Christ
your post - although excellent - taxes the few working synapses I currently possess.

But to answer the question - yes, one was "dead" before being brought into existence via sperm / egg collision and fertilisation. Or if not dead, then in a state of potentiality; potentially there in the DNA of one's parents which fuses together in the act of creation.

However I advise you to work like stink for your exams and leave these issues until they are over. Good luck !
( I_Was_Mordred, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 10:25, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

cheers
That argument is from the Phaedo, which is covered in my exam. Along with other such shit, like Pleasure and Pain being siamese twins - can't have one without the other etc etc etc.

Aside from the Meaning of Life®, I have to know:
-half a book of the Iliad in Greek, plus the otehr half in English
-what hte fuck happened to the French Monarchy
-what the fuck happened to the British Monarchy, the Commonwealth, and the Monarchy again
-why Catherine the Great liked to masturbate on horses.

So posting on here IS revision.
I guess.
Not.
Fuck.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 10:34, Reply)

Listen
I once walked into a final exam - my Finals for the end of a 3 year degree course in History - not knowing the dates of the English Civil War. For a paper on the English Civil War. And I still got a second.

You seem capable of creating rational comments and arguments. That's half the battle. Just write lots.

Excreta tauream cerebrum vincit. Or something like that.
( I_Was_Mordred, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 10:36, Reply)

Ha, that's impressive
And yes. I'll bear that in mind. Got my Latin translation on Tuesday, doesn't look like I'll ahve time to revise. Ah well.

ero laetissima cum negoitum finis haeret.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 10:40, Reply)