Bubba Johnson Jr
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Php.1:23 —From what “two things” was Paul under pressure, and what “releasing” did he desire?
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To be or not to be. To die or not to die.
It's a bit like Shakespeare put it, except that Paul was not suicidal and had a lot more faith in the afterlife:
- To be, or not to be, that is the question:
- Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
- The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
- Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
- And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
- No more; and by a sleep to say we end
- The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
- That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
- Devoutly to be wish'd. 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—there's the respect
- That makes calamity of so long life.
- For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
- Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
- The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
- The insolence of office, and the spurns
- That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
- When he himself might his quietus make
- With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
- To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
- But that the dread of something after death,
- The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
- No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
- And makes us rather bear those ills we have
- Than fly to others that we know not of?
- Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
- And thus the native hue of resolution
- Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
- And enterprises of great pitch and moment
- With this regard their currents turn awry
- And lose the name of action.
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Chuck Connors was a punk