What is your ultimate goal in life?

[caddy_caddy]

Originally Posted by mal4mac
This looks like the stoic approach to life, but it depends what you mean by "goodness".

I don't know about stoicism , this is a decision I made , my new philosophy in life .

How can you be good in every possible way? If you work really hard you might become a really good golfer, but you would not have time to become a really good tennis player.

By every possible way I mean if you're a golfer , try to be a good golfer and do good by being a golfer and that's enough .

What happens if goodness doesn't last as an effect? For instance Christ was good, but it didn't last, just look at the Spanish Inquisition!
It last in the hearts of those who trully know him and love him .

How do you know if goodness is eternal?
Because goodness is an attribute of God , and God is eternal , then his attribute is eternal .
As you (might) have only a finite life it's not certain it will be eternal for you.
God said I'll have one and I do believe Him .

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[mal4mac]

By every possible way I mean if you're a golfer , try to be a good golfer and do good by being a golfer and that's enough .

What do you do if you become injured? What do you do in the time you can't spend golfing? Tiger Woods seemed to have a very poor idea of how to spend his downtime. How do you "do good" just by being a golfer? As Tiger Woods showed golf *alone* doesn't seem to very good at inspiring sexual continence or good ways to deal with fame.

[blazeofglory]

My goal in life varies, changes, multiplies and expands and I want to expand cosmically to be God

[punk sheep]

To die alone on a urine-stained mattress.

[BasDirks]

To die alone on a urine-stained mattress.

win!!

[blazeofglory]

My goal?I want to know the secret of the universe and this is my implicit goal and I always meditate over this question untiringly at least once a day and yet I always failed to arrived at the answer and yet this is my ultimate goal - to know who I am and what this universe is

[andrewoberg]

Hmmm, I'd have to say to live until I die. And to accept my time when it's come.

[caddy_caddy]

What do you do if you become injured? What do you do in the time you can't spend golfing? Tiger Woods seemed to have a very poor idea of how to spend his downtime. How do you "do good" just by being a golfer? As Tiger Woods showed golf *alone* doesn't seem to very good at inspiring sexual continence or good ways to deal with fame.

You can always find a way to do good .I can never understand Mr Wood's perspective . However ,goodness is about your intentions too . If you intented to do sth good and couldn't for some reasons still rewarded for your intentions .

My goal in life varies, changes, multiplies and expands and I want to expand cosmically to be God

You really wish to be God Harold ?????
I can't think of such a thing , just thinking .

[Scheherazade]

Tiger Woods seemed to have a very poor idea of how to spend his downtime.

I don't think it was his "downtime" that was the cause of his troubles.

[andrewoberg]

I don't think it was his "downtime" that was the cause of his troubles.

Zing! lol

[andrewparkin]

My ultimate aim in life is to become successful. I need to be successful financially. The reason for it is I need to be able to make a difference in some childrens lives. I need to be able to provide some educational tools to help them to become successful . This will enable them to change the lives of themselves & relatives members. plenty of people are not blessed to benefit from a number of the things that other more blessed kids can. I think that every child ought to have the exact same opportunities irrespective of thier social status. So my final aim is to become successful to help others that are less blessed.

[mal4mac]

My ultimate aim in life is to become successful. I need to be successful financially. The reason for it is I need to be able to make a difference in some childrens lives. I need to be able to provide some educational tools to help them to become successful . This will enable them to change the lives of themselves & relatives members. plenty of people are not blessed to benefit from a number of the things that other more blessed kids can. I think that every child ought to have the exact same opportunities irrespective of thier social status. So my final aim is to become successful to help others that are less blessed.

What happens if you don't become successful? If you do, what if the children "go bad" anyway? What is the measure of success?

[breathtest]

ultimate goal? to make as many friends as possible

[Kyriakos]

I have a number of goals, hm:

1) To be happy. This is probably the most important goal of all for me, since it is a prerequisite for the others as well, as i view it nowdays.

2) To be producing literature that i like, since i am an author.

3) To have a stable basis of my existence, so i can from that travel in the world of thought without any worries or threats. Again i think that this is achieved by feeling happy, having a lot of energy

[mal4mac]

I have a number of goals, hm:

1) To be happy. This is probably the most important goal of all for me, since it is a prerequisite for the others as well, as i view it nowdays.

2) To be producing literature that i like, since i am an author.

3) To have a stable basis of my existence, so i can from that travel in the world of thought without any worries or threats. Again i think that this is achieved by feeling happy, having a lot of energy

I agree with your first goal. But...

What is happiness? Is it pleasure, that is, a feeling of tranquillity (Epicurus), pursuing virtue (Stoics), union with the Form of the Good (Plato), philosophical contemplation/study (Aristotle), something else?

If your literature gets rejected then will you still feel happy? The literary life doesn't seem very stable - you might have writers block, readers might ignore your work, you might not even get published...

You say that a stable existence comes from feeling happy. How does that work, exactly?

To me, it seems the other way around - when you get a stable existence then happiness occurs. So, for instance, Epicureans reduce their needs to a minimum and move to a "Garden" to get a stable life, *then* they are happy. Stoics train themselves to pursue virtues continuously to make a stable life for themselves, *then* they are happy...