Is there any difference between your non-existence before you were born and your non-existence after you die?

Question

If not, wouldn't this imply that your consciousness today is proof of "life after death", or at least "life after non-existence"?

If not, wouldn't this imply that your consciousness today is proof of "life after death", or at least "life after non-existence"? This is not to say, ' I have proven there will be life after you die'... rather just to say ' look, it has already happened once'.

Therefore, we know it is capable of happening. By the way, I am not religious, I am more philosophical.

Answer 1

There is no self, there is no I, there is no spirit, there is no soul, and there is no mind. That knocks off the whole list, and you have no way of finding out what you are left with. You may very well ask me the question, "Why do you go on telling people about the way you are functioning?" It is only to emphasize that we have been for centuries using some instrument, that is, thinking or mind, or whatever you want to call it, to free ourselves from the whole of what you call the 'I' or the 'self', and all kinds of things. That is what the whole quest of spirit is all about. But once it dawns on you that there is nothing to be free from, then these questions don't arise at all. How that dawned on me, I have no way of finding out for myself.

Whether you are interested in Moksha, Liberation, Freedom, Transformation, you name it, you are interested in happiness without one moment of unhappiness, pleasure without pain, it is the same thing"
We don't want to be free from fear. All that we want to do is to play games with it and talk about freeing ourselves from fear.

That is what you are. You cannot even directly experience the reality of the world in which you are functioning, much less some world beyond. There is no world beyond space and time. It is your invention, based upon the vague promises of the holy men. Our sense of value springs from the world as it is imposed on us. We must accept the world.

Answer 2

The mark of your good deeds will be the difference before your birth and after your death. But are you sure you will cease to exist. Just think that you are going to die, lie down on bed and have no other thoughts in your mind. Then see what you feel. You will find an undeniable presence of your existence, that which you are. People call it soul, Self etc. But anyway this is a simple test. But try it genuinely. It is wrong to think that this sense of self is caused by some electrical impulses in the brain. When there are multitudes of impulses in the brain, what is that entity then, which is constantly perceiving all the impulses that you get as thoughts? Is it not the same you that lived your childhood? Where do you get this feeling of unity in your personality throughout? There is an unchangeable entity, that is you. Even when body and mind fade out, this unchanbeable(you) will not perish. Whatever is real, will never cease to exist. Whatever is temporary has to depend on something which is more permanent which must be the cause of it. If you logically conclude this, then there will be something that is eternal. Great thinkers of the world have told us that whatever you call it God or Infinite or Causeless cause or the truth to be reached by scientists - it is the same essence that is you. You nature is Immortal, Freedom and Bliss. That's why you constantly seek for these even in physical world. Regards.

Answer 3

This is looking at life as a circle and not as a straight line with a beginning and an ending. Indeed we are happier and more comfortable thinking of life as a circle, even the religious believe life continues after death. If this is true, isn't our non-existence as important and actually equal in length to the time of "living"? With this said, we are justified in our death of reaching the part of our "circle" which leads us to re-birth.

Answer 4

Right, this is not an experience we should reject as possibility. However, it is a proof, not 'it is proof'. Personally I assume a difference based on my concept for chronology alone; having no memory of a previous life existence before birth to base an expectation for a life after death.

The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative; simple facts of consciousness.

Answer 5

When the concept of you dies, your cells will go back into the earth. Someone will eat food grown from that same earth - from you, essentially. That person will become pregnant by someone else who also eats food from the earth. This pregnancy will result in a life that is new in terms of the ego, but timeless in terms of the recycling of matter.

As you are apparently referring to the ego part of existence (with "I" and "me" being somehow separate from "they" and "them"), then no, life of the ego does not exist after its death. Life itself surely continues to exist, but the life of that particular individual does not.

Answer 6

i think/feel we came from some place, and we go on to another place, after our time here on earth, i have felt this since i was a small child,, i wondered how i would explain my beliefs to my own child, but it seems she also was born with it

when she was 4, a neighbor passed on, we dont even use the word death or die, she said " i think when you pass on, you go someplace, and they give you candy, then you are better, and can come back if you want to "

so she, in her childs way, summed up what it took me years to accept
and the only reason i had a problem with accepting what i felt, deep in my soul, was it was different then what current society or major religions speak of

Answer 7

I believe we always exist, before life and after death. God has a plan for each of us, and he knows each and every one of us before we are even conceived.

Answer 8

Thought is energy. According to the laws of Physics. It can neither be created out of nothing, or destroyed into nothing. So where are our thoughts before and after life?

Answer 9

YOUR EXISTENCE IN THE HERE & NOW YOU CAN BE ABSOLUTELY SURE OF.

YOUR EXISTENCE AFTER DEATH IS A MATTER OF BELIEF, FAITH & HOPE .

SEEING LIFE MOVES ONLY IN ONE DIRECTION YOU WILL AT THE END OF YOUR ALLOTED TIME GET AN ANSWER......OR WILL YOU?

Answer 10

The biggest difference is all the people I have helped over the years I am alive. They are thousands. And I have photos of myself, so others will remember me.