did you know we have all already experienced death?

Question

...all that time before we were born, we were...well...dead...sort of, how does that make you feel, are you scared of going back to that state of nothingness?

Answer 1

well i dont remmeber, so i dont know now!

Answer 2

No because I am so aware in this lifetime that I would not come back hahehehe I would go towards the light and not be reborn as they say in Buddhists terms...............In that state of nothingness that you talk about there are realms supposedly from the Tibet book of the dead are floating around until Karma brings us back to the earthly body to live and learn until you do not come back anymore on the human realm who knowssssssssssssssssssss One thing I will say if I have to be reborn again to take learn Math again in school I am definetly not being reborn God help me hahehehe

Answer 3

I just asked a question a few days ago about whether or not we get to choose the life we now have...before we are born.

I believe we do. At least in a spiritual way. I tend to think that our souls are woven into our developing physical body at the second of conception. That we exist prior (not infinitely so in actual existence but in the thoughts of God and then for a time before we are 'woven into a body"). I think we are aware of the spiritual realm and potentially choose the 'assignments' we'll have on earth school. I certainly do not believe we return to nothingness, but that we take the consciousness that we develop on earth with us, that we do retain our awareness of self and that we are here to develop LOVE in our souls or not based on free will. It will all make perfect sense once we die......an we will be aware of our lives on earth once we die.

Answer 4

How do you know that before we were born in our physical bodies we were "dead" or we are going "back" to what we were before which, according to your premise, "a state of nothing."

If we are eternal it just doesn't mean we will go on living forever, it also means that we existed forever before we were born. Eternity does not exist in time and you can't explain nor understand eternity through a timeline.

Can you prove that I didn't exist I before I was born, it's your thesis, shouldn't you be the one who defends it or offers proofs for us? Why would someone ask others to disprove what that very same person is perfectly free to believe what they wish to belief. If what that person believes has no consequence, then why ask people if they are scared of a belief they don't share. The only possible way it could cause a state of being scared if and only if the person who believes that they did not exist before they were born, does in fact have a consequence? You can not have it both ways, you can not ask someone if they are scared if there are no consequences, either the belief is false and therefore the consequences are false or the belief is true and therefore the consequences are true.

Therefore no matter how someone posits the question, it is impossible for someone to be scared of nothingness before birth unless they believe nothingness before birth to be true. The first words of the question are "did you know" So far your questions gives us no evidence we were "dead sort of" before we were born. Therefore your question can only apply to you and no one else. If you know that you were dead before you were born, then indeed you will go back to the state of nothingness.

I know I existed before I was born, therefore there is no state of nothingness to go back to.

How do I know? Before I was born according to the date on my birth certificate issued by the State of Tennessee, Jesus died for me and my sins and when I believed on Him and accepted His free gift of eternal life. How could He die for someone who did not exist? Because of the definition of eternal, I did exist. Eternal means forever, forever, includes this moment, all moments in the future and all moments in the past.

Time is a lens or a measuring stick through which we see life, the lens from which we view life is not life itself, it is only the lens not life. I measure a person with ruler and I find that they are five feet eleven inches tall. There was a time when I had not measured them. Since there was a time when I had not measured them, do I say to that person, "You did not exist before I measured you with a ruler and discovered that you are five inches and eleven inches tall?

If someone asks me what height is, do I point to a ruler and say the ruler is height? No, is not the ruler rather a lens that I use to try to understand height? The measuring instrument is not the thing being measured, the map is not the territory.

Since time is a lens and lens can only see so far and after that even the most powerful lens in the world can not see things that lie beyond its ability to measure. Then looking through a lense has no consequence for me, there is no being scared, there is no state of nothingness that I can see.

So in effect you are asking me if I am scared by a thing that I can not see.

Answer 5

When a soul comes into a new form of body, it is the birth of that being. We can experience GOD only when we go within and experience and see the Light and sound. At that time, our body's senses are withdrawn and it becomes numb. This is exactly what happens when we die actually. This experience of dying while living we have when alive-so when we actually die, we dont have a painful death.
But it is not that we have experienced death before being born, because there is no soul and no body at that time!

Answer 6

Death, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Those who fear death or dying would perceive death as terrifying, cold and mysterious, detached, and desperate. Those who do not fear death or dying would perceive death simply as a step--as many people have said, death is a natural next step in life. I am not afraid of being nothing, because, having lived upon the earth and known people, neither I nor anybody else will pass out of existence. Everybody is remembered somewhere: therefore, one never truly becomes nothing.

Answer 7

we are never in a state of nothingness, grasshopper. each life we are born into is one step up toward sending our soul to a higher plane..until the soul reaches perfection and needs not go through life again. the only thing that dies is the physical body :)

Answer 8

Yes. Scientifically, we are decaying every day with dead cells and this must always be wipe out by taking a bath everyday.
Biblically it said so from Genesis to Revelation. Historically, there are already stimated 20 billions of people who died in the last 6,000 years of mans recorded history. And Philosophi
cally, it is eloquently expounded by our great philosophers since immemorial time up to the present.

Answer 9

So what does this say about what we are? nothingness before, and nothingness to come; what "is" now?

And I don't mean that in a nihilistic sense.

Answer 10

You can't perceive if you don't exist yet. You aren't "dead" - you just aren't born yet. In order to be dead you have to be ALIVE first - even if only briefly. Once you do die you will again most likely perceive nothing - why be afraid of that? It won't hurt.

Answer 11

As for myself I was in heaven with God and decided I need to learn more so I came back AGAIN! I'm hoping this is my last time so I can stay with my God and family.