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[-] viralJ@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I think you need a new keyboard lol. Did you mean ataraxia?

Another word I haven't heard until now, but yes, I do support this attitude to life. I think I've learnt it from my ex. Sometimes bad things happen that are beyond your control and lamenting them is a waste of time, which can be much better spent on trying to figure if there is anything that can be done about the loss or adversity. And if nothing can be done, move on to enjoying other things in life.

I was interested to read that in ancient times, ataraxia was the ideal state for soldiers heading for battle. You can be sure as hell that if I was about to face the prospect of killing others or being killed, ataraxia would be the last mental state I'd be in!

[-] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago

To save as many animals as I can

[-] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 17 points 1 week ago

I'm just here to raise entropy.

[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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
[-] BreadOven@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago
[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 10 points 1 week ago
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[-] xylogx@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

To quote Carl Sagan, “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”

[-] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago
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[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

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

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 7 points 1 week ago
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[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

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

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

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

[-] viralJ@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] nicomachus@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

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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[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 week ago

Correct the mistakes of my ancestors.

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[-] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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

[-] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week 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.

[-] iii@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Any hope that your art will change the world?

[-] mobsenpai@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

To end it peacefully

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

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

[-] TheLongWindedAntique@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago
[-] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Crush the patriarchy and bring about equity and equality. And jacking the hog…

[-] finderscult@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Vitaly@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago
[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[-] LEVI@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

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

To spend time with the people I love.

[-] kionite231@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago
[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

To discover and adhere to an objectively moral life.

[-] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Me too, but I started from the context of AGI safety: eventually we will make a superintelligent machine without any wisdom, that could be given any moral system, even making paperclips.

So here's my draft of a logical path to maximal morality, and consequent values: https://www.quora.com/If-you-were-to-come-up-with-three-new-laws-of-robotics-what-would-they-be/answers/23692757

Of course it was downvoted to oblivion on LessWrong, probably because they believe: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NnohDYHNnKDtbiMyp/fake-utility-functions

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

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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[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

To annoy my wife.

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week 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

[-] kotauskas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

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

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