I like that! Be useful in your community; be of service to others. I retired as a public school teacher in 2016. I'm a volunteer in my area; I help addicts recover from addiction. Helping others is good for you.

I have learned that it's not a good idea to harbor ill will, resentments, or have vendettas. Having a resentment towards someone is like drinking poison and expecting them to die. It's better for your health to let the past go.

I wonder if the big rise in "autism", "ADHD", "neuro-divergence", and all the other narcissistic entitlements I am rather sceptical of are due to parents not reprimanding their kids any more, but just allowing bad behaviour unrebuked?

Keep busy. Be useful.
- Arnold Schwartzenegger's very succinct rule for a happy life.

I just heard this recently. I think it's pretty good.

Depends on my age.

When I was young. Survival was driving force.
Middle age was kid rearing.
Now retired. Try to make for the fubars I did in life.

People swallow all kind of chemicals (alcohol, birth control pills, pain killers …) then blame the kids they conceive, it’s unfair. Not counting the unprecedent level of pollution that we currently live in.

Hi,
I do agree that a lot of abuse causes problems for some, be it drugs, alcohol, poor mindfulness along with poor morals do cause issues. My generation was raised in a time with direct involvement by the family, be it Parents, Grandparents and even the community. I do remember times when a close family friend would correct me and when either my parents or Grandparents found out they too enforced to make sure that problem was corrected.

Today's society does not get involved with other community members because of basically laziness or just fear of them suffering community correction(s). I really do not like social media because so much junk science or opinions that are thrown out without any real substance. More harm then Help!

Be careful what you wish for. Family will judge by their religious perspective.

In Ireland, Catholicism enforced strict moral standards, bent a nominally democratic State to it's will, and made life misery. At the same time as doing this, they were "educating the children and taking care of the worse off." Families supported the lie 100%, thinking we were a lucky people.

Translating the above, the children & worse off were abused

• Physically, to the extent that many died through violence & neglect. We're identifying 796 bodies quietly buried in just one 'mother & babies' home ATM. Others were sold untraceably to American parents who just came, took their child, paid their monety, & left. Some went to orphanages. Mothers rarely got to leave with their babies.
• Sexually in the most horrible ways.
• Emotionally, in that the abused ones were made to feel the abuse was their fault.

We've no reason to believe the abuse wasn't going on right back for centuries, perhaps millenia. When our abuse cases started mounting, The Catholic Church excused itself saying: "We're trying to get to grips with this." The Judicial rejection of this lie quoted Which shows the Church had a constant problem with this back to 179AD!!

Prime purpose in life is steak for dinner. Chuck or rump purpose in life is stew. Round steak or Sirloin better for Tacos or Chili but also a great dinner steak.

Before this "Prime Purpose" thread devolves into religious views, perhaps it might be instructive to take such views on is own words and merits by a wide application of 1 Corinthians 13:11 While at it, perhaps The 1st line of the Hippocratic Oath might lend a bit of objective maturity - "First, do no harm".

Well, if we remove Christianity and Islam from religions then it can't devolve into religious views.
They're more things you do to someone than a religion, really. The fact that they're missionary is part of it.

It's like following the religion of "Do what father says and believe in his will, or thine arse shalt be belted until thine arse is red, blue and welted."

Oh yeah I like this religion...I really do. I mean if I don't I get hhhwypped straight across the cheeks, but it also has like..perks. If I do what father tells me, I don't get spanked, and on sundays, I get a cookie.

Praise daddy who spareth mine rump. Well, time to do the holy soapsuded libation of his roaring horse powered metal chariot and then the bringing of the ordained fuzzy slippers.
Perhaps even the lighting of the pipe of benevolence. Really puts him in a mollified mood.
I can almost taste that sunday cookie. Praise!

My point, clueless_dolt, was that at some point most people outgrow the need for authoritarian "parents" whether actual, self-appointed or fanciful and "put away childish things" and actually develop your own personal "Prime Purpose" that is respectful and reciprocal.

That enlightened view rarely exists among "The Chosen".

Just FTR, when everyone's at each other's throats, enorbet was the one who brought up religion .

I have no problem with World religions being a part of your prime purpose in life. There is deep wisdom in religion. But, let's keep the philosophical discussion civil. I'm getting a lot out of the varied points of view here.

The only one forcing religious discussion into this is you.
Insulting and name calling other people because you cannot properly address their comment points is not a mature behavior.

I consider the question (when I take it seriously at all) a matter of philosophy rather than religion. Addressed in this way it has value for all people, no matter what religion or none at all.