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Question of the Month

To Be Or Not To Be, What Is The Answer?

The following responses to Hamlet’s big question each win a random book.

“There is only one philosophical problem which is really serious: suicide. To decide whether life is or is not worth living.” So opined Albert Camus, and he proffered an answer too. Yes, life is worth it if lived with lucidity, conscious of life’s absurdities, but rebelling against them. Scorn its arbitrariness and commit to being happy.

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