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Ishmael

No species on earth according to Ishmael was capable of such knowledge. The Taker continues to kill and kill even if it was not needed. Ishmael describes the tragedy of the creed that this people possess and further claims they teach what works well for them because they themselves do not know what works for well for them. The belief that mankind was the climax of all of creation and the belief that they had the obligation to rule the world was the very core knowledge that they came to believe in. In turn, as a consequence of such a notion, these beliefs become their vehicle that will eventually lead them to catastrophe of their very existence.
             The Leaver culture, Ishmael described were the group of people who lived and knew their role in the world or the primitive kind. This role was the world was created for all species and living beings. Leavers also tend to let people live the way they want to live but man belongs to the world and everyone has their part in it. Ishmael further describes accumulated a knowledge about what worked well for all people or beings. This group understood that they had a symbiotic relationship with the world and those around them. This group of people seemed to live harmoniously with the world because they promoted what was good for all. At one point at one time, through out the existence of humans from Homo habilis and earlier human forms to Homo sapiens sapiens, all were Leavers at one point in time until a group of people roughly about ten thousand years ago came to realize what the Takers know. The Leavers did not come to believe that the world was a life support system or a machine designed to produce and sustain human life. Leavers did not believe that humans can do whatever they want as conquering the world and use every square foot of land for the support mass population humans would produce.
             Mother culture was an entity of neither good nor evil as Ishmael explains.


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