Does anyone recall what that time of their being was like... ? where they were... ? who else was around... ?
Although there's potential to grow, an infant's brain is not very highly developed at birth and I suspect that this fact may contribute to our general inability to recall specifics from our personal memory, but if we were indeed alive before birth, (in any sense at all,) wouldn't we have some idea of a pre-birth existence?
2007-10-01 21:12:47 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think life simply begins sometime close after 'birth' and ends at 'death' which I'm OK with being defined as at the point in which the brain ceases to function. When life becomes self-aware is the point at which I think the 'real' life begins and when this self awareness disappears, we can be safely considered dead. Theists often believe that the start point is at conception. This, they attribute to an irrational belief in the sanctity of human life. I don't think it 'starts' until sometime after birth. Believing this leads me to conclude that abortion is OK and even euthanasia of a severely compromised new life that stands little or no chance of leading an independent and fulfilling life. There is already a big problem of over-crowding on this planet to be indulging the moronic concept of sanctity of life. Our goal should be quality of life for those who have already become self-aware.
2007-10-02 02:05:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Though I have no specific religious preference and tend to lean more towards being Agnostic (because I am ambivalent when it comes to whether or not God is there), I can't help but to think there are elements of the essence of life that cannot be explained or identified. It is perplexing really, when you look at a sonogram and see movement and hear a heart beat...you know that's life in it's simplest form. Could that life have previously been a essence, spirit or soul waiting to come into the world? Possibly. It very difficult to wrap my mind around. I guess my final decree on the subject is yes...there is life before birth...maybe.
2016-05-18 23:45:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We all would like to believe that we lived in the past and will live again in the future, but it doesn't seem plausible.
We try to be brave in contemplating our own mortality, but we still have great difficulty in believing that our beautiful life will really end some day, maybe even tomorrow.
There seems to be an endless supply of spirits or souls, so there doesn't seem to be any need to recycle.
2007-10-01 21:40:55 · answer #3 · answered by big j 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are lots of documented cases of reincarnation and of persons who recall previous lifetimes.
Check out any books by Dr. Brian Weiss or "The Search for Omm Sety" or the story of "Bridey Murphy".
2007-10-01 21:48:15 · answer #4 · answered by Theresa 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Somebody said there's life after death? hahahahahahaha
2007-10-01 21:33:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing very interesting to remember about being cocooned in the womb.
2007-10-01 21:39:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Life is the beginning of Death and Death is the beginning of life.
2007-10-01 21:29:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
The Universe doesn't deal in beginnings nor ends... but nor does it deal in "eternity" persay.
We fade in.... and we fade out.
No specific points of start nor finish... but from nothingness comes this temporary form we grant name and personality.... and to nothingness again it eventually fades.
2007-10-01 21:28:13 · answer #8 · answered by Lucid Interrogator 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Before this life, we were all swimming around in the big vat of souls God keeps stored in Heaven. Right? Right?
2007-10-01 21:15:31 · answer #9 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
wild goose chase ....life lives; the rest is bovine fecal matter, don't cheapen it.
2007-10-01 21:32:05 · answer #10 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋