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64 Post author: Ghatanathoah 26 July 2012 07:20AM

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Comment author: jaibot 26 July 2012 08:02:00PM 1 point [-]

I read "not existing" as "not ever existing", so the difference is everything that happened between when you would have started existing and when you would have committed suicide.

Comment author: [deleted] 26 July 2012 10:30:45PM *  2 points [-]

(English badly needs separate words for ‘physically exist at a particular time’ and ‘exist, in an abstract timeless sense’. Lots of philosophical discussion such as A-theory vs B-theory would then be shown to be meaningless: does the past exist? Taboo “exist”: the past no longer exists_1, but it exists_2 nevertheless.)