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What are your Goals?

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member

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What are your personal goals?
If reference to,
Morals

Which would then also be an indicator to your morals.

My goals, I'll try to list them in order of importance.
  1. Make sure my family is provided for.
  2. Support my family's happiness.
  3. Personal survival.
  4. Personal happiness, which largely has a lot to do with the first three goals.
Beyond this there are temporary goals, usually which I set for myself on a daily/weekly/monthly basis.
Like doing my laundry. Paying the bills. Earning approximately $100 each day in the stock market. Exercise daily.

My "good" actions support these goals. My bad actions obstruct these goals.
 

Heyo

Veteran Member
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What are your personal goals?
If reference to,
Morals

Which would then also be an indicator to your morals.

My goals, I'll try to list them in order of importance.
  1. Make sure my family is provided for.
  2. Support my family's happiness.
  3. Personal survival.
  4. Personal happiness, which largely has a lot to do with the first three goals.
Beyond this there are temporary goals, usually which I set for myself on a daily/weekly/monthly basis.
Like doing my laundry. Paying the bills. Earning approximately $100 each day in the stock market. Exercise daily.

My "good" actions support these goals. My bad actions obstruct these goals.
My goal is to become dictator of the world. My morality is what keeps me from pursuing that goal.
 

Exaltist Ethan

Bridging the Gap Between Believers and Skeptics
1. To create God.
2. See goal 1.

I have my own way of creating God, that is elaborate but thankfully we are all in the process of doing this.
 

JustGeorge

Not As Much Fun As I Look
Staff member
Premium Member
I am George, Keeper of Chaos.

Other than that, I don't think much on goals. Just keep the chaos reigned in to the best of my ability, and call the rest good...
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
My goals are to ensure my children are comfortable
And
Live long enough to see them fledge the nest.

Other than that this is pretty much it.

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It Aint Necessarily So

Veteran Member
Premium Member
What are your personal goals?

This question is much different in retirement than earlier in life, when my goal was to grow (education, travel, music) and to work toward a safe, happy, comfortable, healthy, leisure-filled, satisfying retirement filled with love and beauty, free of guilt, shame, regret, insecurity, loneliness, and anxiety.

Presently, my goal is to rebuild my social structure, which took a hit with the pandemic. This means finding new ways to meet people. Today, I will attending Urban Sketchers for the first time. We wander the streets sketching then painting street scenes:

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Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member
To set up an argument.

I haven't decided yet how to respond to your "Morals" OP, so I posted a few tokens that will, hopefully, make you think while buying me time to formulate my thesis.

Well, my argument would be you might make a good dictator. You would have the power to save the world from climate change, end all wars, stop them there cheating politicians.
 

Heyo

Veteran Member
Well, my argument would be you might make a good dictator. You would have the power to save the world from climate change, end all wars, stop them there cheating politicians.
I think I'd make a good dictator because I'm too lazy to exert my power other than keeping others from exerting theirs.
 

Erebus

Well-Known Member
I would like to buy an affordable house in the UK. I would also like to eat Mount Everest with a plastic spork. I've yet to decide which goal is more realistic.
 

Ella S.

Dispassionate Goth
1. Remain in a calm state of dispassion
2. Use this sound mind to make the choices that, through logical analysis, are most likely to lead to the outcome with the maximum utility.

I have shifted on how I precisely define "utility." Is it happiness or preference or health? Does maximizing it mean maximizing the total value or maximizing the average value?

In daily life, even in many scenarios where a difficult choice needs to be made, these often seem to be fairly interchangeable from my perspective since they tend to prescribe the same actions. They mostly disagree in fringe situations that I haven't found myself in.
 

JustGeorge

Not As Much Fun As I Look
Staff member
Premium Member
I would like to buy an affordable house in the UK. I would also like to eat Mount Everest with a plastic spork. I've yet to decide which goal is more realistic.

The spork scenario, of course.
 

The Sum of Awe

Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
The most difficult goal of all: Finding a girlfriend :blush:

On top of that I want to build a compendium of different deities, concepts, and other mythological things that I find interesting.
 

Viker

Häxan
To crush my enemies, to see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentations of their women. :p
 

ADigitalArtist

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
Where I think the concept of goals and morals meet for me is that value and personhood has nothing to do with productivity. You don't lose value by not completing goals. Especially as relating to capitalism, religious, and even social or family expectations.

Which isn't to say goals aren't helpful, but that we can be overinvested in what relative success or failure can mean for our worth as individuals.
 

The Sum of Awe

Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
I wanted to expand. There's a few things I want to be doing:

1) I definitely want to get back into writing my book. I've stopped midway through it and it's been tough getting back into it. I'll likely have to go back to the beginning and reread a lot of chapters (again...) My personal writing goal is to at least finish a chapter a week.

2) Relationships. I'm a late bloomer, and all of my life I've never really tried dating or sex. I feel like I've wasted my life and had many missed opportunities. And though I was never bothered before by being single, it's been starting to get to me. If you've seen my other thread, you'd have heard that I've been active in this. I've been going out to cafes with the intention of trying to start small talk with someone I find attractive, or perhaps with anyone else I cross paths with. I've also been active on dating apps. Other than going out once a week, and going through all of my Right Swipes daily, there's not much else I can do so this is more of a side quest.

3) Building a compendium of mythological devices and deities that I find interesting and/or useful for my magical practice. This includes reading online articles about mythology and gathering the information from it into my compendium. A lot of research here.

4) I wanted to start reading the Bhagavad Gita but... I suppose reading a book on top of an article would just be unneeded weight. This is probably why I have such a hard time reading books - because I read a lot of articles online about things, or forum posts. I feel like both are equally as good for the mind, though, so I needn't worry.
 

urantianX

New Member
to anihilate lucifer, satan, the devil caligastia and all of the fallen angels... (they all are anti-ethical etc...)
 
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