Anyone ever feel like they were meant to do great things? No matter how small they may be?

Yup. I'm 1 foot 2 inches and my destiny is to become the very best like no one ever was.

Thanks for the nice read.
Keep on being fantastic.
Happy Thanksgiving!

Great read
Happy Thanksgiving!

But if you do more evil than good actions, you get frickin' cool horns & bugs start rotating around your head! Who doesn't want that?! It's better than just a halo & some butterflies...

This world needs more people like you. Do not let anyone to kill your way of think man, keep it up!

Cheers and happy thanksgiving! ^.^

"Joy is not just any whim. One day I discovered that the more you spend it, the bigger amount you will have left to use." Uhh, that was difficult for me to translate, I hope the meaning is understandable.

What I wanted to tell you, is that if you think about it, in the world nowadays, there are a lot of self-centred people who they only focus on their live (study, work, hobbies...). There are others, who focus in the same plus also care about family and friends, but don't care about rest of persons/unknown people.
And on top of these two kind of people, there are others who also care about people they don't know. And the big difference is that this kind of people when they help the rest, they do it with the heart, because they really want, and that makes them happier than anything in the world, and I think that is natural in humans.
But if you take the kind of self-centred people and try them to help others, It is a pain to them, a waste of time. And I think this is because when they help other people, they don't do it because they wish to help, they don't put their heart on it, and the result is that their help won't make them happier.

So, if someone here thinks that helping other people won't make you happier, you should try someday to do the same in an unselfishly way, do not expect anything in return ^^ If you do it, it must be because you want, and if it was truly because you want, then you will be happier, simple.

nope, not really. i'm a disgusting self centered and selfish person. i don't help others, unless they ask for my help, and i don't like to ask others for help. actually i don't like receiving any help from others, i don't like debts.
Good for you for being on of the good humans out there, keep it up and all that.

A few people are drawn toward helping others and trying to make the world a better place. A few are drawn toward afflicting others and causing more misery in the world. Most of us, however, fall somewhere in-between, just wanting to live out our lives without other people getting in the way. When good holds sway, everyone is allowed to pursue a decent life (to a greater or lesser degree). When evil holds sway, everyone is caused to suffer (to a greater or lesser degree). That is why battle for a better life is always worth fighting.

Nobody is meant to do anything.

I like to help people, I won't deny it. I mostly do it online though, since my real life is pretty much a non-existant crap, but I do try to help people when I can.

There are limits to my helpfulness, though. I sometimes feel that some people don't deserve help (for example, if someone begs me for free stuff on Steam, fuck that, I'm not doing it), and I know it's wrong, but it's how I think and live so... Yeah. :P

Thanks for the great thread, DeathbyQuigley. I wish you a happy Thanksgiving as well.

warning: long post ahead. Skip if you don't like reading my scatterbrained attempt at writing down what I think.

Please keep in mind that this is my personal opinion on this matter. In no way do I want to convince people into believing the same thing. At best, an interesting debate could arise, though I do not expect that to happen.

Because I found a lot of topics in your original post, I am going to address them one by one.

What is good/evil?

There exists no objective good or evil. Any definition you can come up with breaks down in certain situations. However, you can create some basic guidelines to define what is typically considered good and what isn't. For that, I base myself on the principle of reciprocity: don't do to others what you wouldn't want them to do to you. Clearly, this is not a guideline that works for everybody, but I think that it fits most common cases.

Anybody who points to a higher authority as a basis of their authority is in my opinion untrustworthy. You can't trust them to do the "right thing" (whatever that is) because they don't even trust themselves to do so. To give you an example: A lot of creationists say that they would do all kinds of horrible things if not for the morality they find in their books, thinking that this is somehow an argument against atheism. The only thing they prove, however, is how untrustworthy they actually are.

The meaning of life

Being a materialist, I don't believe in a purpose/destiny or meaning of life. In fact, I don't even think that life has an intrinsic value. I think that the things I like and the people I love are what give my life its meaning and value. Happiness, health and personal development are the three things that contribute the most. It is thus evident that pursuing these three goals is my main activity in life. For example, I like helping people out. People can always ask me a question and will try my best to give a honest answer (I don't believe in white lies. People will find out the truth eventually, better to swallow the bitter pill soon that late).

The stuff you see in the media

The media will always report on stories that sell. Sadly enough, war, violence, natural disasters, diseases, controversy and injustice sell better than any other kind of stories. Where I live (Belgium) the story of the Philae lander got less attention than the remembrance ceremonies for WW1. (Granted, WW1 is a terrible episode in our past from which we should learn something, but I think that they are overdoing it.) In some media, even the shirt of Doctor Matt Taylor got more attention than one of the greatest feats of humanity: putting a tiny lander on a tiny rock a billion kilometers away. This maltreatment of news saddens me quite a lot. Especially because I know there's nothing I can do about it.

I have always felt like I was supposed to be a male performer in adult movies, with the sexual drive that I have. Alas, such a career option was not open for me.

I used to be a nanny, the two youngest kids I was watching were twins (my imps), and then two older siblings. When the twins were about 3 years old, and the older kids in middle school and high school, I had a friend tell me that sometimes she felt a little disappointed by what I was doing. I mean, I could change the world, and I was just watching 4 kids. But then I would tell her stories of what was going on with the kids, and she realized that I was changing the world, one imp at a time. I don't think I'd ever felt more acknowledgement for what I was doing with the kids than in that moment. Someone actually understood that I was making an impact on the world by making an impact on the world of these kids that I loved, and that that impact would follow them through the rest of their life. It's been 10 years, the twins might not even remember me anymore, I stopped watching them shortly before they started kindergarten, but the lessons I taught them as toddlers are things that still affect them now. So while the conversation didn't start out complimentary, I think, in hindsight, it might be one of the best compliments I've ever received.

My point being, I think many small things are truly great things in disguise, and every once in a while, someone realizes that this seemingly small thing you're doing is absolutely an awesome thing.

I used to, when I was younger. But after enough disappointment and enough time spent alone, eventually you just give up such idealistic notions.