| | I was trying to recall the earliest memory that I have and I realize it only dates back to when I was 5 years old. Its a vivid memory of myself drawing a truck. Then it appears that from that point on I can remember, chronologically, events that happens after. I have always assume that death is the return to the nothingness of before a person was born. And that nothingness is defined by the later recollection of whether anything happened. This assumption would disapprove my original theory because to be able to recognize whether there is the existence of a memory the person must be alive. "I think therefore I am", to be alive is to exist and only through being alive can a person generate thoughts. Now, the fact that I couldn't remember what happens before I was 5 doesn't mean that I wasn't alive or existed before I was 5. To come to such a conclusion I would have been committing modus tollen. Although I avoided the fallacious conclusion, I am still convince that there is something abnormal about the entire memory process. Then again the older generation of Chinese people doesn't consider a child "alive" until they are 3 years old. Before 3 they have no soul. It may seem ridiculous but why can't 3 years old be the cutoff? What is the cutoff line? When the child is born? When the mother is first conceived? Whatever legally defined abortion deadlines?
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| | Posted 1/7/2007 2:52 PM - 30 views - 2 comments
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