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Being part of God himself is the foundation of individual self-esteem that is why most religions and nationalist systems of governing are so against the individual strength. We have been brain washed by community oriented thinking to the point that we sacrifice our energy, happiness and even life, yet this mortal life, happiness and contentment is a personal gift from God directly to the individual. Politics of our sense of belonging is hell bent to rob the individual to serve and spent a mortal life as a part of a big machine. No denying the importance of it but why do we all have a free will and personal responsibilities of personal life?
I am well aware of the purpose of life to reciprocate but when you take matters to extreme, you end up killing and getting killed over the politics of sense of belonging not for the spiritual reciprocation to God. Even God himself made the human individual so important that we all are given the potential to be a CEO of our lives. We are taught not to have self-esteem, we are taught you don’t have a direct connection to God, so you have to believe and follow the rules to go to so called heaven for creating hell in this life time. Where did this knowledge of hate and conflicts come from? God himself, or spirituality? I don’t think so.
Religious beliefs are like kingdoms, royal families are the only one, connected to God and everyone else is a commoner so has no direct link to God. He/she has to follow the orders blindly or else, yet God had created the individual in such a way, that he/she is perfectly capable of using free will, at will, any place and any time.
Yes its true that sometime you have to use free will to stay alive by following the orders of oppressive rulers, but in reality you are using your free will to say that you don’t have free will. To know your importance, it is important to be alive so regardless of the level of freedom you have, you still have the free will, which makes you a miniature God or being part of God himself. You can go through this life time being free in your mind, if you feel trapped out side.
Human individual is the thread of the fabric of God, regardless of the design and strength, the very existence of that strength is not possible if that thread of the fabric is not there. The thread in the fabric is the most important aspect of the fabric. In God’s case physicality of God depends on the presence of human being, without him/her, fabric’s physicality disappears so, it is not able to fulfill the prayers of others, thus loses its importance regardless of the spiritual importance.
Taking attention away from the individual’s importance, from the individual him/herself, is a must for the controlling authorities. He/she can easily be controlled if the individual feels the need to belong. Groups have taken the powers from the individual by installing the knowledge of weakness. They have flipped the triangle so the individual has lost his/her importance and self-esteem with it.
When it comes to mortality, especially for the individual, it is crucial to have an understanding of the individual importance. If you don’t recognize yourself as the thread in the fabric of God, you will become, what your ruling authorities intended for you to be, “meaningless” it maybe coming from the religions, yet it is against God’s will. Helping in fulfilling someone’s prayers is as good it can get, human being is meaning full to the point that he/she makes God meaningful.
The issues with the self-esteem, like inferiority complex, personal weakness, lack of belief in God and lack of control creates an environment of helplessness, thus unhappy, depressed, anxious and unfulfilled mortal life. This is created by the politics of governing authorities or worshiping systems. The weaker you are easier you would be to control, so lack of your belief is not created by you or God, it is from the installed knowledge you have grown up with.
That is why you are taught to think whatever you are doing is your personal will, yet acting as a puppet is not in your interest as well, especially if you are a mortal. Doing good for the society is great and very satisfying, but it is an extreme so creating balance is your duty as a mortal individual because God created you as a CEO. That means, you have to attend all departments of life including taking care of the personal importance as well. You matter to you, regardless of the education you have been exposed to. If you are not important to yourself, or you don’t matter to yourself, it is a spiritual flaw you have accepted from your belonging group, because you have demoted yourself to be a head of a department instead of being a CEO.
If you dig into yourself beyond the installed data, you will discover your direct connection to the source or God at any place, any time and all the time. This would give you all the confidence and self-esteem you need to tread through a mortal life regardless of your belief system because it makes you a miniature God yourself. That is if you are willing to go there and deal with your dead dog of the problems you are facing. Most of the time going inward and becoming spiritually evolved can make, what appears to be a big problem, a small stuff. When you put things together for yourself, first thing should do is to become aware of your mortality, so you can appreciate even the simple things like oxygen, which you can’t live without. It will make you appreciate physical life and its bounties like love and other enjoyments like foods.
Most religious people believe in sacrificing everything what God had offered for this life to get in the after life. Sacrificing this life for the after life has a smell of the politics of control, so the individual can be used and controlled in living years. Human beings are useful to God while they are physically alive so doing good while alive is a good thing but sacrificing while being alive makes God unfair, so it may not be God’s order. God can easily say that I gave you the free will for a reason so you can reciprocate while enjoying the living years. People do that any ways not everyone sacrifice even the priests have their cakes and eat it too.
You may turn things around for yourself, if you can address the causes of your imbalances. I believe in medicine but I believe in finding the causes of the problems as well. Spirituality resides within the thoughts of human beings, so being aware of mortality clears a lot of clutter out. Our thoughts are, and can be very powerful to have profound effects in our daily living, they dictate how we feel, so if your thoughts are controlled and cluttered. You maybe, are lead to believe that you are a born sinner and are an inferior entity, thus you need to find strength in the numbers to belong. Obey the rules of the belonging groups regardless of right and wrong. This has nothing to do with spirituality yet everything to do with the politics, so find your real belief from within by becoming a CEO of your life. You are an equal partner in doing God’s work remember God can’t fulfill any one’s prayers physically without your help so know your importance. If you don’t believe in yourself or in, what I am saying, find me a prayers which got fulfilled without the help of any human being, even miracles are performed through the human individuals, remember all the prophets of God were human beings, ever wonder why?
Mosques, Churches, and the praying places are the places where like minded people get together for the political reasons. Strength in numbers is the politics. In the foundation of the religions, people believe or are taught to believe that if you bring in a believer to their religion, you will go to heaven. Every political entity requires the individuals to follow a set of rules to be a part of the group, yet in spirituality there are no demands on the individual other than the reciprocation. It all depends on the individual to use free will to be an evolving human being with the potential. This potential takes us out of the politics of the sense of belonging to a group and brings us into the arms of the humanity as a whole, so a politician of a group would never want you to become a CEO of your life to challenge their belief system.
God does not exist in the religious buildings but in the real worshiping places, like the armpits of the humanity where it stinks but these places will give you the real spiritual satisfaction. Doctors without the borders, food for the starving children, or helping people after a natural disaster or refugees of the human political conflicts or global warming etc.. Interestingly religious wars are still creating refugees.
I want to clear one thing here, I don’t think or believe, we can function without our politics, so it has its place and importance but one should be able to distinguish the differences between the politics and spirituality.
Just look at our actions, you may feel confused about your standing, if you do, strive to become a CEO.
If you believe in, enhancing the number of a belonging group, nation or a religion, would be spiritual, you got to think again, remember strength in numbers, looking for strength for security is as political as it gets period.
Worshiping style or clothing is political as well, you maybe are lead to believe, it is the orders of God to dress up certain way, sure we need to cover ourselves up, but it is all politics of the sense of belonging to a certain group to show the signs of belonging so traditional clothing of the land where you are born is common political statement. If you are born in the up north you have to survive by covering up, and yes even if you have to wear fur. The people whom talk against it, they are not in your shoes and you are not in their shoes either so becoming passionate about it, is all political, you may feel the cause is a spiritual one but if you don’t put yourself in others shoes you can’t be passionate about it.
When you show up in your worshiping place, you are standing with your belonging group, otherwise talking to God can be done anywhere at any time, so it is political to show up at the gatherings of all kind. Prayers and sacrifice of your time, resources and energy is personal and directly connected to God, so it can be done in personal manners depending on your intention.
Sticking to old style rules like dressing code or living in the era of our prophets did, is political as well because you are forced to follow certain opinion. In reality the spirituality is, that you help your fellow human beings, in the era when you are born in, and in your modern ways as well, put some water pipelines to the areas where people are starving and dying because of drought. Human beings have been known to move mountains.
Standing up for your belonging groups regardless of right or wrong is totally political not spiritual so thinking standing for your religion does not mean it automatically becomes spiritual.
Fighting and killing over the religious opinions is not spiritual, it is political to stand with your belonging group. An individual should evolve to be a CEO of his/her life so he/she can judge the right and wrong done, and yes even if it is done by your belonging group as well.
Believing in one God and everyone being part of God regardless of the differences or having equal human rights is 100% spiritual.
Oppression is 100% political.
Discrimination against any human individual or group is politics.
Racism, prejudice is 100% politics.
Carrot and stick philosophy or heaven and hell is not spiritual, it is a type of politics to keep control.
God is pure of politics of control otherwise we would all be angles without the free will, God is nothing but the truth and human being, well, he/she should not, but has become, nothing but the politics of security, yet interestingly, we all are mortal so logically there is no security and I mean non what so ever. Totally sticking to spirituality or politics are extremes, finding and creating balance is the game, a mortal CEO has to play. If you walk by the grave yard, you can see but all the dead ones may have thought one way or the other they would secure themselves by living a controlled life, just like their belonging group taught them to live. No group of people, not even the powerful ones can save the life of an individual, or change the mortality, at least not yet.
I don’t deny the importance and the benefits of the spirituality inspiring religious knowledge but I don’t want to close my eyes and believe blindly as I am ordered. I want to point out the flaws of our belief systems and the harms they have caused. Spiritually it has taught restraint and the love of others, which is great but it has allowed and let the politics of sense of belonging to certain groups run the show, which has not only ruined and remove the trust of an ordinary individual from the spirituality, it has caused unaccountable death toll and individual sufferings as well. If you see the dungeons and torture chambers of the past or even the punishments of the religions for the simple disobedience, they are enough to turn the stomachs of the modern human beings, especially when you think it was and is done in the name God. When the religions go to war they go with the passion and trample all the spirituality out of the religions yet in the name of God.
I believe religion touches us all as an individual, deep inside just like music you can like it, hate it or simply love it. Not completely understood but a reality, our journey from compassion to passion is strongly related to our extreme political views of our belonging groups, personal and passionate sense of belonging to our belonging groups.
The boundaries and strict rules of conformation has taken the human spirit and turned it into a sense of belonging related governing systems and they have no respect for the individual human rights especially for whom belonging to the opposing groups. Since the individual is the main essences of any governing system, if there is no respect for the individual the system is spiritually flawed thus eventually fails. Looking around the world there are very few nations left whom let the religious rules be their justice systems. Why do you think that is?
By nature or even logically, if you put any kind of boundaries on the human individual, it is impossible to enforce without resorting to the violations of the individual human rights. We all believe differently even within the same religion there are several sects so discrimination is inevitable thus can’t be a justice system.
Human brain is equipped with the constantly regenerating and multiplying neurons, putting any kind of freezing is against the human nature and, which I believe is related with God’s will. Constant multiplication and reproduction of brain and all other human cells is a clear sign of evolutionary nature. Going with it with faith in God is the way to go. Creating rules to block the human potential is against God’s will thus most religious rules are related to the politics of sense of belonging. Today we know the paths of supper storms to save lives, and it has not been achieved by following the religious rules. If it was not up to the scientists, we would still be throwing virgins over the cliffs with the beliefs that God is angry at us.
All the rules to make human individual restraint him/herself are based on the carrot and stick philosophies of the past, sure it works, only when you work with the animals or the animal instinct of human beings but it back fires when you want to have a police man for every individual. It is not only impossible it is degrading for the human intellect as well.
I believe in the knowledge which promotes self regulation, based on compassion and logic. Since everything about restraining is related to conformation, it has to have a logic, not force to comply because fear based control is not a control at all.
If you expect, respect from the people around you, for your personal restraining powers, you have everything wrong or upside down, because its between you and God, not between you and the people around you. If you want to fit in, impress, or have a desire to be admired you already have gone away from the path of spirituality. It gets worse if you think that everyone should follow what you follow or what you think is right. A mortal life spent in a total restraint is a gamble, if you like to play, play it at your risk, but don’t enforce it on the others, unless its related with law and order. There should be a clear distinction between law of the land and the individual’s belief system because belief systems are standing on the ground what is not clear to all the human beings at the same level. It would be an injustice to someone whom does not believe in the same belief system, so it would be a human rights violation.
Always remember that, just like you everyone comes with a mortality shoved into them without their choice, and logically they all have the right to live the way they want to. Sure when it comes to crimes against the humanity or against each other, it becomes a matter of law enforcement. Law enforcement is related with the justice system, which is based on the solid, clearly defined and set written rules, equally apply to everyone.
During a discussion, the belief systems always end up in a zone of the unknown, which needs to be believed in, so one can believe in one hundred percent, other can believe, ten percent or fifty percent, and the other can deny wholeheartedly. That is why, a belief system should not be acknowledged as a legal system. If you have equal human rights in the foundation of a justice system which is against the prejudice of all kind, it would surpass the belief systems to help the communities as a better governing system.
Carrot and stick compare to self regulation through education can help the individual to overcome the animal instinct of mob mentality, killings, looting and crimes of opportunity. If you look at all societies of the world these kind of crimes can be found regardless of the governing systems. Especially mob killings are rampant in religious societies. Participant’s education can be questioned but the real culprit is the politics of strong, passionate and out of control sense of belonging to their belonging groups. Education in that department is a must, so the individual can have the ability to judge and decide over and beyond the sense of belonging.
Religions have been around for more than two thousand years with the carrot and stick philosophy, if it was successful with human beings, by now we should have crime free societies with the self regulating individual who does not need police or justice system. Just look around if thousands of years of education has not changed any thing yet, do you really believe it will change it if you carry on believing the same way. The individual with the clear sense of right and wrong who is a CEO, is not found everywhere regardless of education level, because we just can’t over come our politics of sense of belonging to our belonging groups. It is time to speak for the new paradigm to join the humanity as a whole. Every thing is clearly pointing towards it, we need to work together against global warming related issues because you can’t be safe in the boundaries of a country, a nation or a religion.
Internet is like a spirituality and religions, nationalism, racism, prejudice and discrimination are single computers so choose your paradigm wisely. When it comes to having to live with the differences of opinions, whether within your belonging family, friends, community, nation or religions, the things should be kept in mind, are first and far most your mortality, spirituality humanity, God, compassion and love. These things would keep you away from the extreme and make you a better judge, who can see the real things that matter.
We are an evolving entity so can’t be perfect until we hit our potential 100%. Some of us have more of the animal side than the others so the problems are solved like a physical creature.
It is all related with the size of the inner animal, regardless of the strict rules sexual deviance is rampant even in the highest level of religious leaders, where you expect the respect of the religious rules. From violating human rights of the indigenous people in residential schools to sexual scandals of the priests, to starvation of neighboring nations of rich Islamic states, all points to deviating individuals and states. Choosing political parties against the spiritual beliefs and values by the church going people is an other flaw I can point to.
When you mix religion with the politics, compassion and spirituality usually takes a back seat. If the individual regulates him/herself, he/she can see what is wrong with the forced rules and what is right with the self regulation. Since the purpose of all education including carrot and stick philosophy is the individual self regulation we have to see why even after thousands of years, we can not achieve that goal.
Human beings respect love and compassion, these are promoted by the religions but are disrespected by the religious people all over the world.
Fear of God and guilt of loving Devil has been brought for the individual to self regulate but has failed and will always fail, because that zone of the unknown will be there until we reach our full potential. Looting someone, especially when they are already down by the natural disaster, or abusing power especially after conquering is no compassion and love.
Why our religious knowledge has not been successful? I personally blame the forced education. Best way to educate is to encourage self regulation with reasons explained, because as parents we can’t be around all the time, society can’t hire a cop for each individual, and God, well, since we are pretty good dealing with our governing affairs we should let God deal with our bigger problems like providing us oxygen and health by keeping our inner and outer space in order.