Mythopoeika
I am a meat popsicle
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I like you.I know others like me too.
I like you.I know others like me too.
Depends what you mean by 'brave new world'. Have you read the book by Aldous Huxley? That is a scary future to wish for.I want the future to be a brave new world.
An unfortunate choice of words. What I mean is something adventurous. Who wants this kindergarten reality that takes all the magic from life. Hollywood subliminal programming has given us politicians who are nothing more than characters from our childhood. For example, if you are my age, by now you have recognized that Bush and Cheney are Howdy Doody and Buffalo Bob. Clinton and Gore were Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, two rednecks from the South. Got a big Hollywood dose of those two when I was a kid. Carter was Mr. Green Jeans on Captain Kangeroo, Obama was the only black guy allowed in Chicagos "Our Gang" clubhouse "Buckwheat Obama" How exciting. I think Trump is Crusty the Clown.Depends what you mean by 'brave new world'. Have you read the book by Aldous Huxley? That is a scary future to wish for.
Depends what you mean by 'brave new world'. Have you read the book by Aldous Huxley? That is a scary future to wish for.
Of course it's a question! It offers a choice of two alternatives."To be or not to be?" Is that a question? Sounds like a statement to me.
You wacky British.
And the real clincher - it ends in a question mark!
To live or to die? That sounds like the ultimate question to me!At this point he is considering suicide.
Cor! You ruddy intellectuals baffle me!Hamlet, however, is only posing the question indirectly; his immediate purpose is to define it, expand it and subject it to further scrutiny. It is the object of his enquiry first and foremost.
"To be or not to be?" Is that a question? Sounds like a statement to me.
You wacky British.
Yes, of course but what is it by itself, taken out of context?I reckon it's a musing or a pondering - asked internally to oneself, so yes, a question.
Yes, of course it's a question. Hamlet says it is. It's a question which is asked without a question mark. Questions were being asked before punctuation was invented.
He also directly follows it up with "that is the question."
2. A matter requiring resolution or discussion:
‘the question of local government funding worried ministers’
(Synonyms):
subject, subject matter, theme, issue, matter, point, talking point, concern, argument, discussion, thesis, text, concept, field, area, keynote, leitmotif
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/question
Yes, of course but what is it by itself, taken out of context?
View attachment 3775 "To be or not to be" is equivalent to saying "black or white". Is that a question? It's only a question if I make it one. By making the unnecessary additional statement, "That is the question" Where one to simplify things, one might simply state, "Should I or shouldn't I"
Okay - my take on it.
to exist, or to decide and act on whether to stop existing...
does it take more guts to slog it out, day after day, knowing that my life is not going to change because of where I am now, because of who I am - and all that it involves, or does it take more ticka to top myself, and by doing so, leave all this behind finally, and in doing so having the last and final word on everything that surrounds me...
And then to sleep - and hopefully wake up somewhere, somewhen else.
I reckon it's a pertinent question that transcends time.
I thank you kindly for all your support.
Wm. Shakspear
It's funny that Rudyard Kipling's poem "If" ponders and answers the same question a century later.
are you now quoting george ezra, FGS ?"Blaming it on me"? He He