It is election time in Canada, and all political parties are out to get support for their platforms. I personally have no favorite yet, but I still would vote.
There are few things I don’t like in politics, one of them is the negative attack ads. They are effective because the individuals whom don’t really look beyond the ads, are allowing them to be effective.
As a voter we should be able to understand the intentions and deny the awards to those whom use the attack ads, because putting some one down to win may be politically correct, but ethically and spiritually its not.
There is a common saying, that in love and war everything is a fair game, but I believe in politics negative attack ads should not be so forgiving because it is to make the people fool to buy into something may not be true reality.
These political ads to win are not the fault of the advertising parties, it is the problem of the individual who gets bought into them. Democratically voting needs, should be clearly defined for the individual to be educated enough to tell the differences.
I believe democratic countries are like organizations, they shouldn’t, can’t an usually don’t run by the one individual like a kingdom, even if it is a presidential system. If it was true, then president Obama would have done everything what he promised when he came in power.
If someone is attacking one of the candidate’s personal character or weaknesses, that is a low blow to the fairness, because it is not the individual it is the whole political party’s ideology or agenda what is most important in a democratic political system.
If the individual who is voting can’t recognize that, it is his/her lack of awareness. If you are buying into those ads and believe that democracy is one man system, you are not looking at a the way it should be looked at, if you still do you are trying to elect a king.
If it is true for you that you are trying to elect a king, that time has passed and kings have been replaced. It is time, you start to look at the political agendas of the parties and learn not to vote emotionally because if someone is your relative, friend, neighbour or just belong to your religion, all these reasons are not enough for a voter to vote.
Personally I believe we have a problem these days because everyone has become a liberal, if you are a true conservative and you can’t or would not talk about the abortion, you have strayed from you conservative values. These days if you are in the extreme of the conservatism you are in the minority and can’t be elected. The population has been changed, the human rights have won in the court legally.
If you were a democrat, you had to become a new democrat to soften the image of the extreme socialism, give a break to the small business a tax break to become moderate, so you can be elected to govern otherwise there was no way of getting a chance to govern. Political decisions had been made to change their values, so political parties do what is important, change with the time, so the democrats are not democrats any more they are liberal democrats.
The conservative party has changed to progressive conservative party, meaning they had to come into the middle as well. If you want to get votes you have to make some choices and the political way of thinking calls for the changes even it is against the core values. This is the value of the typical political party trying to hang on to the powers. I personally don’t buy that conservatives are conservatives anymore they are liberal conservatives.
If you are liberal, well you are a political party as well, I believe there is nothing wrong with the politics as long as you don’t go to extremes to put each other down in the negative ads or promise something you can’t fulfill.
All political parties are political and changing tunes of their agendas are allowed but you can’t just use your values to entice your base line and use people’s belief systems like a toy to come into power. Religions have been doing a good job for that already, so if every governing system is a lie, where should the voter find ethics and values to live by .
If you are a voter, just look at the politics of the political party and then decide, don’t just fall or get bought into the negative ads you are smarter than that.
I whole heartedly believe that these days all parties have to change to get in. If you claim that you are a conservative you are not true conservative, if you are a democrat, you are not because you all became liberals. Now liberals have to claim their true identity because they always have been in the middle.
Going back to the religious politics pope just said that we should not treat the divorced people badly, well it is about time and I wish all religious leaders come out clean, because there is enough innocent blood in the fangs of the religious cats. Just look around the history and even today they don’t just lay off.
Today it is all about the human rights, these days you just can’t penalize anyone harshly, especially if you have the need of people to attend mosques churches and temples.
If you don’t change with time, you just get left behind, so pope is becoming and sounding more like a politician as well who is recognizing the trends of humanity and planning to survive. There was time for the religions to be used as political systems but these days things have been changing. Personally I believe spirituality is the only one consistent thing throughout the history of the humanity.
Today’s modern societies have the human rights, welfare system, universal health care, legal aid, and public school systems, used by the people in need interestingly they are not supported by the conservatives or republicans whom are by far the most popular parties in religious communities . I can’t see anything political in these systems and only see an ocean of spirituality coming from the Godless people whom are called socialists. What is wrong with the picture of the religions where and when did the spirituality cross the religions boundaries and ended up in the Godless people.
The real politics of the religion.
Converting to Islam, Christianity or Judaism or any other religion by force is disrespecting to the spiritual knowledge. Religions have been using conversion and conformation as political tools because higher the number in the group, the stronger it would be considered. Everything has changed and we have to change with the time, our wars are not with the swords and arrows anymore so we have to understand the dangers of nuclear and chemical wars rising from the religious conflicts.
By force disciplining, corporal punishments and conformation has been is and will always be a failed strategy because it goes against the human nature. Sense of freedom is an innately ingrained force in the human individual. Any kind of fear related disciplining or conversion is spiritually unethical and in general morally incorrect and unfortunately most religions have used these practices throughout our history. In fact most human societies have had their share of brutalities thus most of our ancestors have been guilty, according to today’s standers. Politically it may have been acceptable to a group, but as a humanity it is against the human rights and freedom of choice.
Each and every one of us has the ability to think beyond the politics of the sense of belonging yet we don’t, because of the individual’s inability to understand and balance the opposing senses.
Logically thousands of years of old traditions and customs don’t stand a chance against today’s revolutionized human rights and internet era advancements of humanity.
Politics and religions may have been mixed but politics and spirituality don’t mix period. When the religions are tainted with the politics it’s even more important for the individual to make informed choices. The sense of belonging can rule the individual but as an independent entity we all have the duty to join the ocean of spirituality or humanity with conscience, personal ethics and justice. The universal rule of the thumb should be your measuring stick, don’t do to any one, what you don’t like done to you.
Personal revenge, land dispute and political differences can be the reasons to go to the wars, but any belief system should not be the reason to kill each other because every human knowledge is subject to change with our evolving knowledge.
Sense of belonging and religions are the culprits in most disputes, if you take these two out by individually believing, that you are a part of the whole humanity instead of your belonging group and spirituality not the religions is the path to God. You can change the world.
By taking out the religions and sense of belonging we can create heaven on earth, but the solution is within the individual. If we all become who can balance him/herself, we can see and take stand against the politics hidden behind the words where human politics incriminates God.
No one should have to change their believe system or religions they are born in. Equal human rights should be able to trump all kind of belief systems, the proof is already in the western societies. Just look at the melting pot systems people have been living together for a long time regardless of their belief systems. It has always been extremely religious people whom have been creating problems for the individuals.
Religions have been condemning and penalizing the individuals over the addictions, homosexuality and suicide because at the time religions came through we did not have the knowledge of the powerful brain chemicals. Even today we are going through the transitional time, religious people still believe these social and psychological problems are individual’s fault.
In general as a society our understanding has been changing for sometimes, but these changes move slowly because they are not just related to the one individual. Social changes happen with the evolution of the society as a whole. The societies have to go through the discussions, arguments and even wars before the major changes. It is unfortunate but that is what our history shows we have to sacrifice to gain a change.
Real evolution takes a genuine struggle by more than one individual. Equal human rights and justice have gone through a lot of sacrifice, today we can see people living from all colors, races, nationalities and religions in advance societies. It is possible, naturally we are social creature who can live in peace but our politicians don’t let us to follow our nature they look for what is in for them. They are more powerful with a smaller group of people, just like the pond with the boundaries the leader is a head honcho but in the ocean he/she is insignificant, so the fight for the control rages on.
Today’s awareness of human rights belong to the few individuals whom stood up against the mass for justice, so yes it always starts with the individual. If it make sense and is against the injustice it would resonate with the general population and the society eventually will adopt that change. Just look at the new changes especially the new pope is make some remarkable adjustments in Roman Catholic religion, a while ago it was about the human rights for homosexuals and now the accommodations to the divorced people. The signs of the changes to the religions are in the air.
If you are on the wrong side of it, it’s either you have fear of some material loss or you are victim of the politics of sense of belonging. Those two are powerful but the sense of justice is ingrained within you, so if you don’t change as a mortal, you may have to live with guilt which is not a good life to live. Inner turmoil is the cause of several social, emotional, mental, psychological, physical and spiritual problems so as a mortal individual you have a duty to live a just life to experience the real happiness.
If the individual is spiritually aware and evolved, he/she should be able to see when and where the human rights are violated even by their own belonging groups. If you can see, assess and judge, you can have in home discussions, communal debates and vote for the spirituality over the politics of your belonging group. Since the groups are formed by the individuals it would take the individuals to bring change from the bottom up.
In human societies most of the successful governing systems start with the bottom up philosophy but fail to continue because of the sense of belonging to the belonging group has the over power the insecure individual. Can we overcome the politics of sense of belonging? May be one day yes, if the individual feels secure enough to speak his/her mind.
The powerful people in every group use all the political tactics including violence to kill their own people to control the general population. They will use sense of belonging and religion to make the individual to feel guilty, they even portray God as some kind of monster to create fear in the straying individual, but it is all part of the politics to keep them in power.
We as an individual and as a human entity are in constant evolution, our previous governing systems like kingdoms, religions, communism and dictatorships have been failing because of our evolutionary nature, since every progress takes its toll every step of the way, humanity have been facing strong resistance from the powerful entities.
Even today our populations are torn apart there is a chaos and wars over nothing. Human life has been disregarded in the past, one can say our ancestors were not evolved enough to know the differences, but this day and age with our understanding we have to look at our behavior critically.
We have human standing up against the animal cruelty yet we all watch every day in the news killings of the innocent human beings. Spirituality is not just to stand against the animal cruelty it is all about the humanity as well.
Spirituality is everything to do with humanity with all its faults and differences.
Spirituality gives inner and outer peace because it’s the inner and outer harmony of the music of the individual’s life.
Spirituality is all about the evolution of human individually and collectively without the what ifs, it’s a totally blind trust in God and fearless living, which does not connect God to the politics of heaven and hell.
Spirituality allows the individual to understand the connection between God and the Man as spiritual and physical expression of the same entity, just like the positive and the negative wires, you can’t just light up a light bulb with one wire even if it is God, there is no light without each other.
Spirituality gives the power to become a CEO so the man can create balance between the opposing senses like sense of belonging and sense of freedom, a CEO can’t be herded like a sheep by the sheep dogs.
Spirituality is the man’s awareness to the sense of justice.
Spirituality is an awareness of the importance of love which grounds the individual as he/she is born in to the society, passionate love to create instinctive and universal love and in general love can be the foundation of peace, if it is taken away it can lead the Man to wars of hell.
Spirituality is not a pond or a web site with the self-created fear based boundaries, it is the space, an ocean and an internet just like God.
Spirituality is an indefinitely evolving entity, like human individual’s brain and body. Internet or God are good for everyone and everything if used right. Individual creates a good melodious song out of his/her life by respecting the empty space of God.
If you pick up the weapons to kill or destroy, you fall out of the spiritual world and yes even if you hide behind the religions. When you say you are doing well for your belonging group, remember the group you are trying to defeat belongs to humanity as well. Even if your war is related with the religion it is a political war because spiritual world is pure of injustice and you can’t have good for some and bad for the others. It is like one body with illness to one part of the body if you have a physical problem you suffer as a whole being.
We look up for God because we have the feelings of inadequacy, the feelings of inadequacy are strongly related with our education from our ancestors and we are taught all our lives that we are sinners and unworthy of God, if you want to go to heaven you have to listen and be obedient to the religious rules. Politics, politics and politics.
We are taught to look for perfections outside and are told God is perfect, powerful and majestic exactly the opposite of the feelings we have deep inside just like a depressed person.
Religions especially make the person feel inferior and our other governing systems keep the individual weak and controllable as well, but if you start to look at your make up and abilities, you are really something else and I mean literally.
Just pick any bodily function or a system, you would see the remarkable work of art, you would be amazed how your body runes and functions in the most intricate ways not yet completely understood by us. The brain can flabbergast you just to think about it. The soul inside of you is just a thing from another world literally, we got a long way to go just to understand ourselves. You represent God physically, each and every one of us does and every one of us should take pride in just being alive to work for God as God, if any one puts you down as a sinner or as an inferior to them just smile and believe in who you are.