I have often had these and similar thoughts myself. If reincarnation is true (and could be shown to be true beyond reasonable doubt) then the only rational course would be for people to be nice to one another, because they would only be being nice to themselves. (Especially if they have no way of knowing which lives they still have to lead... the $10 example would logically be equivalent to $5 in that you have a 50% chance of having lived that life already, in which case whatever happened has already happened... although in a multiverse scenario this gets (even more) complicated... plus once you've gone through everyone, you may have to start at the beginning again, so you should take that possibility into account - if this goes on forever, your $1 becomes $1 x infinity, and the difference between that and $10 x infinity is, well, nothing! But in any finite number N of iterations, you have $N becoming $10 x N, hence gain $9 x N)
This view also means that there is in fact only one consciousness in existence, as the mystics say. (And of course the Beatles "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.") This is somewhat similar to the idea for creating a utopia - that everyone who will live in it is gathered together and magically made to forget who they are, and in particular, their position in society. They then have to decide on how the society should be run. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
