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Fuzzy Logic

To be OR not to be –
A good question really.

As with all good questions
the time taken to answer
increases at an increasing rate
in direct proportion
to the goodness of the question.

Such a fundamental issue
of being / non - being
will take an eternity
by which time any given Being
shall have turned into a Non- Being.
thus making irrelevant
the above option,
having gone through
the state of being,
it is now compelled
to ‘not be’ –

making the answer as
to be AND not to be.

8 comments:

  1. Good thought.

    I am not a great poetry critic. I am your fan though, I must say this one misses your usual spark. But as an idea, it's really appealing.

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  2. Intellectually speaking, poetry is an art. Artistically speaking, you've captured a higher intellect at work beneath these prose.

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  3. written very beautifully, I admire it. wishing you all the very best for your upcoming creations.

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  4. thanx Kandarp, Nick and Renu.. I had logic gates hovering in the mind for a long time.. and this was the result.

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  5. So Alaka, sounds like your idea could be rephrased something like this:

    To be and not to be
    that is (or will be) the answer

    However, human beings sometimes believe they can alter the point of change (between being & nonbeing); Hamet's soliloquey could be recast:
    Now, or Later, that's the question.

    Other questions can follow the same model. E.g.,
    Samosa or pakora, that is the question.
    Chocolate or vanilla, that is the question.

    :-)
    d.i.

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  6. yes, David, but to be or not to b is the most funda lof the lot.. aint it? btw, there is a poem by Jacques Prevert I think about l'Eleve Hamlet' - will email it to you.. very humorous one..

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  7. Good thought, but I feel, you have not reached to any conclusion, just have left the poem in Majdhar " TO B OR NOT TO B", keep it up

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  8. thx for a different viewpoint, Bhuvan

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