This is the question.
2007-01-04 18:42:16 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Be.
2007-01-05 02:20:39 · answer #1 · answered by lisateric 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To end one's life or not too, a huge question depending on your choice of religion, an eternity of suffering, pleasure or even nothing could await you.
In the end, is life really so bad, with life there is always the chance to make it better, to work hard and strive for success, even if life is, pardon my language, giving you a swift kick to the testicles every day.
Find your own meaning of life. The meaning of life, I feel, was well described in Dr. Victor Frankl's, Man's Search for Meaning, where he states that the meaning of life is something that makes you get up in the morning fight past all the pains and curve balls life has to throw at you, and forces you to draw in every breath and keep fighting for your own meaning of life. Now, giving up and ending one's life can never be an appropriate answer, not when there's something out there to do, something to experience.
The great literary works of the ages have all told the stories of how men don't give up and set up their legacy, look at Gilgamesh in his epic or Achilles in the Iliad. They refused to give up and left upon the earth an indeliable mark that is their own. Do not surrender to the icy hands of death, but beat it back with the fire of your passion, create your legacy. Dylan Thomas said it well, "Rage, rage against the dying of the light, do not go gentle into that good night."
2007-01-04 19:12:59 · answer #2 · answered by Ziek 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jean Paul Sartre suggested "Being and Nothingness" as the equivalent alternative. Being is our gift. To remain here is our choice. To not be removes any possiblity of choice--too limiting!
2007-01-04 19:34:53 · answer #3 · answered by amythmaker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very very very cliche question that lost all meaning a long time ago when people like you started asking it.
2007-01-04 19:31:59 · answer #4 · answered by JustDefend 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The square root of 4B^2
2B or Neg 2B
2007-01-04 18:48:38 · answer #5 · answered by Sid B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The choice is there, but a very limited one, ultimately leading to .... 'to be' !
2007-01-04 18:45:22 · answer #6 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time for me to sleep, perchance to dream.
2007-01-04 18:47:38 · answer #7 · answered by Underground Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
even more significant...to this above all thy known self be true, but even Shakespeare has his superiors 1.
2007-01-04 18:48:30 · answer #8 · answered by Bruno C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only existing is not to be
remembering the almighty is to be.
2007-01-04 21:35:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Makes no difference ... not to be.
2007-01-04 19:15:41 · answer #10 · answered by small 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to be since all we can know is what we are (existing).
2007-01-04 18:46:52 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋