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why do you keep going? what drives you? what do you aim for? what is the meaning of life?

simple questions really.

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[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 1 points 4 hours ago
[–] miz@hexbear.net 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I pass butter

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] urmums401k@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ewwwww too earnest, can you add some layers of bitterness surrealism and irony poisoning so the rest of us can process what you mean?

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

To understand how to piss and shidd on landlords so that I can thrive in a landlordless future

[–] urmums401k@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago

That'll do I guess. Thank you, comrade owl.

[–] Red_Eclipse@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] urmums401k@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah I used to want to grow and explore and love and build and understand and become

But it turns out capital really really doesn't like when people like me do that, and it just gets taken from me in incredibly bullshit ways every time. So even aside from all the trauma and heartbreak; revenge is basically it for me. Until the revolution. Which would be a pretty good start on the revenge.

[–] Comp4@hexbear.net 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor.

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[–] Blep@hexbear.net 19 points 4 days ago
[–] KrasMazov@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Honestly, I want to inspire people. I want to produce works of art that touches other people and inspires them, like it has happened to me.

Not only that, but there's so much more I want to understand, experience and see. If I could I would be immortal to see how it all ends.

Knowing about the heat death of the universe is not enough, I need to see the last star fading out.

[–] borschtisgarbo@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world──the fight for the Liberation of Mankind

How the Steel Was Tempered by Nikolai Ostrovsky

[–] arymandias@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago

Getting Immortan Joe to witness me.

[–] Sulvor@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] morte@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago
[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] sisatici@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago

TO SEE THE DESTRUCTION OF PISSRAEL AND TEARS OF NAZIONISTS. And maybe making some stuff to benefit everyone as mechanical engineer.

[–] Josephine_Spiro@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago

To be a part of ending the United States' imperialism

[–] ManFreakBeast@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

After the revolution I just wanna mine coal all day.

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You WILL have 8 hours for what we will

[–] ManFreakBeast@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

Thank god! I need a break from the drudgery of writing poetry.

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Growing up and seeing death at a young age, after losing an apartment, many people I love either through death, drifting, break-up and the constant threat of unemployment because of my migraines; I'm in a relatively stable place now after struggling and grinding away for so long to reach it.

Seeing my family grinded by capital; my father discarded entirely after a series of workplace injuries and growing up shit-poor on the southside of the city pretty much gave me the sense that there is no god, there is no "divine" emotion that we all feel to unite us, there is no singular "thing" powering each and every single one of us.

All we have is free-will and what we choose to do with it. It's not meant to be motivation, it's simply reality. That's the best motivation for me. Change what is real.

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago

I just want to be helpful and be loved

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago (4 children)

:::spoiler To find the Holy Grail!

That is, if the Holy Grail were an urban commune composed of either cob houses or townhouses or both, on land put in collective ownership, in close association with a workers' cooperative that funnels money into expanding the commune.

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 days ago

I just want to see how it all turns out.

[–] cerealkiller@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago

Spite and hopefully seeing capitalism collapse sometime around mid 21st century.

[–] context@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago

these days?

shrug-outta-hecks there's a lot of work to do and someone has to do it

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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?

[–] xj9@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago

I'm here to fuck eat dance and resist occupation

[–] someone@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] whatdoiputhere12@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

Sounds cliche but outliving the state of Israel

[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

to fuck attractive women. i live in america, purpose is a luxury i cant afford

Death to America

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[–] Rom@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

My body is a machine that turns beans into farts

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

Saw a shirt that said

gross"My body is a machine that turns hot dogs into hot logs"

who-did-this le-monke michael-laugh

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

Cats and trying to build communism from the inevitable ashes of the climate wrecked capitalist world

cat-com lenin-cat

[–] stalin_but_trans@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

my cats, my girlfriend, outliving every transphobe and having a happier life than them, figuring out the recipe for the spicy salsa from the taco place near me

[–] morte@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

Still figuring that out i guess

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

To establish enough commodity production to meet the needs of the population, and distribute it accordingly. That's really the whole end goal. Socialism is the means to achieve that.

More prescient medium-term goals are mitigating the effects of climate collapse and to decolonize the Global South. How do I contribute to those, as someone who lives in the Global South? By joining a union and buying a gun, basically.

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

literally just hanging out with people. for 99% of people, emotional bonds and connections with people are the most fulfilling thing you could have

[–] mamotromico@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

Videogames most of the time

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

I want to escape my abusive adoptive parents (and that entire dysfunctional family) and enjoy my hobbies.

Also probably go to therapy and maybe grad school

Mine?

Ending the US occupation of Korea

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

Curious what happens tomorrow

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

Dying could be the end of everything whereas living is guaranteed to be something. I'm not consciously afraid of death but after giving it a lot of thought it seems like a big gamble to just shut off the lights forever.

Oh i suppose that was for the previous iterations of myself. I have a kid and whatever chemical is supposed to get released in my brain is working great. I would do anything for that little creature

[–] Gorb@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

Playing every bideo gay ever released and writing silly goofy essays about them in my head no one will ever read while I involuntarily memorise every single texture and ui element indexed in my head permanently for no particular reason.

And cats cuddle

[–] Octagonprime@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

If I give up it would make some people very sad

[–] RiotDoll@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

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

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

Don't have one, don't want one.

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