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[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 27 points 2 months ago
[-] BreadOven@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago
[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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
[-] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

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

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

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

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 10 points 2 months ago
[-] And009@reddthat.com 3 points 2 months ago

Everyone is born evil, the purpose is to realise we're one. It's a long cycle and we've done well in the last 100 year vs 1000 years

[-] kionite231@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago
[-] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

To "live", and by "live" I mean experience and creat Art. I don't need more nor less.

[-] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months 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.

[-] iii@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

Any hope that your art will change the world?

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

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

[-] nicomachus@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago

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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[-] mobsenpai@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

To end it peacefully

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago
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[-] xylogx@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

To quote Carl Sagan, “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 8 points 2 months ago

Correct the mistakes of my ancestors.

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[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

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

[-] tiefling 7 points 2 months 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

[-] viralJ@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

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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[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago
[-] Gebruikersnaam@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

To spend time with the people I love.

[-] finderscult@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

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

[-] somebodysomewhere@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Crush the patriarchy and bring about equity and equality. And jacking the hog…

[-] Vitaly@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago
[-] TheLongWindedAntique@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago
[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

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

[-] LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

To annoy my wife.

[-] kotauskas 3 points 2 months ago

Spite a bunch of fuckheads and make some cool software whilst not forgetting to have fun along the way.

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

I hope to leave whatever spaces I inhabit better than before I was there. I also want to be a cute girl with a cute tummy and thick thighs. I believe these are both aligned with one another.

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[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

...to do my best, to do my duty to God and my country, to be square, and to obey the law of the pack.

[-] snail_stampede@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Damn, turns out all I needed to know I learned in cub scouts

[-] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago
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[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

To discover and adhere to an objectively moral life.

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[-] BevelGear@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago

I don't have one. I just do what I can to be a good person and that's it. And I'm ok with it.

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