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What is the purpose of your life?

  • 26-07-2011 10:35PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭


    While I was snooping through the gentlemen's forum to see what men think, I came across an interesting thread labelled 'marriage and men'. Some of the comments from people were that they exist only for their families, so it got me thinking: what do we exist for? Why are we still alive? What is the purpose/meaning of our lives?

    I think that for me, it's to be happy and loved. If I feel loved I am happy, and if I am happy it means I feel loved. Sounds a bit selfish I know, but well... :P

    I'd love to hear other responses :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    To lurk on boards and give thanks to people who say what im thinking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,844 ✭✭✭py2006


    Surely there is more to life than that?

    I guess its a question nobody truly knows the answer to!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    ........
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    QUERY:

    Please tell purpose of life.

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    ANSWER:

    Pass on genetic code. Pass on genetic code. Pass on genetic code. Pass on genetic code. Pass on genetic code. Pass on genetic code. Pass on genetic code. Pass on genetic code. Pass on genetic code. Pass on genetic code.

    .......
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    END TRANSMISSION.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,253 ✭✭✭amacca


    While I was snooping through the gentlemen's forum to see what men think, I came across an interesting thread labelled 'marriage and men'. Some of the comments from people were that they exist only for their families, so it got me thinking: what do we exist for? Why are we still alive? What is the purpose/meaning of our lives?

    I think that for me, it's to be happy and loved. If I feel loved I am happy, and if I am happy it means I feel loved. Sounds a bit selfish I know, but well... :P

    I'd love to hear other responses :)


    No idea.....I intend to enjoy myself though.....after that I'm essentially directionless.

    A vigilante if someone pisses me off enough perhaps!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Crush your enemies,
    See them driven before,
    And hear the lamentations of the women.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,424 ✭✭✭Storminateacup


    To be totally unreal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭The Internet Explorer


    To consume breakfast rolls.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Dolphins are better than porpoises.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭D1stant


    To be buried balls deep in Bibi Baskin


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    42


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 461 ✭✭carefulnow100


    To enjoy it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    To leave the place better than it was before you.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,113 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    enjoy myself. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    To afford a decent retirement ! ! At which stage you wont be able to fully enjoy whatever the hell you want to do . .:(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    As the great man once said, to die in the last ditch. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Get bitches


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭KungPao


    To closely follow the lives of celebrities.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭Scuid Mhór


    make music people can enjoy when they need it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭tan11ie


    To enjoy it ....do everything that makes life worth while...
    Be happy - make people happy
    Be loved - share love
    Be helpful and caring ,thoughtful and kind..





























































    And get JIGGY JIGGY :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭Smegball


    Cakefarts


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭Mance Rayder


    To look after my loved ones and family as best I can.
    To learn as much about what interests me as I can.
    To protect those weaker than me from wrong if I can and stand up for the truth.
    To leave my future children with a better start than I had and a good moral sense of right and wrong.
    To please the lord with my life and be humble.
    To further my skills both in my arts and in my trades.
    To be charitible where I can without leaving my family without, as for myself it is a different matter.
    I could go on all day!!

    and NO I am not a Bible basher nor do I belong to any church.

    There seems to be a lot of cynics around nowadays who are very materialistic and Nihilistic.

    The much tauted motto "here for a gud time not 4 a long one" springs to mind. Shame for them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,253 ✭✭✭amacca


    D1stant wrote: »
    To be buried balls deep in Bibi Baskin

    :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:


    why do you hate yourself so much?

    ps: :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭saa


    To help others
    I hate it, I really do why would I want the stress of others misfortunes.
    I'm not sure either but I have to do it, I could see myself being a counselor down the road.

    But also to have a good time right :)
    I think its so easy to get caught up in the trappings of society, living most of your life thinking your main aim in life is for your children, mortgage, career, waist size etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,848 ✭✭✭bleg


    There is no purpose to my life and I'm.not so deluded that I think there is, or will be one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    bleg wrote: »
    There is no purpose to my life and I'm.not so deluded that I think there is, or will be one.

    I'm with bleg.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,674 ✭✭✭Dangerous Man


    I don't know. Atari Jaguar. Fap. Blast your Ma with Piss.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭Call Me Lia


    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    To leave the place better than it was before you.
    Love it! :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    bleg wrote: »
    There is no purpose to my life and I'm.not so deluded that I think there is, or will be one.

    ^ This.

    So everyone should stop thinking about purpose or meaning and just enjoy yourself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭D1stant


    amacca wrote: »
    :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:


    why do you hate yourself so much?

    ps: :eek:

    Why are you so blind? Bibi is Gods daughter. Sent here to spirit me away in her warm soaky chariot


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 221 ✭✭anto2


    To suffer .( i never asked to be here ) .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    ..........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    'individuation', said jung, self-actualisation said maslow. What that means in my case (or anyone elses???) for now good living, love and leisure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,253 ✭✭✭amacca


    D1stant wrote: »
    Why are you so blind? Bibi is Gods daughter. Sent here to spirit me away in her warm soaky chariot


    is she incontinent too?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 375 ✭✭Stargazer7


    chin_grin wrote: »
    42

    That's the answer to the ultimate question.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,116 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Purpose? Me, I'm waiting for the s**t to hit the fan, just so I can say "I told you so". Abstract-sounding economic situations such as the recession in Ireland and the US Federal Debt Ceiling are but cracks in a very big dam.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭AhSureTisGrand


    bnt wrote: »
    Purpose? Me, I'm waiting for the s**t to hit the fan, just so I can say "I told you so". Abstract-sounding economic situations such as the recession in Ireland and the US Federal Debt Ceiling are but cracks in a very big dam.

    In the meantime could you perhaps tell us so?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    eat, drink, feck and die.

    I'd come up with something more lofty or noble but it would be a load of old bollocks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    Sit at my pc, watch anime and browse the internet aaaaaaaaaaaalll day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,467 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Initially, my purpose in life was to sh!t myself as much as possible after eating vegetable flavoured mush, all the while making my mother cry and my father drink.

    Then, it was to sh!t myself a little less while making mountains out of molehills and being amazed by simple things, like the colour of the sky and the delicious taste of coal.

    After that, it was to be the first in the family to get kicked out of Primary School, a feat i nearly managed while in 5th class by lifting up girls skirts.

    Secondary Schools purpose was, for the first 4 years, to avoid being put upside-down into a bin and cry at myself for being small and ginger. The last 2 years purpose was to at least get to smell the panties of the girl i lusted after for the first 4 years (which i managed, not that she knows).

    Then we had those 2 years in a private college, funded by mammy and my future earnings, a waste of which and 2 years of no purpose.

    The my purpose was to find a job so i could pay for my gaming addiction, followed closely by my fondness of alcohol and making a tw@ of myself while on work nights out.

    Now, my purpose is to keep paying the mortgage until i win the lotto.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,997 ✭✭✭Degag


    bleg wrote: »
    There is no purpose to my life and I'm.not so deluded that I think there is, or will be one.

    Don't be so negative!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭Steamer


    To entertain my parents. For some reason they find me very entertaining. I find that I sometimes make decisions just to please them. Only child syndrome. After that just enjoy myself, live life.

    *Obviously they don't know everything :cool:*


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    To eat in fine dining establishments and drink their best wines.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    There is no purpose, we're all just vehicles for DNA to make more DNA. Maybe DNA has a purpose and it just hasn't bothered telling us what it is yet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,484 ✭✭✭weemcd


    To kick it with the lads til a decent girl comes along, get her up the duff, then spend the rest of my life payin for it. Mabye travel a few places.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,419 ✭✭✭allanb49


    To find the grail


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    To have a good time, all of the time. ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    To indulge and be indulged ,enjoy it while I can ,as much as I can because one day I wont be here to have the choice to .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,351 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    I'm still trying to figure that out!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    to piss off everybody on boards and in real life too


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