When we Gods sit to talk about the mortal world and its cheating ways, one of the greatest subjects of conversation is the tendency of mortals to use comparisons and conflict to gain security. This obviously leads to a use of power to hurt people rather than empower self and others. No wonder they cannot comprehend the power of the Gods.

Put two mortals together, and the first question to arise seems to be "who follows whom?" and no, unlike Gods, "sometimes one or the other" doesn't qualify as an answer for mortals. And of course, there follows anxiety about the leader being insensitive to their rights and needs, and thus follows a saga of  pointless competition, envy, undermining and non-co-operation. You can see this no matter how many mortals are involved - be it husband and wife, a team in an office or two countries.

Another strange phenomenon in the mortal world is their inability to comprehend that people have different perspectives and needs. Therefore, a perspective that doesn't agree with theirs is urgently required to be destroyed, at any cost (sometimes the cost can be mortal lives). So, two siblings will rarely understand that they both have the same attachment with the ancestral property which they will visit maybe a couple of times a year, and living in a home doesn't require owning it. They will prefer to ensure that the home will always be available to them at the cost of the relationship, not realizing that strengthening the relationship might help them stay in the home as much as they like without even having to pay maintenance How do you think we Gods have so many temples? We just stay in them, no matter who owns them (and even manage to get paid for it by gullible mortals).

An even more bizarre phenomenon in the world of mortals is the tendency to create fantasies about what people/organizations/countries/etc are. Therefore, a person who does something they dislike is fantasized as a person incapable of doing anything they may like. I suspect this is to do with their inferior understanding that people can behave differently each time they do something. They say we Gods treat them like slaves, but really, its them looking at themselves as though their opinion was all that counted and their disapproval meant that the object of their disapproval was worthless.

This of course, is very good for our careers as Gods, as we get a whole load of respect for pointing out the obvious time and again.

So, any Gods reading it, you might want to enjoy the entertainment provided by mortals more.

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