The legitimate side. THE AMIMAL.

In the core human has a beginning of a wild animal, which is part of our make up.
Today when a baby cries the mother or father runs to comfort; whether to change the diaper, feed or just to hold. As human beings we catch on quickly even as a baby and demand continuously. If the demands are met everything is fine, otherwise the problems persist. If the caregiver is not understanding, he/she will raise the child with the over powering animal side. If the care giver looks at the time, and think I have just changed, fed and held, there is no need to attend, let him or her cry. Babies will cry for awhile and on realizing nobody is coming, the first step towards becoming a human has been taken. Self restraint is best learnt in the beginning. The balance should be understood by the parents. It’s not only good for themselves, it is good for the baby when he/she grows up. All our lives we have to deal with our desires, if the foundation is not set properly we will have a struggle, in weight management, relationships and of course with the law. By nature we have two competing sides, and the gift of free will to create balance.
Without the understanding and practical use of any knowledge keeps those words into words. Words only become wisdom when they are used in practical life.
People recite words from the Quran or the Bible and believe that would solve their problems in their living years and take them to the heaven after they die.
Belief systems have a placebo effect on human beings, but it does not work for everyone. When it works for someone he/she would not understand why others don’t believe like him/her. Strongly religious people usually try to fit the others into their shoes instead of trying to fit in the others. That kind of belief system is an extreme which takes us away from basic fundamentals of social life.
If you look at the knowledge from the holy books, it is mostly for the individual to be a good person and live for the others and God, meaning sacrifice this life for the others and there will be life after death.
Great philosophy of control to use people for the society’s well being. Nothing is wrong on the surface but everything including well intended knowledge has its consequences. The individual and his/her animal side would object to that. When the individual is forced to live life in a sacrifice mode the animal side explodes with the bad consequences. Deeply unhappy and strict these people are trying and struggling to have relationships with their children and people around them. (Read the Love triangle)
The vary essence of the holy book’s spiritual knowledge gets lost in the politics of it. The compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice and love take back seat when the emotions flare up because of the differences. These differences are deeply connected to our animal side. Strict parents force children to fear God and live for the after death, yet fail miserably. So where is the disconnection, yes the answer is the animal deep inside of all of us. The legitimate side of the man or a woman.
Our religions and other social systems have been hell bent to kill that animal for eons with no success. We are still banging our head even it is bleeding, after all the civilization. By now we should be wiser and acknowledge the legitimacy of our animal side and make deals with it instead trying to kill it.
I have been getting hundreds of calls from the people who want to teach me Quran. One of the caller called me a kafir, meaning infidel just because I questioned the knowledge of fasting and prayers. I said we live in north far enough that in summer the day light can last for twenty four hours. What should one do about the fasting month, we have to be able to make some amendments otherwise it is not good for the individual. Since our prayers and fasting times are connected to the sun light. I believe in the room for amendments in all kind of human knowledge including all constitutions and religions. Pope has changed his views about the homosexuality because logically religions, as spiritual systems can’t be against the human rights. Discrimination or even individual suffering from fasting twenty four hours a day is plain wrong.