From: waltzgreen@fuse.net   
      
   One life or more than one life?   
      
      
      
   Some religions view life as a one-shot deal and then judgment.  The details   
   of such and the results of the judgment vary from one to another, but the   
   basic concept is you have one life, and what you do in that one life   
   determines your eternity.   
      
      
      
   That puts all the pressure on this one life.   
      
      
      
   Could it be that makes people less tolerant?  If you see someone believing   
   the 'wrong' religion, and you know they only have one life to get it   
   'right', then you have to intervene and fix it.   
      
      
      
   What if there could be some kind of recycling.  What if we believed   
   reincarnation was possible.  Would that lead to more tolerance?  If you see   
   someone believing the 'wrong' religion, and you know they have multiple   
   lives to get it right, are you more likely to let them be?  Would you be   
   more likely to accept their choice, thinking there must be some lesson they   
   are working on in this life.   
      
      
      
   If a tenet that allowed multiple lives helped people be more accepting,   
   tolerant and forgiving of other people on an individual level, could the   
   idea be scaled to help nations or people groups be more accepting, tolerant   
   and forgiving of other people on a larger scale.   
      
      
      
   What if nations, people groups and ideologies had the possibility of another   
   life as well.  What would that look like?  Alternate universes where nations   
   could come to the same point and make different choices?  What about the   
   idea of the universe itself repeating?   
      
      
      
   Would such tenets make it less imperative for nations and people groups to   
   WIN in this life?   
      
      
      
   If so, such a tenet would have two possible ways to expand one life into   
   multiple lives.  Either parallel or serial lives.  Parallel lives would be   
   the alternate universe theory, where multiple universes are processing the   
   same circumstances at the same time. Yet each universe has the potential for   
   a unique outcome.  Serial lives would be additional lives serially after   
   this life.  Reincarnation and a repeating universe are examples of serial   
   expansion of life.   
      
      
      
   Which theory would lead to more tolerant, accepting and forgiving attitudes?   
      
      
      
   At what point is it too forgiving and accepting?  When does it become   
   unhealthy to just accept things?   
      
      
      
   Compromising on a border dispute to reduce nuclear tension, believing your   
   nation does not have to get everything it wants in this lifetime may be a   
   good thing.  Accepting another nation's removal of your ability to feed your   
   own people because they could eat in a different life may be a bad thing.   
      
      
      
   How could a single life or multi-life tenet be structured to foster just the   
   right balance of flexibility and preservation to help individuals up through   
   opposing religions to get along?   
      
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