LiveWire Network Peer Answers Peer Support Teen Forums Tech Forums College Forums 607 users online 157984 members 685 active today Advertise Here Sign In
TeenCollegeTechPhotos | Quizzes | LiveSecret | Video | Dictionary | News | FAQ
You have 1 new message.
Emergency Help
Until you sign up you can't do much. Yes, it's free.

Sign Up Now
Membername:
Password:
Already have an account?
Invite Friends
Active Members
Groups
Contests
Moderators
5 online / 26 MPM
Fresh Topics
  LiveWire / Teen Forums / Religion & Philosophy / Viewing Topic

What do you strive to achieve in life?
Replies: 13Last Post May 12 9:43am by HellHound
Single page for this topic Email Print Favorite
( Anonymous )

Reply
As the title states, what do you want to accomplish in your 60-100 years you have on this planet?

And if you can come up with an answer, what does it amount to? And what will that amount to?

Won't we all die in the end?

Well here's my take on it (I'd rather you answer without reading my own philosophy first, but hey your choice)

Life is basically a series of loose ends that pretty much won't come together in one's life.
It's what a person leaves (read: contributes) to the world to  'tie up' those loose ends after he has passed on that really matters.

Although, that would mean we live in a perpetual pyramid scheme of a growing amount of problems and whatnot. Like we're creating more than we can fix so we have something to do.


7:38 pm on May 11, 2008
TheLastMagister


Personal Assistant
Reply
I want to defend the people who are happy with life, and I intend to die so in their service as a millitary man.

-------
In a world which abandons you there is a bittersweet blessing.
You learn to live without others; to stand alone.

7:40 pm on May 11, 2008 | Joined April 2008 | 13 Days Active
Join to learn more about TheLastMagister Illinois, United States | Straight Male | 39 Posts | 170 Points
hateitandloveit


Dairy Product Addict
Reply
Good thinking.

I'm in it to make money, enjoy life, and to help others.

-------
I fail at girls and life.
Msg me if you ever need someone to talk to. I will be glad to.


7:40 pm on May 11, 2008 | Joined Jan. 2008 | 31 Days Active
Join to learn more about hateitandloveit Massachusetts, United States | Straight Male | 824 Posts | 1406 Points
Eternity333


Connoisseur
Reply
I want some cool experiences, and i want to help people/animals.

7:40 pm on May 11, 2008 | Joined Dec. 2006 | 194 Days Active
Join to learn more about Eternity333 Ireland | Female | 5610 Posts | 7692 Points
LtrOusRtD


Dairy Product Addict
Reply
to help people live their lives an help people pass on and have a good liffe..

7:40 pm on May 11, 2008 | Joined April 2008 | 18 Days Active
Join to learn more about LtrOusRtD Pennsylvania, United States | Female | 895 Posts | 1177 Points
The Raven


c'est la mode

Patron
Reply
I hope to do quite a bit in my own areas of knowledge and interest, such as exotic animal (pet) rescue, wildlife rehabilitation, outreaching, etc.

It doesn't bother me that we all die. I only hope there's someone to fill my shoes when I'm gone, and that's the last thing I hope to achieve.

-------
Je suis super.


7:41 pm on May 11, 2008 | Joined Mar. 2007 | 255 Days Active
Join to learn more about The Raven Ivory Coast | Label Free Female | 19583 Posts | 24444 Points
chipotle

Grasshopper
Reply
I want to be able to leave some sort of mark on society, do something that will benefit others, even if I am made miserable in the process. I think in the long run that is better than being content throughout your life.

7:41 pm on May 11, 2008 | Joined May 2008 | 3 Days Active
Join to learn more about chipotle New York, United States | Straight Female | 6 Posts | 37 Points
latin muscle


Wealthy Hobo

Patron
Reply
C.E.O like my  uncle.

Rich...and powerful.

Help the needy i guess.

That is all.


-------
LAWL


7:42 pm on May 11, 2008 | Joined Oct. 2007 | 94 Days Active
Join to learn more about latin muscle California, United States | Straight Male | 2586 Posts | 4854 Points
osmoticdespair


distributist

Patron
Reply
Virtue.

-------
Kyrie Eleison

7:49 pm on May 11, 2008 | Joined April 2004 | 1047 Days Active
Join to learn more about osmoticdespair Wales | Label Free Female | 29185 Posts | 40935 Points
( Anonymous )

Reply
I think I'm seeing a common trend here: 'To help other people enjoy their own lives, and therein enabling me to enjoy my own'

Now I don't want to make anybody question themselves, because the last thing I want to do is make someone else feel as if their life philosophy is inadequate, but I just want to ask:

Do you think a purpose that we all share as human beings is to serve as beneficiaries to those around us, therefore benefiting from the overall improvement in our environment?

I feel like most, if not all of us, harbor some sort of interpretation of this so-called purpose. We really only will do something if someone will benefit (namely the doer, but more often than not that enjoyment carries over to other people.)

What I can't understand, however, is what drives us to seek out this experience in the first place..of course, it is natural instinct to be happy and content, but as sentient, thinking beings, ask yourselves, what greater purpose emits this sense of happiness?


7:49 pm on May 11, 2008
Soren Kierkegaard


Visionary

Sustainer
Reply
1. Professor of Theological Studies within a Private University
2. Loving father and husband within a Christian family
3. Devout Christian

-------
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say.
Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful:
he makes saints out of sinners.

8:01 pm on May 11, 2008 | Joined Feb. 2008 | 59 Days Active
Join to learn more about Soren Kierkegaard Scotland, United Kingdom | Straight Male | 2527 Posts | 8267 Points
latin muscle


Wealthy Hobo

Patron
Reply
Quote: from Soren Kierkegaard at 8:01 pm on May 11, 2008

1. Professor of Theological Studies within a Private University
2. Loving father and husband within a Christian family
3. Devout Christian


Sounds very good. Well said.
No doubt you will.


-------
LAWL

8:04 pm on May 11, 2008 | Joined Oct. 2007 | 94 Days Active
Join to learn more about latin muscle California, United States | Straight Male | 2586 Posts | 4854 Points
GRINDHOUSE


Wealthy Hobo
Reply
1. Survival
2. Reproducing

8:11 pm on May 11, 2008 | Joined Dec. 2007 | 125 Days Active
Join to learn more about GRINDHOUSE Kazakhstan | Label Free Male | 3748 Posts | 4808 Points
HellHound


Quality Control Engineer
Reply
Power and as much control as I can get over others. Power to me can include money and knowledge. Control over others is used for manipulating others into eventually getting what I want, no matter how much I destroy their life (emotionally, financially or physically). I'm not entirely sure what I want in life, a career in the medical profession seems very nice, however, I want something I can have even more control in. Making others "happy" I can do in order to eventually use them but I wouldn't want to keep someone "happy" forever as that can do no benefit to me.

-------
Specialist in biology and minor in organic chemistry
Isn't science wonderful?

9:43 am on May 12, 2008 | Joined Feb. 2008 | 57 Days Active
Join to learn more about HellHound Ontario, Canada | Straight Male | 420 Posts | 926 Points
Single page for this topic Email Print Favorite

Quick Reply

You are signed in as our guest.

Looking for something else?
 

  LiveWire / Teen Forums / Religion & Philosophy / Viewing Topic