why do you keep going? what drives you? what do you aim for? what is the meaning of life?
simple questions really.
To be a part of ending the United States’ imperialism
court jester
Curious what happens tomorrow
Revenge.
EDIT: damn it someone took it so I have to be earnest
I love the world, I love every single human, even the shits fighting us. I want every part of it to blossom into its full beauty. I want to turn the stars green. I want us all to dance among the universe forever. I want us all to join into cosmic union without losing our own selves.
None of this will happen in our lifetime. But if I can hasten it’s coming by even an hour, what glory can surpass that?
I pass butter
Love is the only real reason to live. From what I’ve learned, apparently everything is made of Love. And every person who has ever had a spiritual experience reports that there is an entity made of pure Love that is behind it all. So at the moment I’m trying to balance this truth with the whole materialist communist thing. I do believe communism would make it much easier for us all to love each other more, without terrible material conditions forcing us to exploit and be exploited. Idk, I’m still thinking about it all.
Building a life and a future history with other people. I’m old enough that I have a fair share of friends and family have passed away, and they live on in the web of my memories, and still shape the course of my life yet to be. I live my life with that in mind, knowing that someday my consciousness will cease, but some positive aspects of my essence will live on and become part of the fabric of a better future. I think just being present and a good person on other people’s lives is enough.
I also find a lot of purpose in the creation of physical objects and in sharing all the technical details and instructions for how others can create them. I don’t just want to make things, I want those things to become part of our common culture.
I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor.
I am the Holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, Heir to the Holy Rings of… nevermind! Just get me Picard!
After the revolution I just wanna mine coal all day.
You WILL have 8 hours for what we will
Thank god! I need a break from the drudgery of writing poetry.
To funnel whatever resources I have available to where they will be most useful to the people who come next.
To sit by the river long enough.
To understand and thrive
Ewwwww too earnest, can you add some layers of bitterness surrealism and irony poisoning so the rest of us can process what you mean?
To understand how to piss and shidd on landlords so that I can thrive in a landlordless future
That’ll do I guess. Thank you, comrade owl.
If I give up it would make some people very sad
Inertia.
i want a family to invest myself in and i wanna read and study with whatever shred of freetime i otherwise have
i also got a drive to live that exceeds most negative externalities so i just wanna keep going and experience novel shit that doesn’t harm anything to experience
that’s not remotely negotiable, that’s why i get up, that’s why i try for anything at all lol
Humanity has had thousands of years of written history, and tens of thousands of years of oral history prior to that. Countless charismatic spiritual leaders of all beliefs have created religions and cults of all sizes and traditions. A common factor in most of them has been their belief in an “end time” within the lifetime of a believer, at which time a Divine Power descends onto our Flawed Earth and brings the true believers into The Promised Land (whether literal or figurative). It would be a moment in history where truth becomes clear to all, believer and non-believer alike, and the spiritual leader is vindicated.
Of course that has never actually happened yet, or we wouldn’t be chatting about it on an internet forum.
But unlike every single one of those spiritual leaders, we really are seeing a sort of end-times. The great climate change catastrophe unfolding before our eyes, the ur-catastrophe that all other future catastrophes are either a component of, or have contributed to. We are the first to actually witness something akin to what all those false prophets of centuries and millennia past had claimed would happen in their lifetimes. Why would I not want to witness something completely unprecedented in the history of our species?
And besides, when the shit really hits the fan, my parents will be into “living independently but will need help with physically-demanding tasks” age. I want to make sure I’m around to help them out.