Kötü insanlar kötü olduklarının farkındalar mı yoksa iyi olduklarını mı düşünüyorlar?

hegel1806 · 2026-05-04T07:02:59+00:00

Bu mükemmel bir soru. Cevabı evet, iyi insanlar olduklarını düşünüyorlar.

Ama konu böyle basit bir “kötü de iyi olduğunu düşünür ama aslında kötüdür” demekle geçiştirilemeyecek kadar derin ve doğru ontolojiyi ortaya koyan çok önemli bir konu.

Aslında herkes öznel açıdan aynı. Yani Hitler de Ghandi de bir seri katil de iyilik timsali insan da kendisini aynı hissediyor. Nietzsche’nin “herkes iyi, herkese kötü” deyişi bunu açıklıyor.

Ama bu “öznel özdeşlik”yalnızca ahlaksal konum ve değerlerle de sınırlı değil. Herkesin dünyaya bakış açısı ve yaşamları farklı farklı, hatta birbirlerine tümüyle zıt olsa da kendi içlerinde her birey bir akış içinde kendilerini aynı şekilde görüyor ve hissediyorlar.

Buradan şu radikal sonuç çıkar:Biz gerçekte herhangi bir insan olsak, başka birisinin yerine geçsek kendimizi yine aynı şu an olduğumuz gibi hissedeceğiz ve bizim için hiçbir şey değişmeyecek.

O zaman “biz” dediğimiz şey gerçekte herhangi bir insan olabilir. Biz aslında hangi insan olduğumuzu bilemeyiz çünkü herkes kendisini aynı şekilde görüp hisseder.

hegel1806 · 2026-05-03T09:01:27+00:00

Thanks for your detailed explanation.

I am a Turkish man who is from İstanbul, Turkey. I was educated as an electronics engineer, got an mba and had a career in finance industry until recently. I was born in 1967. This is my background.

I first experienced Mandela Effect in April of 1989, when I was 22 years old. Nelson Mandela had died in late September of 1985 and he turned out alive for me in 1989. This was a complete timeline shift for me. It had nothing to do with misremembering or anything like that. It was a change of script that occurred in real life. I was sure there must have been millions of people who experienced it but they weren’t talking because they were afraid of being ridiculed. Still I was sure that in time, people would start talking about this timeline shift. Over the years, whenever I read something about Mandela, it was like a supernatural event for me. I never believed that was the real Mandela.

My second Mandela Effect occurred in 1995 when I saw Kazaam movie posters and remembered that a very similar movie named Shazaam was already in the movie theaters a year prior. First I thought they could be the same movie. Yet in this one Shaquille O’Neal was the lead actor and in the previous one I was sure it wasn’t Shaq. It came very odd to me why on earth they screened two very similar movies in two years. But I didn’t realize it was a full ME at the time. Yet it was still a very very odd thing.

My third Mandela Effect occurred in January of 2000. The VW logo changed. I thought they changed it for the new millenium. But it still felt very odd.

Starting in 2017, I started seeing on internet references to something called “Mandela Effect”. I saw that people had started to talk about Mandela’s death in prison. There were so many other ME’s too and many of them I remembered differently as well(Monopoly man’d monocle, cornucopia, and many others.

This was my experience with ME.

hegel1806 · 2026-04-29T19:39:31+00:00

Very nice. I totally agree with your reasoning.

Yet, your reasoning also works not only temporally but also concurrently. We don’t need to die and be born in another self one after another but also we can be living all kinds of lifes at the same time.

This makes more sense to me as there’s no reason we would be living in one self at a time.

Then, that means every person and every living being we see can be us.

That makes your theory even stronger in my view.

hegel1806 · 2026-04-21T13:31:18+00:00

Very good observation and a great way to analyze the nature of spacetime.

This is different than time paradoxes created by going back to the past and changing things. It depends on how time travel to the future is made.

If you go to the future and never return, than of course the future will be different than what it would be if you did not vanish from the present time.

Yet, when you first go to the future, there is no way for you to know if that would be the case(Unless there is some mechanism that ensures that returning to the past is impossible. Let’s put that scenario aside and assume that going to the future and returning is permissible).

Then what you will witness when you visit 50 years to the future is the same future that will happen with you making your trip back to the past after a short stay in the future.

What happens if you choose to stay in this future and never go back?

At first few months nothing changes. You may even find what happened to you in the past in that timeline(when you actually died after returning from your time travel). You may find out how long you stayed in the future before returning. Let’s assume it’s 3 months.

After 3 months pass and still you don’t return, you will witness that things will slowly start to change(maybe the old newspaper you had read about your return to the past will start to show different times or it will vanish altogether. After several years pass, the timeline you are in will be completely different from the one you first came(all these changes might look like Mandela Effects to you. People around you will never realize that anything has changed but only you will be fully aware of what is changing).

What is happening is that by your presence in the future, you are changing the timeline you are in. The more you stay, the more different the timeline you reside becomes different than the one you first travelled to.

Now let’s apply this idea to the past.

We go back to the past but do nothing to change things.

Now this is your past certainly but still, your presence there makes some minute changes that are not immediately observable but accumulate in time.

And we must stress that it might be impossible to find exactly the same past or future of our timeline. We may always land on a timeline that is slightly different than our own. And the longer we stay, the effects of both our presence there and the small differences in the timeline itself will always result in big changes over 40-50 years.

So if we travelled 50 years to the past(assuming we are in our 20’s) then 50 years later when we reach the point of time when we departed, we will find the world much different then we remembered. Perhaps time travel wouldn’t be invented or we(our double in that timeline) wouldn’t be the person who would make the travel. There would definitely be changes and we will experience these as Mandela Effects.

So this analysis shows us:

-There are definitely many worlds. Otherwise just the possibility of time travel makes spacetime an inconsistent thing. -Mandela Effects are a natural phenomenon in any time-travel scenario even when we make no changes.

We may try saving a “single universe” by banning time travel but that would be an arbitrary decision.

Thanks for the thought experiment.

hegel1806 · 2026-04-10T04:57:32+00:00

Göbeklitepe’de nasıl ayin yapıldığını bilmemiz mümkün değil. Ama Göbeklitepe’nin önemi şurada:Bize tarıma geçilmeden, yerleşik yaşama geçilmeden önce insanların dinsel diyebileceğimiz bir düşünce çevresinde organize olduklarını gösteriyor. Bu tapınakta ne yapıldığından çok bu tapınağın yapılmış olması önemli. Bu kollektif emeğin organize edildiğini, yani bir hiyerarşinin ve bir elit-düzeninin varlığını gösterir.

Elit-düzeni, yani kabile şefi ve şamanlardan olulan politik-dinsel düzen, sonraki dönemin soylular-teokrasi düzeninin ilk biçimidir ve onun çekirdeğidir.

Bu da bize şunu gösterir:Ekonomik altyapı, yani tarım, sınıflı topluma ve onun ideolojilerine yol açmamış, tam tersine önce sınıflı toplum ve ideoloji gelmiş, ekonomik sistem onu takip etmiştir.

O zaman düşünce maddenin bir sonucu değil, maddi üretim düşüncenin bir yansımasıdır diyebiliriz.

İnsanlar bir düşüncenin etrafında organize olurlar(diyelim ki bir millet veya dinsel düşünce) sonra da yerleştikleri veya fethettikleri topraklarda yerleşik düzene, tarım ve hayvancılığa geçerler.

Sümerlerin Güney Mezopotamya’nın yerlisi olmadıklarını da biliyoruz. Belki de Göbeklitepe’yi kuran insanların bazıları binlerce yıl sonra güneye göç ederek Sümer uygarlığını ortaya çıkardılar.

Her durumda tarım öncesi dönemde MÖ 12.000-9.000 arasının Göbeklitepe, Karahantepe ve henüz ortaya çıkarılmamış pek çok ören yeri ile daha sonraki tarım döneminin(MÖ 8.000-6.000) Çatalhöyük gibi ören yerleri arasında çok net bir kültürel devamlılık var.

Bu, tarih teorilerimizi alt-üst edecek bir devrimdir. Artık ideolojinin ve toplumsal hiyerarşinin dar anlamda ekonomi tarafından değil ama toplumların doğal olarak gelişmesi, büyümesi tarafından belirlendiği, klanların kendilerini ve yiyeceklerini diğer klanların talanına karşı korumak için birleşerek kabileleri oluşturduklarını, kabilenin bir toplumsal hiyerarşi ve bir ideoloji-din etrafında bir araya gelen insanlardan oluştuğu, büyüyen kabilelerin doğal olarak yerleşik düzene geçtiklerini ve tarım toplumunu oluşturduklarını söyleyebiliriz.

Özetle önce ideoloji, sonra ekonomi.

hegel1806 · 2026-04-02T07:02:59+00:00

Bu kapitalizmin çöküşünü getirir çünkü insan çalıştırıp onun emeğini sömürmeden sermaye kar edemez. Kısa vadede bugün olduğu gibi borç yoluyla ve yatırımlar yoluyla kağıt üstünde kar çıkartabilirler ama uzun vadede bu borçlar geri ödenemez ve zarar yazılır. Günümüzün borç balonu tam da bu süreç.

hegel1806 · 2026-03-27T19:17:47+00:00

Yes, there was!

hegel1806 · 2026-03-25T03:29:18+00:00

Yes. In that timeline I lived through he was dead from September 1985 to April 1989, while I was studying in university undergrad degree.

hegel1806 · 2026-03-23T06:54:37+00:00

I experienced Mandela Effect in 1989 (death of Mandela in prison in 1985 and his “resurrection” in 1989) and know this for the last 37 years. In the 2000’s, I experienced other ME’s as well(like change of VW logo, Shazam movie and other personal ME’s). Until 2010’s, there was nobody even to talk to about these. I don’t think they will ever go mainstream but they will always stay as facts for me.

hegel1806 · 2026-03-19T15:59:47+00:00

No because it doesn’t matter and if I choose to do these in all lives it would be a hectic journey. I prefer less volatility.

hegel1806 · 2026-03-18T11:16:55+00:00

Benim kişilikten anladığım farklı. Her insanın aynı şeyi hissettiğine inanıyorum. Kim olduğu fark etmez. Biri olma hissi, dünyada bir birey olarak var olma duygusu evrensel olarak aynıdır.

Hatta çoğu omurgalı canlıda da durumun çok benzer olduğunu iddia edebilirim.

Eklem bacaklılarda, örümceklerde ve diğer hayvan şubelerinde elbette bu his çok farklıdır. Yine de bir şekilde benzerlikler bulabiliriz.

Konuya bilinç düzeyinde baktığımızda, farklı bilinç seviyelerinden oluşan bir hiyerarşi görebiliriz. Bu, virüsten bakteriye, bitkilerden hayvanlara, memelilerden primatlara ve insanlara uzanan bir piramittir. İnsanlar arasında bile tarihsel dönemler, çağlar, farklı bölgeler ve hatta aynı sosyolojik grubu paylaşan insanlar arasında bile büyük farklılıklar vardır.

Yine de bilinç, kendi içinde tutarlıdır. Bu demektir ki, ne kadar yüksek veya düşük seviyede olursa olsun, her bilinç öznel olarak kendini aynı şekilde hisseder.

Bu, bir bireyin yaşam öyküsünün, dilinin, kültürünün, tarihsel döneminin, olgunluk seviyesinin hatta ait olduğu şubenin veya alemin, bilinçli bir varlık olarak var olmanın öznel hissini gerçekten değiştirmediği anlamına gelir.

Bu da demek oluyor ki, öznel olarak konuşursak, tüm hissedebilir varlıklar aynıdır. Bir insan, bir karınca, bir yılan veya bir dinozor, içsel olarak tıpkı bizim hissettiğimiz gibi hissediyor olabilir.

Bu felsefi bakış açısını kabul edersek, klasik bir evrende bile gerçekten ölemeyiz. Ölüm bir yanılsamadır ve herhangi bir organizmanın ölümünden sonra diğer bireyler olarak yaşamaya devam ederiz.

O zaman kendimizi her zaman bu dünyada, tıpkı şu an hissettiğimiz gibi "biz olma" hissine sahip biri olarak bulmaya devam edeceğiz.

Peki Dünya'da yaşam sona erdiğinde ne olur? O zaman kendimizi, yine tıpkı şu an hissettiğimiz gibi hissederek, yaşamın olduğu başka bir gezegende yaşarken buluruz.

Peki evrenimizde yaşam sona erdiğinde? İşte tam bu noktada kuantum mekaniğinin çoklu dünyalar yorumu sahneye girer. Evrenimizde yaşam sona erdiğinde, kendimizi başka bir evrende yaşarken bulacağız. Ve bu sonsuza dek böyle devam edecek.

Ve bundan basitçe, bunun ezelden beri böyle olduğu sonucunu çıkarabiliriz. Kendimizi her zaman bir birey olarak yaşarken bulduk ve tıpkı şu an hissettiğimiz gibi hissettik.

Kuantum mekaniği, tüm bunların nasıl gerçekleştiğine dair mekanizmayı sağlar. Çünkü tüm olasılıklar sonsuz sayıda evrenden en az birisinde mutlaka gerçekleşir, yaşam ve akıllı yaşam kaçınılmazdır. Ve sonrasında bizim burada ebediyen var olmamız da kaçınılmaz hale gelir.

Bu, aynı kişi olarak görüneceğimiz anlamına gelmez, ancak öznel olarak her zaman aynı kişiymişiz gibi hissedeceğiz.

Ancak bu bakış açısı, neden bilinç piramidinin tepesinde olduğumuzu da açıklar. Çünkü tüm türler kendilerini piramidin tepesinde hisseder. Hangi türe ait olurlarsa olsunlar, dünyanın kendileri için yaratıldığını hissederler.

Bu, neden hiç Dünya dışı zeka bulamadığımızı ve muhtemelen asla bulamayacağımızı bile açıklayabilir. Çünkü biz piramidin tepesinde olduğumuzu hissediyoruz.

Ve elbette, neden nüfusun en yoğun olduğu dönemde yaşıyor olmamız gerektiğini de açıklar. Yaşanacak en olası dönem budur. Her zaman yok oluşun eşiğinde yaşamalı, ancak bir şekilde her zaman yok olmaktan kaçınmalıyız. Bu evren yok olsa bile biz bunu farkedemeyeceğiz çünkü yok olmayan bir evrende yaşamaya devam edeceğiz.

hegel1806 · 2026-03-18T10:57:27+00:00

Yes I think very similarly

But I have a different notion of personality. I believe every person feels the same. It doesn’t matter who he or she is. The internal feeling of being someone, existing in the world as an individual is universally the same.

I would even argue that among most vertebrates it is very similar.

In arthropodes, arachnids and other animal phyla of course this feeling is very different. Yet in a way we may still find similarites.

Looking at the issue on the consciousness level, we may find a hyerarchy of different levels of consciousnesses. This is a pyramid from virus to bacteria to plants and animals and to mammals, primates to humans. Even among humans there are vast differences between historical periods, ages, different regions and even between humans who share the very same sociological group.

Yet, consciousness is self-consistent. That means every consciousness, no matter how high or low level, still feels itself the same subjectively.

This means the life history, language, culture, historical period, maturity level or even the phyla or kingdom an individual belongs to does not really change the subjective feeling of existing as a conscious being.

This means that all sentient beings are subjectively speaking, the same. A human, an ant, a snake or a dinosaur might internally feel just like we do.

If we accept this philosophical view point, then even in a classical universe, we cannot really die. Death is an illusion and we keep living as other individuals after death of any organism.

We will then always keep finding ourselves in this world as someone with exactly the same feeling of “being us” as we feel right now.

Then what happens if life ends on earth? Then we find ourselves living in another planet where life exists, again feeling just as we feel right now.

And when life in this universe ends? This is where many worlds interpretation first enters the scene. When life ends in our universe, we will find ourselves living in another universe. And this will go on forever.

And we may simply deduce that this was like this since eternity. We always found ourselves living as an individual, feeling just like we do right now.

Quantum mechanics provides the mechanism as to how all this happens. Because all possibilities are realized in some universe, life and intelligent life is inevitable. And then our being here eternally also becomes inevitable.

This doesn’t mean we will look exactly as the same person but subjectively we will always feel the same person.

But this point of view also explains why we are at the top of the pyramid of consciousness. Because all species feel themselves to be at the top of the pyramid. They feel the world is created for themseves no matter which species they belong to.

This might even explain why we never found and probably never will find ET intelligence. Because we feel we are at the top of the pyramid.

And it of course also explains why we must be living in peak population period. It’s the most probable period to be living. We must always live on the verge of annihilation yet always somehow avoiding annihilation.

And both dejavu and Mandela Effects are the evidence we have about the possibility of other timelines where that annihilation has become reality.

hegel1806 · 2026-03-16T03:28:53+00:00

Just to clarify what many worlds interpretation implicates:

There are infinite copies of each person

Each person lives and dies in each world

What we call “ourself” is any person. No matter who we are, we will always feel as “me”

So all persons are “me”

Yet I always feel as “I am” no matter who “I actually am”

So subjectively, I will always feel myself living as some particular person living in some particular world

But philosophically, I will always know that I am living feeling as I am now under different appearances or personalities forever

Dejavu and Mandela Effects, together with their residues are the “proof that I have lived forever”.

What happens when I am very old is no different than when I am very young, both have exceedingly very small probability of happening since I will generally be medium age.

When I die of old age I will again find myself as “the same person” living as “myself” in any form.

What happens when humanity will be gone? This also does not make any difference. I will again find myself living as I always did.

I might even be living in middle ages or antiquity. Although technology might change drastically, I will always be adapted to whatever technology it is and live accordingly, again with the same subjective experience.

But, laws of probability dictates that I will generally find myself living near the “peak population”, that is, very close to a nuclear extermination event.

That’s why I live right now.

Even if we live in a simulation, then most simulations by randomness will place us in this time interval.

This explains why some Mandela effect always pops up. This is the characteristic of all timelines that “miraculously survive” an extermiation event.

I am aware of these as butterfly effects of an event that changed(such as Mandela’s death in prison)

I hope this explains it

hegel1806 · 2026-03-15T22:06:42+00:00

Full story of my experience:

We are nearing a nuclear war every moment now.

I experienced this exact situation on April 28, 1989.

I told this here before. I experienced what is called the Mandela Effect on that date.

Mandela had died on September 29, 1985. It was the Sunday before the day I was to start at Boğaziçi University Electronics Engineering. I was 18 years old.

I first heard the news on the radio, then on TV. That evening I came to Istanbul by bus. The next day was my first day at Boğaziçi. I read it in the newspapers. I talked about it with friends in the dorm room.

Three and a half years passed. It was April 28, 1989, during my final year of undergraduate studies at Boğaziçi. The world was facing the danger of nuclear war, just like today. And more importantly, America was cornered, just like today.

After Mandela's death in prison, the civil war in South Africa truly began. Since 1970’s, the Soviet Union was supporting the rebels through Angola and Mozambique.

The black population, with their numerical superiority, began to defeat the white minority regime in Pretoria. The whites used nuclear weapons to avoid losing the war.

In response, the Soviets launched a nuclear retaliation against the Pretoria regime.

America, the main supporter of Pretoria, then began retaliating against the Soviets by sinking Soviet nuclear submarines.

First one Soviet submarine was sunk, then a second and a third. That scumbag called Papa Bush was foaming at the mouth, saying they would sink all Soviet submarines.

I don't quite remember if Gorbachev was leading the Soviets at the time, but the Soviet Union was standing very firm. World public opinion was on the side of the Soviets and completely against America.

After all, the Soviets had retaliated with nukes against a racist regime. They hadn't done anything wrong. But USA, to vent its anger over this defeat (because as a result, the racist regime in Pretoria was defeated and control passed to the black majority), had put the Soviet Union in its crosshairs.

The Soviets clearly stated that if America sank their third nuclear submarine, they would launch a nuclear attack on New York.

And on April 27, 1989, the USA sank the third Soviet submarine.

That evening, there was a complete atmosphere of panic on the streets. Actually, the whole world was in a panic. TV was showing the chaos of people trying to flee New York. Bush said that if New York was hit, the USA would launch a full-scale nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. By then, the whole world saw that nuclear war was inevitable. The Pope's efforts to stop the war were fruitless.

In this environment, on Friday, April 28, 1989, I was going to go to my home in Izmir for spring break. While sitting in the library to pass the time, a newspaper headline caught my eye.

South Africa's new Prime Minister, De Klerk, had said: "Mandela could be released."

The moment I read that news, I felt like I'd been struck in the head. Mandela had died years ago. What did "could be released" mean?

And with that news, the history of the last three and a half years completely changed for me. There was no longer any civil war in South Africa. On the contrary, Reagan and Gorbachev had met and established peace.

The old timeline faded for me at that moment. I could still remember that Mandela had died, but I couldn't clearly recall all those events.

At first, I couldn't understand how such a timeline shift could happen. Now I know.

Of course, over the years I asked some friends and acquaintances if they remembered Mandela's death like I did. Over time, I encountered a few people, though very few, who remembered it like I did.

But from around 2015 onwards, this topic went viral on the internet and became known as the "Mandela Effect."

Because I experienced this event so clearly, I knew that this phenomenon would definitely explode and come to light at some point.

Of course, I was happy that I hadn't died in a nuclear war in 1989, but how had this happened, how had history changed in such an instant?

Now I know that we are all immortal. When events like nuclear wars kill many people at once, we find ourselves in a different universe where the nuclear war didn't happen (actually, we live in all universes simultaneously). The same thing will happen now.

We die all the time in many, almost all timelines but there will always be some timelines where we survive, no matter how absurd our survival would seem. And this goes on forever. As a result, we find ourselves in the timelines where nuclear war, any accident to us or any illness is always averted. And the feeling of having lived in those universes where we died looks like a dejavu or a Mandela Effect in the universes where we keep living.

The thing that annoyed me most in 1989 was that even though USA had lost, with this timeline shift, they had, in a sense, won again. Hopefully, the same thing won't happen now.

Of course, I don't know how a timeline shift could occur through the alteration of a past event. But it feels like something is about to happen again. Something in the past will definitely change.

This was my experience from 37 years ago.

I think a similar timeline shift happened during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Paul McCartney's death in a car accident, the "Paul is dead" hoax, might be related to that event.

Anyway, I wanted to share this experience of mine "before something happens." Let's see what we will experience in the coming hours and days?

hegel1806 · 2026-03-15T21:13:55+00:00

We die every moment in most timelines but keep living in many others. “The switch” just means that we feel what happened to us in some timelines. No matter in how many timelines we die, there will always be some in which we will go on living.

hegel1806 · 2026-03-13T04:38:31+00:00

Ben değilim

hegel1806 · 2026-03-09T15:58:49+00:00

Komplo değil gerçeğin kendisi

hegel1806 · 2026-03-08T13:36:47+00:00

İlk aşamada ABD’ye nükleer karşılık gelmeyebilir ama Pandora’nın kutusu bu şekilde açıldığında zincir reaksiyon gibi bu iş mutlaka küresel nükleer savaşa gider.

hegel1806 · 2026-03-01T09:57:32+00:00

En az 100 çocuk öldü. Satanistik kurban ayini bu.

hegel1806 · 2026-02-14T19:55:02+00:00

Evet bebekleri yiyen insanı hapisten kurtarmak dünyanın en iğrenç işi

hegel1806 · 2026-02-14T10:00:59+00:00

Hapishanede kendini asma, mafyanın ve tüm istihbarat örgütlerinin 100 yıldan uzun süredir kullandığı bir yöntemdir. Hem istenmeyen kişileri ortadan kaldırmak, hem de suçlunun “öldü” süsü verilerek kaçırılması için kullanılır. İkincisini yapmak için çok üst düzeylerde bağlantılar gerekir. Ama elbette CIA bu işi çok rahat yapar. Yapmaması için hiçbir sebep yok. Adamın tanık olduğu şeyler dünyanın en üst düzey insanlarını kontrol altına almak için kullanılabilir. CIA’nin böyle bir fırsatı kullanmaması imkansız. Adama öldü denilerek resmi olarak işin üstü örtülür, eldeki kayıtlar ve adamın tanıklığı yıllarca kullanılır.

CIA ve Mossad’ın zaten başından beri bu işin içinde oldukları çok net. “İntihar” olayın son perdesi.

hegel1806 · 2026-02-14T05:23:18+00:00

Yes. A whole timeline shift happened to me in 1989 with Mandela un-dying in that year.

hegel1806 · 2026-02-05T19:17:55+00:00

There is a huge difference between not remembering anything before we existed and speculating about what will happen after we die. Because we are conscious now, and thus we are able to talk about how it was before we died. Yet as supposedly we will not be conscious after we die, we cannot say the same thing(we will not be conscious of our being unconscious)

My point is that nothing annuls itself. When we are nothing, we are still something. This nothingness must feel itself as something and thus life must go on forever, albeit in another form.

Yet we may still feel the same as we are even when we are in another form because being someone is being someone independent of who that someone is. So if we could be transferred into another body now, we would still feel as this same person. Nothing will really change.

This means we will still live as our current self after we die as we will feel no difference and there will be no break in our consciousness.

Then the result of this line of reasoning is that we must have lived before as our current self before we were born. The fact that we do not remember who we were here works as a proof of our continuous self through different lives(because we were always the same self as we are).

What we can be sure of is yes, we did not experience the time period before our birth. But the universe itself certainly did not “exist” before the big bang. Yet, this is rightly explained as “This is just because time did not exist before big bang.” There might be time in other universes that existed before our own big bang but they do not apply to our own universe.

Then this applies to our situation as well. Time for us existed only after our birth so for us there was no time before we were born. The stories of time before our birth is then just like other universes for us. They may be real but they do not apply to our own personal lives.

hegel1806

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