Part two.
Democracy as a governing system is the best humanity has to offer at least so far. This model closely represents equal human rights better than kingdoms, dictatorships, socialism, communism, and even religions.
Is it perfect? No, I don’t think so, even if it allows and preaches one vote per person, still it lacks the education of individual responsibility. People still vote emotionally and elect undeserving people for the office. Since humanity is still in the process of progressing and so far it is the best so it got my vote. Individual education and understanding of power politics of an emotional sense of belonging should be critically looked at. Politics of sense of belonging has the power to make even an educated voter vote for the race, gender bias and religion. Until it is understood by the ordinary individual, responsible voting would still be compromised. No matter how you cut it, if we as groups and as individuals don’t understand the need of education for unbiased voting we not only will always have imperfect governing systems we will have people running for the office with the knowledge that they can fool people.
Fundamental problem is that most of our populations are stuck into the politics of the sense of belonging to their groups like political parties and religions. They would rather vote for thousands of years old ideologies and ignore the present-day social demands if you can ‘t even realize the needs of how would you remedy or solve the problems you are facing. In today’s world, every social thing is pointing towards equal human rights and freedom of speech. If you are one of those people who still only think of belonging to a group of people is enough you got to smell the breeze of coming changes. If you ignore it, you will be proven prejudiced, and discriminatory. Being proud of prejudiced and discriminatory is not only non-spiritual it is consistently proven to be against the law of most human societies. People who are against the prejudice and discrimination they would be thought to belong to humanity, spirituality, and God they will not vote for their religious affiliations, they will not vote for race and loyalties to their belonging group.
Right and wrong become been, is and will be changing as the spiritual awareness of the individual rises so if equal human rights are becoming a trend should one still vote for belonging to a group of people? Personally I think it is that vote is for prejudice and discrimination because it is for some not all people. Change is happening but at very low speed we are evolving to ask for the political agendas of political parties but our emotions still rule our vote. Maybe one day we would be voting for humanity as a whole, voting for taking care of global poverty, warming, infectious disease, global health would be a requirement or at least on top of the list.
The situation is ripened in the present day because the internet has exposed everything good but it brought all the bad and ugly humanity has to offer as well. Equality is an inherent right for all human beings so it is kind of obvious that most of the people on the face of the earth want them. No one likes prejudice and discrimination especially when it is committed against themselves.
If a corporation, nation or religion is counted as an entity in today’s world they have become equal to the individual so if a mass or a group of people would end up violating someone’s individual rights they should be held responsible and penalized in the court of justice. In an ideal world, an individual should be able to take the mass to court and win. In an era of equal human rights, prejudice and discrimination is almost a swear word and progressively people don’t want to be labeled as such. Groups can not just push their weight around because if they do it is for some people and if it is for some people it is prejudicial and discriminatory thus against spirituality. Remember I wrote in an ideal world, its because our world is not an ideal place yet and it would never be if we are not going to seek it.
How long one takes to learn new things? These days a human individual is capable of learning the most complex and multiple things simultaneously so it is not an impossible task for us to seek equal human rights and democracy. Remember if it makes sense it is not hard to learn. From complex mathematics to science to medicine and in all areas of learning human beings are learning and evolving progressively. When it comes to our politics of sense of belonging to our belonging groups its a different story altogether, even our most educated people bow down to the pressure. That is why we can’t get out of the business of robbing the love of each other. What is the real thing behind the politics of a sense of belonging? You guessed it, it is prejudice and discrimination.
Throughout our history and even in modern-day every race, nation, religion and even gender are preaching it. Now, remember it is you as an individual can be for or against it so if you believe that you are equal to everyone in the world. You have good self-esteem and are a secure individual in your skin. If you follow to the point that your group can’t be wrong and your personal sense of justice or free will does not matter anymore. Worse yet if you commit spiritual crimes in the name of your belonging group by becoming a part of the mob and kill innocent individuals, your insecurities are ruling you.
All groups promote that their group is superior to others, and if a belonging individual buys into that regardless of personal character they are hiding their inferiority complexes and insecurities. Now question yourself, would you do to someone what you don’t like done to you or your loved ones in the name of your group politics. If the answer is yes remember we all, no exception and I repeat, we all are blessed with free will and personal sense of justice for a reason. Know your reason to become the CEO of your life, not a sheep that can be herded politically, that is if you want to be the CEO who has the ability to create a balance between a sense of belonging and a sense of freedom.
Right from the get-go, as a thinking and an aware creature, we knew other creatures have natural weapons, even it automatically made us feel weak and vulnerable but at the same time, it made us think. We had to think not only the other creatures, but we also had our own kind to worry about as well so we gave a whole lot of personal powers to the politics of our sense of belonging to our belonging tribes. In the bush or cave all by oneself was not an option so the politics of our sense of belonging is ingrained in us bypassed down the knowledge and even genetically as a physical creature. Yet at the same time, we all have free will and personal sense of justice ingrained in us spiritually. This unusual combination complements us to make spiritual things a physical reality. Interestingly at the same time this combination makes us to put even the Devil as a whole to shame. Look around to see how human individuals and groups committing spiritual crimes without a hint of guilt.
Since our politics of sense of belonging can reduce us to a mare physical creature or turn us into simple animals and removes us from our spiritual side. We end up mob attacking the individual belonging to other tribes regardless of their innocence or guilt. For some of us just belonging to another group is a crime enough to be killed.
As thinking, aware and a spiritual being we all have our responsibility to keep our spirituality above and beyond the animal traits. Sure we need a body to be alive, be able to perform physical actions and practice spirituality but living like an animal with all the evolution and civilization under our belt by now we should be able to overcome our animal side. Understanding being a human being is to acknowledge not only both sides, but we also need to individually know the reasons behind. Why do we individually have free will, personal sense of justice, abilities to use compassion and sacrifice for others.
Our troubles are that we can’t handle love loss so even as an enlightened individual when it happens it hurts deep enough to disrupt the core balance of spiritual and physical being. We have the potential fall back into the animal territory to avenge so we can inflict the same pain on who caused us that pain. Understanding the pain of love loss should help us to evolve further but it actually brings us backward and we fall into a perpetual business of robbing love of each other. That is why we can’t get rid of our politics of sense of belonging to our groups.
Yet time has been, is and constantly calling for us to belong to humanity as a whole. Issues like global warming, infectious diseases, need for the space station and internet invention are straight forward truths related to the need for humanity to work together as one entity.
Our individual trouble and dilemmas are related to our stress and its detrimental effects on our health of all kinds. Since we are aware of our mortality individually we have to individually come to terms with the rules of belonging groups regardless of what kind of price we have to pay. Looking at the mega cities, we can clearly see that we are drawn towards the community and its not only for conveniences of life but rather natural inclination of beings a social creature. We form, belong, donate and even sacrifice our personal sense of justice for our political parties yet with pride. Committing spiritual crimes like killing innocents is a fair game in our group conflicts. As I said we are in the business of robbing love of each other.
Regardless of sacrifice, an ordinary individual can’t get a break from their belongings groups. From social crimes within the belonging groups to at war with other group situation it’s always the individual who suffers and sacrifices. When it comes to religions it is even worse, we passionately argue and fight over God’s existence and who is right about God.
Personally I believe religion and music hit human beings in the same psychological spot, we strangely react to our religious rituals, traditions, and customs without questioning as if we are hypnotized. Sure one can like something and then one can love something passionately but when it comes to killing each other we strangely act upon it regardless of our education level it’s like we are cats and our religions provide us catnip. Should we be going crazy enough to kill each other over the politics of our religions? We all bring along the free will and personal sense of justice so if we follow blindly we are doing two things wrong. First of all, we are not obeying Godly order of using our God-given gifts like free will and personal sense of justice to make choices. Second, we let our politics of sense of belonging take over our personal and individual spiritual responsibilities. Don’t get me wrong religions do talk about spiritual things like compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice, and love but interestingly it does not get practiced. To me it’s a human phenomenon that we can’t think and gladly become fuel to the fire especially when it comes to our conflicts. Our wars are the bloodiest and longest when we bring our religious beliefs into our conflicts.
Politics and spirituality can not and should not be mixed because in politics we have to achieve the goal for our belonging groups so there is prejudice and discrimination involve against other human beings. Justice and spirituality are pure and simple truth so there is no room for lying. If one does they are not following the spirituality they are on the political path. Simple truth of spirituality and justice system is that you don’t do to anyone what you don’t like done to you or your loved ones.
God, spirituality and our justice systems are and should be pure of our political influences because there is no room for injustice. For instance, if you believe God is for certain groups of people it’s political and remembers God can’t be biased, God is God for humanity as a whole. Spirituality is not contained within the boundaries of a group its universal and our justice systems should be the model designed for all humanity, not for a group of people or corporations.
Our politics should not have the power to make kill each other because I believe an evolved and civilized human individual is and should be above and beyond those animal traits. No matter what we are taught or we believe, at the end of the day, each and every one of us comes with the free will and personal sense of spiritual justice. That makes the individual responsibility for personal actions. I would be forced and inclined to say killings should be exclusively and restricted to survival but clear of politics.
If you as a thinking and aware creature don’t believe in God it’s your prerogative and you may say I don’t see miracles happening so God must not exist. To me, it’s like, if two cells deep inside the body talking to each other and debating whether the body exists or not. Since the body is a reality but cells’ ability to think, see and feel can be limited. So they have to be able to think about themselves first. As human beings we have to look at ourselves and think that how is that we are alive, how do we function and are able to think?.
It is not what it is but how it is that we are able to see, think and figure things out. It is not space and science out there but its the space within us that matters. It is not what you see, it is your ability to see. It is not what you know, it is the functioning within which allows you to know what you know. It never is what happens around you while you live but it is all about what goes on within you when you live.
If you are learning something new every day, your claim to know everything is egotistic. Reality is and should be that the more you know the more you should know that you don’t know. Unfortunately when we learn something we put some letters in front of our name so others can be impressed so the politics of our sense of belonging always there to make us biased. Regardless of the level of our education we just can’t get rid of our prejudice and discrimination that makes us an unfinished product, an incomplete building or an individual who has yet to reach their potential. If one boasts about anything it’s egotistic so it may be satisfying but it can be a spiritual flaw.
If religious scholars arguing, passionately disagree and put each other down they are claiming that they know everything there is to know. They believe whatever is written in the holy books is the final truth from God. I am not going to mention all religions my goal is not denying or not acknowledging the spiritual knowledge. I am okay with God writing more than one book, my problem is that why do we fight over it. Does that mean God is the one who is making us kill each other? Yes if you believe in not to break the boundaries. I believe evolution is ingrained into our genetic makeup if that is the case I would believe that is the one Godly knowledge religious people have been denying. Breaking boundaries is into our genes and its coming from God thus can’t be denied or stopped. Just look around regardless of religions powers evolution has never been stopped. God is not the one who created an environment for us to kill each other, it’s our politics of sense of belonging to our groups robbed spirituality out of our religions.
Not breaking boundaries inhibit evolution and luckily evolution is not a learned knowledge, it is within us from before our birth so religion or not we are going to evolve. World functions, progresses and evolves all the time so for you individually God or not life will still go on but what goes on within you that matters because you are here for a visit. If you believe that the body exists and you care while you are given tasks to live. You can feel valuable and you are valuable to the point that you help God function to help you enjoy your temporary journey. Just like the human body functions with cells and cells function with the body while it’s alive so it is not about the cells or the body it’s about the functioning. If you can understand that you have figured out the spirituality related reciprocation secret of Godly balance can give you the ultimate self-esteem and self-respect. Politics of sense of belonging makes you feel inferior and insignificant so you have an eternal need to belong to your belonging group. That is clearly political yet spiritually God helps you help yourself to help God to exist.
God does not come out of you and say I am the one who is doing it all, God acknowledges that as an individual your physicality makes spirituality exist thus even God would have respect for the living breathing human individual so the human race keeps ongoing. It’s the groups of people who are hell-bent to kill each other because of the politics of their sense of belonging. That is why our towns are not ghost towns we survive and thrive regardless of the difficulties of even in the harsh weather conditions.
Yet there are needs to evolve according to the need of time. For instance these days we are having to adapt to the new technology-related not previously know issues.
Internet spreads news instantly for the whole world to see so many kinds of racism, oppression, prejudice, discrimination political injustice done in the name of the belonging groups could face equal human rights related criticism from the world. That gives a voice to the oppressed populations which were not present in the past so presently past practices are proven not only wrong they are proven crimes, so if we don’t keep up with changing times we are left behind.
Life was much harder in the past so thinking past was better not only its a sign that one does not like present life and is unhappy, its a sign of somewhat depression as well. Interestingly that is one of the reasons why we all have been with free will. Question is should you individually be left behind? Should religious beliefs have the power to keep people from progressing? To me progress is evolution so its inevitable that it’s going to break boundaries created by the political religions. Since spirituality is ingrained within each one of us and consistent throughout human history. Regardless of political ups and downs or changing hands of power. Humanity and it’s all societies always and universally wore spiritual jewelry of compassion, sacrifice, forgiveness, and love. Sure we have political evil as well but both sides thrive by the individual’s choices.
Comfortable people especially the ones in power don’t want anything to change so they usually resist change. Interestingly I always wonder why religious people usually vote for conservative or republic parties even their agendas are far from spirituality. Universal health care for the needy, welfare system and other social programs are usually coming from the left and left is called socialists and Godless people. To me if spirituality based principles are coming from Godless people it is unfortunate for the Godly and religious people because they are for the politics but not for spirituality. All religions talk about the talk but they can’t walk the walk because their politics of sense of belonging robs them of spiritual principles. Extreme right or extreme left both leave spirituality behind when they make individual insignificant, for instance, if want to keep left-leaning individual down you can resort to voter suppression to fear-based propaganda to influencing judiciary all in the name of political power. If you belong to left and give all the power to mass it is against the human individual rights so freedom of speech and can be taken away so in an internet era anything going against equal human rights would be out to be criticized.
Changing and mixed populations of the world love the idea of equal human rights so it is spreading like a wildfire in the world. People don’t like to be discriminated against or prejudiced against so all kinds of people would love to have equal human rights in the foundation of their local justice systems so in near future group politics would have to take a back seat. The world is changing right before our eyes extreme right and left both are trying to survive by bringing politics in the middle. For instance, conservatives don’t want to talk about abortion and gay marriage yet they were the main talking points in their agendas not too long ago. Extreme left is trying to give business people tax break is straying from their core principles. What you got left in the middle so why middle because that is what everyone has to do to get into the power. Sure there is nothing wrong when it comes to politics but when it comes to social programs and spirituality it is beyond politics it is the soul of humanity.
As I said before evolution is ingrained into human individuals genetically so we will evolve one way or the other. If you try to stop by force or politics, it would have its consequences. Saudi Arabia is considered a conservative society, interestingly just recently they are allowing women to drive, one can say that is progress but to me, that is the internet and equal human rights related evolution. Since everything goes on the internet any political oppression is looked down upon by the world at large. All national authorities are subject to be criticized not only by the world but by the belonging population as well.
In today’s world people just can’t hide behind God’s words and punish the individual harshly for patty crimes. Personally I believe God and religions belong a personal belief system so there is a chance that one can believe and obey yet another disbelieve and reject so religions fail to provide justice for all. A justice system logically should be universal just like spirituality and when you mix religious traditions, customs, rituals as rules or as laws it becomes prejudicial and discriminatory for the one who does not believe in the religion of the land. God, spirituality and equal human rights are above our political religions so they are consistent all around the world regardless of group.
If you believe in God halfheartedly you will not believe in God’s will and implement political rules as religious principles depending on the popular demand. How can we believe in harsh punishments yet blame God for it? Keeping crimes is a political agenda and sure we need a justice system to run governmental tasks but believing and involving God into punishments is like thinking for God or believing God is a human-like figure.
To me God is like a tree that can produce billions, trillions of seeds with the potential to become trees to produce seeds yet there is no resemblance in the tree and its seeds. Functioning, on the other hand, is the same just like human cells belong to the body. The body comes from the cells to produce cells to nurture and draw power from the cells. To me, we are God’s cells and we regenerate God and related good things. For instance, unless its a miracle everything spiritual only turns into spiritual by the living breathing physical hands, backs and the shoulders of human beings. Don’t believe me just look around and see how many good things are happening and how are they taking physical form. Spiritual things are up in the thin air just like your thoughts they can not and I repeat can not become reality unless you add your physicality to it.
God is a real human being facilitates, which means in his/her mortal life human being is good for God and God is good for the human being as an individual. Trouble is that we serve the same reality with the Devil the same way as well. The devil would be impotent without human individual’s help so no matter which way you cut it human individual is the main character in this holly picture and guess what we have been blessed with the free will, so any good or bad get life from human intervention. If it’s us who give physical powers to God and Devil, shouldn’t we use our free will choose spirituality over Devilish politics religions to use to oppress populations?
It God created human being to function then God is the essence of human being and human being is the essence of God just like the seeds of tree or cells of the body. As they say, Devil is in the detail and our detail is that we are influenced by our politics of sense of belonging to our groups. We do Devilish acts for our belonging groups yet with pride so where is the disconnection? Just start looking at your makeup, functioning and actions you will discover your free will has always been consistent and there to choose. Since you are highly influenced by the politics of your sense of belonging to your groups your choices do depend on your free will. As an individual, we all have the power and authority to choose God, spirituality, and humanity over nationalism, and religions. If you are able to clean your belief system from the pollution of politics you will individually find spirituality to be comfortable in your mortal skin. Otherwise, you can be seeking and seeking for thousands of years just to be bogged down in deep shit of prejudice and discrimination. We can carry on, on that path to one day create the day of destruction predicted in the holly books. Or we can take charge, grow and evolve beyond group politics and confront the causes of our prejudice and discrimination. We need to understand global warming and infectious diseases can’t be fought as fighting groups. Examples are already there, remember Ebola crisis, Zika virus scare. Global warming-related extreme weather is a reality crosses all political boundary lines so humanity needs to put up walls to secure humanity not a group of people because the problems are too big for the individual groups to handle.
There is a need to evolve and take the next step of evolution to cross the lines of our color, race, gender, nationalism, and religions to step into the paradigm of equal human rights and humanity as a whole. It is not going to happen from the top down because we have politics of sense of belonging to our groups so it has to come from the bottom up. That means an individual has to change from within to join humanity instead of the politics of their belonging groups.
We as individuals give our powers to God, Devil and our modern-day Big Brother, they are our realities yet are invisible. We make them meaningful by giving our physical, hands, backs and shoulders so as an individual we should know our value and importance but not forgetting that our life as cells depends on the total body functioning just to keep us humble. Humanity or community’s lifeblood can be individual but both sides need that harmony of functioning.
Personally I don’t care whether you are a scientist, doctor, colorful, colorless, mullah, priest, rabbi, rich, poor, male, female or any other gender. If you get sick, old and die, you are just like me. A mare visitor who eventually got to go. If you believe that you somehow become better by following your way of living then take care of being better. Overcome your prejudice and discrimination, don’t do to anyone what you don’t like done to you or your loved ones.
If you work hard to achieve a higher status, get a better education, go to the gym to get a better body or buy bigger and better everything. Always remember to question yourself why? If you are trying to fit in, impress, or just want to be admired by the people around you. Remember to ask yourself whether your sense of belonging is in a sink with your sense of freedom. If there is an imbalance remember you have a bigger fish to fry and that is personal happiness with the understanding of mortal nature. Losing happiness in mortal life is not only a colossal loss it is a sign of inferiority complex because your motive is approval. Pleasing, impressing others or the need to be admired is one thing losing personal happiness and contentment over it is another. Another problem with that is that you want to put most of your energy and time into climbing higher than others, which makes your focus on climbing exclusively. That means you it’s taking your focus away from enjoying the journey.
Knowing mortality is crucial otherwise you are just fooling yourself that somehow it is not going happen to you. Remember we are not genetically programmed like worker bees or warrior ants. Sure we need to contribute to humanity with our talents but not acknowledging mortality is a personal choice. Usually, our actions dictate and show our complexes. Trying to be better is one thing but trying to be superior or looking down on others is something we all should understand. If you are taught at home, in community, by nation and religion, question it because you are taught prejudice and discrimination. Somehow everybody preaches that yet expects opposite results from the individual instead of looking at their education critically. Our prejudice and discrimination not only keep us behind it eats us all from within because when things are not the way we want it we become unhappy with the changing world. If personally you are suffering from prejudice and discrimination related unhappiness, responsibility is on your shoulders to live your mortal life as a pleasant journey.
Our education should help us to live and enjoy this temporary visit on earth instead of making us rob our own happiness and contentment. Overriding traditional education of divisions, prejudiced and discrimination is not easy because it relates to our security system. Individually we seek security in numbers in a group that is traditional and conventional wisdom but as a mortal being real security and insecurity is within. The bitter reality is that even as a group we can not save lives and change our mortal nature, we can pray for the sick and dying but can’t change the outcome.
Living with deeply ingrained insecurities and control related inferiority complexes you may score higher in self-esteem by belonging to a bigger, better and stronger community but at the end of the day its false. The real one comes from connecting to God within, following the spiritual path instead of political-religious rituals, choosing humanity instead of a group of people.
I am going to end this one with a quote from Dalai Lama.
“Quote” “There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples, my philosophy is kindness”. End Quote.
Now try to overcome your prejudice and discrimination because it makes you work against yourself from within. Regardless of your education whether you are a religious scholar, an atheist, a scientist, a medical doctor or a witch doctor no matter who you are, you are a mortal being and you just can’t afford to rob your own happiness and contentment.