2006-12-24 10:37:03 · 9 answers · asked by oksana_rossi 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
How about starting here..."To be or NOT to be."- That is the question!
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2006-12-24 10:44:52 · answer #1 · answered by ••Mott•• 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is an illusion, or possibly a "dimension" enabling physical reality. There is only an ever-persistent NOW.
If you were not, how could you have even posed the question. It is also an illusion, or at best a grave mistake, to think you control whether or not you exist. Why not persist in your present form and make the most it, rather than wasting an opportunity in order to experience the inevitable.
2006-12-24 20:58:54 · answer #2 · answered by Tyro 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nowadays, this question occurs to persons who are dying of incurable diseases, in unbearable pain, or made prisoners in their own bodies by paralysis.
Back when Shakespeare had Hamlet ask the question, Hamlet only said how useless seemed to him the uses of this world. Hamlet wondered whether he should continue to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, without saying why they were insufferable. Hamlet wondered whether he should "take up arms" and "end" them (use a weapon, "bare bodkin," to kill himself).
Hamlet has other reasons to consider not killing himself. He regrets that God, "had set his canon 'gainst self-slaughter." Also, what is death like? "To sleep, perchance to dream." "Ah, there's the rub: What dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil?"
Finally, in our own day, we have a President, Congress, Supreme Court, and numerous other judges and activists who want to have a say in this question, making it not a question, but their wills. In our day, Hamlet might ask, "To be or not to be?" And the answer might be, "Hold it right there, mister!"
2006-12-24 18:55:03 · answer #3 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To Live free, or to suffer from inability to be an individual.
2006-12-24 18:41:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
there the same because you still made a choice
2006-12-24 18:46:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be or not to be is not a question it's a matter of choice you fools!
2006-12-24 19:05:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
to buy or to be bought
2006-12-24 22:30:59 · answer #7 · answered by sin_talk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ser o estar?
2006-12-24 18:44:10 · answer #8 · answered by wsxuyhb;iyfoutf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be online or not to be online....
2006-12-24 19:39:09 · answer #9 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋