Thread: reincarnation

Originally Posted by Abra

On the contrary. I'd make the lives of the people and creatures I come in contact with as harmonious as possible, because I have a chance of being them next.

Maybe it's a single consciousness that eventually moves through everyone. If that were the case, wouldn't you love your neighbor, that facet of being that will be/has been you?

Well I know that I would but I wonder would everyone have the same view, I just don't know if all people have it in them to realize this. Performing an action that will cause a longterm reward has always been shoved aside in human history. Although I do believe society would essentially rise to a higher position after a while but in the begining there will be a majority who could use it as an excuse to commit crimes.

Originally Posted by dutchraptor

Well I know that I would but I wonder would everyone have the same view, I just don't know if all people have it in them to realize this. Performing an action that will cause a longterm reward has always been shoved aside in human history. Although I do believe society would essentially rise to a higher position after a while but in the begining there will be a majority who could use it as an excuse to commit crimes.

Hm. Thought experiment time.

Let's say we discover a new form of energy. We scan the clouds and discover entire cities, filled with people, composed of particles from this (up until now) undiscovered energy. We devise a way to construct forms from this energy, and start communicating with these cloud-beings. We discover it's true identity: the Republic of Heaven, and that many good people do go there after they die. We meet with Abraham Lincoln, Jesus, and Alexander Flemming. The top minds of heaven have discussed with the Lord a new, more reasonable set of commandments which of course lack moral absolutism. They even give us a nifty iPhone app so we can keep track of our total goodness score (they've also released the source code for the app, so we have the algorithm it uses and can spread this to countries lacking in electronic technology), which ultimately determines whether you get into heaven or disappear into the void.

Do you think people would ignore said app?