Who Knows?

Like I said before, fairness is a human concept. What God thinks about it is a matter of conjecture. The laws of Moses represent one of the earliest human attempts to establish the rule of law among men. It's mostly about obedience, you do it because God says so. Nevertheless, there are lots of examples in there of what we would call fairness today. Those are the parts that Christians and Jews like to quote. There are also examples of what we would call barbaric cruelty today, those are the parts that Muslim extremists like to quote. Well, some Christian extremists like to quote them too. Truth be known, the Muslim extremists of today are a lot like the Israelites were in the time of Moses, and the Christians were in the Middle Ages.

The Bible is not very clear about what Heaven and Hell are supposed to be like. Some references on the subject seem to contradict other references, which is not surprising since they were written in different centuries by different people. The idea that the body and soul separate at the time of death, with the body rotting in the ground and the soul floating up to heaven, did not come from the Bible, I think it came from the ancient Greeks. Up to the time of Jesus, many Jews didn't even believe in an afterlife, and I think some of them still don't. When Jesus was alive on Earth, the Jewish clergy were divided into two schools of thought about what they called "The Resurrection". The Pharisees believed in it, and the Sadducees didn't. Those who believed in it believed in the physical resurrection of the body. How that could be accomplished with somebody whose body was in an advanced state of decomposition is not made clear. By some accounts, the vast majority of the resurrected ones would remain in God's kingdom on Earth, only a select few would actually make it to Heaven. This resurrection, by the way, was supposed to happen sometime in the future. Until then, the dead would remain as if asleep. Jesus made a few statements which could be interpreted as meaning something different but, last I heard, theologians were still arguing about that. Many Christians today do not believe any of that, they believe that their body is just a shell, which will be abandoned by the soul when it floats up to Heaven immediately after death, but they would be hard pressed to find Biblical support for their belief.

If everybody was born with the same intelligence, the same healthiness, the same good looks or, for that matter, the same amount of material wealth, we probably wouldn't understand the concept of "better" or "worse" in those regards. If it weren't for inequality, humans would not have needed to strive for equality all these years. I'm not sure what they would have done with all the time and energy that they have expended in the search for equality, justice, and fairness. Maybe that's why there is unfairness in the world, to give us something to do to justify our human existence. Cats don't care about fairness, but they are just cats after all. We're supposed to smarter and more virtuous than cats, although I doubt that the cats recognize that.

Our local Indians usually call themselves "Indians" when they're talking to White people. In their traditional language, they called themselves "Anishnabe", which translates as "The Real People" in English. (Our spell checker claims that I'm spelling it wrong but, since the Anishnabe didn't have a written language, I have seen it spelled different ways, and I don't know if there even is a right way.)

The Indians had a culture and life style that was well adapted to their environment before the White man arrived on the scene. As their environment changed, some of them adapted to it better than  others. They didn't do so bad when you consider that, pre-contact, they were living in the Stone Age. They didn't have metal tools or weapons, the wheel, or horses. The only animals they had domesticated were dogs. None of this was their fault, it was caused by their geographic isolation from Europe and Asia. It's a long walk from Mesopotamia to Western Europe, and a long swim from there to the Americas.

I'm not sure what you mean about those ideas that pop into your head. If you want to talk some more about it, you'll have to explain some more about it.