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Anonymous Fri Apr 26 16:32:52 2013 No.3697661 [DELETED]

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What is our purpose in life, anon?

If we are not going to create great art, what is it we are set out to do?

Tell me, please.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 16:36:51 2013 No.3697678 The meaning of life is whatever you make of it. If you want to dedicate your life to being a great artist, do so. As long as you can die knowing you fulfilled whatever purpose you made for yourself.

Anonymous Fri Apr 26 16:39:51 2013 No.3697697

Anon. Dear, dear Anon. You have adopted a whole range of semantic frameworks, which you both consciously and subconsciously superimpose on top of reality to grasp at abstracted forms and concepts. Hidden within this framework is the word 'meaning'; complete with definition. You have taken this word and definition and attempted to force it over reality (where it really doesn't belong), and are getting frustrated when you find it doesn't fit. Stop doing that, Anon, realise why you can't you do that, and your burden will lighten. It is a mistake akin to asking 'what colour is sound?'

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 16:39:51 2013 No.3697698 >>3697678 Can one choose to go through life without a purpose? Is it necessary to have one?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 16:40:51 2013 No.3697708 >>3697697 I think I'm more concerned with being a professional and wanting my life to be defined by capitalism.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 16:43:52 2013 No.3697725 >>3697698 Nope. I'm doing just fine without one. #roguelife #picaresqueparty

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 16:44:52 2013 No.3697729 >>3697698 If your purpose in life is to have no purpose then it's very easy to die for-filled.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 16:45:52 2013 No.3697733 >>3697725 No more "saving your soul" No more worrying about "the afterlife" No more pleasing people No more slavery No more No more I ... am ... free(dom)

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 16:45:52 2013 No.3697735 File: 65 KB, 640x427, HenrySwing4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3697729 >for-filled.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 16:45:52 2013 No.3697736 >>3697697 >what colour is sound? Purple.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 16:46:51 2013 No.3697742 >>3697729 But then that would be a purpose, so I don't think that makes sense what you said thar. I think not having a purpose equates to not having an imaginary standard that you compare your life to constantly and thus create worry.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 16:46:52 2013 No.3697738 >>3697733 That's right. Time for a cup of wine.

Anonymous Fri Apr 26 16:46:52 2013 No.3697740

>>3697661
We are set out to do nothing. There is no engrained purpose. But there is a prerogative we should hold to:
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 16:47:51 2013 No.3697744 File: 7 KB, 228x221, 000000.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3697738 >mfw I can't drink because of my medications

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 16:48:51 2013 No.3697753 >>3697740 I do all that. So I must be okay. I don't spend my time planning to fuck up other people's lives, existences. I have no guilt. I am humble and don't place myself above others.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 16:53:52 2013 No.3697778 >>3697753 Then you're golden. Enjoy life!

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 16:54:52 2013 No.3697780 >>3697744 Alcohol is shit anyway.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 16:55:52 2013 No.3697784 File: 8 KB, 228x221, 0000000.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3697778 Thank you! >>3697780 I know.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 16:57:52 2013 No.3697797 >>3697744 Nietzsche did it bro, you can too

Anonymous Fri Apr 26 16:58:51 2013 No.3697801

>>3697661
Creating the art of living maybe? I don't know man, purpose is such a weird word. For example, I don't know what my actual purpose are, but I do know what do with most of my time, which is: Wishing I could hate other people out of existence and planning on how to murder my ex without being caught.

When I at some point cease to exist, I guess that this was my purpose, but if only I knew what I did while being here, then was it truly a purpose? Others may have seen me differently, thus defining my purpose differently: as Son, as murderer, as a selfish prick who never smiled and never went out of his basement - was this then my purpose?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 17:00:51 2013 No.3697811 >>3697661 This toad on the pic looks like a black guy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 17:00:51 2013 No.3697813 >>3697661 to be the best, like no-on ever was.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 17:01:51 2013 No.3697814 >>3697678 What if you continue to struggle and never become that great artist?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 17:01:51 2013 No.3697819 >>3697813 It's the VERY best, ya fool

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 17:05:51 2013 No.3697829 File: 56 KB, 550x409, q5FVS.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] To enjoy the God given simplicities we encounter every day. Such as nature, family, books, and delicious foods.

Anonymous Fri Apr 26 17:06:51 2013 No.3697835

Just enjoy my time. I would like to create some great art but I don't know if that's gonna happen. I oringally wanted to make vidya but lost interest in the medium. Then I wanted to write because I figured that would be the perfect medium for a loner like myself. When I realized I couldn't write like Nabokov I gave up. I guess I will live until I gain the courage to kill myself

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 17:07:51 2013 No.3697842 >>3697753 You're just not aware how much your very lifestyle contributes to the exploitation and suffering of others. Ignorance is not innocence.

Anonymous Fri Apr 26 17:08:51 2013 No.3697845
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>>3697835
I need to have some children before I get to that point, I feel that family is the most important thing and when my parents are gone, there won't be anything left for me

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 17:13:52 2013 No.3697869 >>3697842 I know. Everyone is a hypocrite.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 17:14:51 2013 No.3697878 >>3697870 I know. God lubs me the most.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 17:14:52 2013 No.3697870 >>3697842 >>3697869 You too are saints.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 17:14:52 2013 No.3697874 >>3697845 Lose everything to find true freedom.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 17:15:51 2013 No.3697883 >>3697835 Don't you hate it when successful people tell you to not give up trying?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 17:17:51 2013 No.3697885 >>3697883 It's usually not worth listening to them because they are successful in different areas, not the area of your choice

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 17:18:51 2013 No.3697891 >>3697885 What's the area of your choice? Mine's to be a great actor.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 17:18:51 2013 No.3697892 life is the only thing worth living for

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 17:23:51 2013 No.3697918 >>3697892 The greatest thing about my life, so far, is that I have been alive the whole time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 17:36:51 2013 No.3697977 >>3697869 I'm not.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 17:38:52 2013 No.3697981 >>3697977 I know.

>>	None !!lZetafI6z8s Fri Apr 26 18:00:52 2013 No.3698051 art is shit and life isn't even worth a purpose dude, just chill out

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 18:03:51 2013 No.3698062 File: 281 KB, 488x354, UHOH!.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3698051

>>	None !!lZetafI6z8s Fri Apr 26 18:07:51 2013 No.3698084 >>3698062 eh at least you didn't go with the e word

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 18:16:52 2013 No.3698133 >>3697845 >i'm too scared to be alone Please don't spawn coping devices.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 18:23:51 2013 No.3698164 Hay OP, I had an X-crisis this morning too. Just hang in there.

Anonymous Fri Apr 26 18:45:53 2013 No.3698247

>>3697814
Maybe, as time progresses, the older and wiser you will have found joy in the journey itself. Even if you were unsuccessful on a monetary or popular scale. It's best to get into these things as sincerely as possible, otherwise you'll have other variables institutionalizing you towards something that an artist is not.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 18:47:53 2013 No.3698251 >>3698164 >I had an X-crisis this morning too I know that feel, bro.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 19:33:51 2013 No.3698412 File: 101 KB, 800x600, madman.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3698164 >>3698251 >X-crisis NO!

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