re: What is your life purpose?

I hope social media provides you with the answers you seek. Something tells me your arrogance and ego won’t allow for any introspection that could result in the changes you want.

Holy shite... needed that laugh

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What is love though?

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Well. If one has never experienced Love, the explaining what is a 'feeling' is a non-starter. I remember that young man who had escaped North Korea, having reported his own family to the State Gestapo for 'stealing' (hoarding) food, and I think they were very harshly punished. Having escaped to the West and being challenged re his 'love' for his on family, he looked sincerely perplexed, and I knew right then that man had never experienced Love. It would be like trying to tell somebody what the color Red looks like, with them having only seen Yellow and Blue.

There are two distinct perceptive 'Paradigms' in our Universal 'Feeling' buffet. The Spiritual and the Worldly. They overlap, and the responses in this Thread bear out, one picks one value and serves the Acquistion to power toward said Value.

The Worldly Paradigm is temporal, and those who embrace should "eat, drink and be merry", and chase the women and money/power, as the aging process closes in.

Those who embrace and serve the Spirit, sooner or later will experience Love...Love being a 'lens' of perception which colors all things in the Worldly/Spiritual Pardigm. Love is Unity, both with God (Self Aware Energy/Creative Source) and all thereafter. Growth in acquired power becomes the game, as the Good Lord said that "you will do greater things than I have done". That is not just whistling Dixie. He was serious; though I do not know if all who follow the Path (to Love) will ultimately top Jesus sacrificial experience. I have no desire to do so. Just to live moment to moment witnessing a Reality that gets more wondrous and profound by the day. Even as my body atrophies and falls apart.

You're in game, 21. Like the Eastern's say..."once you are one the 'Road', you are there". And, "it's not where on the road you are, but which way you are going" (up or down).

To eat, poop, and sleep, mostly.

To provide leadership, guidance, and see to the well-being and safety of my wife and children.

That and the study of military history and building of models.

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Understood. But being a "good father" is not something that can come along to everyone. Meaning I can't be any type of father

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Ok, but you asked “what is your life purpose”

He’s not looking for any response other than ones that validate his own feelings.

I want my good deeds to outweigh my bad. I want to live with God as a lantern to my feet, wherever He wills. I want to live as close to His Word as possible, praying He forgives my shortcomings. He will provide the rest.

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Mark Twain once said, “The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.” Like you, I'm still waiting for that day I find out why.

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I’ve never seen this before and since I saw this post, it’s all I can think about.

For 99.99% of people, the only lasting legacy you leave are your children and their memories of you. Strive to bring them up better than you were, regardless of how perfect your childhood may have seemed. Be a great parent, and be kind to strangers. Spend money on experiences, not things.