Suppose your mother and father had never met, would you have ever been born? That is, would you have ever had a self aware consciousness of your own existence? Then, what does your answer imply?
2006-11-28 05:26:14 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If Yes, then it means that conscious existence is not dependant on the physical body.
If no, then it means the odds of you ever having an existence is beyond calculation. Suppose your grandparents never met, etc.
2006-11-28 05:51:23 · update #1
If my mother and father had never met, I would have been born (the *soul* is born) to another mother and father, and therefore had different features, different body ... but my soul would still have been born. The parents create the body, God creates the soul which enters to (any) physical body.
We should identify with our soul as our true self, not our physical bodies.
2006-11-28 05:29:53 · answer #1 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
If my mother and father never met the person that I am would not be able to exist because I would not have the same genetic make-up nor the experiences. However, as I believe in a soul or spirit, there would be another form of me on this physical plane somewhere.
By the way I consider myself neither a non-believer nor a "great thinker", just a girl who uses the head and heart that God gave her.
2006-11-28 06:20:31 · answer #2 · answered by hazydaze 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I would not exist. What does my answer imply? That life and consciousness are naturally given, not supernatural creations.
Thinking that I would not exist if my parents had not met would be much more of a problem if i were a christian. Then I would have to either say that my parents created my soul, and thus that humans have the power to create souls, or I would have to say that my soul would have existed otherwise, in which case there are souls of people who never existed. But that is against Christian teachings. If non-existant people have souls, choosing to not have a child denies a soul life just as much as abortion does. Abstinence would be as bad or worse than abortion. I think this is much more of an interesting question for believers.
2006-11-28 05:48:07 · answer #3 · answered by student_of_life 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
That's a very good question. Have you ever heard of Quantum Mechanics? It's a very advanced, and very theoretical physics that deals with the possibility of other dimensions among many other things. For example, if you come to the end of a road and you can either go left or right, and you choose to go right - the idea is that there is another dimension where you chose to go left instead - and you life is then carried out according to these decisions. Imagine if your whole life was based on that premise. For every little decision you made - there was another place where your life carries on as if you made the opposite choice instead. I know it sounds outrageous - but just think about it. According to that theory, there would be another place where your parents did infact NOT meet, and you were NOT born. So, naturally you would be unaware of "you" as you think of yourself now. I know it's all hard to swallow but if the theory was even a smidgen true, then every concious choice you've made in your life has probably been pre-determined. I think we've all been caught in a sticky situation and have decided to go with our "Gut" feeling on things - maybe that "Gut" feeling is due to some force that is acting on your body to pull your life in that pre-determined direction. Like I said - it's all theory, just something to think about. Who knows for sure though - messing with time and "what if's" is always a quandry -- like this paradox for example. * If a man grows up, invents a time machine, goes back in time and accidently kills himself when he's a child - would he have ever been able to grow up to invent the time machine and come back to kill himself? * Gotta love those unanswerable questions.
2006-11-28 05:39:39 · answer #4 · answered by Lokii 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I once told my Mom that I was very thankful for my husband,because without him I couldn't have had my 2 beautiful children. With her usual wisdom,she told me that no matter who I married,I'd still have the same 2 beautiful children.
I was adopted,but that's neither here nor there. Either way, I do believe I would have been born,with my adoptive parents,with my biological parents,or another set of parents that would have turned out then to be my biological parents.
My answer implies that I am here for whatever reasons,and I was meant to be here,one way or another.
2006-11-28 05:58:54 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Obviously, I would never have been born had my parents not met. Which, of course, means that I would not have had a self-aware consciousness of my (non-) existence. As for implications of all of this, I don't see anything particularly interesting or useful.
2006-11-28 06:39:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes I would have been born because my mother never met my father as she got the sperm from the sperm bank. Therefore I have a self aware consciousness. This implies that there are other ways to conceive than sex.
2006-11-28 05:30:50 · answer #7 · answered by Presagio 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Recarnation...
is an existance of one plain to another to become life ..
though some people have shown in hyptnotized studies to have past life .. I guess it really wouldn't matter of being recreated by your parents if your soul can be bound to another ...
Life before birth and after death everyone is seeking answers .. Have we always had our soul or is int fresh and new and clean from experinces .. I guess your true question should of been asked is your soul new or old..
Does it matter of the parents I don't think so ...
2006-11-28 05:32:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
No - *I* (as I am right now) would have never been born or experienced self-aware consciousness as me. My answer implies there is no God as the Christians perceive God. That isn't to say I don't believe in a higher power. It just tells me that a different perception of God (as being the universe and uninvolved in human life aside from having provided the building blocks of our creation) is more likely to be correct. It also seems to suggest, to me anyway, that life is random.
2006-11-28 05:29:54 · answer #9 · answered by swordarkeereon 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋
hopefully there is such thing as reencarnation....whouldnt this be wonderful...? if the parents had never met then, of course i would have never been here (AS ME, the person i am now...)but on the contrary......you would not have a self-awareness of this existance, but im sure that I, (ME) would have been somewhere else in the world....but i'm not....all we can do is talk about it - funny how life is huh? hope all is well with you, and keep thinking well as you are....peace
2006-11-28 05:30:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋