Ask Lemmy

To live a life full of meaning.

Aka basements. drugs, gaming, asian food, and tons of easy to find gay sex.

There isn't one. It's a sandbox so you define your own. My own is to make my corner of life a little nicer than before I was here.

To know what it's like to experience/be aware of emotions and feelings most of the time.

I'd say that improving as a person and leaving the world slightly better as you found it. I guess that's not meaning per-se but rather a principle to try and live up to.

what I can do for others

I do not believe there to be a higher meaning. Nor for that fact to have particular meaning. As such, I also do not assign particular meaning to suffering. But others don't seem to enjoy it much, so I throw myself with full force against it, because why not?

Why does everyone insist life has to have meaning? We can just be here because here is where we happen to be. It's allowed.

Out of Spite.

To be the anomoly of the world.

As a "fuck you" to the Communist Party of China who didn't want me to be born for being the 2nd child.

As a "fuck you" to white supremacists and other political/reglious extremists that want me dead.

To make sure my abusive older brother doesn't get the gratification of me being dead. To call dibs on my parents assets when they die, to make sure he doesn't get my share.

To enjoy Movies, TV, Anime, read books, play videos games.

To explore the world one day.

To publish a book one day that people would want to read.

To form true friendships, real friendships.

And hopefully, when I find the financial stability and I win against depression, I kinda wanna start a family, to raise children that will grow up experiencing only happiness, and never ever ever have to experience the abuse I had when I was growing up, to bring more happiness into the world and thus making the world less sad.

It's probably pointless and arbitrary.

I'll just enjoy the time I'm given.

Have as much fun today, without ruining tomorrow.

"Is this the reason why I was put in this desolate place? To find that happiness isn't a place or thing, but a person?"

It's something I read a few weeks ago. For me it's the people I love that keep me clinging to life. Making sure they're alright and taken cared for.

To bear witness and contort.

I tend toward the point being the journey type of thing and closely related that you are what you do (ie you define yourself by your actions). I would add to this my current intrepretation of buddhism which is mostly about acceptance of the wysiwyg universe. Morally im an ethic of least harm type.

Life is meaningless but not without purpouse

I wanna balance two sticks on a single stick

No dying till this is done

The purpose of life is to gather data and reflect the universe around it through adaptation.

It is without intrinsic meaning but the meaning that I give to it is to try to end all suffering.

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Death. I mean, literally or, to be more precise, cosmically literally.

See, every living being relies on the death of other living beings in order to continue alive. Similarly, death relies on living beings (a dead being can't die again). I coined a Latin phrase that is quite similar to the Hermetic principle "as above so below": "Vita mortem manducat, Mors manducat vitam" (life devours death, Death devours life).

Death is the only certainty, the only truth, still living beings are wired to fear and avoid it (pointlessly, as there's not much left to do when the organs of a living being stop working altogether due to inexorable consequences of aging).

So, no matter how strange it may sound, the purpose of life is Death, literally. The true Mother Goddess.

Simply to be a good person & make sure my kid sees it through the day.

None that I can think of which I think it's fine. I try to just make the most out of my life doing stuff I want to do.

Just survive somehow

Cheese.

There isn't really any meaning or reason for it. History remembers a select few, but most people are not destined or expected to do anything more than live. I expect to be an unremarkable footnote that enjoyed a few comforts, built some furniture, and moderately positively influenced a small handful of people. I don't really have a set of grand aspirations, I just wanna do a few fun things for 30-50 more years (optimally).

I don't have the meaning, but I try to make small goals in life that will draw full picture of my life. Currently need stable job and money to move out and live alone.

Survive and try to thrive.

Don’t be a bigger asshole than you need to be. People are STRUGGLING right now. Try not to add to that.

Stay alive, try to fight against global feudalism if I can.

Oh look, Harold's been eaten. Kind of makes you think doesn't it?

Reading The Power of Now helped with this.

There is only Now. So live for it.

to retire as early as possible so i can do the things i want instead of doing the things my employer wants.

~21 more years to go; i'm currently on track

I do what I do, and every other version if me does what they do, for no reason besides that that's the way it is.

To experience existence as fully as possible. This includes every combination and variation all throughout time and space. However, while you think you are just poor little you, it's because you are experiencing disassociation from the source since your birth. Every one of us is really God, we just forgot.

So the next time you look at someone, think of it like looking at yourself in a fun house mirror: it's just another version of the truth. They are a reflection of you and you of them. The Universe is the same way.