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weary
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Is A Purpose Important?
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May 5 01:01 UTC 1993 |
People need really weird things.
What's your purpose to keeping on with your life? Why do you bother to
feed yourself? Most of us have a routine that carries us along. Are
you just automatically following through some routine, working your job
so that you can buy food so that you can eat? Would it be just as hard
to quit that routine as to stop breathing?
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arthur
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response 1 of 87:
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May 5 03:00 UTC 1993 |
I find a great deal of meaning in play. If my life is not
playful, it gets wearying. Play gives me joy, no matter where
I end up doing it. The other thing life is for is to stretch
myself. Not stretching self is to stagnate.
Most of life is fun, if you do not clasp what little of it
you have too tightly. If you clasp it too tightly to yourself,
you cannot move.
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robh
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response 2 of 87:
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May 5 04:20 UTC 1993 |
I must keep on living because there are still books I haven't read.
(Hey, it beats "I just wanna get laid.")
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mythago
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response 3 of 87:
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May 5 16:01 UTC 1993 |
Not to some people... :*
If I don't feed myself, I get hungry and people make me eat.
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danr
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response 4 of 87:
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May 7 11:31 UTC 1993 |
I feed myself because I like to eat. Life's a blast.
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tsty
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response 5 of 87:
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May 9 05:56 UTC 1993 |
I feed myself when all else fails. I prefer to eat more, but too many
times, I simply forget to eat. Now and then I hit the wall, but I've
learned whatthe warning signs are, and haven'T done so for 10 or so
years. Mattere of fact, haven't come all that close in recent memory.
Snacks don't cut it, btw, gotta +eat+ someting substantial.
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raven
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response 6 of 87:
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May 17 00:05 UTC 1993 |
Suprise, suprise keeps ma alive. Who knows who I'll meet, or what I'll
see, smell, touch, taste, or feel tomorow. [should be keeps me alive]
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tired
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response 7 of 87:
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May 17 02:11 UTC 1993 |
So personal gratification is your purpose to keeping on with your lives?
That is all you are saying?
Think again.
Are you really just following through some routine?
Are you really just working your job so that you can buy food?
Personal gratification is just catering to your feelings. Do you just
live your life to please yourself? That would make it the best thing to
steal or work an easy job or mooch all the time so you have more time to
have fun, but you do not do that.
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robh
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response 8 of 87:
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May 17 10:30 UTC 1993 |
What is this guy, the Dianetics Commercial Who Walks Like A Man?
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mta
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response 9 of 87:
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May 17 18:43 UTC 1993 |
In the end personal gratification is all there is. Everything else is open to
debate.
No, living to plaese oneself does not mean stealing or mooching to leave
more time to "have fun". The most fun one can have is to *get paid*
for doing what one loves to do anyway! And those are often the most
challenging jobs. (Who do you know who actually likes standing arround
flipping burgers for hours over a hot greasy grill? It's easy, but it's not
fun and it's not challenging...it's not even a well paid job.)
If you aren't living to please yourself, you're wasting a life. Your own.
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tired
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response 10 of 87:
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May 19 04:00 UTC 1993 |
Never mind the next person then and forget about being nice to people if
you don't enjoy that. I happen to think I would really enjoy killing a
few people to make sure they can not mess up my pleasure any more. Thank
you for pointing out that there could be a really good reason to do it.
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arthur
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response 11 of 87:
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May 19 14:23 UTC 1993 |
The purpose of life is to grow, not ephemeral personal
gratification. Learning and growing is a lot more gratifying
than simply having fun, even though it isn't always pleasant.
You can find activities that give you tremendous joy, and
these are not the usual 'fun' things we're used to doing to
pass time. They're things that give satisfaction, pride,
maybe even wonder.
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carl
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response 12 of 87:
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May 24 23:41 UTC 1993 |
Tired, have you ever read Scott Peck's _The Road Less Travelled_?
IMHO he paints the nicest picture of what life can be. It's not
exactly a road map for life, but it can be a starting point for
a dialog.
This is one (of *many*) of my favorite books. Peck's style may
seem a bit too scholastic, but what he has to say makes it worth
reading. It's a very encouraging and enlightening book.
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embu
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response 13 of 87:
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May 27 17:56 UTC 1993 |
And if you're too tired to do that, just go outside and look at a big tree
and feel happy. If you're being rained on it's even better.
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embu
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response 14 of 87:
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May 27 18:06 UTC 1993 |
perhaps getting a little more sleep might help also...
one thing that I think about is that everything can, and does, change. It's
pretty neat when you think about it. This, basically, is my "purpose to
keeping on with (my) life"...I'm interested to see how things are going to
change. Even if you have some kind of boring routine for every day, things
are so different every day anyhow that you can forget about it, or make
up things to change it...hey, life is interesting!!!
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aahz
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response 15 of 87:
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Jun 16 20:05 UTC 1993 |
I agree with #3
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vidar
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response 16 of 87:
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Jul 4 14:34 UTC 1993 |
My life exists so that I may die a bloody, yet glorious death.
I live to fight, I fight to die.
I die to reach Valhalla.
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tsty
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response 17 of 87:
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Jul 5 08:30 UTC 1993 |
I'll let the enemy do all the dying he or she desires .....
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embu
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response 18 of 87:
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Jul 5 16:53 UTC 1993 |
why? I'd tend to save them and see if they deserved to die, from their
reaction...
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vidar
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response 19 of 87:
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Jul 6 13:22 UTC 1993 |
Woo, as they say, Woo.
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embu
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response 20 of 87:
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Jul 6 15:55 UTC 1993 |
oh........
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vidar
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response 21 of 87:
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Jul 8 14:05 UTC 1993 |
Of course, once I get to Valhalla, the cycle of fight and die starts all over
again. Oh well, at least I get to eat roast boar every night.
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embu
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response 22 of 87:
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Jul 9 19:02 UTC 1993 |
you know, from the 1st time I read about Valhalla I thought it was a pretty
pointless place.... amusing, however. Cutting each other apart and then putting
them together again is an interesting idea... but a litle mind-numbing...
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tsty
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response 23 of 87:
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Jul 9 19:42 UTC 1993 |
might even hurt a little bit .......
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embu
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response 24 of 87:
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Jul 10 06:08 UTC 1993 |
actually, I got the vague idea that it was pleasurable, so unless
they were *really* into masochism, it shouldn't...:-)
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