To be or not to be, How come thats the question?

Answer 1

it discusses the probabilities we all must go through in philosophizing the ideas that we all must to mature and become adults and to do what is right and wrong.

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

It is the question with an answer that has escaped humanity since the time of Adam and Eve. The question points to the idea that something has gone incredibly wrong with humanity. This "human problem" is based on a lack of identity, a failure to know ones self. A failure to be what we were originally created to be. Humans can make choices "to be" what we were created to be, or "not to be" what we were created to be. The consequences of this choice, a choice that each individual human has the ability to make, is what is reflected in the world today.

Answer 4

Okay..

I think..
That "To be or not to be, that's a question" means this:


Well. First of all, doesn't every once in a while someone butts into your actions and choices and says, you're wrong, it's all your fault, etc?


Well. To be or not to be means to do something [action] without people telling you to or how to.
It just means to not regret what you have done.
It just means that you're correct no matter what others think, because you choosed it and you have evaluated the outcomes, you picked the road.
So... it is a question because it asks do you want to do it, or not.


With asking yourself that question when you have difficulties, it makes it positive that you are sure you want to take that road.

Answer 5

Hamlet (the character in Shakespeare's play who asks this famous question) is going through intense emotional upheaval. He must kill his stepfather to avenge his father but he just can't do it.
The only way out is suicide - and that is what the question he asks is about. This famous monologue discusses the pros and cons of suicide: "should I kill myself or not?"
If yes - why and if not, why not?

Answer 6

The question itself makes no sense, it's the context before and after that gives it the depth it has.

Answer 7

Because "Hey, wanna jump in the sack and F like bunnies?" just isn't always the best question.

Answer 8

Because we don't know the answer....its like the feeling that there's always greener grass just beyond the next ridge, that we always want what we cant' have..... because "its there." Part of our genetic makeup....an evolutionary thing embedded in our internal core....

Answer 9

That question will arise only if lke Hamlet we are contemplating suicide. Otherwise we will not 'be' once our allotted time on earth expires and we cease to exist.

Answer 10

Because Shakespeare said so.

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