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#23841946 - 11/17/16 02:19 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Out of fear of death? For parents, children, hobbies, highs?
Right now I live out of fear of death
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To fill the void that my family is accompanied by. Loss of sons, fathers, lonelienes.
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Re: What do you live for [Re: Putin]
#23842003 - 11/17/16 02:34 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I got done with the whole fear of death thing a few years back after 8 years focusing on that little bastard of a conundrum. Right now I live to grow (emotionally/spiritually/etc). Coincidentally, that growth started about the same time as I started to notice my body begin to age physically.
One more fucking paradox for the list.
Thankfully, I still know how to live to fucking party like a wildman, and to bond with my fellow human; I hope death takes me quick if I ever let go of that particular skill...
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Right now I'm mostly living for the hope that life won't suck ass eventually. And for the animals, the critters, the pets, the rocks, and the pet rocks.
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For fear of not accomplishing as much as I am capable of. Death doesn't bother me, dying before accomplishing a lot in the business/tech world is what I fear. I feel like if I died right at nineteen, my life would have been perfectly balanced between time spent here on earth and accomplishments. Now I don't feel as confident, so I live to win in the business/tech world.
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falsereality said: For fear of not accomplishing as much as I am capable of. Death doesn't bother me, dying before accomplishing a lot in the business/tech world is what I fear. I feel like if I died right at nineteen, my life would have been perfectly balanced between time spent here on earth and accomplishments. Now I don't feel as confident, so I live to win in the business/tech world.
What a cold pursuit.
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I feel similarly. I hope to live near to my full potential in this life. Has very little to do with technology tho.
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ModestMouse said: What a cold pursuit.
Yep... it is cold out here, and if you by chance make it big at a young age people will give you endless amounts of shit if you don't handle it with grace. It is nice seeing small positive changes occur in the world by your hand, though.
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falsereality said: For fear of not accomplishing as much as I am capable of. Death doesn't bother me, dying before accomplishing a lot in the business/tech world is what I fear. I feel like if I died right at nineteen, my life would have been perfectly balanced between time spent here on earth and accomplishments. Now I don't feel as confident, so I live to win in the business/tech world.
What a cold pursuit.
You can say that again. I've accomplished a whole fuck ton in that world and it amounts to exactly = fuck all (in terms of what I feel really matters).
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I mean someone needs to do it. It just sounds lifeless to me. Or perhaps life-sacrificing.
I seek to find meaning where there is none. My world has no source of inspiration at this point in time. Drugs have exaggerated this, but it has always been an issue.
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not sure...I guess the basic instinct to stay alive like most living things. The past little while I've been asking myself that question. Maybe music?
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Re: What do you live for [Re: SonicTitan]
#23842142 - 11/17/16 03:11 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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the question makes some people uncomfortable. Many substitute a God written in by dead men for this void, some substitute it with hard drink.
I cant escape it.
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Crack rocks.
I live to make people happy if I'm honest. I like making people smile, laugh, and experience joy.
I'm going to school next year to do my prerequisites for a chiropractor program and then chiro school.
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Re: What do you live for [Re: Shiithead]
#23842183 - 11/17/16 03:19 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Music. I'm staying alive until I make enough music that perfectly captures who I am and what I have to give to the world. Then I'll be content to die. I don't fear death.
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Music is a great pursuit. So is spreading joy. I liked to say I lived for the adventure, and to some extent that is still true. Why then has the adventure gotten harder to grasp?
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I agree with both. I try to make people happy too and do nice things for others. It usually end up with people taking advantage of me but oh well.
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Hell yeah it does, for the first 5-10 trips I did I would get stuck in a thought loop about this and always woke up the next day thinking about that. But I live to prove everybody wrong, a fuck you to all the people who said I won't or I can't. That's what pushes me out of bed everyday
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Re: What do you live for [Re: SonicTitan]
#23842259 - 11/17/16 03:37 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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SonicTitan said: I agree with both. I try to make people happy too and do nice things for others. It usually end up with people taking advantage of me but oh well.
There's a way to do it without losing who you are. You have to really work on yourself.
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At the moment mainly to jump out of planes as stupid as that probably sounds, didn't realize how much of a depression/slump I've been in until a single experience in particular and ever since I actually have something to look forward to and something that makes me incredibly happy. No longer feel like I'm living on autopilot. Everyday was just a chore and I felt apathetic towards everything, emotionless, didn't see a point to anything, and now I can't wait till weekends and have been making a shit ton of new friends because of it. Even if I can't jump I still can't wait to go to the dropzone anyway just because of the awesome people who are always there and hanging out after hours talking and having fun over a few beers, even slept there a couple times lol, much different then the usual assholes I deal with in construction and in everyday life. It's almost the only thing I think about anymore and as of now the only thing keeping me going.
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I live for the chance to reproduce and continue my lineage. My father provided for my family and I hope to provide for mine someday. I have some big shoes to fill.
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Re: What do you live for [Re: Webster10]
#23842292 - 11/17/16 03:46 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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What type of work you trying to do webster? Pushing papers of one sort or another?
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Re: What do you live for [Re: Webster10]
#23842300 - 11/17/16 03:46 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Webster10 said: I live for the chance to reproduce and continue my lineage. My father provided for my family and I hope to provide for mine someday. I have some big shoes to fill.
Meaningless continuity based on past meaningless continuity. Thats what bothers me about this.
Don't take it personally
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I live for my son. I live to trip. I live to make my familys life easier.
Death can go fuck itself. Give me your best shot, bitch
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Re: What do you live for [Re: Webster10] 2
#23842309 - 11/17/16 03:49 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Webster10 said: I live for the chance to reproduce
That's exactly what's got this planet into the state it's in...
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Pointless primal expression. SirShrooms - Adrenaline eh? Not bad. Similar to those who reach for the bottle/needle though. Just more noble perhaps.
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Webster10 said: I live for the chance to reproduce
That's exactly what's got this planet into the state it's in...
Damn right.
Want to truly make a difference? Adopt.
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Webster10 said: I live for the chance to reproduce
That's exactly what's got this planet into the state it's in...
Damn right.
Want to truly make a difference? Adopt.
Damn right.
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I live because I genuinely see no reason to kill myself. I enjoy life. Life is not a struggle for me. It's comes pretty easily, painlessly and doesn't require much effort. I live, because what would I do otherwise?
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Re: What do you live for [Re: PatrickKn]
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Meaningless but sort of a zen to it eh? I suppose that would have been my answer had I not been in this dark slump.
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Family and friends. Those come before country,God and my personal aspirations and passions. I love to laugh though and I love to play with words. More superficially though I love traveling foremost,cooking,then video games/t.v.,then movies and then probably books. I have a very specific value for all these things in my life.
There are things I love that are awful and actively try to change. Like being gluttonous,addiction to opiates and benzos,addiction to porn (although that doesn't exactly detract from my life),I love procrastinating and that's pretty much it.
I have devoted my life to my family and barely have had the chance to live as a result. I spend every weekend feeding,arranging medication and washing my dad. He has fiber glass in his lungs and has something called interstitial lung disease and toxic chemical damage. That's nothing though. Until last August I took care of my bed bound grandma through 4 years of dementia and about 3 solid years of Alzihimers. I cared for her about 14 hours a day and my mom cared for her the other 14 hours. My gma would sleep from 5am to 10am or sometimes 11 if we were lucky. This has made the simple things epic in life because I just didn't have the luxury to do them for so long. Sex,music festivals,bars,raves,romantic trips all are so precious to me because I know what not even having a chance to experience them is like .Quote:
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That's exactly what's got this planet into the state it's in...
Damn right.
Want to truly make a difference? Adopt.
Damn right.
There's nothing wrong with having biological children. If you don't think that's right then don't have kids or adopt. Don't chastise others for it though.
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ModestMouse said: Out of fear of death? For parents, children, hobbies, highs?
Right now I live out of fear of death
Everything living lives to die. Dying is personal and public. Dying can be glorious ecstasy or horribly fearful hell. Life is like purgatory.
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ModestMouse said: Meaningless but sort of a zen to it eh?
Definitely.
Alan Watts on some of these subjects:
Alan Watts: Parents Should Not Live For Their Children
^Bit long, may be the wrong video. But the gist is that we shouldn't instill in our children that we live for them. Because that breeds a sense of false purpose in ourselves, and in them when they become parents as well. We should live because we enjoy living if we can, not because we have the burden of children keeping us around.
Alan Watts: Why Most People Don't Commit Suicide
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Re: What do you live for [Re: Morel Guy]
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Morel Guy said: Everything living lives to die. Dying is personal and public. Dying can be glorious ecstasy or horribly fearful hell. Life is like purgatory.
You live only to die? Why give it the 60-90 years then?
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Webster10 said: I live for the chance to reproduce and continue my lineage. My father provided for my family and I hope to provide for mine someday. I have some big shoes to fill.
Meaningless continuity based on past meaningless continuity. Thats what bothers me about this.
Don't take it personally
Objectively, yes, it's meaningless. But subjectively, the opportunity my father has blessed me with is unexpicably fucking awesome. I can do whatever I want with my life if I want to. I can literally be or do anything. That's not meaningless, it's a dream come true.
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We'll see. I don't really have to stress myself out about what I will do for a living. Maybe I'll run for president one day
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I live because I don't see any point right now of committing suicide.
Really. If I'd like to die, there's nothing that can stop me. And yet, I'm content and not suicidal at all.
About biological children.. More children, more population, more problems. A father speaking.
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You live only to die? Why give it the 60-90 years then?
Evolving a more complex awareness to die into. I don't think a child dies with the same psychology as an adult but not speaking for the 99%.
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Webster10 said: I live for the chance to reproduce
That's exactly what's got this planet into the state it's in...
Damn right.
Want to truly make a difference? Adopt.
Damn right.
Nah, raising a child that's not biologically mine seems unfulfilling. I want my child to be my creation. And I want to set it up to live a prosperous life and some day even do what I plan to do for its own children.
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Re: What do you live for [Re: Morel Guy]
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Why does it matter what psychology you die with? All deaths end the same
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I live for u op, I live for u...
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I do not believe so. I believe death is the most powerful experience. It's a trip that doesn't end, just goes to sleep with re-commitment to living. All in all to die again. It's hard to overcome the commitment. Yet evolving occurs.
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I live for all the fun things I get to do all the time. Party in the U.S.A!
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I'll have to continually update this thread, but right now--this is all I live for

Rippin it and goin FAST on dirt with a heavy hitter mountain bike. Freeride for life.
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Music, both playing and listening to it. I particularly love progressive/ classic rock and many styles of jazz fusion but I can appreciate a lot of stuff.
I started playing guitar when I was decently young but didn't really get into it for a few more years.
Slowly I have been practicing more and I feel I am finally ready to start writing and recording music. I hope to have my first decent song done soon 
I also realized I don't want to be confined to guitar so I got a cheap keyboard which I eventually upgraded for a decent vintage analog synthesizer 
Now I mainly play electric and acoustic guitar/ electric bass as well as some keyboards (synth and organ) and I dabble with percussion.
Right now I just own a two sided traditional hand drum as well as a 2 sided tank drum but I want to get a drum kit eventually when I see a cheap one.
I also own a mandolin my father made but I don't play it much these days. Once I get better at guitar and bass I intend to start practicing it again.
I also own 2 microphones, one old cheaper stereo mic I was given and a nicer but still "cheap" tube condenser which I use for vocals and instruments.
I have never been an overly confident person so I have slowly been building my musical confidence over the years and am finally reaching a place I am happy with 

Hope you all have some passion you live for, if not explore until you find it!
I also really love plants. If I could start a nursery and music studio I would be in heaven 
Lastly I hope to be part of some kind of shelter/ farm to help the homeless/ people in need with bedding and food one day. One of my dreams is to start a program that makes use of public land by plants orchards and other edible plants/ fungi that can then be harvested by the community and dried/ stored for anyone in need. It wouldn't even be a ton of effort I feel and with all the space available we surely could end hunger if enough people put the time/ effort it.
Fruit and fungi seem like the best options as both can be dried and stored easily and don't take much effort at all the propagate.
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There's nothing wrong with having biological children. If you don't think that's right then don't have kids or adopt. Don't chastise others for it though.
Yeah, if every couple adopted and had one biological kid our population would drop as they would only be having one kid for 2 people and taking one extra in.
So there is no reason why it has to be one or the other. The real issue is baby boomers have 2-3+ kids, that is what has blown our population up...
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Re: What do you live for [Re: Webster10]
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We'll see. I don't really have to stress myself out about what I will do for a living. Maybe I'll run for president one day 
You really are arrogant, aren't you? Enjoy unemployment bum.
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Re: What do you live for [Re: Sheekle]
#23842424 - 11/17/16 04:20 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Sheekle said: I live for all the fun things I get to do all the time. Party in the U.S.A!
For the adventure. Keeping the dream alive. I admire that answer but cant grasp it lately
@MusicLover420 - For the music, progressing an art form, expressing yourself through it? Solid.
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Re: What do you live for [Re: Webster10] 1
#23842433 - 11/17/16 04:22 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Webster10 said: I live for the chance to reproduce and continue my lineage. My father provided for my family and I hope to provide for mine someday. I have some big shoes to fill.
Meaningless continuity based on past meaningless continuity. Thats what bothers me about this.
Don't take it personally
Objectively, yes, it's meaningless. But subjectively, the opportunity my father has blessed me with is unexpicably fucking awesome. I can do whatever I want with my life if I want to. I can literally be or do anything. That's not meaningless, it's a dream come true.
My grandfather left me a condo and a house yet i decided to adopt and make a difference in the world despite being able to do whatever i want.
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Part of my problem with living for the fun or for the ride is that the highs seem to be heavily outweighed by the lows
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I meet every trait for aspergers. One of them is having one or,two main interests. Seems shroomery is an interest or using the computer. I like my dog and labor at the goat farm. I sorta like earth living ideas. But why I wake up everyday is cause I didn't die!
I sorta live for accomplishing mystical transcendence. Been looking at that getting more complicate all my memory of a life. Sometimes I die a little bit when I sleep. A sudden falling into my mind and it scares me a little less very time!
Developed a few interests over life. We all fear not Bing able to survuive or our lessons never Ben used, for that all important moment.
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Hennessy1414 said: Rippin it and goin FAST on dirt with a heavy hitter mountain bike. Freeride for life.
I can fully appreciate that. 2 wheels are fucking worth living for, especially when they're in the air or going 100mph+
There's definitely been times when my parents have been the only thing keeping me going though. Out of respect, I would never end my life until both of theirs are over, if it ever comes to that. I hear the worst thing as a parent is to see your child die before you do, so would never put them through that intentionally.
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Man I miss biking alot these days. I wish I had the space for one.
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Why is this becoming a suicide thread? Can't think of anything more selfish or powerful. Yet it can be selfless and weak.
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I sometimes feel as though I live for words Expression through words A grand story of sorts, something worth reading.
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My wife
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I live to topple the temples of herd conformity and ignorance.
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Re: What do you live for [Re: Lucis]
#23843031 - 11/17/16 06:47 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Fennario said: I live to topple the temples of herd conformity and ignorance.
That's exactly what I'd be doing if I felt I had a chance at making a difference.
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One person, that's all you have to do is help one person out of darkness, and you're a success I think.
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Re: What do you live for [Re: Lucis]
#23843072 - 11/17/16 06:57 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Fennario said: I live to topple the temples of herd conformity and ignorance.
I hope to accomplish this with music and or writing one day. Powerful music and or storytelling can be a great way to spread a message quick and reach tons of people.
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The problem with adopting is it's fucking expensive, 40k for a baby
***researching this has made think completely different about the abortion industry, follow the money I guess
Anyways...
As for the OP, I live to experience stimuli
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Re: What do you live for [Re: Lucis]
#23843099 - 11/17/16 07:06 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Fennario said: One person, that's all you have to do is help one person out of darkness, and you're a success I think.
In that case I'm a success. Don't feel like one though. Yet.
Once that person is me, I will.
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Jokeshopbeard said: Don't feel like one though. Yet.
I think it's sometimes good to not realize this, because many people regardless of how much of a sound mind they have, upon realizing they have had a positive impact on someones life and are a success, stop giving in their all.
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I live because I believe today I will be more of who I am then I was yesterday and tomorrow I will be more of who I am then I was today and when I die I will be in my fullest form and then I will finally be complete!
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I live for endless pleasure until i die. I won the jack pot lottery of life, so I feel obligated to succeed and contribute to humanity. If i don't, it'll be a shameful waste of life, unless i die early for an unfortunate reason
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Re: What do you live for [Re: trees]
#23843329 - 11/17/16 08:19 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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trees said: I live for endless pleasure until i die. I won the jack pot lottery of life, so I am obligated to succeed and contribute to humanity. If i don't, it will be a shameful waste of life
Woo. Fukin' A brother. That hits me in the chest.
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Re: What do you live for [Re: trees]
#23843332 - 11/17/16 08:20 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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i live for i live.
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I live for bicycling nature the clouds in the sky sounds of the water getting lost in a good way in the trees not having to look at the clock where i can clear my mind kind of say fuck all of this and just laugh at the sky and everything
Like to go where all I can see is water like you could sail off the earth
See rocks sand trees bugs animals spend alot of time there it's funny love it found some cool spots to relax at allover
set my preymantis friend free out there a few month ago where she could be free took her there from the city to lay her eggs before winter
Love sunrise no one is out very peaceful
Live Most of all to fight for my own life to death
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Life sacrificing?
Ironic from one considering the armed forces
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Re: What do you live for [Re: stzacrack]
#23843450 - 11/17/16 08:58 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Irony is people living in constant fear of death, and failing to live their life because of it.
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Re: What do you live for [Re: PatrickKn]
#23843458 - 11/17/16 09:00 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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is it fear of death to wish to prolong life? hmm....
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Jokeshopbeard
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akira_akuma said: is it fear of death to wish to prolong life? hmm....
Pretty much, yes, IMO. Not wishing to prolong it would render us free from day 1.
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akira_akuma
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that's kind of a catch-22, isn't it?
seems that's coming up a bit, in my opinion, these days.
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Re: What do you live for [Re: PatrickKn]
#23843588 - 11/17/16 09:45 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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PatrickKn said: Irony is people living in constant fear of death, and failing to live their life because of it.
I can agree... I'd had problems with this as a child and I'm quite sure it largely contributed to long term depression. Now I see other aging (but not old) family members doing it and it drives me nuts. I think alot of people aren't really sure what they live for, or they live purely for someone else, and that is likely to depress you over time too...
In truth I live life for many reasons. And the simplest reason is I love life. Millions upon billions of moments you experience in it and so many of them contain so many positive, beautiful, humbling possibilities with the right perspective. It's hard to explain but I do love the intricate complexity of life and the cycles within it that allow us to live.
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akira_akuma said: that's kind of a catch-22, isn't it?
seems that's coming up a bit, in my opinion, these days.
Meh, whatever you observe. I feel pretty clear on it.
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yea i dunno about the whole "fear" of death. Like I like living and doing fun stuff. But I feel as though if I died I wouldnt be bummed out. What happens, happens. Living is hard, getting a free ticket out wouldnt be that bad. So yea either way im not to fussed I guess. Plus if I told I was terminal I COULD DO ALL THE FUCKING DRUGS I WANTED AAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHH
Anyway for me the meaning of life and the reason for living is looking into the eyes of the person you love and connecting with their soul
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Re: What do you live for [Re: kakashi68] 1
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akira_akuma
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akira_akuma said: that's kind of a catch-22, isn't it?
seems that's coming up a bit, in my opinion, these days.
Meh, whatever you observe. I feel pretty clear on it.
so what's more important, observation or feeling?
hmmm?
meh, i dunno, however you feel about is fine with me.
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Hope.
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I live to eventually create a work of art that I'm proud of. I also have a pipe dream of one day becoming a loving and selfless person.
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For family ultimately. There's been so many times where I've seriously contemplating going through with either a murder-suicide or just disappearing completely on my own, and then I realize I can't because I don't want to hurt a couple members of my family.
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Re: What do you live for [Re: Crystal G]
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do. be. do. be. do...
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