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What is you purpose right now?

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[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Turning good food into poop.

[–] MudSkipperKisser@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Thank Mr Skeltal for poop calcium

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

shitpost of the day

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

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

[–] udon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Thank you, that's wild!

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It keeps the butter hard and useless?

[–] Entity1@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

To seek out the Holy Grail!

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

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is your favorite color?

[–] ChaosCoati@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Blue. No, yellooOOOOOOOOW

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

To make the world a better place.

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

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

[–] Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Sertou@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

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

Stopin myself from going off the deep end

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

A worthy cause - keep it up!

[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the positivity!

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[–] card797@champserver.net 5 points 1 year ago

Work. Feed family. Take dumps. Repeat.

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Trying to figure that out now. Waiting on some epiphany

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 3 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Writing books and getting people to read them.

[–] paradiso@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year 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.

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

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

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Mesophar@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

I have no objective purpose and I like it that way

[–] nom_nom_nom_9999@ani.social 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago