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  • #11
    Well my motivation is to have yet another day to have a cigarette and to learn something new, or maybe to find out what is going to happen next, it’s all so exciting!

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    • #12
      Originally posted by anileve Well my motivation is to have yet another day to have a cigarette and to learn something new, or maybe to find out what is going to happen next, it’s all so exciting!
      Anileve, you introduce a very interesting point. Now while some might say that I am straying from the original topic, I claim that I am not.

      Here's a hypothetical situation: you wake up one day, realizing that you are immortal. Now, you have all the time in the world to do whatever it is you want. Imagine that you had no deadline --> death. Would the same forces motivate you as they did before when death was an unpreventable certainty? Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious? Doesn't it make us pressed for time to accomplish things?

      According to the philosopher Bernard Williams, "immortality, or a state without death, would be meaningless...death gives the meaning to life." Its certainty is what motivates us to do the things we do in life.

      I'm not necessarily agreeing with this, but just something to think about.

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      • #13
        My motivation is knowledge.

        You can never learn too much.
        Achkerov kute.

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        • #14
          My motivation is reaching my goal of being Armenia's minister of foreign affairs, and actively participating in making our country a place even more wonderful than it is today.

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          • #15
            Originally posted by Baron Dants My motivation is reaching my goal of being Armenia's minister of foreign affairs, and actively participating in making our country a place even more wonderful than it is today.
            So you want to tell other people what to do eh?
            Achkerov kute.

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            • #16
              Originally posted by Anonymouse So you want to tell other people what to do eh?
              lol, only those working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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              • #17
                Originally posted by sSsflamesSs Anileve, you introduce a very interesting point. Now while some might say that I am straying from the original topic, I claim that I am not.

                Here's a hypothetical situation: you wake up one day, realizing that you are immortal. Now, you have all the time in the world to do whatever it is you want. Imagine that you had no deadline --> death. Would the same forces motivate you as they did before when death was an unpreventable certainty? Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious? Doesn't it make us pressed for time to accomplish things?

                According to the philosopher Bernard Williams, "immortality, or a state without death, would be meaningless...death gives the meaning to life." Its certainty is what motivates us to do the things we do in life.

                I'm not necessarily agreeing with this, but just something to think about.
                Even if I were an immortal, Love would guide me...
                I'd still wanna persue love, may be even more than now, for then I'd be able to enjoy it literally "forever"...
                I think it's the other way around...
                death makes us hopeless in a way...
                since it's inevitable, it scares us...
                I don't know about you, but thinking about death makes me think about giving up...
                mommy chem oozer merniiiiiiil!!!

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                • #18
                  If it makes you feel like you want to give up, then why are you still living? Why are you still going on with your everyday life? Why does success mean anything to you?

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                  • #19
                    Originally posted by sSsflamesSs
                    Here's a hypothetical situation: you wake up one day, realizing that you are immortal. Now, you have all the time in the world to do whatever it is you want. Imagine that you had no deadline --> death. Would the same forces motivate you as they did before when death was an unpreventable certainty? Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious? Doesn't it make us pressed for time to accomplish things?

                    According to the philosopher Bernard Williams, "immortality, or a state without death, would be meaningless...death gives the meaning to life." Its certainty is what motivates us to do the things we do in life.

                    I'm not necessarily agreeing with this, but just something to think about.
                    Good point flames! However in my case it is irrelevant, considering that my motivation derives from awaiting the inexpectable and being excited by the mere existence of inquiry into what the next day brings. Although I do agree that some might fear death to the point of rising to meet yet another day to complete their day to day existence without any particular purpose of living. They do so by passing life through an obscure tunnel of preconditioned prophecy and a waste of human capability to excel beyond their conditioned animal instincts of mere survival.

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                    • #20
                      Originally posted by sSsflamesSs If it makes you feel like you want to give up, then why are you still living? Why are you still going on with your everyday life? Why does success mean anything to you?
                      I'm still living cuz I love life...
                      and I try to stay away from the thought of dying as much as possible!
                      are you suggesting that success to you means working on something so that you finish it before you die?
                      cuz success to me is the result of working on being happy.
                      I'd rather enjoy the moment than worry about death...
                      death can go to hell lol
                      old people MIIIGHT be eligible to worry about it and set it as a standard of success... cuz I mean God forbid, you might get in an accident tonight and die! would that make you an unsuccessful person? cuz you havent achieved all of your goals yet?

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