Crush the patriarchy and bring about equity and equality. And jacking the hog…
Correct the mistakes of my ancestors.
Remarkable. Why do you think it’s you that should do that?
Who else will?
Your descendants, hopefully.
That’s just kicking the can down the road.
Can you elaborate on what mistakes they did?
Not necessarily them personally but previous generations of British colonialism really (deliberately) screwed over the indigenous people in my country in a multitude of ways.
Every descendant generation since has benefitted from that to the detriment of indigenous generations. I, and my children, benefit from it daily with superior schooling, housing, health, wealth, etc.
Even the smallest things (e.g. voting for progressive government, volunteering, learning the language and culture, advocacy) that I can do to helps mitigate some of that harm.
Inventing Java.
LOL I’m even a java developer.
I love Java!
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.
My purpose in life is to produce poop and pee. I work hard so that I can afford food and water so that I can eventually poo and pee. I have an urge to reproduce so that my children can also poop and pee.
Why would you wish that upon them?
There’s nothing better then a good poop.
It’s a solved problem: metamucil.
Every poop good, good poop is no longer special.
Opens amazon tab
I used to be flourishing as an artist. Now I’m just trying to not end up in a camp within the next 4+ years
Spite a bunch of fuckheads and make some cool software whilst not forgetting to have fun along the way.
Find out who I really am
To spend time with the people I love.
To enjoy myself. What exactly that means, changes over time.
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To spread my genes around, mostly
Stop licking every railing in the Eaton Centre, please.
Help each other.
Everyone is born evil, the purpose is to realise we’re one. It’s a long cycle and we’ve done well in the last 100 year vs 1000 years
Hard disagree. I think we’re born stupid, that’s very different.
Honestly, your comment sounds a lot like the “original sin” shit that the Christian church tries to push.
Well I’m probably wording it wrong or you’re reading it differently.
But, what I mean is every individual has their own journey towards their maturity when they realise helping others is the way to go.
The purpose of life is to live.
My purpose in life is varied and technical and super-great.
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.
Nothing. Purpose implies the potential for failure and while there are certainly circumstances that I would consider personal failures, there are none so great that they would invalidate my existence.
That said, I have a vision for my life and the state of the world that I would like to see realized. I want to see a world where climate change is taken seriously and recognized as the imminent threat that it is. It will be waiting on the other side of every economic crisis or war that man chooses to wage.
