To Be or Not To Be??

Answer 1

Hamlet didn't ask this question without a point of reference. He eventually decided to let his own life pass away only ofter seeking revenge for the death of his father. He punished his father's murderer at the expense of destroying himself - and that father's legacy. So Hamlet got his revenge, but, in the end, it didn't matter.

The point is, the question is unanswerable, because it is not really a decision we are capable of making.

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...to live the bad and the good moments. Life is a gift. For some people its a large one, for others a small and not that pretty. But it remains a gift...I have never got rid of any present...did u?

Answer 4

it is a question which can have different answers based on ones personality, if you are a confident person willing to take what life offers and believe in taking charge of your life then it is TO BE, else if you want to sit back do not want to take actions sail along with whatever you have then it is NOT TO BE.

Answer 5

Bzzzzzzzzzzz!

Answer 6

Simply speaking, being is better than non-being. To be.

Answer 7

Obviously, those of us still here, are going with "To be:.

Answer 8

Be.

Next question?

Answer 9

that is not the question its a choice

Answer 10

Not to be, Angelina