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Guille · 12-20-2005, 10:10 AM

What happens before you were concieved or after you die is just that you stop existing. I would have said that you are eaten by worms, but that would be wrong, because you would not longer be you: the body on which your mind and being relied on is eaten by worms. The reason why we think we are still ourselves before being concieved or before dying is because we tend to think that start and end are processes, periods. But they are not: they are just infinitesimal points.

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Guille The Thinker Status: Offline Posts: 3,278 Thanks Given: 14 Thanked 9x in 9 Posts Join Date: Mar 2005 Rep Power: 47	12-20-2005, 10:10 AM What happens before you were concieved or after you die is just that you stop existing. I would have said that you are eaten by worms, but that would be wrong, because you would not longer be you: the body on which your mind and being relied on is eaten by worms. The reason why we think we are still ourselves before being concieved or before dying is because we tend to think that start and end are processes, periods. But they are not: they are just infinitesimal points.