To be or not to be?

Question

that is the question.

Answer 1

Stay around. There are so many Danish nobles left to kill.

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

Hamlet wonders whether he should take action against a sea of troubles, this is whether he should avenge his father's death...
Pure Existencialism from the Middle Ages.

Greetings

Answer 4

I would give you an answer but currently the wind is north-north-east and so I do not know a hawk from a hand saw.

Answer 5

When applying this to the broad spectrum of the "you" and all of your components, not just to life in general, it becomes "decisions" (plural, not singular) and therefore "questions" to ponder and not a gesture to make...

Answer 6

For now, I would prefer to be. When the time comes I hope I will be prepared not to be. One never knows but one can certainly hope.

Answer 7

"To be."

When people think of "not to be," they think of the bad things; they think of the things they find ugly in other people. Man tends to be pessimistic whenever he thinks of "not to be" - not to be ugly, not to be moron, not to be immoral, not to be criminal. But when man thinks of "to be," he certainly thinks of the good things in life - to be happy, to be satisfied and content, to be peaceful (be it inside or out). People tend to see the better things in life which they must strive to acquire, because they have "to be." "To be" brings forth hope, perseverance, and faith. The mind shall always look forward to positivism. We have "to be" optimistic.

Answer 8

this is not supposed to be a question

Answer 9

Curiously, you aren't even the choice to choose, is this called "freewill"?

Answer 10

How original of you.