What is your sole purpose for this lifetime?
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Have you took a moment of pause, temporary forgetting all your activities and asked, "why am i born into this world?" or maybe "What is my sole purpose for this lifetime" and then seriously taking some time to give yourself a satisfactory answer?
Is it to only earn money? survive, get married, have kids, live till old age, and die?
Or simply you dont care at all? You just move on as life dictates you, and never ask why are you doing what you are doing now? Like some people say, you exist for the purpose of existing.
Yesterday night, when I saw the full moon, so bright, so roundish, so beautiful in my own eyes, for the first time, this question just popped into my mind. hahaha, (ok i hear some of you laughing) but i was wondering are humans already programmed to behaved in that manner and we call that our purpose in life? -
i think im put on earth to make ppl happy
but at the same time...im making ppl angry (mommy) and ppl miserable (the folks here)
i guess there is no such thing as "purpose"...we are not secret service agent with a mission to accomplish in a certain time period
since we are here and we have fate to meet here (and elsewhere) we should juz make the best outta it...
i always believe tt nature has its way of balancing things
all things bright and beautiful
all things wise and wonderful
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I saw the same low hanging moon. It was beautiful, breathtaking... I stopped to watch it for a little while. Great feeling to know that someone actually saw the same moon too.Originally posted by lestersia:Have you took a moment of pause, temporary forgetting all your activities and asked, "why am i born into this world?" or maybe "What is my sole purpose for this lifetime" and then seriously taking some time to give yourself a satisfactory answer?
Is it to only earn money? survive, get married, have kids, live till old age, and die?
Or simply you dont care at all? You just move on as life dictates you, and never ask why are you doing what you are doing now? Like some people say, you exist for the purpose of existing.
Yesterday night, when I saw the full moon, so bright, so roundish, so beautiful in my own eyes, for the first time, this question just popped into my mind. hahaha, (ok i hear some of you laughing) but i was wondering are humans already programmed to behaved in that manner and we call that our purpose in life?
Purpose of existence... For now, for me, living a life simply means being aware that I have the choice to decide what I want to do with this lifetime. In other words, I weave out the purpose for my life. Don't want to simply "go with the flow" which I think a lot of pple are doing. -
Thought about it long time ago.. also felt it was kind of crazy if I voice it out to people abruptly... Anyway my goal for this life I have here on earth is to make people happy too. Well that explains why I am studying psychology now, and had been bearing the thought since sec sch.
Like what Fireice mentioned, in the midst I seems to have make one party happy, yet gotten the other upset, furious, worried... Thus Mi thinking of striking a balance to make both happy.
But still basically is to make people happy in this world... =)
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hahaha, so up till now, we have 2 people trying to make other people happy, 1 who is weaving out the purpose and 1 good-for-nothing who definitely needs to see a therapist or psyhcologist, .... but I wouldnt recommend Bear to that sicko.
Yes, if everyone on this earth can make it a point to make just one person very happy every day, conflicts will just be halved down in numbers.
But till now, no one can really convince him/herself what that sole purpose is. Some just walk away from that purpose in life, and decide to strike out on his/her own, some just get focused so much on the purpose and ended up in a mess or the wrong path. For myself, I am still seeking that purpose. Only recently, have I decided that the IT industry is not really for me and have decided to jump wagon.
I have known the purpose of humankind thru another participation of an association, that is achieving "peace through dialogue", that humankind of today is suffering, war, famine, violence, death, etc, and that they can start realising the hopes of peace and happiness through 1 step at a time, through action and culture, holding useful dialogues. It is negotiations that prevented a direct confrontation between India/Pakistan and Israel/Palestine. Those who forsake dialogues through violent actions resulted in terrorism to voice their thoughts like Osama.
So now, it comes down to , should we weave out our purpose for ourselves, or for others, or for both? and is that purpose all that is to it? when one stops to search for that answer, he/she is leading with no purpose, no life.... -
Sometimes you just waste too much time on such questions that your life just drift away for nothing...? Anyway, I still AGREE that such soul-searching is IMPORTANT....
HOWEVER, humans do change from time to time.... WHO you are TODAY may NOT be WHO you are TOMORROW....
Personally, I think it's IMPORTANT that we should live to enjoy our life and at the same time try to search for that 'purpose'.... Though I've already got goals in my life, but I'm not too sure if that my 'purpose' in life...? Anyway, life is too long to bother yourself with such questions every now and then AND too short to be wasted just like that...?
LIVE life... NOT waste it....? -
People stop to find that purpose in life and carry on what they are doing, sometimes being so monotonous that their personality start to decay, or come to a standstill. Goals are set every now and then to achieve some purpose, without that one purpose you will not have succeeded in anything. Ever heard someone tell you before, "You know, I still dont know what I want...."
But is that purpose solely yours to benefit while ignoring other sufferings or to benefit society. What we have benefited from society, we should also try to serve or give back something in return?
The moment of pause at every crossroads of your life, considering impt questions, like "your purpose in life is to ...??? what have i achieved??? " might help you to stay focus or re draw your life plans. Humans stray away from changes, resist changes, and once being comfortable, they hardly ask questions to see if they are doing the right things.
Remember when someone said that, you should go back to your own roots, now how many of us are really proud of our heritage and serve to strengthen that heritage. Do I call that our purpose too?
People want fun, want to enjoy, and they forsake the most basic of questions, that is, why are they born here? Is there a purpose of their existance here in the world?
alright maybe it sounds boring up till here coz it is just like having to attend a performance review with your supervisor every year but was that review worth it? to pause and check with your own performance, just like when I have put up the first question, What is the sole purpose in our life?
Well if you really shut yourself up in your own room in an one hour darkness and ask this question, perhaps you have a new insight to what you can/may do for your future life.
Live life, with a/some purpose/s and get on with it. Waste life, when you have no purpose at all.
Hahaha, till the end, while living my life fully, I am still searching that purpose -
I'll fall ASLEEP? ZZZZZzzzzz....Originally posted by lestersia:Well if you really shut yourself up in your own room in an one hour darkness and ask this question, perhaps you have a new insight to what you can/may do for your future life.
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My sole purpose is to breathe in and out until i expire. Good enough?
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fark a piece of pork
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i have gave a thought abt tis question when i was way back in pri 5...and now after 5 years,i still haven tot of a relevant answer or an answer close to it...
i've talk abt tis to a few ppl,and if some of us had really thought abt tis,and (sorry for tis) had any body tot why god existed?
these entire universe is juz like a cycle....an endless cycle tat would not end..
anyone thought of y we tink differently and
thought of where our spirits come from???thin air ?? Or every new beings born into tis world is a new soul/spirit,tat will grow,learn and mature until the day its vessel dies and moves on to where it came from and share wat it learn wif those oradi there?
these is juz endless thinking abt a question without a correct answer.Everyone will have their own answer,and it IS correct to them only,no,it is correct for all of us.it is juz whether we chose to accept it ornot? -
klactovac quotes:
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My sole purpose is to breathe in and out until i expire. Good enough?
My tip:
since breathing is your sole purpose may I suggest you breathe deeper and slower, inhale 10 counts, hold 5 counts and exhale 20 counts X 3 times hahaha, i know, your face might go green, but if you relax and do that, you give your body a whole new experience.
Did you know?
1. that, breathing less times but taking longer breaths helps to extend that fragile life of yours?
2. Yoga and Ki-Aikido is one way of improving breathing.
3. That the correct way is to breathe using the stomach muscles, not the lungs
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Devil1976 quotes:
I'll fall ASLEEP? ZZZZZzzzzz....
What I think:
though many comments thruout the forum written by Devil1976 are pretty crappy, but it seems that's one sole purpose of Devil1976's life, at least to communicate, be it crap or not, so Devil1976 wont live in isolation.
So one of your sole purpose in life is to come into forum, make some comments and get out, maybe hoping to achieve some attention or chaos. Keep it up! It makes the whole forum all the more interesting ;p -
HAhah~ well maybe there's question that cannot be answered, but I can answer some or yours.. heheh~
Why we think differently is because we have different experiences in our life... That's why it shapes our character and thoughts in life... Even if you clone a Hitler out again, he is highly unlike to be that charismatic as the one we read in our history...
Anyway, just some questions... how you know we have got spirits in us?? How you know we will go somewhere after we die?? It's because of your religious belief or encounter right? If you have been told that people just die off and that's the end from the very first place you will believe that too...
It's hard to imagine... but consider this... There was this email which my friend typed out, entitled if men were to menstrate... A friend read it and replied me, 'If men were to menstrate where will he be bleeding??' I was shocked to think he studies sociology.
I replied him, if men are to menstrate in the first place, it doesn't matter where he bleeds. He can spit the blood out or drip out from his fingers or ear or anywhere. The thing is that we see women bleed and we all know from where, but all this is because it's a set framework that women bleed and from 'there'. Without these mental framework, you will begin to think and find that almost anything can be a norm should it be done or be there in the first place..
think a little hard to understand horz.. but I'm not against you... just pointing out things that I learn.Originally posted by YawnYawn:anyone thought of y we tink differently and thought of where our spirits come from???thin air ?? Or every new beings born into tis world is a new soul/spirit,tat will grow,learn and mature until the day its vessel dies and moves on to where it came from and share wat it learn wif those oradi there? -
sorry.i noe tat it is a very religious things.
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Hello lesteria,
Like youself I have occupied myself in finding the answer to the meaning of life. And it is not just moments in which I indulge in such ontological thoughts.
Maybe you would like to share with me your thoughts on the meaning of life? Are you prepared to sacrifice " to discover the sole purpose of your existence?
And my reply to your question, not all humans are programmed to live in that postulated manner. Some philosophers spend their entire life dedicated to unlocking the secrets of the universe.
And if humans were said to be programmed, then what is this experience of freewill that i, as a human, experience? Perhaps I am not human? For we do not see the freewill in others except in ourselves, makes us Gods.
Weird is it not, why did this message appear? -
Hey my dear... don't be sorryz lahz.. you got the right to say what you want... I'm not saying that you're wrong, though I think I kind of scare you off liaoz.. hehehe~ sorryz... I really didn't mean to flame you... just trying to provoke some thoughts in you.. heheh~ sorryz if things went the wrong way...
------------------Originally posted by YawnYawn:sorry.i noe tat it is a very religious things.
sorry to had said tat out
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ehhhhhh...i dun really gay lolx....Originally posted by Bear:Hey my dear... don't be sorryz lahz.. you got the right to say what you want... I'm not saying that you're wrong, though I think I kind of scare you off liaoz.. hehehe~ sorryz... I really didn't mean to flame you... just trying to provoke some thoughts in you.. heheh~ sorryz if things went the wrong way... -
say my dear doesn't mean gay lehz.. it's a casual remark, make it more like you're on a friendly term...
------------------Originally posted by YawnYawn:ehhhhhh...i dun really gay lolx....
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abc123_ws quoted:
Maybe you would like to share with me your thoughts on the meaning of life? Are you prepared to sacrifice " to discover the sole purpose of your existence?
My quote:
Have attempted to find out what is the meaning of life, or before this, What is life? There is a book entitled "Life" written by Daisaku Ikeda and it has a profound thought and is one of the books I considered tough to read and understand. However, to "sacrifice" to discover the sole purpose depends on what will eventually happen after the sacrifice, that is I must predict something or expect something after the sacrifice.
abc123_ws quoted:
And my reply to your question, not all humans are programmed to live in that postulated manner.
And if humans were said to be programmed, then what is this experience of freewill that i, as a human, experience? Perhaps I am not human? For we do not see the freewill in others except in ourselves, makes us Gods.
My quote:
soon, humans will try to be "Gods". Look at what they are doing now, attempts have been made to clone humans. The desire is there, and that will not prevent them from not "programming a human's way of life using cloning methods"
The desires of these scientists are, and what we can also expect:
1. a perfect body physique
2. a mind strongly influnenced to uphold peace
3. tissues that can repair itself in the human body
4. more defences against harmful bacterias
5. improvision on certain organ vulnerability to enable a human to achieve feats never attempted before
I view this as life manipulation, and has its good and bad qualities. this issue can be tackled as a chicken and egg issue, where you see 2 different camps of supporters.
Freewill has its relative ties to the sub concious mind, once uncovered, the desire to change or "program" it for the sake of "goodness" will be too strong to deny. As history has long produced evil leaders with evil purposes (Qin Emperor, Hitler, Pol Pot, Milosvec, Osama), it will be even convincing for the scientist to manipulate mankind of the future.
Then, will we still have the "freewill" to find out our sole purpose in life? -
worX when did we got so close?lolxOriginally posted by Bear:say my dear doesn't mean gay lehz.. it's a casual remark, make it more like you're on a friendly term... -
lets copulate
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ehhhhh sorry i quote the whole junk but where can i find the book,"life" ???Originally posted by lestersia:abc123_ws quoted:
Maybe you would like to share with me your thoughts on the meaning of life? Are you prepared to sacrifice " to discover the sole purpose of your existence?
My quote:
Have attempted to find out what is the meaning of life, or before this, What is life? There is a book entitled "Life" written by Daisaku Ikeda and it has a profound thought and is one of the books I considered tough to read and understand. However, to "sacrifice" to discover the sole purpose depends on what will eventually happen after the sacrifice, that is I must predict something or expect something after the sacrifice.
abc123_ws quoted:
And my reply to your question, not all humans are programmed to live in that postulated manner.
And if humans were said to be programmed, then what is this experience of freewill that i, as a human, experience? Perhaps I am not human? For we do not see the freewill in others except in ourselves, makes us Gods.
My quote:
soon, humans will try to be "Gods". Look at what they are doing now, attempts have been made to clone humans. The desire is there, and that will not prevent them from not "programming a human's way of life using cloning methods"
The desires of these scientists are, and what we can also expect:
1. a perfect body physique
2. a mind strongly influnenced to uphold peace
3. tissues that can repair itself in the human body
4. more defences against harmful bacterias
5. improvision on certain organ vulnerability to enable a human to achieve feats never attempted before
I view this as life manipulation, and has its good and bad qualities. this issue can be tackled as a chicken and egg issue, where you see 2 different camps of supporters.
Freewill has its relative ties to the sub concious mind, once uncovered, the desire to change or "program" it for the sake of "goodness" will be too strong to deny. As history has long produced evil leaders with evil purposes (Qin Emperor, Hitler, Pol Pot, Milosvec, Osama), it will be even convincing for the scientist to manipulate mankind of the future.
Then, will we still have the "freewill" to find out our sole purpose in life? -
lestersia,
i'm already breathing that way. anyway, i saw the moon on that night on 4 & 5th of Feb. It was round and bright, all i was doing was breathing very slowly under the moonlight. the wind was blowing the clouds across the moon, and when they passed the moon, they light up like little illuminated fluffs.
So what is your purpose in life? It's only fair if you share them with us. promise i won't make fun or laugh at your sole purpose.