To Be Or NOT To Be???

Answer 1

Hamlet's Soliloquy:

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.-- Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.

Answer 2

Shakespeare's famous question.

Before one can determine what is wrong with a state of being, one should have some idea what an ideal state of being might be. In other words, before one can repair, for instance, a radio, one must have some knowledge of what the radio is supposed to do and how well it could play in a good state of repair.

What is an ideal state of being for man? In what state of mind does he best prosper? What is a well man? What is a happy man? What are the goals of man? In what state of mind and body does man live longest and fare best? What does man want to do? What is he trying to do? What is he?

One should have some idea of the goal of his efforts.

The goal of man here on this Earth is apparently survival. And by survival is meant everything necessary to survival including honor and morals and idealism and other things which make life bearable. A man survives as long as he can in one lifetime, at the highest level he can attain in activity and happiness. When he can no longer attain to some hope of this ideal, he succumbs.

There is a second goal. Man is evidently surviving to attain a higher and stronger control of the physical universe. The physical universe is composed of matter, energy, space and time. Naturally he is concerned about his fellows and living organisms in general, for he is in a sort of brotherhood with all life.

The first item in the ideal state is I am. Shakespeare was quite correct with this question, "to be or not to be?" When a man is trying to make a decision, that decision breaks down into a matter of choosing one of two courses: to be or not to be. The highest level of the desirable state is I am -- no doubts of the advisability of being, no qualms about the future. The lowest level on a survival course would be I am not. In between we have the doubts and writhing and indecisions of the weary, the angry, the frightened. When a man has made up his mind as to a course, he is only then comfortable. In any course there are just two decisions possible, to assume a state of being or to assume a state of not-beingness.

There is a scale that was put together which shows the emotional tones of a person. The ideal state of being is to be found across the top of that scale. The states of death or not-beingness are found across the bottom of the scale.
http://www.scientologyhandbook.org/SH4_1.HTM
http://www.scientologyhandbook.org/SH4_2.HTM

There are many other gradients scales in life, such as successes -- failures,
know -- not-know,
serene -- dead,
trust -- distrust,
full responsibility -- no responsibility,
cause -- effect,

This is just a brief statement of what an ideal state might be (lightly covered). Ideally, one would be fully aware of being and would be. That is I am. One would be entirely successful. One would know. One would be serene. One would trust. One would be in perfect health physically. One could assume full responsibility. And one would be cause without being unwilling to be cause.

The odd part of it is, when one drops on any one of these things he drops on all the others, so interactive are these portions of life.

An ideal state of being, it goes without remark, would not include illness and inability to control oneself or one's environment. Control of oneself and one's environment depend upon his attaintment toward the ideal state of being.

You can find out more about this in L. Ron Hubbard's book "Handbook for Preclears". It is a Scientology book.

Answer 3

To be with those who influence you towards positive endeavors, or not be to with those who throw firey darts at you to destroy your goals...decide now or say nothing of this to no man.

Answer 4

I'm going to go with To Be, because if it exits, then it's worth my time talking about it. But if it's Not To Be, and won't exist, then I don't want to waste my time on it.

Answer 5

its one of those that u ca look at both ways,is the cup half empty or half full?

Answer 6

to be good
not to be bad

Answer 7

or

Answer 8

to be... its much funner this way. :)