ANDREA
Quote: "Because by action or inaction we send them good one day and evil the next without knowing what we should do." Pages 158-9
Question: Why can't we please all people and all things? (Especially since Ishmael is refering to the gods in this quote.) So, is he saying the gods are not perfect, just like humans, because they ate from ''the tree of knowledge.'' Why do they make mistakes?
Comment: It's funny how, like Ishmael mentions with world hunger and global population control, mother culture wants to please all and make everyone happy but she can only do so much. She starts by helping what's visually there/occurring and worries about the concequences that are at stake tomorrow.Why isn't there a balance between both? Why can't things be controlled. I understand that humans can't solve every problem and set every thing strait since we are all imperfect but the gods that Ishmael speaks about are just the same. What is he trying to say by the quote above? What are those gods to Ishmael? He seems to be against them from what he is saying about their reasoning? According to Ishmael, the gods have the ability to decide who lives and who dies but they can't choose who lives or dies? What gives?
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