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that is the question

2007-01-20 18:31:50 · 14 answers · asked by greythound crazy 4 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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most definitly to be

2007-01-20 18:39:21 · answer #1 · answered by profoundlysignificant 2 · 0 0

To be or not to be? Had you asked before I existed(Although impossible). I perhaps would of chosen oblivion?
As for now, I must choose To Be. For what greater terror can there be than to be wiped from existence? The human mind cannot even comprehend oblivion.
Therefore I would rather suffer an eternity in hell than to be cast into the wind, wiped from the slate and damned to oblivion. My thoughts and character annihilated, to me, that would be worse than any horror one could inflict upon me in a hellish afterlife.

2007-01-21 04:01:02 · answer #2 · answered by Vejita00 1 · 0 0

To be or not to be, 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,
Th'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 th'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 undiscovered 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.


The German philosopher Schopenhauer had this to say about the soliloquy:

“ The essential purport of the world-famous monologue in Hamlet is, in condensed form, that our state is so wretched that complete non-existence would be decidedly preferable to it. Now if suicide actually offered us this, so that the alternative "to be or not to be" lay before us in the full sense of the words, it could be chosen unconditionally as a highly desirable termination ("a consummation devoutly to be wish'd" [Act III, Sc. I.]). There is something in us, however, which tells us that this is not so, that this is not the end of things, that death is not an absolute annihilation.

2007-01-21 03:12:27 · answer #3 · answered by ♫ayayay♫ 3 · 0 0

Lets think outside the box here.

Choose both answers and see which one gets you further in life.

2007-01-21 04:23:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

To be or not to be is not the question. Nor is it the answer. Rather, it is indecision brought about by confusion.

2007-01-21 02:39:19 · answer #5 · answered by tranquility_base3@yahoo.com 5 · 0 0

to be or not to be ?--------- (what) TO BE Alive!!!
Actually It is not ours to choose, I Feel it can be decided by GOD and not By me I have Got this Life Since I asked for It sincerely from God to right one mistake that I was separate from him, Now that I have come to Know I will Live with This Knowledge Till the end, Trying to teach it to any one interested in Knowing GOD

2007-01-21 02:41:32 · answer #6 · answered by mr.kotiankar 4 · 0 0

to be or not to be that is the question

- to be a part or not be a part

2007-01-21 05:09:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It doesn't matter. It's important to choose, not to be passive. That's the whole point of it.

2007-01-21 04:28:48 · answer #8 · answered by Barbara V 4 · 0 0

It depends on the situation.

2007-01-21 02:40:08 · answer #9 · answered by worldneverchanges 7 · 0 0

Not to be. I'm paraplegic. Just need to grow the balls.

2007-01-21 17:10:21 · answer #10 · answered by Iconoclast 2 · 0 0

Affirmation or Negation... I AM or I AM NOT ... It is your choice. You are the 'qualifier' or 'creator' of your World.

2007-01-21 08:34:36 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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