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Originally Posted by mysterygal  Why do people believe in an afterlife? How could our consciousness survive after death? Our brain is what makes up our personality. For example, if a person suffers brain damage they will become a different person. They may not be able to talk, they may become delayed. So, which version of the person goes to heaven? The person prior to the accident, or the person after? You see we never stay they same person. We are constantly changing. There is NO possible way human beings so called "souls" could move on to the after life. No brain = no person. Once our brain dies, what is their to sustain our personalities? We are the sum of our personality. Once our personalities die, so do we. So, how could you go to the afterlife if you are no long you anymore. Exactly you can't. What makes me "me" is my personality. If you get rid of my personality what is left? Nothing. Can someone explain to me how they can believe they go on to the after life if their brains die. |
I have not read through all the responses but I will speak to you now anyhow.
Your personality is not you. Your personality, your likes and dislikes, your patterns, your habits, they are your CONDITIONS, they are your CONDITIONING. They are your training. These are like your clothes, they cover the real you. You are so covered by these clothes that you can no longer even see yourself! When you were born you were pure. Then the parents, the society, the so called "civilized" world trained you how to act, how to think, how to look, how to feel, how to JUDGE, just to drop all of this! You are like a wild horse domesticated, but inside you remember the freedom, and you say "one day, one day I will be wild again, then I will be free." Your true self is immortal, and can never die, and she so desperately wants to shine through, if you could only let her. To sum up, you are NOT your personality, this is but your clothes.
Always changing, YES, so easy to change the clothes... You do not lose your personality. You have one TRUE personality and it never changes. Just to embrace this, and tell me how you feel. When you do this you will not find "nothing" but only everything. You will live on, because you are not this body, you are everything you see. You are the divine. Wether you want to be or not, you are.
Love and peace and blessings to you. I hope you continue to grow and never to feel alone or to feel that you will cease to exist. You cannot. Thank you. Beautiful your questions were, beautiful. I appreciate you. I am blessed to share this space with you. That goes for all of you here and now.