What is your Special Purpose?

[MrScorpio]

We all have one, right?

[Callalily]

1. I'm still trying to

figure that one out, and lately, I'm a bit skeptical that there truly is one - a special purpose for each and every one of us.

[MrScorpio]

3. That's just it...

You'll know your special purpose when you find it

[Callalily]

7. Is that a promise?

Sometimes I truly wonder. We really can't all have a special purpose. Maybe I'm a little cynical for a Monday.

[MrScorpio]

13. If we all look deep inside of us

I'm sure we'll find our special purpose.

What's important is that we have to believe in ourselves

[chkchkitscrting]

2. greetings!

so, i'mnew here, but my special purpose can be best explained by the queen of spades, or rather what it means in hearts. "shoot the moon?"

i believe in standing up for everyone, little big, small, anybody we all deserve that chance/

cheers!

[MrScorpio]

4. Welcome to DU

Thanks for showing us your special purpose

[chkchkitscrting]

11. de rien, sir!

take care of yourself.

what's yours?

[SeattleGirl]

5. Not sure I've figured it out yet, except for the generic "helping others"

Sounds kind of wimpy, but there it is.

[MrScorpio]

6. I bet that you're the best

Something tells me that

[SeattleGirl]

9. Aw, thanks.

:hug:

[NightWatcher]

8. I'm a superhero, I help those in need

I do free work from time to time as needed and as cases present themselves. I am a private investigator and I hope that by doing good deeds I can make up for my bad karma that I incurred years ago in the public sector. (I have a complex that was examined in the tv show The Equalizer)

I have already helped a few people who could not normally get the help from a private investigator or from the traditional police.

I adopted the mantra of "One Noble Deed". If I can exchange my life for one noble deed, I have served a purpose.

[MrScorpio]

10. Thanks for the light that you bring to the world

Your special purpose is truly special

[NightWatcher]

12. I've done my fair share of evil shit however, so I'm just trying to break even

Agent of Righteous Karma

[KamaAina]

14. I have a special purpose!

but I can't tell you what it is during family hour...

P.S. "The Jerk" was just on cable again a few weeks ago :rofl:

[lost-in-nj]

15. I truly hope I find out what it is

Maybe it was to be the mother of my children...
take care of my family when my parents were sick..
Don't know , hope to find out though

lost

[bicentennial_baby]

16. Depends on who you ask!

:rofl: Just don't ask the Lounge! :rofl:

:hi:

[sniffa]

17. making bi-baby

reaLize how fucking awesome she is. :loveya:

[bicentennial_baby]

18. ....

:blush:

[sniffa]

19. oh do shut up

you know it true. :loveya:

[NMDemDist2]

20. to evangelize for my cult

:evilgrin:


and hiya Scorp, good to see you! :hi:

[Shine]

21. My Special Purpose is to shine Light and Love

:loveya:

[BarenakedLady]

22. Raising my children

to be decent human beings.

:shrug:

[Xipe Totec]

23. Schopenhauer...

points out that when you reach an advanced age and look back over your lifetime, it can seem to have had a consistent order and plan, as though composed by some novelist. Events that when they occurred had seemed accidental and of little moment turn out to have been indispensable factors in the composition of a consistent plot. So who composed that plot? Schopenhauer suggests that just as your dreams are composed by an aspect of yourself of which your consciousness is unaware, so, too, your whole life is composed by the will within you. And just as people whom you will have met apparently by mere chance became leading agents in the structuring of your life, so, too, will you have served unknowingly as an agent, giving meaning to the lives of others. The whole thing gears together like one big symphony, with everything unconsciously structuring everything else...one great dream of a single dreamer in which all the dream characters dream, too;...Everything arises in mutual relation to everything else, so you can’t blame anybody for anything. It is even as though there were a single intention behind it all, which always makes some kind of sense, though none of us knows what the sense might be, or has lived the life that he quite intended.



-Joseph Campbell, quoted by

John Briggs and F. David Peat, in

“The Turbulent Mirror”

[AlCzervik]

24. big-time racketeering.

[evlbstrd]

25. To serve as a warning to others.

That's what it says on my post-its.

[hellbound-liberal]

26. I thought my "special purpose" was to invent and market the "Opti-Grab"

but this jerk beat me to it:

[Nicole]

27. Repelling the opposite sex

or so it seems. :P

[Deja Q]

29. I repel both sexes.

:rofl:

[Nicole]

31. You have a greater purpose than me.

:rofl:

[sarge43]

28. A burden on society and a bad example n/t

[ThomCat]

30. I serve as an example.

Sometimes a good example, and sometimes a bad example. But either way, I serve. :P

[hellbound-liberal]

32. That reminds me of a funny "de-motivational" poster I saw at despair.com

[ThomCat]

33. That is funny.

:rofl:

Thank you for posting that. :)

[Inchworm]

34. To get daughter wise enough to go out on her own..

I think I've done that if all goes well, soon she will be an independent woman.

After that... I plan to change the world.

:silly:

[dropkickpa]

35. To embaress Dropkid in public

Can't think of anything else.

[Rabrrrrrr]

36. To wish for a Ferrari for Billyskank

[Fox Mulder]

37. I'm still trying to figure that out...

[Elidor]

38. I'm the Fuckmaster

But I get ridiculed when I wear the cape and mask in public.

[enigmatic]

39. To tell you I can't wait for your new show!

:D

[Manifestor_of_Light]

40. to be a performing and visual artist.

[Adsos Letter]

41. Consistently achieving a standard low enough

to make others feel more positive about themselves... :D

:woohoo: