statuesqque said:

..dayum..I was thinkin that must be the purpose of alot of people that I encounter daily, their "purpose" is to piss me off..lol...but not you..to me that is..just sayin'

To eat, drink and screw. Ahhh life is good!

CarrieLee said:

Sounds great.

hisfan4ever said:

I look at as the real circle of life.

The purpose of life is die.
Now now, wait! Hear me out, hear me out! Don't be so quick to judge, aight.....

See,
if there was no life, there would be no death.
Death, in order to survive, needs life.

And the cool thing about it ( and it's also the ironic part too, if you ask me.....which I know, you din'n,
but still,
after reading some the lowest-common-denominator bullshit that y'all have been posting around here for the past several weeks,
I have come to the astute conclusion that y'all be needing some serious intellectual church all up in heah.....) is that it works the other around too. Just as death needs life, life, also needs death. So the agrument can be made that, paradoxily, the purpose of death is to live.
To live!
Now, I know that tends to come off a little like the whole "which came first, the chicken or the egg" debacle,
but as that famous proverb goes,
"Why did the chicken cross the road? So that he could live & then die."

Life is a highway.
Make like a chicken and cross it.






Go on.






WAIT, Look out for that truck!!!!!




naw, naw, go on ahead.....
I'm just fuckin' witchu.....

The purpose of life is to find out what your purpose in life is.

Afronomical said:

Agreed. Once purpose is realized, live life to the fullest and roll with it to and enjoy the ride.

MsLegs said:

Bingo. Now let's go make some pretty brown babies.....about 6 of 'em.

Afronomical said:

Yes, a tribe is definitely in order.

MsLegs said:

Yay! Sex with MsLegs! All is right in the world now.

Afronomical said:

Hmmm. Fro & Breakfeast in bed.

MsLegs said:

Yum! I've found my NEW purpose in life!

Afronomical said:

I concur. We have some tasty explorations ahead.

Fauxie said:

It does apply to me though. And I doubt many of our answers here could satisfy everyone in every extreme situation on earth.

CarrieMpls said:

Sure you can choose how to look at things, but doing that is part of one's pursuit of happiness which may or may not succeed. Some people seem to think that an unhappy person can just tell themselves one day that "From now on I'm going to be happy" and then it will magically turn out that way, but that's bullshit. At best, you'd be sweeping your problems under the rug which means that they would become temporarily invisible but they'd still be there. At worst, your self-deceit might make you completely delusional.



Not if what caused it is still actively and repeatedly influencing your life, which is the case for a lot of people on Earth.



You can find those who can, yes, but there are also plenty of people whose circumstances or personality types don't allow them to do that.

I think it would have been great if it had all ultimately been a matter of perspective and attitude, but that's not how it is in this world. Instead of focusing on the rare examples that defy all odds and succeed in finding happiness and fool ourselves into thinking of that as living proof that it can be done for everybody no matter the circumstances, we should instead accept life in al its gory glory and focus our efforts on removing the main and most common causes for unhappiness and downright suffering. In other words, when it comes learning from reality I'd choose a common example of a life situation over an unusual success story any day since the former is the rule and the latter is the exception.

MsLegs said:

Mmmm, cant wait to taste ya!

retina said:

Most everything is how you look at it. What you refer to as "problems (being swept) under the rug" are generally not "problems" at all, but unrealistic expectations. And rather than sublimating them, you're destroying them.


Unless you're being held somewhere against your will, there are no circumstances I can think of that you can't transcend.




I don't believe that (especially not in the case of the latter).


It's those with circumstances that make it near-impossible to find happiness who are in the vast minority - not the other way around.

to be the best person you possibly can

To experience joy and sorrow, to love and hate and prepare to pass the baton onto the next generation...

MsLegs said:

Oh, I like this even better

Ace said:

That's ludicrous. There are a million gazillion different types of problems and only a very small part are unrealistic expectations.



That's because you have a very limited understanding of real hardship.



Of course you don't.

To be honest, I don't understand why you even responded to my post. You and I have had this discussion in the past and it was obvious then that we have two completely different views of the world, and that we will most likely never be able to agree on these issues. So I really don't see any point in taking this any further.
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retina said:

Of course you don't. You have absolutely no ability to take discourse and learn from it or appreciate differing points of view. You're the George Bush of the org--just stay the course retina... stay the course.

retina said:

In the end, that's what most of them boil down to.







Yes. I believe that anyone who is healthy enough and free enough to post here is capable of achieving lasting happiness, regardless of the hand they've been dealt, whereas you appear to feel sorry for yourself regarding some unexplained "circumstances" in your life, seem to have a whole drama built up in your head around these and become angry when I suggest that perhaps it's not the healthiest perspective.

But you're right: who am I to stand between a man and his misery.

Ace said:

What?
Maybe you're talking about yourself in this discussion but I'm definitely not talking about myself.

retina said:

Maybe he's talking about you fool.

retina said:

I thought we were done.

Afronomical said:

Yum. Shall We Proceed With Hors D'Ouvers, Main Course or shall we improvise like in a smooth Jazz tune.

MsLegs said:

Whatever your heart, soul, and body desires, M'lady.....

2the9s said:

We don't know yet. So the purpose right now is to figure out the nature of life and existence.

Once we do that, then we can know if there's a purpose or not, or if we need a purpose etc...