€“] iii@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Any hope that your art will change the world?

[โ€“] Vitaly@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] j4k3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] finderscult@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

To see the end of humanity. Luckily I don't have much longer to wait.

[โ€“] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Crush the patriarchy and bring about equity and equality. And jacking the hogโ€ฆ

[โ€“] kionite231@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope to leave whatever spaces I inhabit better than before I was there. I also want to be a cute girl with a cute tummy and thick thighs. I believe these are both aligned with one another.

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[โ€“] janus2@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[โ€“] LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

To annoy my wife.

To spend time with the people I love.

[โ€“] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To discover and adhere to an objectively moral life.

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[โ€“] Gebruikersnaam@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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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

[โ€“] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] sketty@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

it doesnt matter

[โ€“] aliser@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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?

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