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Pikachuchupika
02/20/24 11:57:02 AM
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Or is being dead different from non-existence before birth?
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C_Pain
02/20/24 11:57:35 AM
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Obviously not. One has a soul and the other doesn't. :)

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Pikachuchupika
02/20/24 11:59:43 AM
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C_Pain posted...
Obviously not. One has a soul and the other doesn't. :)

What is a soul?
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pazzy
02/20/24 12:01:33 PM
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No. Because a person that is dead may have affected other people. One that is not born did not.
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C_Pain
02/20/24 12:04:01 PM
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Pikachuchupika posted...
What is a soul?
The oreo creme center

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Pikachuchupika
02/20/24 12:04:12 PM
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pazzy posted...
No. Because a person that is dead may have affected other people. One that is not born did not.

You could argue the people that haven't existed are affecting people today by not existing.
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Crimsoness
02/20/24 12:05:46 PM
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No one knows TC, if you can let us know when you die

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Jagr_68
02/20/24 12:06:23 PM
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Yeah it was a fucked up movie called this.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d86152a3.jpg

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Guide
02/20/24 12:07:11 PM
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By definition, something needs to be alive before it can die.

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SiO4
02/20/24 12:08:26 PM
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IDK, Ask an Embryo the next time you have the chance.

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Pikachuchupika
02/20/24 12:27:43 PM
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Guide posted...
By definition, something needs to be alive before it can die.

Yes, but what is non-existence? Some people say you don't exist until you're born. But then you don't exist when you die either. However, we did exist at one point. The law of conservation states that you cannot create or destroy energy. This would suggest that we have all existed in one form or another. We're all just atoms that gained sentience.

Perhaps atoms are sentience.
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Naysaspace
02/20/24 12:29:37 PM
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pazzy posted...
No. Because a person that is dead may have affected other people. One that is not born did not.
Ummmmmmm

The mother?

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FlyEaglesFly24
02/20/24 12:29:54 PM
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No. What you do in this life matters. There are countless examples of people who are dead that had they never been born, history would be radically different. In fact the argument can be made that the rule applies to everyone who ever lived. You matter to someone. What you do echoes in the people around you.

If you are never born, you dont have that impact. Thats why the phrase I wish you had never been born makes sense.

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Guide
02/20/24 12:32:47 PM
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Pikachuchupika posted...
Yes, but what is non-existence? Some people say you don't exist until you're born. But then you don't exist when you die either. However, we did exist at one point. The law of conservation states that you cannot create or destroy energy. This would suggest that we have all existed in one form or another. We're all just atoms that gained sentience.

Perhaps atoms are sentience.

I wouldn't ascribe the configuration of our brains to atoms, in the same way that I wouldn't call a bunch of individual legos a sculpture.

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pazzy
02/20/24 1:09:01 PM
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Naysaspace posted...
Ummmmmmm

The mother?
The state of non existence would mean that you aren't even conceived at all. So no. You wouldn't affect the mother.
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Revelation34
02/21/24 12:01:25 AM
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Naysaspace posted...

Ummmmmmm

The mother?


If it died in the womb then by definition there is no mother.

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OriginalPlain2
02/21/24 12:26:30 AM
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Guide posted...
By definition, something needs to be alive before it can die.
Also by definition the stuff needed for reproduction is alive according to science


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VampireCoyote
02/21/24 12:30:12 AM
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No. Its different.

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PurpleOutsider
02/21/24 12:30:37 AM
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https://youtu.be/YoIMqgxs1mI?si=7snYYkLbeXZx32vQ

Like 30 seconds into this, Trevor says not being alive yet means you're dead.

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TerraSeeker
02/21/24 4:04:57 AM
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There are plenty of unborn babies that have died.

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Irony
02/21/24 4:45:13 AM
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Pikachuchupika posted...
What is a soul?
21 grams of data

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Ratchetrockon
02/21/24 7:18:11 AM
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yes it's the same

it's why i say i wasn't alive in certain years (pre birthyear)

also wtf i thought this type of thinking was common! i am surprised by this thread

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mustachedmystic
02/21/24 7:24:27 AM
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Putting aside da whole when does life begin thing. Dead implies having lived.

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PraxagoraKassan
02/21/24 10:09:47 AM
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I don't think non existence is real and also something that dies had being (well, life maybe) at one point. Not being born is more of a feature of who is reproducing, but that sounds evil.

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SpawnShadow
02/21/24 10:37:11 AM
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No. Something that isn't born yet and something that's dead are both not alive, but to specifically be dead, it has to have previously lived, at least a little bit.
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Pikachuchupika
02/21/24 11:03:52 AM
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Maybe it's the opposite. Being alive is not existing, while not existing is being alive.
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Torgo
02/21/24 11:06:59 AM
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Nobody knows.

Since we can't communicate with pre and post life humans, and there is no recollection... I think a safe assumption is that it's just nothingness and oblivion in either case, but I have no way to claim this as absolute fact.

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Pikachuchupika
02/21/24 11:25:15 AM
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Forget about it. It's just nonsense lol
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Revelation34
02/22/24 7:16:15 AM
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TerraSeeker posted...
There are plenty of unborn babies that have died.


No there hasn't because an unborn baby doesn't exist.

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