or more relevently, what were we?
2007-12-27 14:00:57 · 21 answers · asked by in any other world 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
~~~ Once upon a time, long ,long ago ;we were all a little part of our ancestors. This goes way back to the beginning of time ,which in a way, makes us all one. ~~~
2007-12-27 14:50:49 · answer #1 · answered by donelle g. 7 · 9⤊ 4⤋
I'm going to answer the question by assuming you are asking "Where would a person be before that person is born?" The "we" part makes it sound like we are twins. So...
I don't get how people say nothing...something can't come from nothing...My first guess would go with along with Plato and say we were somewhere within the Forms.
But when are people born? The moment they come out of their mother's vagina? If so, then I was in her uterus.
If it is the moment that the sperm penetrate the egg, then I would say half of me is in my mom and the other half is in my dad. Only because, correct me if I'm wrong, half of the 46 chromosomes we have come from our mother and the other half from our father. Since those chromosomes make up our own DNA, that's were we would be.
2007-12-28 05:17:18 · answer #2 · answered by narfanator 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Where is the non-visible part of a cycle? That's where we were and will be. The same place the wave goes when it merges back into the ocean. This is called Myo.
Then we manifest into perception, this is called Ho. We operate under the understanding or ignorance of Renge. All things always shift and change. This is called Kyo. Together they form the basic reality of life which we can recognize and rejoice in the recognition. This is Nam.
2007-12-27 22:34:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
...just another sperm cell, in a sea of sperm!!!
2007-12-31 21:21:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
could be we were giants
2007-12-31 09:14:07 · answer #5 · answered by jumbo 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are not "you" until well after birth, not until your mind, starting from a point of "tabula rasa," percieves that it is both sentient and sapient.
Some mentally handicapped people never come to this point, and so although they can be referred to as "you" by people who speak to them, they really have no conscious concept that they exist--not in the same way you and I conceive our existence.
Before birth we have only the potential of "becoming" Homo sapiens sapiens qua Homo sapiens sapiens. At age 2 we could get meningitis and become a vegetable. Our potential would not have been reached.
What we "are," when we perceive our own sentience and sapience, is fulfilling the potential within the species.
Some of us never get that chance.
2007-12-28 14:45:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Very nice question. According to the ancient Vedic wisdom (The original "how to" books given at the time of creation by God) We living entities are eternal spirit souls. We fell here due to envying Gods position and being He gives us free will and there is no disharmony in the eternal kingdom, He made this world for us who wanted to try to be separate from Him. (though He is actually seated within the heart of each and every living being, but our consciousness is covered by the veils of His material illusion (Maya) After traveling from one life to the next through 8,400,000 species of life such as aquatics, plants, insects, birds, reptiles,animals, etc. We finally come to the human form of life (there are 4,000 different species of human beings in different planetary systems.) there are innumerable universes just like this one and the earth is the middle planet of each universe to end all suffering and stop the cycle of repeated birth death old age and disease. So depending on ones previous lives activities and desires we get the body we are in now. So you could have been almost any species and lived on any of the material planets. I choose to Go Home this time. Bhakti Yoga is the process back. For info read The Science of Self Realization by Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada. I am so glad I know this stuff. It changed my life.
2007-12-28 00:32:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
We were so absolutley nothing that to call us "nothing" would miss the point. We'd be so unfathomably non-existant we could not lable it. Death as it was for us before we lived will be for us when we die and it will be as though waking from a dream we cannot remember...only without the waking up part.
2007-12-27 22:47:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
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2007-12-27 23:12:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
Before conception we were a plan in God's love. After conception we were immortal souls come to being, in physical gestation. After birth? We were always in God's hands until we were old enough to decide to walk away from Him, or run to Him.
Doesn't matter when in our lives we hand ourselves over to Him, as long as we do before death. In the grave we cannot say, nor do anymore; not even when we wake to our judgment day.
2007-12-27 22:21:59 · answer #10 · answered by the old dog 7 · 4⤊ 5⤋
I believe we were inexistent. We weren't even spirits. We were just nothing at all. We were just victims of the creation of the universe, since everything is in the observable universe.
2007-12-28 00:36:26 · answer #11 · answered by Kyle J 6 · 1⤊ 5⤋