Were you dead before you were born (or conceived)?

[Munjibunga]

I'm looking for Major's views on this.

 

[T-Bird]

Hi.

No, I wasn't dead.

If one dies in between, that's it.

Just my 0.02€
Sam

 

[Munjibunga]

Well, you weren't alive then, were you.

 

[sandmangeck]

technically until 20 wks gestation, you're not considered alive. So yes, you're dead before you're alive.

 

[UnsungZeros]

Death assumes prior existence. So no, I was not dead, but simply did not exist.

 

[MIJ-VI]

Bass forums...

 

[machine gewehr]

Death assumes prior existence. So no, I was not dead, but simply did not exist.

You did exist before you were born.

First in an orange tree.

Than your father's balls.

Every atom in our bodies existed way before we were born.We are actually made of stardust.Poetic science FTW!

 

[BassChuck]

If, in fact, we were in some level of existance before this mortal plane.... you can bet we did nothing with the moment because we were too absorbed in what came before that and worried about what came after.

In other words... its 7:00AM, what can I make of today?

 

[ShredderMaximus]

Beginning of life = first spark of mental activity
We were all blobs of cells before we started "living"
And as for plants and whatnot...... idk, soooooo


Fudge em'!

 

[Relic]

there is no "dead" only different states of being and existence. Consciousness is just a bonus of being "alive" but doesn't not designate "existence".

and I hate you for making me think deep thoughts before I've had my coffee!

 

[Jim Nazium]

Deep thread is deep

 

[Phalex]

Whoa dude....

And like you only exist for an infinitesimal fraction of time that you don't exist.....


Where's that bag of Doritos?.........

 

[Deluge Of Sound]

I can hear the bongwater spilling left and right.

 

[flipper_gv]

Beginning of life = first spark of mental activity
We were all blobs of cells before we started "living"
And as for plants and whatnot...... idk, soooooo


Fudge em'!

doesn't work, unicellular things are living too.

Btw, I think that before conception you were just not alive

 

[Kwesi]

You did exist before you were born.

First in an orange tree.

Than your father's balls.

Every atom in our bodies existed way before we were born.We are actually made of stardust.Poetic science FTW!

Sure, materially speaking, we existed before "ourselves" as individuals but I think that is exactly what "prior existence" refers to; the existence of our identity as entities in the universe. To simplify, if you were to build a Lego fort, the pieces to build it existed long before the fort itself but that doesn't mean the fort existed. Once built, it becomes it's own body, independent of all other material. We are the Lego fort .

 

[T-Bird]

Hi.

Well, you weren't alive then, were you.

Kinda depends of the ones point of view .

Regards
Sam

 

[ShredderMaximus]

doesn't work, unicellular things are living too.

Btw, I think that before conception you were just not alive

I'm talking about the point where you start building some sort of consciousness, when those cells start to work together to create a greater life form past being a lump of cellular matter
(man I wish I had some herbage right now...)

 

[ShredderMaximus]

oh yeah, and what kwesi says about forts n' stuff.

 

[Skitch it!]

there is no "dead" only different states of being and existence. Consciousness is just a bonus of being "alive" but doesn't not designate "existence".

and I hate you for making me think deep thoughts before I've had my coffee!

+1 I'm with this, and as far as developed conciousness is concerned, I'm with this,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology

 

[fenderhutz]

I still like explaining to everyone that when we are conceived we are ALL proto-female, well at least during the first six weeks anyway.

There is no female hormone to trigger a female infant, but after 6 weeks testosterone is released to form a male infant.

That's why men have hairy man nipples.