Being as comfortable as possible
To enjoy myself. What exactly that means, changes over time.
I try to follow a set of rules which define how i should live my life written in my own words, which essentially restate the golden rule/10 commandments/fundamental tenets/etc. I read them as myself, as if I’m giving advice to myself. Pronouns can be tricky. I don’t follow them perfectly and often will tweak the wording, hoping to avoid misinterpretation.
I call them my veritaclaritives. (veritas + clarus = loud and clear truth; probably bad latin)
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Always look out for #1
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Always be prepared for a #2 (e.g. romance, friendships, shit)
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Only desire what you require
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It’s only theft if they need it more than you (emphasis on NEED)
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Create more than you consume
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Help people up, more and before you put anyone down
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Treat everyone as a friend until they prove otherwise (emphasis on both THEY and PROVE; the golden rule)
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Make amends with your friends, before an unexpected end (r.i.p. Nivec)
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Keep your friends close, be your own worst enemy
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If thoughts of any enemy anger you, you’ve already lost (note plural)
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Destroy enemies until they are unable to do you harm
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All enemies can be defeated through unconditional love.
These are more rules than a purpose, but do you think these rules are guiding you to a specific purpose?
To live my life as happily as I can. Oh and two chicks at the same time I guess.
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To end it peacefully
Learning.
Find out who I really am
The Great Work. Hermetic kabbalah makes sense (psychology cloaked as religion, since humans are adverse we may be a little messed up and inner work is the only way through, and out). I’m just now scratching the surface but I’m digging it.
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.
Lol It’s great when different values align and each builds towards your life purpose.
Purpose in life? I’m not American, sorry
ideally producing scientific research and art but in practice I’m just trying to minimize my own suffering :/
Pretty sure that’s what everyone is doing. It helps to help others, where we can, in my experience. Focus on love, beauty, goodness. We can hyperfocus on the ugliness and easily fall into the abyss of despair, rather than the abyss of freedom (within personal constraints, obvs).
To be exploited in every way possible.
To annoy my wife.
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.
Crush the patriarchy and bring about equity and equality. And jacking the hog…
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.
Have you looked into Epicuianism? Sounds like what you wrote fits.
No. I came up with this myself as I was pondering the world, the universe, how there is no evidence of any god existing, and how the best science we have tells us that we are just matter and energy inhabiting spacetime. But matter arranged in such fantastically improbable way that we can feel happiness. Why waste the precious moments we’ve been given on doing anything other than striving to feel happiness? Which of course can come in different forms for every one of us.
I’ve just had a quick search, I guess your message has a typo and you meant Epicureanism? It is similar to how I feel about life, but it seems to say that lack of pain and fear is enough to consider oneself happy. I’d go a bit further and postulate active pursuit of things that positively make you or fellow sentient beings feel pleasure.
I did misspell Epicureanism.
They do suggest that seeking pleasure is very important. But there’s a focus on the simple pleasures with time with friends as one of the highest pleasure. There’s also the concept of atarxia which the state of mind of calmness and acceptance.
