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    To glorify and serve God.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Murphy View Post
    To glorify and serve God.
    I think that requires some elaboration, or do you suggest we all go into the cloisters?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Psychonaut View Post
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    Was wondering who was going to post this.

    I'm not surprised it was you, Psy.... Hahaha.

    For me, especially now that I'm being skeptical about the concept of "external" deity and all..... Life is about making the most of this consciousness that you have been "given".

    If you love to paint, then make it your life's work..... Focus on little else but your bliss.

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    To evolve away from this material plane, one generation at a time.

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    Default The Great Work

    I cannot speak for all, but I can speak for myself. My purpose in life is the accomplishment of the Great Work, which is the summum bonum. As with all things in my understanding, this goal is itself constantly in process. However, I have come to a point that I feel confident in putting forth a generalized scheme by which I intend to accomplish this. To understand the diagram a few definitions may be necessary. The Great Work, as I see it, wisdom (-osophy) of reality (onto-). Since the universe presents itself to each subject as a dyadic system between the self (auto-) and the rest of the world (cosmo-), I take a two fold approach. Furthermore, I have found that with any subject there are two modes from which it can be approached: an internal, experiential mode (-nautics) and an external, analytical mode (-ology). It is, I think, at the intersection of these two epistemological modalities that wisdom is found. Neither is in itself complete without the other, and neither can alone lead to the goal. So, that being said, my system looks a bit like this:

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    Alright now this has become a serious thread, so I suppose I have to rejoin seriously.

    The purpose of life is the elimination of spiritual ignorance with the ultimate end of abandoning all that is base and animal for the realization of the Divine in the self. We are divine in our core, rational and imbued with the power of Gods, to reach this divinity is the highest accomplishment of living in this world.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Murphy View Post
    To glorify and serve God.
    To serve cake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Loddfafner View Post
    To serve cake.
    The cake is a lie.

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    Quote Originally Posted by M.I.A. View Post
    To do whatever makes you happy.
    I'm pretty sure that if more people had this attitude, we would be living in societies full of psychopathic maniacs.

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