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What is you purpose right now?

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[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Turning good food into poop.

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Thank Mr Skeltal for poop calcium

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

shitpost of the day

[–] MudSkipperKisser@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I too function this way! Hello human and/or other animal friend

[–] udon@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This image is disturbing..... I can't wait to send it to my kids!

[–] udon@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wim Delvoye for reference. AFAIK it actually works, saw it in a museum once but it wasn't active at the time.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Thank you, that's wild!

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 22 points 10 months ago

My purpose is to create excess value to be harvested by shareholders in exchange for numbers in a computer that define my worthiness to continue to exist.

[–] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] Entity1@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Going the health route I see. Butter is very unhealthy just like monopoly's go .it's best just to pass it.

[–] Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

Eating only lettuce and drinking 5L of water a day can also be unhealthy, just saying.

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I ask people why they have a special butter tray in their fridge

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

It keeps the butter hard and useless?

[–] frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think it's a category error to think of people as having (or having to have) a purpose. We just are.

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

People don't have to have a purpose : yes.
in such a situation, people still are : yes.

Furthermore, any lists of purposes I may choose today, if situations changes, I could have to modify tomorrow.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

To seek out the Holy Grail!

Oh, purpose? I thought you meant AAaaaahhhhhh....

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure. A friend was talking about how her partner had been doing ayahusca and it cured his depression and made his personality turn 180 degrees around. It inspired me to try it again. I was doing it 10 years ago and it changed how I view the world. Maybe it's time again.

Our purpose is to evolve from animal-like beings that copy crude animal behavior and take as much as we can for ourselves and stash it away, into confident, generous and happy human beings that are a joy to be around. Which is hard to do considering the society we live in, and the fake lack of resources (money) we are forced to comply with.

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[–] athos77@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What is your favorite color?

[–] ChaosCoati@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago

Blue. No, yellooOOOOOOOOW

[–] Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Try as much as possible to find a hobby that sticks and brings joy.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Depression: Not if I have anything to say about it!

[–] Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Damn, you didn't have to call me out like that xD

[–] Sertou@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

To keep my family as happy and healthy as possible, as long as possible.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 6 points 10 months ago

To make the world a better place.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 months ago

To die, and do as little extra damage as possible until that point.

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

There's no purpose. Life is a sandbox video game. I play it how I want.

[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Stopin myself from going off the deep end

[–] sab@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A worthy cause - keep it up!

[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the positivity!

[–] card797@champserver.net 5 points 10 months ago

Work. Feed family. Take dumps. Repeat.

[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago
[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Have... a good time... all the time...

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Trying to figure that out now. Waiting on some epiphany

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I'm basically a rainbow colored punching bag waiting to be used by homophobes (and transphobes) who just happened to train for boxing.

My country is filled with these people.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Trying to beat my brain into submission so I can sleep.

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

I'm an artist. My only purpose in life is to draw and create

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 3 points 10 months ago

I'm here to hopefully enjoy my time on this planet and help my wife do the same. That's about it.

[–] waz@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Take care of my family, and to fuck with people who have too much power or take advantage of other pet.

[–] paradiso@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

As small of an impact I may have, to make the world a better place. To learn and grow and experience the inevitable pain and hardships along the way. To learn to love and provide for those in need. To serve.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Writing books and getting people to read them.

[–] MichaelTen@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To help defeat aging. Read the book Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Shouldn't we wait just a touch longer for the Boomer phase-out?

[–] Mesophar@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Make sure my cat is taken care of, and hope I find a more complex purpose and goal before he's gone.

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

I have no objective purpose and I like it that way

[–] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago
[–] nom_nom_nom_9999@ani.social 1 points 9 months ago

I don't know. I just wait thing to happen. It is bored.

Why don't the world pick me as main character.

I guess i just an NPC. Perhaps the no-name NPC.