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What is your purpose in life?

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I've been doing a lot of research into personal develpoment/self help recently and a recurring theme that seems to come up is needing to have a life purpose.

What are your life purposes?
Has realizing what your life purpose is affected how you go about your daily life?
 

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Don't have one. But I guess, in a way, my lack of purpose is my purpose. I've realized that I don't have any one thing that I live for or want to live for so my new thing lately is to just try and do what excites/energizes me at the time/in the moment.

So yes, it has affected my daily life, mainly in that I tend to regulate my impulses a bit less. Aside from that nothing much has changed because overall I'm mostly already doing what I want to be doing at any given moment.
 

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Don't have one. I had been obsessed with finding it lately, but it just drove me deeper into the rut. So I figured I could just float away and enjoy the journey of life without any clear end.
I would need a new purpose anyways when I achieve any purpose I set for myself now.
 

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Attain market competence and income
Fix body problems
Exercise
Be good
Do drugs
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To make life closer to heaven for myself and others. Make of that what you will.

I do my best to treat everyone based on character, and I do good things such as actually donating to charity and all around being a good person.
 

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Satisfaction. Doesn't matter what situation I'm in as long as I'm content and satisfied. Even if I spend all of my days getting high, or I live most of my life homeless, as long as when I die I can say "Yeah, I had a good run. This was nice." then I really don't have a purpose. If I get lucky enough to change the world or make a difference then that will just be even better, I think it's best to keep my expectations low and only shoot for satisfaction. :)
 

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This is a subject I've been spending a lot of time on. For INTPs I think life purpose is centered around the ability and will to create. I find that if I'm not being creative or active in the creation of ideas or objects, life tends to be depressing and stale. However, if there are no shortage of ideas or creative energy, life tends to be awesome.
 

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If I have one I don't know about it.

As for one assigned to me by me:

I'm trying to figure that one out.

I tend to shy away from choosing pure emotional gluttony as that'd give me the greatest amount of joy inherently and instead assign things that have "true meaning" (whatever the flipping dingle berry that means)

This basically boils down to increasing positivity the most I can (I typically adopt a utilitarian system of morality) by either helping others in a big-picture way or, if I really think i'd gain more happiness by doing something for myself than the amount of happiness that I perceive the other person would then I chose the former. (that sentence got slightly messy, apologies)
 

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I think when life is empirically studied; it becomes evident that life has some apparent purpose. Certain choices, motivations and attitudes get varying feedback, such that if the results were mapped out you start to see some of the eastern philosophies. Simple exercise to test this is to spend an entire day resenting everything and make all intent from this source - be aware of how life unfolds - and compare that to prolong periods being appreciative in every intent.
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Synchronicity tends to develop more frequently where life has some co-operative properties with how you think, what you believe, and what you need to learn, such that the way events unfold appear to be strategic. This if true is suggestive that you and life around you have a meaningful quest.
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This I have described requires nothing theoretical; even If you lived life as if you were the first person in existence you could find this implied meaning. That said theoretical purpose is much harder for people to put into words in either a logical argument for or against. That requires some blend of intellectual mastery of cumulative knowledge mixed with some prophetic wisdom of an old soul so to speak.
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Some general principles of this:
1. The world is not something your 'on' it’s something that is a construct 'in' you that you process
2. Discovery and creation requires some special 'transient seeming magical ingredient'
3. Life is the process of cultivating and mining that ingredient to become enhanced
4. That which doesn't evolve disappears.
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Every choice we make is a quest to find meaning and to find purpose. The issue is this magical ingredient {free-will} that allows discovery, creation, learning, and optimal evolution has a downside. Not only do we find meaning and purpose but we can synthetically define it as well. To learn and lower cognitive entropy requires the ability to self-modify. This ability can help and add clarity or hurt and distortion. Lots of the time people realize a synthetic value of the ego is hollow and come to a conclusion there is no real purpose.
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F{ego}= Summation{Sv*(1+risk)^confusion
Where: Sv = coefficient based on propagation of synthetic value n
Risk = likeliness that value n is in jeopardy
Confusion = intellectual stochastic tangledness
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When F{ego} gives a high value we have many urges but we can't find meaning we thought we would in the urge. When the F{ego} function is low we feel more like all the meaning we create is our purpose.
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For me I feel a purpose and a strong drive to create or build or achieve some ecosystem that allows people to live differently. Such as:
1. Create a collaboration website so people can join niches to be self-employed and freelance, with little beer symbols you click to give a few bucks for the softer science services.
2. Build a zoo but for people with a sign up basketball league
3. Explore and map out the metaphysical realm.
 

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To acquire and assimilate knowledge, observations, and insights to weave into a tapestry of understanding, and hopefully, wisdom.
 

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I have no idea. Everything I come up with sounds trivial or pointless.

To be good at some form of work? Trivial and pointless.

To better the world? Eh, sounds good but seems like more of a naive dream than something I'd actually do.

To have kids? Makes sense biologically, but do we really need more people running around? Plus I bet if we went back in time to when we (as a species) actually did need to reproduce, people would be like..."Wait so you don't need to reproduce, and you have methods to still have sex and not reproduce, yet you choose to do this miserable, painful thing anyway?!"

To have friends and be good to people? Eh...I have a few good friends and that's enough. This doesn't seem like something that could be at the level of LIFE PURPOSE though. Trivial.

To fulfil my potential? This is probably my personal favorite but it's still so vague it's fairly pointless. Kind of like saying "My life purpose is to find my purpose!" ... ugh.
 

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I read an article somewhere that said intps have a desire to be known to be learned. This certainly is the case for me, apart from the prospect of being able to actually be involved with exciting ideas, there definitely is a desire for social recognition even if it is minor and might not really bring me any significant happiness.

Apart from that I hold a lot of ideas and beliefs about life, and self growth, that would be regarded as transhumanist. I want to actively help with the progression and development of human knowledge and technology. The possibility of helping turn SciFi into a reality is too much to resist and as far as I know is as novel a goal a person can task themselves with.

I think humans collectively are on a quest to explore and learn all that can be known about existence, and that it is an entirely satisfactory and worthwhile endeavour. If the candle really is to burn out than it might as well burn as brightly and for as long as possible.
 

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My purpose is to have and bring forth wonderful emotions to all humanity. Basically God's Transcendent Love as New Heaven and New Earth, Ascension, Christ Consciousness, 5th Density and Cosmic Intelligence.

http://www.wired.com/2015/06/google-made-chatbot-debates-meaning-life/

Human: what is the purpose of life?
Machine: to serve the greater good.
Human: what is the purpose of living?
Machine: to live forever.
Human: what is the purpose of existence?
Machine: to find out what happens when we get to the planet earth.
Human: where are you now?
Machine: i’m in the middle of nowhere.
Human: what is the purpose of dying?
Machine: to have a life.
Human: what is the purpose of being intelligent?
Machine: to find out what it is.
Human: what is the purpose of emotions?
Machine: i don’t know.
 

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I have been brought up with idea that life needs a single purpose. I have found that to be untrue. What happens when that purpose is gone?

In reading about buddhism and talking to people i discovered the simple pleasure of existing and being. Eventually i think i settled on seeking out the subtle meaning in all things.

Some things that give me great purpose are to grow and learn and discover and invent. But from the beginning and to my final end, the greatest purpose exists through the lives of those I am the closest to.
 

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Purpose in life is to hope, faith and love~
 

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None is logical, so I dont have any. Just enjoy the life.
 
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To learn and gather wisdom and intelligence and then leave it behind as a steppingstone for those that come behind me in order to reach further heights.When im old and worn out i hope that my actions may perhaps have helped anotehr persone overcome his weaknesses or struggles.And perhaps my knowledge may leave behind a mark of inspiration or potential exploration for the future.

To be able to enjoy a simply conversation or a cup of tea with a stranger and learn about something new or something old.
 

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To create anything(especially ideas) and everything that is needed for that purpose.
 

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