Pre-Existence

Discussion in 'Philosophy and Religion' started by MyImagination, Apr 7, 2010.

  1. MyImagination

    MyImagination Member

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    Anyone ever think about that infinite amount of time before we were born? We were nonexistent longer than we have existed, and will be nonexistent longer than we have existed after we die. Crazy, huh? It really hard for me to grasp the state of non-existence. Complete Nothingness. I was just throwing this out there for you guys to ponder on. :p
     
  2. tikoo

    tikoo Senior Member

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    oh , do you remember you the egg
    and having thoughts with no words ?
    i recall a warm figure 8-ness .

    and then i suppose

    dreaming within the last moment of dying ,
    and the next last moment
    unto the tiniest last moment
    a man's eternal life is lived .

    peace to the nothingness .
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  3. Duck

    Duck quack. Lifetime Supporter

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    When will non-existence be non-existent?
     
  4. raz5

    raz5 زینب

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    It's not crazy it's life, do what you please with it. WTG!
     
  5. raz5

    raz5 زینب

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    can non-existence be non-existent if non-existent will be non-existence in itself :)?
     
  6. thedope

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    Yeah it is crazy. Only reality is real and what is not real does not exist. There is no state of nothingness.
     
  7. TipsyGypsy

    TipsyGypsy Light of a Fading Star

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    Same here, I can't grasp nothingness. That's why reincarnation sounds good to me.
     
  8. Laxatone

    Laxatone Banned

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    Well since we are existent we can ever really not exist. Or something, because that would be existence.
     
  9. Duck

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    No, but if non-existence is a contradiction and can't exist, how will it express this?
     
  10. NotDeadYet

    NotDeadYet Not even close.

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    The time before you were born was not unpleasant in any way.
     
  11. Laxatone

    Laxatone Banned

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    We can't comprehend non-existence because we are part of existence.
     
  12. Laxatone

    Laxatone Banned

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    What bugs me is how you get from non-existence to existence, since technically that is impossible.
     
  13. Duck

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    Why is that technically impossible?
     
  14. Laxatone

    Laxatone Banned

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    Since we are existent we can't ever experience non-existence.

    I imagine it would be the same the other way around.
     
  15. thedope

    thedope glad attention Lifetime Supporter

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    If it is impossible then what is the dilemma?
     
  16. Duck

    Duck quack. Lifetime Supporter

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    Why?

    If you don't exist, you can't experience - so if you've experienced you can't not exist? =S

    If I eat all my food I will have no food left to eat, that doesn't mean that I couldn't have not eaten all my food.

    We will all experience non-existence again. Like the dinosaurs, or more properly, like some prehistoric creature we've never found.
    We can't consciously experience this - but our atoms will.
    Just like we couldn't consciously experience existence before our atoms came together.
     
  17. Laxatone

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    You Win!

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  18. raz5

    raz5 زینب

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    Our atoms ey? Quantum Physics :drool5:
     
  19. Laxatone

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    Wouldn't the atoms still exist?
     
  20. Duck

    Duck quack. Lifetime Supporter

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    I don't know if I liked the You Win better or not =P

    They would - but would they remember us? I don't know.
     

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