Regardless of hunger and instinct, cannibalism is not around. It has not evolved in most societies wherever it has been discussed whether in an open society or in the bush. Most societies naturally avoid this topic. This day and age we have certain acceptable level of crime rate in all human societies. Each level of crime may be a little different from other crimes but no one is crime free including the religious societies with the harshest of the punishments as they are are riddled with all kind of crimes.
Regardless of the crime rate we have made some progress. My question is where do you personally stand in this evolving world? How far would you be pushed to break the limits or rules of the group that you have chosen to belong to, whether it be a social issue one concerning your religious beliefs? Would you commit a spiritual crime knowingly that it is wrong? Would you blow yourself up to kill innocent people or bomb to blow up the whole city of in the name of your belonging group? In the end, would you go to cannibalism if you were starving? I have not read or heard the news of cannibalism yet I hear human being dying of starvation all throughout our history. Cannibalism is rarely heard in this day and age, why do you think people don’t kill other people for food? They kill each other all the time. What are the reasons behind this? What makes us different than other creatures?
Education, Education and Education. Interestingly.
There is a strange phenomena that most societies follow where it is that we don’t kill each other because of our aggressive nature or lack of education but we kill each other with our sense of belonging related and politically tainted education. As babies we don’t discriminate, yet we can’t stand each other as adults. Growing up with knowledge acquired by education as a part of our wish to be better informed about our fellow man makes up our identity, and we wonder why others cannot understand that we will follow a group that encourages us to be informed and make informed decisions regarding other people in our society. We need to know and assess individually so you would be able to choose whether one wishes to act as a human being in the group that you belong to. Your political identity is what you assume is the same as the groups you have chosen to follow.
To me, knowledge is only a knowledge when practiced. Wisdom is all about the affects. If we learn to become or accept being a human being we can over come our identity crisis. Personal weakness and powerful politics that we follow within our groups gives us comfort that we are adhering of our sense of belonging to our groups. This forces us to even reject the education of the opposing groups regardless of the wisdom that it contains.
The fundamentals of civilizations are based on our education yet it is not that simple when it comes to the politics of sense of belonging, evolving nature or even starvation. All obedience for the rules and respect of law and order and yes even the religious beliefs including God are the things of a full stomach, a few days of starvation creates hallucination so it is kind of obvious. Regardless of our education each and everyone of us come with the conflicting sides because of the ideas we receive from our group that we were born with. In spite of the strength of the animal side, human beings come ripened with equally strong spiritual side in the core .
Yes,our good and bad are related with our core and why would God do that to human beings? Why is it that there are bad people or the people whom are bad but become good with the time? Common sense comes to mind when peoples use the human body as an example of humanity.
The first words of wisdom of good and bad is that we would not be able to know the differences if there was not any good or bad. I am not certain but I have read somewhere that the human body is consisted of ten trillion cells with twenty six thousand genes. We have a hundred trillion good and bad bacteria with three million of genes to keep our body alive. Even bad bacteria, viruses and parasites are important to keep the immune system in tip top shape to help the body be healthy. For the individual to appreciate the good they have in life, they have to understand that without both there can be no distinction between bad and good.If we don’t have anything bad like poisons in the body, our immune system is a dead duck so we will not be able to survive this world full of infections. We have earned the right to live on the face of the earth by surviving infections.
The good and bad can be an opinion of a certain time and era and be related to the education or level of understanding so the bad in our gut is actually good if it helps us to survive.
Now, people in a society are like the colonies of bacteria working for God or humanity. It may be chaotic if everyone is good in the society because there is no gauge to compare good from bad. Bad has its importance for educational purposes or we don’t understand at this time. Remember that our past bad behaviors are acceptable as well as the good things today so an evolving entity can’t be completely sure of their evolving knowledge. It is still a choice for the individual regardless of the era they are born into. When it is established that choosing good or bad comes with the a choice, that means there is much more responsibility on the individual’s shoulders than we are taught that we must believe in religions. You simply can’t hide behind the Devil or God for your good and bad choices. God or Devil don’t come into your decisions because you have been blessed with free will thus you individually have to take charge and be responsible for your decisions that you make.
Today we have court systems set in most human societies and fundamentals of the justice systems are based on the individual responsibilities and personal choices. It is because no one disputes free will. Since good and bad is assessed by the popular beliefs of the era you are born into, it becomes quite problematic when the politics of the group we have chosen to belong to conflicts with the wishes that our fellow individuals wish to follow.
We may be taught that is good to commit spiritual crimes for our belonging groups whether it is in the name of nationalism or religion. This group may try to convince you that it is not a bad thing to do something bad even though you are acting for the belonging group and this can include so called religious groups.
The human individual is a subcontractor to God , so there is no if, and or buts regarding the personal responsibilities for all the evolved and educated individuals.
The more we evolve, the more our responsibilities are being placed on our shoulders to live as we must. These are the reasons why in these modern days religions have taken a hit in their popularity. If you choose to act and murder someone who is innocent of any crime in the name of your religion, you are still responsible for your actions. If it is determined that you did commit this crime, you not your religious group,will be tried and ,if found guilty, be punished in the court of law and this could mean many years in jail or by the loss of your life.
If you are told or you personally believe that God will save you from any court because you have done it for God, you will have rude awakening in both levels. First you may get a death penalty and second you may lose the belief system because God will not show up to save you. God may say, the reason I gave you the free will to choose is to make choices. If you can choose and own what decisions you are making then you are using your individual powers. If you do not choose to own your decisions you are undermining God.
One can blame ideology for being violent, but when it comes to responsibility, it is all about the individuals responsibility. If it is related with the extreme, it is coming from the choices made by individuals. Being good or bad has been, is and still will be changing with time. If your acts of being good is related with the politics of your sense of belonging it maybe tainted with something you perceive. It can be good but if it is proven to be harming some innocent human beings. This is a spiritual crime committed by you, the individual.
In this day and age if you are still living in the past or you want everyone else to live in the past glory days you are not paying attention to the changing world around you.
If you believe even the leaves of the tree can’t move without God’s will, how can you choose to act independently to extremism and perhaps rob someone of their God given lives? If you believe someone’s death by your hands is God’s act, remember the power of the politics of your belonging group over you. Assess your sense of belonging and sense of freedom and create balance so you can make a good judgment as an individual who is blessed with the Godly gift of free will.
You have been blessed with free will by God and not by your belonging groups for a reason. The FREE WILL that you have received is a gift from God. The Gift of Free Will that you received is for you to use with your belonging group, so think spiritually not politically.
Both good and bad are usually related with the choices of our animal and human sides so if everyone around us has a larger or dominating animal side which we would naturally follow which is the norm. Yet potentially each and everyone of us can use personal choice. As individuals we make choices but we are dependent on the circumstances we are facing at the time. For instance, natural disasters or acts of God, national or religious conflicts or serious health condition will have the power to force us to comply regardless of our free will. I am saying that in the same breath because we need to use our personal politics to survive in a world full of political infections.
God’s wisdom comes to play when you take chances and walk on fresh snow not knowing what danger may be hidden beneath the snow. The story of life comes from God but the steps taken by individuals with free will. Carving pathways is the individual’s choice, this may take sacrifices but survival of the humanity requires physical hardship of the human individuals. You may have a dotted story line in your life but you have been given a choice to connect the dots. Remember we all come in life with a purpose so God’s work that will be done through you.
You may not feel or understand the spiritual path you are on in the beginning of your life but as you grow and understand or I should say choose to understand the value of the free will, you will be able to see nature and the spirituality clearly.
A while back I wrote a blog about the dotted picture which described the importance of our personal satisfaction of living a mortal life. In the end of the day, each and everyone of us comes with a personal and prescribed journey, which makes the learning of free will the most important and most valuable lesson for evolution.
Interestingly as a mass or collectively we discourage the individual to be independent. Many of and our religions and isms even force the individual to stay within their boundary lines. Yet we are continuing to evolve. If free will was not given by God we would not evolve. Each and every single progress made by humanity has been, is and will be dependent on that one revolutionary individual who comes up with Godly inspired ideas.
From religions to isms and on to democracies, and everything in between have attempted to govern human societies and they all have a human individual input. Religions may process Godly inspired knowledge but they still may be brought down their knowledge or may be delivered by the human individual. As a humanity we have been following a philosophy which favors mass over the individual for millions of years.Most religious organizations and isms have been down right disrespecting and controlling of their followers.
Finally democracies brought in some respect for individual equal human rights. When you choose mass over the individual regardless of who is right, it leads to group rights violations as well. Bigger and stronger groups try to take over the smaller and weaker groups just like its own citizens. In my opinion, this is the foundation of our group conflicts, so I am hoping if we can bring equal human rights as a new paradigm to evolve to the next level not only for individual but for the whole humanity to deal with our conflicts.
A respected human individual learns to respect not only the group that they belong to but other human beings and groups as well. This can lead humanity to respect each other individually and collectively at the same time. This may become the key to a peace that we have been longing for for many years. Peace can be accomplished now because we have the powers and ability to enable the world of make a deliberate decision to make all of our weapons of mass destruction extinct.
There is no solid evidence that democracy is the answer to all human problems, but it has been an important aspect in bringing about many acts of equal human rights. One thing that democracy brought forward is in the form of voting. Citizens are given the right to vote knowing that one vote for one individual regardless of the color, gender, race or religion. Personally, I think it is a good enough reason to look at it as the best system to govern human societies so far. People don’t flock to the democracies for only economical reasons but for many more such as equal human rights for all citizens. There are many more acts that the citizens have the right to take part in so this is some of the reasons that people are attracted to countries that are democratically run. Many people who may not have these rights may choose to leave their beloved people and country and immigrate to such a country.
Reading a book of knowledge without putting knowledge into practice, you can know a lot but your practical living is the main thing. Religions have a lot of wisdom but the practical living is showing that our interpretations are politically tainted. Our politically tainted religious beliefs are clearly connecting to today’s social problems like prejudice and discrimination. It has put spiritual sides of the religions in an awkward position because they have taught us and brought us up from a savage beings to selflessness and compassionate human beings.
The downfall from the past glory started when religions left the spirituality behind to become political systems.
Regardless of authenticity. God and spirituality is not a governing system because human being is an evolving entity. Knowledge will change with time. The bitter truth is that truth can’t be mixed with the politics period. If you mix them together, sooner of later you will run into a situation where you will commit a spiritual crime in the name of God, so it is better to keep them separate. We are not perfect beings until we have evolved to our potential so our politics should not be part of our belief system.
If you disrespect even one individual and feel superior you have taken the road to politics, you can’t judge who is going to hell or heaven. This decision is between the individual and God.
As we are evolving our good and bad appear to be exchanging places or the lines are being blurred. Today no one wants to be related with racism, slavery, prejudice, and discrimination. In today’s reality they are becoming crimes. In our not so distant past there have been the trademark of superiority in both religions and governing systems and this superiority was used by different groups to express actions of pride.
Kingdoms, dictatorships, authoritarian and religious governing systems disregarded and continue to disregard individual human rights. With the help of the internet, a big sleeping giant called humanity is waking up with a goal of having equal human individual rights for all peoples of this world. No one should be on the wrong side of the history. Democracy related equal human rights needs to be respected because it aligns with God and spirituality, and with humanity as a whole. Most other governing systems are related with the politics of sense of belonging to a group of people not to humanity as a whole.
God and spirituality are the universal truth of humanity as a whole. Religions, if they are used as political systems, isms, and all other political security related systems are our individual and collective truths.
Understanding and seeking security in God and humanity as a whole is the new paradigm which is going through some resistance like some other current causes for turmoil. You can stick to the old ways and keep killings each other or be a part of the new paradigm. The choice is open to all so choose humanity over your belonging groups because today we have weapons of mass destruction and the path we are on it is leading to our extinction.