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Poid
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Do you need a purpose?
#14237077 - 04/04/11 04:09 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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c0sm0nautt

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Re: Do you need a purpose? [Re: Poid]
#14237164 - 04/04/11 04:28 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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If we have a purpose, we don't need to be conscious of it.
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Poid
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Re: Do you need a purpose? [Re: c0sm0nautt]
#14237265 - 04/04/11 04:59 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'm asking if you need a purpose in order to enjoy life.
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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Cursive
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Re: Do you need a purpose? [Re: Poid]
#14237329 - 04/04/11 05:13 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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The purpose is to BE. I am.
-------------------- I am up above all that I am down below..
  
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Re: Do you need a purpose? [Re: Cursive]
#14237349 - 04/04/11 05:19 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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The ego wants a purpose, to achieve something, to DO something.
But I agree its more to just BE. Which can be hard to do.
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Re: Do you need a purpose? [Re: Poid]
#14238302 - 04/04/11 08:15 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Poid said: ?
For me, no. I spent a good chunk of my life striving for some odd purpose or another, and the chase brought me nothing but anxiety and depression. I've since veered from that folly, and am completely content with enjoying life as-is, without the concept of "purpose."
Of course, I recognize that some people have built their lives around a purpose, and would be broken if they were to lose it. To each his own, I suppose.
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Re: Do you need a purpose? [Re: Poid]
#14238748 - 04/04/11 09:29 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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i think if you felt no purpose at all then you would not do anything whatsoever. to feel compelled to do something you must feel there's a purpose to it.
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Re: Do you need a purpose? [Re: Poid]
#14238797 - 04/04/11 09:36 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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PURPOSELESSNESS IN INFINITE EXISTENCE
Meher Baba
Reality is Existence infinite and eternal.
Existence has no purpose by virtue of its being real, infinite and eternal.
Existence exists. Being Existence it has to exist. Hence Existence, the Reality, cannot have any purpose. It just is. It is self-existing.
Everything — the things and the beings — in Existence has a purpose. All things and beings have a purpose and must have a purpose, or else they cannot be in existence as what they are. Their very being in existence proves their purpose; and their sole purpose in existing is to become shed of purpose, i.e., to become purposeless.
Purposelessness is of Reality; to have a purpose is to be lost in falseness.
Everything exists only because it has a purpose. The moment that purpose has been accomplished, everything disappears and Existence is manifested as self-existing Self.
Purpose presumes a direction and since Existence, being everything and everywhere, cannot have any direction, directions must always be in nothing and lead nowhere.
Hence to have a purpose is to create a false goal.
Love alone is devoid of all purpose and a spark of Divine Love sets fire to all purposes.
The Goal of Life in creation is to arrive at purposelessness, which is the state of Reality.
-------------------- ..and may the zelda theme song be with you at all times, amen.
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Re: Do you need a purpose? [Re: Poid]
#14239024 - 04/04/11 10:12 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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What if I told you some peoples purpose is to have no purpose
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Re: Do you need a purpose? [Re: NastyDHL]
#14239041 - 04/04/11 10:16 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Poid said: I'm asking if you need a purpose in order to enjoy life.
Fuck no.
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NastyDHL said: i think if you felt no purpose at all then you would not do anything whatsoever. to feel compelled to do something you must feel there's a purpose to it.
Why? I play video games. Theres no real purpose / deeper meaning. Its fun. I guess fun is a purpose. But its not some crazy deep meaning.
I dont think things really need a purpose. Sometime you just do things for the purpose of doing them. I guess that could be a purpose? But like i said before even if there isnt some hidden greater meaning, its still nice to breathe, to be alive, and to just do whatever. You can pretty much do whatever you want in life, no one really forces you to do anything. Money is a huge constraint, but only if you want things requiring money.
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Re: Do you need a purpose? [Re: oxalic32]
#14239257 - 04/04/11 10:57 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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video games are just a distraction...
perhaps your mind hinges the allowance of good feelings on your success in the video game...so is the purpose of playing the video game to 'win' so you can feel good?
if we felt okay with having no purpose then we wouldn't feel the need to think and our mind wouldn't feel the need to try and create a stable structure of reality inside assumed chaos
every action has a purpose
if it didn't, there would be no voice in the mind compelling us to perform something in order to _______
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Re: Do you need a purpose? [Re: NastyDHL]
#14239383 - 04/04/11 11:18 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Is there something wrong with distractions? To echo Oxalic, distractions are fun.
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lol wut
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Re: Do you need a purpose? [Re: R2-D2]
#14239458 - 04/04/11 11:32 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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NastyDHL



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Quote:
Oweyervishice said: Is there something wrong with distractions? To echo Oxalic, distractions are fun.
what are we distracting ourselves from?
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Re: Do you need a purpose? [Re: NastyDHL]
#14239573 - 04/04/11 11:56 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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That question makes me shiver. Mostly because I deeply suspect death anxiety as the what.
-------------------- Why shouldn't the truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. -- Mark Twain
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Re: Do you need a purpose? [Re: Kickle]
#14239581 - 04/04/11 11:58 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Uhh aren't you just saying having fun is a distraction? It has to be fun for it to be a distraction. Fun is fun, what gives?
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Re: Do you need a purpose? [Re: Poid]
#14239591 - 04/04/11 11:59 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Poid said: I'm asking if you need a purpose in order to enjoy life.
exactly what is "to enjoy life"?
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Re: Do you need a purpose? [Re: Kickle]
#14239598 - 04/05/11 12:02 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Kickle said: That question makes me shiver. Mostly because I deeply suspect death anxiety as the what.
i think we are distracting ourselves from pain
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Re: Do you need a purpose? [Re: NastyDHL]
#14239607 - 04/05/11 12:04 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'd agree if you mean the pain of being alive. Otherwise I don't know what pain you're referring to specifically.
-------------------- Why shouldn't the truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. -- Mark Twain
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