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Alternative BeliefsWhat do you believe?
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ghandi was a racist. and mother thereasa was a crook.
Even if these allegations are true that doesn't make purpose a bad thing. Everyone who has ever or will ever do anything good will have al... |
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Why live if you're just going to die?
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maybe the main focus of life isn't the evident death, maybe the purpose of life is the journey you take and not the end of it.
Although this may be true (and if we're going to use the wor... |
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Life & DeathThe meaning of life
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i believe the meaning of life is to find your purpose on this planet. if you dont have a purpose then what is the point of even being born? most people find the earth a large rock that you can just wa... |
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Life & DeathMomentary Meaning of Life
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Just thought I should add, that, it is possible to have more than one momentary purpose at any given time...
That is to say, you may be multi-tasking, and your actions may have more than one purpose... |
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A purpose is one, but to be two.
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While replaying deep intellectual conversations over in my head one day, I seemed to have a break through on what a purpose is.
Now, many say life is played on one main purpose. With many other... |
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Human Nature & EmotionHaTe
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You feel like you have no purpose in life. Defining that would help. Everything you do can then be a means of achieving that purpose. |
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I love to see people struggling for their purpose in life... |
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your purpose
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life has no purpose. the entire world is a freak show of a chemical reaction. everything was created by probability. and even if there is a purpose, theres no way of knowing it |
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Life & DeathI feel pointless.
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Do not confuse meaning with purpose. Something may have one and not the other. When the two are combined you have art. For example, I could prepare food that will nourish my body that is bland and ugl... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsWhy do we exist?
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If life had a purpose then it would be greater than existence itself, so there is no purpose but to understand what is. |
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your purpose
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when you ask: "what is your purpose" i assume you're asking what do we believe our reason for being is, thus you are asking for each individual's theory of 'the meaning of lif... |
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An intresting Question handed to me
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well some people believe that their purpose is to do good and go to heaven.. if theres people who believe in a purpose such as that then they seem to want to contnue living
as long as we get pleas... |
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GodWhy Question God's Existence
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The Bible is the manual for the human being given to us by God (the manufacturer). If we ignore it we will end up missing what our purpose is and ultimately we will end up destroying ourselves!
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your purpose
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I tend to agree, Bagpuss, but without purpose (be it real or idealized by the individual) life holds no meaning, and meaning is what we all strive for in existance. We can refer to a spiritual leader... |
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Alternative BeliefsWhat do you believe?
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You obviously didn't read the part where I siad "Humans can't escape working". Of course people need to farm to make food and work for other necessities in life, that'd be stu... |
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Why live if you're just going to die?
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I feel as though The Ataris have stated this best---
"Being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up, these are the best days of our lives"
The purpose of life, is to live it. Th... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsDark City/Matrix theory
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It is a fact that things people don't understand, they reject. I also tried talking about these things with my friends, but they said I was commiting a sin. Don't talk about these things wit... |
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Religion & HumanityGeneral meaning of life
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The meaning and purpose of life is to perpetuate life. No matter who said it, "Go forth and multiply" is the whole ball of wax. Life is to reproduce and perpetuate 'our' form. And,... |
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Why live if you're just going to die?
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like i was saying, the purpose of life is to have purpose.
say you do suddenly die tomorrow, at that last instant of being alive, which lasts nearly an eternity in your mind, you replay all the ke... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsWhy do we exist?
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EXACT the same thing I've been thinking for the past 2 years.. yeah what's the point of doing everything we are doing right now if all our endpoint is death.
Nothing matters its as if 1+1... |
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Poetry*Smiles with in Solitude*
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A little while ago, a man I don't know
came up to me and asked me
'what is your purpose?'
Out of the blue.
Didn't know him, it was just
a cold day on Church Street,
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HomosexualityWhy Condone Fruitless Deviant Behavior?
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Every single organ of the human body has a purpose. The purpose of a penis is therfore that it can enter a vagina of a women, to produce children. If the man decides to put his Johnson inside her aas... |
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PoetryEchoes
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Purpose
I will reach for your hand.
Always.
Life's purpose is not great, or extravagant.
Reach.
Reacti on.
Relief.
Skin.
Peace. |
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Alternative BeliefsWhat do you believe?
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Anyway, my closing statement was that having no purpose doesn't mean that something has no worth. Do you agree or disagree?
All people have purpose. |
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Alternative BeliefsWhat do you believe?
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I set the standard on what my purpose/motivation is. simple as that!
So if you decide your purpose is to make millions of dollars through fraud you will have lead a very good life by your own stand... |
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