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[โ€“] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 28 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)
[โ€“] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 23 points 4 weeks ago

I'm just here to raise entropy.

[โ€“] BreadOven@lemmy.world 22 points 4 weeks ago
[โ€“] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago

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

[โ€“] papertowels@lemmy.one 16 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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€“] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago

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

[โ€“] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

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

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[โ€“] kionite231@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 weeks ago
[โ€“] janus2@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 weeks 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€“] Maeve@kbin.earth 10 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] nicomachus@programming.dev 9 points 4 weeks ago (4 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€“] mobsenpai@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago

To end it peacefully

[โ€“] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks 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 6 points 4 weeks 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 4 points 4 weeks ago

Any hope that your art will change the world?

[โ€“] j4k3@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago
[โ€“] onlooker@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 weeks ago

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

[โ€“] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 8 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

Correct the mistakes of my ancestors.

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[โ€“] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 8 points 4 weeks ago

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

[โ€“] xylogx@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

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

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

[โ€“] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 weeks 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

[โ€“] Gebruikersnaam@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[โ€“] finderscult@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 weeks ago

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

[โ€“] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 weeks ago

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

[โ€“] viralJ@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (3 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.

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To spend time with the people I love.

[โ€“] LEVI@feddit.org 5 points 4 weeks ago

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

Nothing. Purpose implies the potential for failure and while there are certainly circumstances that I would consider personal failures, there are none so great that they would invalidate my existence.

That said, I have a vision for my life and the state of the world that I would like to see realized. I want to see a world where climate change is taken seriously and recognized as the imminent threat that it is. It will be waiting on the other side of every economic crisis or war that man chooses to wage.

[โ€“] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 4 weeks ago

Being as comfortable as possible

[โ€“] ma1w4re@lemm.ee 4 points 4 weeks ago

I'm on a life-long quest to finding the EXIT from this matrix. For this I have to become the supreme lord of Holy C

[โ€“] Vitaly@feddit.uk 4 points 4 weeks ago
[โ€“] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago

To enjoy myself. What exactly that means, changes over time.

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

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

[โ€“] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

To annoy my wife.

[โ€“] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 weeks ago

The purpose of life is to live.

My purpose in life is varied and technical and super-great.

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