To Be or Not to Be?

Answer 1

let me think... to be.

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 or not to be? "To be" is temporary and "not to be" is inevitable.....

Answer 3

To be...,because; if I choose not to be,that means I am already and to choose it I must necessarily exist. I can't disappear(!) from this world,because; even my body disappear, my thought will not disappear,because they take place in others' mind...

...and I am essentially a mind and its essential properties are "thoughts". Others have my thoughts so my mind still exists. If I choose not to exist, this will mean that people who exist now cannot exist anymore ,because; they make me exist.

I can give a decision about others too. Nobody should give. So I have to choose the natural situation "to be."

Answer 4

once you have experienced the benefits and comforts of being strongly in contact with all levels of your being, especially your "soul/higher self" *to be* is no longer "work". popular religion won't do the job for you. why not try what has worked for milennia, especially in "eastern cultures": meditation, energy work: yoga, chi gong, reiki, etc? check out: the book *the complete idiot's guide to toltec wisdom*, and the sites http://www.sahajayoga.com http://www.crystallotus.com and, http://www.worldofsouls.com best of luck and happy holidays. p.s. as examples of the numerous persons who, although they are held up by the culture as "very successful", are, in reality, quite clueless, just think of our current administration, and the innumerable celebrities who are in and out of rehab for one reason or another (and would prefer *not to be* ;-) p.p.s. reflect carefully on whether cultural norms truly reflect "true wisdom"

Answer 5

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 despised 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 pith 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 6

No need to struggle... it is already predetermined! :)

Now open that gift christmas gift...smile! Happy TO BE Alive and loved!

Answer 7

Whether you like it or not the fact that you are asking the question means that you ARE!

Answer 8

I think ,therefor I am. the question is, should I remain? only one can answer that!! IT SHALL BE LIFE!

Answer 9

to answer this difficult question or not to answer that the question

Answer 10

"to live or not to live"

Answer 11

.to get to your goal and realize it's not what you wanted..