Is this a joke?

In a message dated 6/2/2005 6:47:39 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
s.hodge@... writes:

However, I have one hypothetical situation, which could arise one day, about
which I would like to hear your views. Let us suppose that some time in the

future there is a exploratory space mission to the edge of the solar system.
All goes well until one day when the space vehicle has reached the orbit of
Pluto and one of the all-male crew unfortunately dies. He dies with a final
kusala-citta, and during his live he has not been an exceptionally bad nor
good person, thus deserving neither a higher or lower rebirth than human.
He ought, of necessity, be reborn as a human. How do you suggest this
happens when his death occurs so far from any suitable human mother and
father for his next life, given that there is no gap between Z and A ? What
does Moggalitissaputta have to say about the delicate synchronization
involved here ?






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