Wow. Great question. If he did, I hope they made him live ever day in real time. I could think of no punishment worse under the circumstances.
Or they made him reborn inside a burning building. That works for me too.
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Dear Lord, please grant me the ability to punch people in the face over standard TCP/IP.
I haven't watched it recently, but isn't there a line where someone says it's only for people in the U.S.?
shareThe person who first spoke to the recently deceased people getting off the tram said something to the effect of, "if we've done our homework correctly, you should all be from the western half of the United States."
Also, Bob Diamond said "We have about 400,000 residents here. We service half of the United States dead. That's about 2,500 people a day."
That segment was for people from the U.S. They make Judgement City look more like something they'd be used to. If you were from Zimbabwe then Judgement City to you would resemble Zimbabwe.
shareHe would need to get sent back millions of times if it's a matter of general atonement. That seems like it doesn't fit the simple fear-conquering model of DYL, but maybe that's just the final test for normal, or basically decent folk, who have rid themselves of bad behavior and bad intentions through repeated lives, something like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day
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no, he escaped to argentina like all the other war criminals...everyone knows that
"the day I tried to live, I learned that I was alive"
Rip Torn mentions that you can get thrown away. So maybe, and hopefully, that's what happened.
shareIf the good Lord has a sense of humor, I'd like to think he'd make ol' Adolph some sort of never ending virtual toilet paper roll, with which to be used to wipe the assh)les of an infinite number of Jews and other non-Aryans until judgement day, when he'd then be tossed into the great fire.
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Remember when Diamond tells Albert Brooks that "eventually, they throw you away"? Souls get decommissioned after about 100 lifetimes. It is possible that particularly evil people are simply "thrown away" no matter how few times they've been on earth, as their judgment -- rather than being sent back to Earth. Perhaps that is what happened to Hitler.
shareBy this film's rationale Hitler would have progressed to the next level because 'fearful' is the worst thing to be, and Hitler, for all his myriad of sins, was fearless. Now some of the fragile minds he exploited in his path to power were fearful.
I don't make the rules. Personally, I'd much rather see a non-bigoted, conscientious, caring, compassionate, progressive-minded, albeit slightly fearful/anxious person move on to the next level, but I guess a nasty human-being who isn't scared of anything is more 'worthy'.
Hitler not only feared Jewish people, he feared EVERY race of people that did not fit neatly into his eugenical worldview. For that reason alone, he could have been sent back to earth.
shareThere's a big difference between the type of fear experienced by the main character in this film, which is fear about living life to its fullest, and fear based on prejudice. The former is not a very constructive way to live but doesn't make a person a hateful, malign bigot who ruins others' lives, whereas one could argue that Hitler did do almost everything he set out to do in his life. In a sense he was very much a high-achiever, unfortunately his goals were to annihilate certain racial groups.
shareMaybe fear is just part of it. For most people maybe fear is the last part of their personality to be ironed out before moving on, but other people (like Hitler) are more regressed and need more work. Maybe the big brains send Hitler and other psychotic people back to a more violent times in history or to different planets or worlds to exorcise their personality faults. The idea is that maybe somewhere along the line of reincarnations, sociopaths get messed up in their development.
Like that guy we all know who never let go of high school and never got on with his life, Murderers and Sociopaths are so fixated on death and killing that the only way to fix them is to send them where that is a normal part of life until their soul gets over it. (like forcing a kid who was caught smoking to smoke a whole carton of cigarettes)
Just a thought. I wish we knew more about the big brains and the rules of the greater universe.
We are the children of children and we live as we are shown- "Joe vs. The Volcano"
Hitler doesn't get sent back because he's still sitting at a table listening to the life stories of those he murdered, and what their lives would have been if not for him. He'll be there for a few hundred more years.
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