To be, or not to be, that is the question....?

Answer 1

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 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,

In short, no one knows what to do- we live in the moment because we dont know what happens when we leave this place

Answer 2

80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.

I've come to two conclusions recently:

1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.

First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.

Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping other kinds of things.

So the bottom line is, we only have a temporary meaning to life, to reduce pain and increase pleasure, other than that everything is lost to oblivion...."to be" is temporary, "not to be" is inevitable.

Answer 3

Definitely, I am to be someone working somewhere to serve the community and living with a family in a country on this planet Earth. On the contrary, I am not to be a thief working against the law to disturb the community and living with a gang in the country in the world.

Answer 4

Indeed, there are a number of crucial decisions to base one's life upon. Whether to enjoy it and live it filled with activities, or fret upon the matter of death and waste the hours that you hate to lose yet are doing the means to waste it in useless idleness. Likewise to be a spokeman for the people and try to help those around you and give your life to helping and improving the masses in terms of wealth, health and other matters. Or to be a prosecutor against peace, making the many wage-earners labour about for your own satisfaction and wealth, or watch without utterance and allow the viscious cycle of capitalism, dictatorship, violence and corruption engulf the state. Whether to declare peace or to make war, to speak or keep silent against the vicious actions of others, to provide medicine or poison rests upon a man or woman's determination and will.

Answer 5

Oft to bed, little ones.... and dream a dream of things unseen.... Set thy sight upon a place unventured.... Let the beat in thy heart quake like a shaken hand whose digits have pointed to ways unknown..... and whence thou has seen a world untold, remember well, for when thy eyes have shaken the dust of that other life lived, and thy spirit has lain it away, shall it leave thy thoughts for the open eye in the place thou knowest all too well..... ??

Then ask again that question.....


Your sister,
Ginger

Answer 6

To be or not to be is NOT a question as you ARE

Answer 7

To be is the act of a fool, and not to be is the act of an ignorant fool. Which one do you want to be? That is the question.

Answer 8

I choose to be what I choose to be at the time I choose to be. I choose not to be at the time I choose to be something else.

Answer 9

"If once a bee's a being bee,

How can that being bee not be?

A being bee not be a bee?

That cannot be, not for a bee

Nor for a human being."

Answer 10

To Pee or not to peee