Were you dead before you were born?
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Sun Apr-18-04 11:38 PM
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Poll question: Were you dead before you were born?
Sometimes I refer to the period of time before I was born to as "when I was dead."
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Sun Apr-18-04 11:40 PM
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1. Interesting way of looking at it I must admit
Technically accurate too...
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Sun Apr-18-04 11:41 PM
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because you weren't created yet. What if your parents hadn't gotten together and had sex? Would you just remain dead and then change forms to fit "some other" family that you would be born into.
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Sun Apr-18-04 11:41 PM
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No, we weren't dead before we were born. We were alive. Christ, a few weeks after conception, you can see a baby's heartbeat. This topic is just nuts.
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Sun Apr-18-04 11:43 PM
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before then. Like, before conecption.
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Sun Apr-18-04 11:43 PM
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5. I didn't mean to imply
any sort of particular take on the "beginning of life" question. If you prefer, treat it as "were you dead before you were conceived" or something like that. Or, "were you dead 10 years before you were born." Sorry
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Sun Apr-18-04 11:44 PM
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well then, I have no idea. :shrug:
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Sun Apr-18-04 11:44 PM
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7. I guess if you believe that you had past life
then yes, I guess you were dead before you were born. Then were you re-born?
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Sun Apr-18-04 11:46 PM
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8. ive seen it like that for awhile...
cause... well, i wasnt alive... as far as i know... :shrug: -LK
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Sun Apr-18-04 11:47 PM
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9. Mmmm I don't think "dead" is the right term...
Edited on Sun Apr-18-04 11:48 PM by BullGooseLoony
I don't think you can be dead if you've never been alive. On edit: Let me rephrase that more succinctly- you can't be dead if you've never even existed.
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Sun Apr-18-04 11:50 PM
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I can't just make up the name of some person that's never existed and say "They're dead." They're not anything- they don't exist. So, before you existed, you weren't dead. You just didn't exist.
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Sun Apr-18-04 11:52 PM
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How can you be dead if you never existed? Great point.
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Sun Apr-18-04 11:54 PM
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13. "How can you be dead if you never existed?"
It's easy. You would be dead without having existed.
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Sun Apr-18-04 11:56 PM
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could I can't see a logical reason not to. I agree that it's not a normal thing to say, but I don't think that necessarily means anything.
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Mon Apr-19-04 02:03 AM
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16. There's no entity to refer to
That's the basic problem... If you were to say that you were dead before you were born, you could just make up any number of imaginary people and say that they're dead, as they've just never been born...it just doesn't make sense...
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Mon Apr-19-04 09:07 AM
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18. How can you be so sure...
you "never even existed" before you were born into this current life?
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Sun Apr-18-04 11:51 PM
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11. I asked my grandma this when I was litte
She said I was in "The Land of Unborn Babies"
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Sun Apr-18-04 11:56 PM
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Edited on Sun Apr-18-04 11:57 PM by Seldona
I think one would have to have lived to die. You simply did not exist. And I think there is a difference.
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Mon Apr-19-04 09:02 AM
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17. Yes..so was this kid:
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Mon Apr-19-04 09:45 AM
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19. I didn't exist before I was born, and I won't exist after I die
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