People who believe we live on after death..what do you believe lives on? Soul? Personality? Are they the same thing in your belief system?

Nope, I hope not. If yes, I have a long list of people I'll haunt. But if there's life after death then why do we die?

yes...

Good question, Alan Watts alluded to it when he said to try and imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, then try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

I find it interesting to think that when we die, if that will be the ultimate end of the the self or if the consciousness lives on with the soul. What is our consciousness without our personality, it seems like an intrinsic aspect of the continuation. Perhaps what we experience beyond our vessels would have a profound impact on our personalities, but we remain as individuals still. I wouldn't rule it out anyway, we're able to ponder these things on a little rock ambling about a gargantuan universe and nobody's sure how or why the fu*k we got here to begin with.

In a nutshell, I don't have a clue.

We develop our personalities as we grow. So I don't see a personality can survive death. How can something that we can see has a beginning not have an ending?

He's quite interesting Alan Watts. Some good talks of his on YouTube.

Make your minds up athiests, you can't have a soul if life was an accident. But i try an explain how it feels. You die your soul comes out, your then judged by god, if you go to heaven this is how it feels. imagine every negative feeling being removed from you, example taken the feeling of hate away, worry, sadness, time, stress etc, none of these feelings exist, instead it's a feeling of love, this world is irrelevant, an amazing feeling, you could stand in the same place and not move forever, its an eternity, I can't explain the feeling fully, cause its not possible to feel it in this life, but it's the best feeling ever. Or you could go to the other place, it was dark there, and not a nice feeling. Like I say you have a free choice.

I think it is

Soul which is life is almost impossible to explain in itself, just like You cann't explain angels, similarly satan, who is from the jinns, daemons etc. The soul in itself cannot do anything until it is in a material body. All the souls of living things are already created by the Almighty Allah, some have seen their predestine era and some are to come. and as a layman example, the material body is just like a vehicle of/for a rider (soul). and this soul never dies, it will be brought back/put/pushed into the material bodies on the day of judgement and will be accounted for its deeds/mischieves..

Are personality and soul the same thing? One might be linked to the other, or inform the other.. But I think they may be very different things. Personality is active, soul is more of a passive repository of sorts.

for me i dont see the point in not taking some part of what we learn on earth with us. i think certain parts of the personality does survive. and i would give the example of my three children, all three had very different personalities noticeable at very young age and to this day.

I'm just an empty vessel ..

Our knowledge shapes our personality. Our knowledge is information we carry. It's stored in our brains. Our brains store knowledge by encoding it to physical shapes. In flesh. When we die, that flesh dies. It rots. And so rots all the information we've accumulated over our life. When your body dies, your personality dies with it.

Some will say they don't believe this, without putting much thought in. Because they don't want to believe it. That is not a true representation of belief. When you've worked so hard for so long, to develop your personality, it seems an injustice to lose it. Sentiment is just a tool, we need it only for this life. As is your personality. We learn because it helps us get better at surviving this life. You won't need what you learnt here when you're no longer living it.

Definitely not...Ur personality n soul is two different things, different functions and different duties. Ur soul is ur spiritual man..which is the one that leaves ur body n return to the owner (God) ur personality is ur character...hw u function, hw u react, ur emotions n everything that affects the way u view ppl...I think ur personality is a branch from ur soul...it links with it, bt yet different. Jus like ur body have different parts with each having different roles..same goes to ur soul and personality...Ur personality die due to the things of the spiritual world... spirit lives.. dunno if I help or nt bt that's wat I think

This.

I'm an atheist, but I believe we have souls. Atheist means we don't believe in a god. It's got nothing to do with souls.