Do any of you live for a higher purpose than ***muh happiness***? E.g. religion, nation, a specific person...

Yeah I'm pretty Catholic. Actually play the piano for mass every sunday.

I think youre too pure for this place, friend

Also have the goal of composing music for video games and film professionally. Its a real tough business to get into, but i've had some luck with indie games so who knows, maybe i get lucky.

English / Language Arts.

we could start an army of 3, what you anons think?

Nah, I'm pretty fucked up at heart. I'm just a sociopath with morals that keep me grounded.

Not me but that is pretty close to what my response would have been anyway

Yeah defs religion. Though I'm bad at it and don't like doing it, if you believe God exists, then it's simple that His command is number 1 as well. Legit would've either killed myself years ago or gone for prostitutes a lot if either weren't sinful.

if its a catholic army, are you

anons, wanna do a drug party on discord? XD

But high school is a waste of time and teaches mostly bullshit you don't need to be a functioning adult and survive.

Uh... well ok. Lol I mean, obviously I don't feel that way, but there doesn't seem to be any convincing you. I'm sorry you had a bad high school experience though.

Yes and it's definitely not women, hence I'm not as obsessed by them despite being a kissless virgin
Why are visitors of this board so obsessed with women if a gf would solve all their problems, they obviously refuse to do something against their loneliness/sexual frustration
I suppose you're only halfway serious, otherwise you'd have serious issues way worse than the ones you are complaining about, but I'm sure that you're just spoiled brats

I haven't thought of a higher purpose yet, I'm too busy figuring out how to make sure my parents don't have to work anymore.

I want to fight and die for my fatherland. I truly cannot see myself doing anything else. Nothing in life has any meaning, but this...this is something else. I know it might sound retarded but i cant help it.

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And from what I've seen you're not as ugly as you claim, so finding a gf would not be as hard
Sometimes I get the feeling that you're intentionally doing this to yourself

i'm sorry man, but your life's meaning is to be a zogbot brainwasher.

Yeah, thats pretty retarded bro.

>fatherland
if you're american, kys. if not that's respectable

To do harm to collectivists and all other entities that try to subjugate the individual. I'm bursting out of this system, fuckers

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What is wrong with patriotism? I love my nation and i love my country, why is it retarded that i would wish to sacrifice myself for it?
No, im Croatian. The pic i posted is an illustration of Ban Erdody leading the calvary in the battle of Sisak in 1593, brave man he was.

Huh I can join both you guys. I'll take Catholicism tho

Self-improvement. Every day, until death, I will better myself in some aspect. Even if it won't lead to anything.

Life is to exhausting for me to waste any mental or spiritual resources on causes. My cause is making it through the day and giving myself a reason to get out of bed and do it all over again tomorrow.

Not a bad sentiment, especially if its for God.

satanic scum. change your opinion by the time you turn 18 or you are a lost cause

To enjoy life

I mean, we only live 70-90 years, why the fuck would i slave away for some stupid cause that won't matter in 200 years?

>why the fuck would i slave away for some stupid cause that won't matter in 200 years?
Why the fuck would you "enjoy life" when it won't matter when you're dead?

i want to eventually find my calling and become more religious, be volcel until marriage, and raise a loving, active catholic family better than my parents raised me
i also want as many kids as is financially feasible
as for a single, secular higher purpose, i havent found a genuine calling or anything i even enjoy yet so ill have to wait for that

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I live to amass knowledge purely.

Europe needs industry 4.0, so much more can be automated and optimized, with the newer technology and increasingly powerful electronic components a new era of manufacturing is coming, everyone who realizes this is making a ton of money right now. I work at an electronics manufacturing company in purchasing for components and pcbs. We dont manufacture iphones but complete solutions with a team of developers and a robust shop floor with automatic placement machines for smd and a hundred women with quick hands for tht. My mission is to buy the parts smart people chose to be on their pcbs, to drive progress. My dream is to take part in a new industrial revolution

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Alot of y'all are Catholic too apparently. If only some of you were female, we might have a chance.

why the fuck would be a tripfag when your posts won't matter in 200 years

i live to acknowledge ass

do you think that, with the world in the state that its in, its responsible to start a family?

Not that user, but I think it depends on a few things. Location, upbringing, parents, etc.

Communication.
I will contribute to the creation of brain-to-brain communication technologies to allow for the next step in the development of progressing communication paradigms.

i just feel like starting a family would be running away from the bigger issues at hand. i don't think i could take on the responsibility of a family to take care of when there are millions of abortions, children be corrupted by satanic media, children being raped, etc. i feel the need to dive head first against that shit and i don't think i would be able to with a family to also think about.

Im going for spite
I want to make all of the fucking assholes from highschool who see me know that they are infirior and have no saving grace, i want to look better, have more wealth, etc
I want to ruin peoples day by them just looking at me

I get that. Although I think having a family would give you all the more reason to fight back against all that shit though.

t. bonobo-tier brainlet

>he doesn't know that the ultimate end-goal of every single action is happiness
Look at this brainlet

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My goal is to be a maxillofacial surgeon. I wasted much of my 20s being a neet, so in away all this pushing and struggling is my way of atoning for lost time; I also want to be somebody that my future partner can be proud of, I want status.

But above all that I want to make people happy with themselves, it is a horrible thing to look in a mirror or a picture of yourself and hate the person looking back at you.
Long road ahead, but I love the field and I want it.

Christ.
Happiness is the most painful thing I've experienced in my life, because at the end all it leaves is crusty memories on your eyelids.
That's why I rely on Christ to keep me alive.
And so far, I have survived. Throughout poverty and starvation, abuse, fatal stalking, I have surrendered to no one but him, and I am alive.

literally all i want in life is a stable job and adequate free time. big dreams, i know.

So for you is personal or collective happiness the end goal?

if that were true this board wouldn't exist

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You know those moments of profoundity where you just discovered, saw, or explained something to somebody and you truly feel like you found something remarkable? That is one of the reasons I'm typing on this mongolian dishwashing forum.
Another is finding people who I think are outstanding, the way that they think; attempting to abandon the faults, and sins that make us human, trying to be more than ridiculous stereotypical behavior, truly original, irreplacable people. That is something that I have found few people have, but I harbor unnatural fondness for when I see it. Not conforming to materialistic values, or appearances and seeing people's worth by themselves is stunning, at least to me.
Or just, well, not conforming to norms and actually being what you want to be.
I find originality in the seemingly predictable human behavior to be one of the most beautiful things we could ever hope to see.
The first part is more or less why I stick my nose into situations I probably shouldn't.

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I have accepted that life is suffering. I try to overcome that suffering by not letting it make me an angry bitter person, and in doing so, try to make the world a little less bad. That's what it means to be a man, and it is the purpose I live for.

I'm Catholic

I live for the eucharist

I'm coming to the opinion that in order to do this you just need to shut your brain off at some point. No matter what goal, ideal, ideology, religion, etc. you believe in, you can think your way into realizing it's pointless and is bullshit to begin with. I say, just try to live decently. Try to stick to whatever values you yourself have determined to be important, even if it's just a few things. Focus on your own conduct and the people immediately around you first. This is a lot more satisfying than trying to embody some ghost of an ideology you inherited from your parents, peers, or morons on the internet.

No and that's why I'm unhappy, ironically enough.

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>t. dumb roastie who likes to hear chad say sweet nothings

Hi Cathbro. Orthodox here, I've been seeing a bunch more apostolics on r9k. I guess depravity leads people to Christ

The only purpose to life to ensure the survival of the species. But this goal has been made insignificant by modern society, since our actions have little effect toward this goal. Survival used to be the main accomplishment of humans; living itself was enjoyable. But we're stuck on leve 1 in a video game; we don't need to struggle materially, but we struggle mentally. Committing suicide is actually felt as a benefit to the species, since we are no longer wasting resources for others.

That is ridiculous and called absurdism. Either life is pointless and therefore nihilism, or life has a purpose and therefore literally nothing else in the entire universe is as important.

Forgot pic, from ISAIF

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I wish I could become filthy rich and experience almost everything I'd ever wish in life. But I guess that not really a higher purpose but some hedonistic triviality, isn't it?

Jow Forums is what I thought /b/ was supposed to be like, with more text based stuff and less porn. Anyway, are you Greek or Russian or what?

If I won't make it, I want to leave a big enough impact on the people to make them change their ways.

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>implying you should live for anything else other than your own happiness.

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>evil greedy people
everyone is greedy to some extent. by existing you're 'hogging' resources that other people could use. that doesn't make you evil.
your post sounds super sanctimonious. like you pose with a fedora holding a katana with steam punk attire or soemthing

Our church is pretty mixed. But more greek

I'm a jew. definitely beleviee in jew god
also a grad student in economics -- i'm basically a meme. but, all kidding aside my studies/research are why i get out of bed every morning. economics is about making decisions. in a lot of ways i think making decisions/strategy/planning is what makes us human

you aren't even human though

human civilization is honestly better off than its been for most of its history. like there is human civilization vaccines and good shit on almost every continen

No. I do believe that people need something to believe in for their own mental health. However, as an INFP I can't help but feel like I'd be a faggot for believing in one thing when everything seems so plausible from the right angle.

> Religion
I realize that I'm a filthy vindictive sinner not fit to breathe the Lord's air, and I honestly can't stand people who like to preach Christianity when they live just as shitty as me but believe if they hate the right people they'll go to heaven. Also, I can see how God probably is an alien who forgot about Earth 100 million years ago.

>Nation
Murka's breddy gud, but I'm not dying for it. Americans individually are fucking terrible people and I'm not dying for the Constitution.

> specific person
Everyone will fail you at some point. For some, it's foolish to believe you could have or even want one forever person. There isn't a person alive who will fully love, accept, sacrifice and understand you.

> goals
I understand goals, because it feels good to accomplish them. Again, because I'm an INFP retard, completing goals deeply elusive to me and my goal is just to complete goals, which hasn't worked so far.

>tfw not edgy and wish I found a sense of fulfillment in anything

i wish i did, i have a lot of good ideas that could grow to be amazing, but i have no motivation.

>religion
>nation
>higher purposes
K E K

i mean like all kidding aside, i think getting caught up in race is a waste of time. its people's decision making process that differentiates us from everything else in the universe. i imagine the economics decisions of chimpanzees are really trivial

Why is this kek? There's been an outpouring of religious people and people with higher goals on this board. If anything, you're acting ridiculous because you think the people around you can't live up to anything good.

I bump this dude.
This is more of a seriousish thread

no it really isn't. just because we have medicine and ipads doesn't mean our culture isn't entirely fucked.

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>He thinks dedicating his entire life to some imaginary man who lives in the sky or a country run by people who don't give a shit about him unless he's useful to them isn't a complete waste of fucking time.

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MOMMY
SOMEONE HAS A BAD GENDER OPINION
MOMMYYYYYY
MAKE THEM STOP
THEY PUT BAD CHEMICALS IN THEIR BODY
THEY WORE CLOTHES I DON'T LIKE
MOMMY WAHHHHHHHH

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It's better than shitposting on some board as an user when no one will ever know your name. Living for something fills the void in yourself, benefits others, and usually benefits the human race as a whole. Living alone and being a slob doesn't help anyone, even yourself.

this is such a small percentage of the global population.
but, the fact that people undergo sex changes speaks volumes about how far civilization has come. like we have so many resources that we literally cut ourselves up and change our sex organs for fun
imagine the Egyptians trying this thing. the kid would've been stoned to death for even suggesting a sex change

LOL because you're using your time so wisely right?

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its not just the degeneracy, look at all the pollution we cause. our planet itself is literally being killed

>a specific person
Whoever I'm gonna end up spending my life with. That's who I'm living for.

Nice assumptions. Who said I don't have something to live for myself? It's just not as retarded as religion or a fucking nation.
Do you know why the most underdeveloped countries are the most religious? There's a reason for that. Religion was maybe useful in the 15th century to help the church control the ignorant masses but there's no use for it now. Why are you defending the very thing that has been fucking humanity over and holding it back for thousands of years?

i think pollution climate change is mostly a meme from shitty science
like in the 1790s there was mini-ice age. if academia worked then, like it does now. 'global cooling' would be a crisis. tons of academics would publish shitty papers with misleading statistics

there are tons of people -- who i bet are smarter than you who believe in god/religion
the amount of knowledge we have about the universe is infinitesimally small.
in a sense, believing in god acknowledges how little we really know and understand about the universe
there's a concept in science called Occam's razor. when choosing between plausible explanations, go for the most concise one. the existence of a god would explain how little we know about the universe and how principles of mathematics and science seem to be universal

Make my waifu real.
Orinfol

>Yes and it's definitely not women,
Yet you made a post explaining how not obsessed with women you are in a thread that has nothing to do with women.

But what is happiness?

>there are tons of people smarter than you who believe in god/religion
That is probably true. There are also tons of people smarter than you who don't believe in religion. What's your point?
>believing in god acknowledges how little we know about the universe
We don't know a lot about the universe because it's fucking massive and we're just a tiny species on a planet we only discovered how to leave less than a century ago, not because of ~god magic~
>when choosing between plausible explanations, go for the most concise one
I know about Occam's razor. It does not apply here. Actually, it's one of the most popular arguments against the existence of god so I don't know why you're even bringing it up. Are you seriously telling me that god's existence is more concise than Darwin's theory or pretty much any other theory out there that makes even a tiny bit of sense?
But alll the proof we need is faith, right?

All right so I went through a phase of self diagnosed depression, not having the balls to kms bc u know mom and dad mean something to me right? SO I thought I would just live for other people and die making everyone around me happy, after much talking with some people I realized that was dumb af so know I just don't think about the inescapable inevitably of death and almost guaranteed lifeless after life. Casual drug use is a good coping mechanism as well, but I'm fucking 15 so idfk. Also possible sociopath behavior is a byproduct of said self diagnosed depression.

I live to find, or be found by, the way of immortality. I want to be interred in a machine that will support me as long as the human race or the Earth exists, slowly guiding mankind into the stars with a supercomputer mind and iron logic. I will be alive, but ascended, as a machine instead of a mere man.

>opinion
It's an observation