To be or not to be?

Question

That is my question

Answer 1

To be loved or not to be? That's life. What purpose is in life other than love, that's the question.

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

Whether it is nobler in the mind to sufferthe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing them end them.
To die, to sleep-- no more, and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to, tis a consumation devoutly to be wished.
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...

Answer 4

To be, whatever your question is. Because for me, choosing it is a means of sailing into a deep ocean of adventure in life.

Answer 5

You have no choice but to be. Even death is to be dead. Although there is an illusion that we have power over our future, what we decide to do or become is an outcome from accumulation of our past, which we can never change.

Answer 6

You need to do whatever you believe is best. Asking strangers to tell you isn't a valid approach to the problem

Answer 7

to be

its easy for me to be sometimes i would chose not to be but i always know in the back of my head i need to be, to do something great, to love, to laugh, to help, to listen

so i chose to be simply to make this stupid place we call earth better

Answer 8

To be, baby. Always to be. Pax - C

Answer 9

Is not your question, is hamlet's

Answer 10

to be stupid not to me aaron