to be or not to be?

Answer 1

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 2

It's not black and white. Discretion and intuition tell us when to bear the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune, or when to rise up, face a sea of troubles, take action and end them.

Answer 3

Probably the answer is as short as the question! Too bad that no one has to answer to this question to anyone than himself. Don't be... YOU already are!

Answer 4

(Je pence donc je suis.) - I think, therefore, I am. Hence," to be". Now, get ye to a nunnery.

Answer 5

"That is the question."

At least according to William Shakespeare.

Answer 6

To exist is to be preferred to non-existence.

Answer 7

I choose to be. To be young, to be wise, to be alive!!

Answer 8

fred

Answer 9

That is the question!

Answer 10

to be now and not to be late.