2007-04-25 17:16:03 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arm against a sea of troubles.
2007-04-25 19:10:29 · answer #1 · answered by mcgilllilnancy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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.....
2007-04-26 15:43:05 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be (to exist) or not to be (not exist) is more a choice of living or dying. That is not the question. The issue is that we all die. The question then becomes how do we choose to live our lives between our birth and our death.
2007-04-26 01:13:17 · answer #3 · answered by guru 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be or not to be.
It depends.
Again i enhance balance in these two.
To be or not to be needs balance
Cheers
Yee Cs
2007-04-26 15:15:58 · answer #4 · answered by jACKSON 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No its not> The question is who are you and more importantly, where are you going? Answers in the bible.
2007-04-26 00:19:30 · answer #5 · answered by papaz71 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
DON'T ANSWER THAT!!!! Look what happened to Hamlet! He came to a bad (albeit noble) end.
2007-04-26 00:20:54 · answer #6 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What ?
It worked for Hamlet, not you. Be.
Jonnie
2007-04-26 00:48:11 · answer #7 · answered by Jonnie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And if you can answer it ,then it is too late.
2007-04-26 01:15:08 · answer #8 · answered by donelle g. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
~How clever and eloquent. Did you make that up?
2007-04-26 00:20:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
well, I resign.
2007-04-26 00:19:33 · answer #10 · answered by the Boss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋