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===Lesson===

===Lesson===

===='''''[[Experiment]]''''', '''''[[Diversity]]'''''====

===='''''[[Experiment]]''''', '''''[[Diversity]]'''''====

Greetings and [[welcome]] to you all again.  I am Tomas, your [[teacher]].  I have [[thought]] that I would like to talk to you about [[experimental]] life stations, just to [[focus]] on the [[concept]].  As you know, those of you who are students of the [[Urantia text]], [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_36#36:2._THE_LIFE_CARRIER_WORLDS every tenth planet is an experimental world].  The others provide [[continuity]] throughout the [[universe]]; they don’t have the [[adventures]] and glitches that you have here that make your life so very rugged and such a [[challenge]].  They have challenges, of course, but not to the extent that you have here [where] there are so many [[variables]] and so many unscheduled [[developments]] -- unscheduled as far as your [[perception]] is concerned although they are of course quite in hand, quite under the [[control]] of those who take care of the living [[laboratories]] of [[time and space]].

Greetings and [[welcome]] to you all again.  I am Tomas, your [[teacher]].  I have [[thought]] that I would like to talk to you about [[experimental]] life stations, just to [[focus]] on the [[concept]].  As you know, those of you who are students of the [[Urantia text]], [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_36#36:2._THE_LIFE_CARRIER_WORLDS every tenth planet is an experimental world].  The others provide [[continuity]] throughout the [[universe]]; they don’t have the [[adventures]] and glitches that you have here that make your life so very rugged and such a [[challenge]].  They have challenges, of course, but not to the extent that you have here [where] there are so many [[variables]] and so many unscheduled [[developments]] -- unscheduled as far as your [[perception]] is concerned although they are of course quite in hand, quite under the [[control]] of those who take care of the living [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laboratory laboratories] of [[time and space]].

   

   

The [[idea]], though, of life [[experimental]] stations, or experimental life stations, whichever way you [[choose]] to consider it, is an [[opportunity]] to [[think]] about the [[flexibility]] that life provides. When you go beyond here, when you leave [[Urantia]] and enter into the greater [[community]] of [[Mansonia]], you will meet with many people who have no [[idea]] what it’s like to be from a [[sphere]] such as this.  The very [[fact]] of your [[experiences]] here, even without the [[rebellion]] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 the default], would render you [[unique]] and [[different]], but I have some question in my [[mind]] as to whether you truly [[appreciate]] what it is to live in an experiential life station such as [[Urantia]].  

The [[idea]], though, of life [[experimental]] stations, or experimental life stations, whichever way you [[choose]] to consider it, is an [[opportunity]] to [[think]] about the [[flexibility]] that life provides. When you go beyond here, when you leave [[Urantia]] and enter into the greater [[community]] of [[Mansonia]], you will meet with many people who have no [[idea]] what it’s like to be from a [[sphere]] such as this.  The very [[fact]] of your [[experiences]] here, even without the [[rebellion]] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 the default], would render you [[unique]] and [[different]], but I have some question in my [[mind]] as to whether you truly [[appreciate]] what it is to live in an experiential life station such as [[Urantia]].  

   

   

Let’s bring it down to a manageable size so that you might consider it more [[immediately]].  Take your [[society]], for example, your [[global]] society. It is organized into different countries with [[different]] [[governments]], and they handle themselves differently accordingly.  Different [[cultures]] have their ways, their climates, their [[languages]], and each one is its own life [[experimental]] station.  

Let’s bring it down to a manageable size so that you might consider it more [[immediately]].  Take your [[society]], for example, your [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_society global] [[society]]. It is organized into different countries with [[different]] [[governments]], and they handle themselves differently accordingly.  Different [[cultures]] have their ways, their climates, their [[languages]], and each one is its own life [[experimental]] station.  

   

   

Perhaps when you were a child you [[understood]] what your experimental life station was – your [[home]], your [[family]], your [[culture]], your ways.  You were familiar with the foods you ate, how your relatives looked, more or less what they wore, how they smelled, how they [[laughed]], how they talked, how they [[worked]].  And then visiting another [[culture]] might have introduced you to people of a different [[color]], or people who dressed funny/[[strange]] compared to your [[family]].  Perhaps their food smelled [[different]] and strange, foreign/exotic, and you reacted or [[responded]] to that difference.  The same will be true on [[Mansonia]] when you encounter people from other worlds.  And you will have similar reactions and responses.  One of the [[things]] that you can learn now and save yourself and everyone else the trouble later on is to [[recognize]] that there are [[inherent]] [[differences]] at different levels of [[development]] … and for a [[good]] [[reason]].  

Perhaps when you were a child you [[understood]] what your experimental life station was – your [[home]], your [[family]], your [[culture]], your ways.  You were familiar with the foods you ate, how your relatives looked, more or less what they wore, how they smelled, how they [[laughed]], how they talked, how they [[worked]].  And then visiting another [[culture]] might have introduced you to people of a different [[color]], or people who dressed funny/[[strange]] compared to your [[family]].  Perhaps their food smelled [[different]] and strange, foreign/exotic, and you reacted or [[responded]] to that difference.  The same will be true on [[Mansonia]] when you encounter people from other worlds.  And you will have similar reactions and responses.  One of the [[things]] that you can learn now and save yourself and everyone else the trouble later on is to [[recognize]] that there are [[inherent]] [[differences]] at different levels of [[development]] … and for a [[good]] [[reason]].  

I meant to also point out that in your [[culture]] you recognize apartment living as well as residential [[neighborhoods]], [[rural]] environments and [[urban]] communities, and each of these provide their own flavor and their own [[challenges]] and to some extent they are each an experimental life station.  Some people never [[change]] their station.  They just grow up in it and really never move from it.  And there are some who move willingly and eagerly from one to another.  In some ways it could be said that [[Jesus]] did that. He enjoyed going around seeing how other people lived.  He was [[investigating]] their experimental life stations, helping them improve upon it by bringing a new [[dimension]] of [[truth]], [[beauty]] and [[goodness]][http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:10._TRUTH.2C_BEAUTY.2C_AND_GOODNESS] to that station where people had planted themselves, where they lived.  

I meant to also point out that in your [[culture]] you recognize apartment living as well as residential [[neighborhoods]], [[rural]] environments and [[urban]] communities, and each of these provide their own flavor and their own [[challenges]] and to some extent they are each an experimental life station.  Some people never [[change]] their station.  They just grow up in it and really never move from it.  And there are some who move willingly and eagerly from one to another.  In some ways it could be said that [[Jesus]] did that. He enjoyed going around seeing how other people lived.  He was [[investigating]] their experimental life stations, helping them improve upon it by bringing a new [[dimension]] of [[truth]], [[beauty]] and [[goodness]][http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:10._TRUTH.2C_BEAUTY.2C_AND_GOODNESS] to that station where people had planted themselves, where they lived.  

And yet another [[observation]] along this [[concept]] of experimental life stations is to be found within your own [[mind]], in your own [[character]].  Because the way you behave around some people under some circumstances may or may not be the same way you would [[speak]] and [[act]] in yet another experimental life station as [[relationships]] tend to be.  If [[friendships]] are an end in themselves[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:2._THE_SELF], they too have [[created]] an experimental life station.  And they can be moved in and out of, just as on a bigger [[scale]] you move in and out of neighborhoods or nations and, cosmically speaking, you move around … not [[galaxies]] so much as life stations, [[morontia worlds]] -- hundreds of them -- and later on, other areas and worlds for you to [[explore]].  

And yet another [[observation]] along this [[concept]] of experimental life stations is to be found within your own [[mind]], in your own [[character]].  Because the way you behave around some people under some circumstances may or may not be the same way you would [[speak]] and [[act]] in yet another experimental life station as [[relationships]] tend to be.  If [[friendships]] are an end in themselves[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:2._THE_SELF], they too have [[created]] an experimental life station.  And they can be moved in and out of, just as on a bigger [[scale]] you move in and out of neighborhoods or nations and, cosmically speaking, you move around … not [[galaxies]] so much as life stations, [[morontia worlds]] -- hundreds of them -- and later on, other areas and worlds for you to [[explore]].

 

===='''''[[Change]]''''', '''''[[Goodbye]]'''''====

===='''''[[Change]]''''', '''''[[Goodbye]]'''''====

It is [[difficult]] to let go of an experimental life station once you have adapted to it.  “Breaking up is hard to do.”  Saying [[good-bye]] is never easy.  [[Change]] is difficult.  And yet, it cannot serve to stay forever in one [[paradigm]].  “Welcome to change” is the motto of this [[movement]]. And so, in order to effect [[change]], you need to know what you are trying to build, what you [[hope]] to construct, what you are leaving and what you seek to enter into.  Or, in [[faith]], simply step forth and [[realize]] that one will be provided for you.  Such is always the case.   

It is [[difficult]] to let go of an experimental life station once you have adapted to it.  “Breaking up is hard to do.”  Saying [[good-bye]] is never easy.  [[Change]] is difficult.  And yet, it cannot serve to stay forever in one [[paradigm]].  “Welcome to change” is the motto of this [[movement]]. And so, in order to effect [[change]], you need to know what you are trying to build, what you [[hope]] to construct, what you are leaving and what you seek to enter into.  Or, in [[faith]], simply step forth and [[realize]] that one will be provided for you.  Such is always the case.