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Originally Posted by mysterygal  Afterlife is just a fantasy people created to make them feel better about death. Since your brain dies, all form of identify will also die. Since all form of identity, including memories dreams, and everything that makes you "you" dies - that means that technically you don't move on. Inorder to have an afterlife, we'd have to consider ourselves pretty important. But the truth is that we aren't important. The universe is infinite, endless, and we are just tiny little specks. No more than "ants" when you think about it.
Your soul could only survive afterlife IF everything is made up of consciousness, like some philosophers say. In that case, your soul wouldn't be dependent on your brain, infact it would be the other way around.
I don't mean to offend anyone, so I'm sorry if I have. |
No offense taken. Questioning the nature and truth of existence is human.
I believe our consciousness is real. We are spiritual beings residing physical constructs. Personality is the physiological response and reaction to your cumulative sensory input, based on action/reaction, emotion, and intuitive thought. Your (re)actions define your personality - what you do/say or don't do/say is the translation of your personality and what others 'read' as defining you. Its the emotional expression of your mental processing.
But your personality is not everything that makes you 'you'. 'You' are spiritual energy. Your brain has the capacity to allow yourself to tap into the spiritual 'you', if you let it. It could be said that we exist as 2 beings at once. One anchored in the physical realm (which is really just varying vibrating manifestations of energy anyway), and one in the spiritual realm (again vibrating energy). Whether your physical self (actually your mental self) chooses to merge with your spiritual self is it's choice.