If we don’t even try to enjoy the moment and we spend all our lives to make things perfect for this or the life on the other side, we rip ourselves off of our individual happiness and contentment. Happiness and contentment is the most important treasure of one’s mortal life and this is the only thing that can assess one’s life well lived or not. If we sacrifice this living opportunity just to follow the acceptance of others or gamble everything for the life after death, it may be good for the belonging groups but terrible for the individual. Not a good strategy for the mortal being.
When you know you are running out of time, you really have to know the importance of happiness and contentment. Seeking permanent things like, security, control, housing, finance, health and relationships can work against you especially in your second half of living years because you put so much emphases accumulating and loving it, yet you have to leave it all behind.There is no security and control for a mortal being, none whatsoever period, if you want to save a spot in the heaven or life after death do so but if you learn to reciprocate during your living years you may achieve heaven in both. Supply of oxygen can put everything in perspective for the security of this life.
Understanding the value of yourself is not easy when you are always trying to fit in by impressing others or you have strong desire to be admired especially as a mortal. All these desires are related with the powerful sense of belonging, a phenomena which has driven us all crazy regardless of our understanding of life or the level of our education. It has nothing to do with being selfish or selfless but everything to do with you being the CEO of your own life or not. You, who has a personal sense of justice, not only for others, but for yourself as well.
The realities of life are bitter and sweet with mortality but understanding that can help one to put some life in living years yet be comfortable even for coming life after death. If you live only for yourself, it is looked at as selfish and if you live for others it is encouraged by the controlling authorities because they benefit from your unselfishness. If you are the one who loses out at the end of the day it is not balanced by you. Since you are the one with free will to begin with, the responsibilities land on your shoulders to create a balance for your life.
A selfish action is considered by some as animal instincts in motion while selflessness is considered by some to be as great human being action. If we all try not to be put down as animals, we put efforts to fit in, to impress others or to be admired regardless of our understanding of mortality. Remember it is about the balance not extremes and who chooses is YOU and you are the one who is a mortal. Keep that in front of you so you don’t do injustice to others including yourself. Tribal partisan before the truth and personal sense of justice is a clear sign of being out of control and the sense of belonging to a group or society. A level of instinct driven actions dictate the level and strength of animal behavior. Balancing between the two sides is not an easy task unless you start to assert your personal powers related to free will and become a Chief Operation Officer of your life.
If you spend your whole life seeking your belonging groups approval and see this approval as the price of personal happiness, you may end up with disappointments and regrets anyway. These two become the worst things to have especially in your later years if the others didn’t even acknowledge your efforts.
Families, society, world and religion as well as groups carry on existing but you have to move on to some unknown dimension. Whatever you have been taught about the other side can be important to you but I like to put more emphasis in your living years where you matter and are responsible for the personal experiences of your physical life. You feel weather, emotional pain, loss of love, and the physical pleasure of eating and living in general. If you don’t know what makes a mortal life worth living then you have been brain washed by some installed knowledge.
The first planted seed of your personal inferiority complex is that you are taught not to think about yourself. You have been stuck in the philosophy of mass over the individual which is unjust and against equal human rights.
Your this living life has meanings and its been undermined by the politics of the sense of belonging to your groups. If God has created you with free will you are blessed with the status of a CEO of your life so you should fight for your rights as well as you serve. Not only you should be able to take the belonging society to court of justice, you should know that mortality puts a lot of personal responsibilities on your shoulders.
Hiding behind the mass is a sign of personal weakness as well as a lack of self respect and a personal belief in God. If you really want to know your identity, just dig into the YOU part of you. All your inferiority complexes would disappear if you do this. You must strive to know the meanings and purposes of your life. When you discover this you will discover that the installed knowledge by your parents and society is all about their politics and their sense of belonging to conform you according to the traditions and customs to keep you a part of a belonging group. The old ways of looking is that the group is stronger with numbers yet it should be about the individual strength as well as strength of humanity as a whole.
To belong to groups may be fine but when you cross the lines to hurt other individuals or groups and commit spiritual crimes in the name of you belonging group it is working against spirituality and God, and yes even if it is in the name of your belonging religion. What does it do to your personal psychological state of mind? If you can’t think for yourself its not only because of lack of knowledge it is your out of control politics of sense of belonging is at play.
A Human individual’s insecurities and politics of sense of belonging to our belonging groups play a big role in our belief systems. We even use God’s name recklessly for political reasons. God’s spiritual credibility has been damaged by the actions of political extremists. Personally, I believe in healthy competition for the purpose of evolution but killing each other for having a different opinion is just absurd.
This has been and continues to be the ugly truth about racism, nationalism and organized religions. How many wars have been fought over the prejudice, discrimination, knowledge of God and group politics? How many innocents have been perished in the past and still are being killed by the individuals over the politics of our sense of belonging to our groups? From the beginning of time all groups, nations and religions have gone crusades in the name of their religion belonging groups. It even continues to today’s wars as well, no one can put a number on the innocent blood that has been shed. Interestingly, we still claim our belonging group’s belief systems are right and everyone else is wrong, especially when it comes to nationalism and religions.
My question is when is ever a spiritual action to kill in the name of God? Always remember, if you believe that its a spiritual act to kill others, it has nothing to do with spirituality, God or humanity as a whole, than your belief system is warped up under the politics of sense of belonging. This decision to kill has everything to do with the politics of the sense of belonging to our groups.
Who is going to change all that? It surely would not be our groups, nations or religions because they would be the losers of that change. They would fight the individuals strength or knowledge of equal human rights related to humanity as a whole. YOU personally and individually will have to take responsibility to step in for the changes from the bottom up to evolve to the next and new paradigm of civilization.
Theological rules have nothing to do with God’s heaven or hell but everything to do with control based politics of the sense of belonging to belonging groups. Human politics changes with time but spirituality related actions stay consistent.
Intensity of human individual’s involvement to the belonging group’s politics is based on the individual’s personal weaknesses and insecurities. Most of us believe that belonging to a group is safer than belonging to humanity as a whole which is absolutely wrong. Regardless of the knowledge, belonging groups use political tactics including threat of shaming, treason, shunning and even to kill their own to control the people following their belonging groups. The group uses this control to bring fear to their followers who understand if they do not conform to their rules then they will be killed. The groups preach distrust against each other yet all the western civilization is based on a melting pot philosophy, there is nothing pure black or white if you start to look at the gene pool of the population.
Pure black and white has long gone not only the brown, yellow and red tints are common the mixing of races, religions, genders and everything in between is clearly showing signs of evolution towards the basics of humanity.
Regardless of all the propaganda of nationalism, religious extreme and racism people are realizing or understanding their identity as a human being not as Muslim, Christian, Canadian, Pakistani, White or Black.
Proof is in the pudding as most of us seek and are in favor of equal human rights for all. Today finally humanity has come up with the preposition that equal human rights is and should be the Law of The Land. The educated individuals with sense of justice and spirituality are flocking to civilized societies where they can find equal human rights, related security, respect and dignity.
An Individual’s personal sense of justice and spirituality takes a back seat when it comes to the group politics related political wars even the educated people want to support their belonging groups because of the sense of belonging. If we are able to out grow these political affiliations we will be able to see the spiritualism which is directly related to equal human rights, God and humanity as a whole.
I don’t doubt that theology is taking a back seat in today’s world, but humanity is still having a tough time evolving beyond the politics of sense of belonging to belonging groups. Would evolution related education bring along long sought peace is another question? So far things don’t look good even America the beacon of democracy is divided to the point that equal human rights are in question. With this kind of passionate divisions all over the world things are dangerous especially with the nuclear and weapons of mass destruction, a passionate sense of belonging to our groups and lack of trust are still a huge threat to humanity.
Today the times have changed, spears and swords are not the weapons of choice so it is not between the warriors anymore. Dropping bombs from drones and using chemical weapons on the innocent human beings to bring the resisting groups to their knees is common practice.
It is bringing the opposite results because of the powerful politics of sense of belonging. As humans we are not only a being, we are a creature as well so emotional attachments and sense of love loss can blow up all the intellectual assessments in the face of political controllers. Long term peace is only possible when we stop robbing each other of love.
People has always been questioning authority but these days there is a personal sense of justice related equal human rights and this is compelling individuals and the societies to acknowledge the injustice done even to the enemies yet in the name of God. The Pope has softened his tone about equal human rights as well.
Prejudice, discrimination and bigotry preached by human groups is deeply connected to a human condition called, ” Inferiority Complex”. If you believe in GOD and YOU, you wholeheartedly accept the others as equal to you. You don’t have to put efforts in proving that you are better or less than others. If you feel the need to prove that you are better than others, first individually dig into yourself for the reasons and then literally dig in to the whole thing to see if this is coming form the education installed into you by your belonging groups.
If you keep digging you will eventually find this inferiority complex is deeply ingrained into the individual and the groups as well. Remember, I said it is a human condition and its not a matter of pride. Personally if you join into the politics related to inferiority complex you may become the cause and victim of other human conditions like prejudice, and discrimination as well. If you don’t care you may end up fighting political wars disguised as religious wars. A true believer in God can’t and should not discriminate or become prejudiced. If you keep that in front as a gauge and avoid these at all cost you may achieve your spiritual identity as a human being who is a CEO of his/her own physical life project as well as their life after death.
Religion or no religion, race, or mixed nation or dual citizenship all is needed to cross isto this new paradigm. Your individual strength and your personal sense of justice is needed to adopt to equal human rights for all.
Always remember the logic says that the need of superiority stems from the present inferiority so if you want to look at it from your belonging groups point of view and still want to believe that you somehow are superior just because of your belonging to a group of people. You are trying to hide your personal inferiority complex. Logically you just can’t make a pig beautiful by putting lipstick on it, and this the ugly truth of the politics of sense of belonging to a group. No matter how you cut it, it will end up with discrimination and prejudice.
The ugliness of politics and our individual need to be a part of the dominating winning group even if it is a sport team and the politics of our sense of belonging has taken a toll on the innocents since the beginning of our civilization. Yet some of us don’t want humanity to evolve to the next level. Why and where is this coming from? Whether you believe in nationalism, race, gender or religion it is all related with the group politics that you choose to follow. Even today several segments of the world population consists of groups choose to have nothing to do with equal human rights. Clearly if there are violations of equal human rights God and spirituality do not exist for these groups.
Today’s unacceptable truth is that we are still bogged down with wars of discrimination and prejudice. The uglier truth is that we bring in God and use God for our political purposes. We need to learn to own our actions individually and be spiritually ready to cross over to the new paradigm so we can get rid of our inferiority complex and related behaviors, not only as an individual but as groups as well.