Month: October 2018

Watched a Movie Titled MUTE (2018, TV-MA)

It started with an Amish proverb:

“In order to mold His people, God often has to melt them.”

Imagine you are a cheetah running to catch a deer. The hunt is on, and you are running at full speed with all your effort, but the deer is running and turning faster than you, getting away. The thought comes to you that you have to feed your babies, and you start to pray to God. “God, please give me some more speed and let me catch this food.” Now, imagine you are the deer. You are running for your life with all you have, and the thought comes to you, “God, please give me some more speed and save me from this certain death; I have to stay alive to feed my baby.” Both sides are praying to the same God but for completely different reasons. This puts God in a pickle about what to do. If God lets the cheetah catch the deer, is this the same as letting Bambi starve to death? Is God mean and merciless to the deer and its Bambi? If the deer gets away, the cheetah’s babies might die of starvation. So, is God mean and merciless to the cheetah but merciful to the deer and Bambi?

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?

Everything is wrong when you bring this scenario into humanity with high expectations from God. Since we all have knowledge of our mortality, things are different. First, it’s not a life-threatening situation for us. Second, we are evolved enough to understand. This is why we can’t, or should not, shoot or drop a bomb on opposing groups and chant it in the name of God.

Our wars have always been, are, and will always be based on our group politics. To keep our group’s morale high, we all tell the group we belong to that we are good, and our opponent group is evil.

Regardless of who is guilty, both sides use politics to convince their group that the opposing group is evil, and ours is good, so God is on our side. Both sides fire or drop bombs with chants that, “God is great.” God has been put in by the cheetah and the deer. The cheetah and the deer don’t have the same comprehension as human beings, so when humans put God in that situation, they are responsible for their actions. They are individually or collectively responsible for their actions because they are not at the level of the cheetah or the deer.

Human beings usually are cunning enough to put the blame on their God or their Devil to deflect responsibilities for their political actions. We have been able to use our politics until now to kill each other, including innocents from both sides. It’s about time we came clean and accepted our responsibilities, whether these responsibilities are individual or collective.

Putting God and the Devil on the top and humans in the bottom corner is clever and political but not honest or truthful. Deep inside, we all individually and collectively know that as human individuals, we are responsible for our actions because we have been blessed with free will. If we justify politically and hide our guilt behind the politics of our groups, we, as individuals, would feel the power of guilt. That phenomenon has been seen in modern-day war veterans with invisible disorders. Many people who have returned to civilian life after serving their country in wars suffer trauma from their service. They live their lives in trauma, and some kill themselves or die because they cannot understand or get over their time serving in the war.

When it comes to the cheetah and the deer, it is a matter of life and death, so we need to seriously look at it. If the deer gets caught, then the cheetah will have food to feed her babies. If it does not, the cheetah will go hungry and may not be able to feed her babies. This dilemma will cause the cheetah to come up with new strategies to continue to evolve.

How much will, or should I say free will, is playing a role in this life-and-death drama? Is it sheer luck, and does God have everything to do with it, or is it personal will?

If you put God on that high pedestal and say everything is done by God, even a leaf on the tree can’t move without God’s will. That means you should believe in God 100% in everything else as well. For instance, if you believe in that, you should not or will not have a concept of revenge related to emotional reactions to punishment. The concept of the justice system itself falls apart if we start to believe God is doing everything and human individuals have no say in what may happen. If that is the case, where would you fit God-given free will and the ability to put personal efforts into the game of life to survive?

Let’s take ourselves out of the bush and caves and come into an urban jungle. During this evolution from cave dwellings to high-rise living, a lot has happened to us. This journey has been tough, but it has been a worthwhile process so far. If we destroy everything that we have built during this evolution, it would be a colossal mistake by a spiritual God or, I should say, humanity.

Just look at us. We can dig deep into the earth without claws. We can swim deep into the ocean without gills. We can fly without wings where no winged bird can fly. This all is done by using free will to evolve. If we were to listen to the people who thought the earth was flat, we would still be in caves fighting for survival. This evolution has not been done by our prayers and worshiping. It usually comes from those so-called “religious people.”

I respect religious beliefs and the fundamentals of mortal living. I also believe that free oxygen, free will, and all abilities a living and breathing body has, with a God or no God.

Now let’s look at how and where God fits into our mortal lives.

Our awareness of personal mortality automatically creates a new world beyond the present life, but it is all based on the assumptions of the groups we have chosen to belong to. Our present ability to think takes us beyond our living years, especially when one starts to think spiritually. We have an evolutionary and exploring nature, with broad imagination, so potentially we create our future with our present thinking. Most of us have the unrelenting need to know why, how, and what happens after we die, so there are several schools of thought giving their versions or scenarios of what will happen. Since no one has been known to return from death and been able to tell us what happened when they went to Heaven, there is no evidence about what happens when we die. So it has always been dependent on the belief system of groups to instill in their members what will happen when they die and go to the heaven they believe in. Now it comes down to the individual whether to benefit or harm one’s living experience and what they are willing to believe.

How much effort you put into your personal life is almost always relevant, so do you use God? Do you rely on God and have expectations from God to take care of your life’s everyday affairs? It is highly dependent on the knowledge you have been instilled with growing up as an individual.

Where do you fit in as an individual to take responsibility related to your everyday life? How much effort you put into your personal life is almost always relevant, so do you use God? Do you rely on God and have expectations from God to take care of your life’s everyday affairs? It is highly dependent on the knowledge you have been instilled with growing up as an individual.

If you are not taught to fend for yourself and evolve, then are you taught not to follow your evolutionary nature? You are taught to believe that if the cheetah catches the deer, it is God’s will. If the cheetah does not catch the deer, this is God’s will also. So logically, you are taught that the cheetah, the deer, and you have no personal free will.

Remember, you can’t believe halfway in free will. Either you believe that you have free will or you do not. You, as a spiritual entity, make a choice to create your physical actions. So if you are making things happen in your life, you are using free will.

Just like our thoughts have the power to create physical changes in our bodies like the healing process and even the creation of diseases, spirituality creates physicality, and physicality makes spirituality meaningful to complete a mortal circle of human individual life. Always remember, the purpose of humans and God is to make things happen physically. Good and bad is not an issue here; it is all about what is important for us as mortals with the gift of thinking, breathing, and a living body to experience this life. Should we mess it up or take charge to live this life on personal terms and responsibilities?

UNDERSTANDING IS REQUIRED.

If you don’t think, you don’t create. Say for security reasons, human beings created cities in the jungle to survive from the predators but forgot about the dangers within the social settings from their own kind.

Sure, we have removed ourselves from the food chain, and no longer can other animals eat us. Unfortunately, we are doing a pretty good job with our social crimes and wars to kill each other. Yet still, it’s so-called human progress, depending on how you look at it.

In favor of personal efforts versus prayers, one has to be fair as an individual. Sure, I believe in the God-given path or story of life because it is evident all around us. We all have different paths, but they all lead to the same destination. All jobs are helping humanity, so helping each other is our purpose in individual life. God does not need help, but needs help from us to turn spirituality into physical actions. So the importance of the human individual is beyond all the religious books and their narrations.

Society and God are made up of human individuals, making each person the most important link. Just as a chicken lays eggs to create more chickens, human beings form masses, societies, and humanity. It may seem less important to you as an individual, but without each individual thread, no fabric can be woven. Therefore, respect yourself as an individual. As a collective, we need to respect the individual so we can survive as a mass.

For instance, if you feel small and weak, you might want to build a bigger, more muscular body with higher levels of testosterone to become assertive and aggressive. Now, think about what you would do to achieve this. Would you go to a mosque or church to seek help from a priest or mullah and pray, or would you take charge, go to the gym, and work out with the help of a personal trainer instead?

This is a common-sense decision that we all make, even if we are very religious. God or not, religion or not, there are certain levels of understanding we all possess.

Free will, personal effort, and the use of our brains have been around since the dawn of civilization, just like our politics of control and power. If you take charge and put effort into your life, you will automatically be ahead of those who don’t. How do you justify poverty despite efforts? Well, this is where politics comes in. We have used our brainpower to achieve control and power over others, creating groups or belonging to groups. We have even passed other people as property, just like kingdoms. Yes, we still have kingdoms in the present world, and royal families have children to ensure their wealth stays in the family.

The modern internet has exposed everyone to democratic values, equal human rights, and a sense of belonging to humanity as a whole. This modern trend is growing rapidly, and the majority of educated individuals want to be part of it.

Authoritarianism, kingdoms, or ideologies like communism and socialism must modernize their way of governing. From South Africa to Russia and China, things are changing, but these changes are slow for some and too fast for others. A changing world is like an open can of worms—you just can’t put things back and close it, so there is no going back. You can claim to be a nationalist, but the world is changing right before your eyes. Especially with the internet and information highway, nothing can be kept secret.

Efforts to suppress freedom of expression, like flogging a blogger or dismembering a journalist, are attempts to put the worms back in the can. Americans are trying to return to the old days, and the British tried with Brexit, but the question is how long they can hold on until changing times sweep them away. Humanity is growing closer together. When UN leaders laughed at Trump, it wasn’t about the issues at hand; it was a reflection of the power of shifting times.

Problems like global warming and the awakening of politics related to equal human rights can’t be controlled by big guns or high walls. These problems can only be dealt with by the united efforts of all humanity. We have come full circle. If we don’t change according to the demands of changing times, our survival as humanity will be in question. There would not be a winning nation; everyone would be a loser. Remember, everything is valuable on the face of the earth because humanity puts a value on it. If the planet becomes uninhabitable, nothing will matter.

If a whole city goes underwater due to climate change, all human beings—rich, poor, or middle class—will lose. So, it is time to care about humanity as a whole. Our wars can destroy nations and their budgets, but global warming-related problems have the power to destroy beyond national borders. Refugees have to leave everything behind to survive, and the assets left behind can’t be valuable until they are rebuilt and repopulated. A ghost town is a ghost town, no matter how you look at it.

At the end of the day, it’s a game of survival. Whether you are a cheetah or a deer, you need to know that free will is there to make a choice to put in more effort to survive. God stays out of your affairs after you have been blessed with an able body, oxygen, and free will. So take charge and make decisions that create peace so humanity can evolve in all aspects of life, not just in war-related weaponry.

Sure, there are things beyond human control, but if we don’t acknowledge the value of our free will, we would end up going to a mosque or church to pray for bigger muscles or stronger bodies instead of going to the gym.

Don’t let anyone tell you that human efforts are not meaningful. Just look into history and even today—every single progress has been made by the efforts of human individuals. Acknowledge the importance of God by remembering that it is all done by able, living, and breathing bodies. Since we can’t live without oxygen or an able body, nothing is done without the blessings of God. So, back to square one. Did the cheetah catch the deer with personal effort and free will, or did the deer survive by personal effort and sheer will? Go figure, but don’t be egotistic and believe that there is no God.

The question is: Is God melting to mold human beings, or are human beings doing the molding by their evolutionary nature?

God has done a godly job by providing us with oxygen, able bodies, and free will. Now it’s up to us to catch our food or avoid becoming food.

I believe in a God who is merciful and has given me oxygen, an able body, and free will. Now, it’s up to me how I live with a belief system to do my job without questioning God’s existence. How I live my mortal life is up to me. I can’t blame, and I don’t want to blame, God for my actions. I have been blessed from the get-go, so my molding is done by me using God-given free will.

Adapting and evolving according to the demands of the time and era I am born into is my quest. We should not have to run from our own kind to survive, nor should we have to think twice about saving our planet. As physical components of God, human beings have far more responsibilities than religions have taught us. Since God’s work is done by us, we need to get our acts together and take charge of what we have been assigned to do.

 

Other than oxygen, the blessings of God come to us through other people who are like us all. All modern living and its facilities are provided to us by our brains of the past and present. We are planning to go to Mars. We have nuclear weapons, our genetic code has been broken—from stem cells to cloning to all the modern ways of living—and the ways of transportation and communication have changed. Nothing has stayed, or ever will stay, the same as we evolve.

Everything that people used to pray to God for, or to achieve and receive, has been provided to us by us. Since we are continuously evolving, we still want more and more, so we still pray to God and God is still relevant in our lives. This is clearly a logical explanation of our evolutionary nature. No matter what we achieve, we will still want more and explore further.

Sure, we are doing it all, but it is all done by living and breathing bodies. What does this really mean? If you honestly look at it, you will find spirituality, which has always been there and still keeps knocking at your door of understanding, but you reject it because of your lack of understanding. How simple can it be? Whatever you are doing with a living and breathing body and brain is not done exclusively by you. Is it hard to understand? No, not at all. Just look around and see how shamelessly we all claim our achievements as ours and ours exclusively. Where does this attitude come from? It belongs to ego-related half-knowledge. Our half-knowledge is related to our evolutionary nature. When we start to claim that whatever is happening, we are making it happen, there is some truth to it because we are doing it, but with the oxygen and a living body, and just to remind you, they are not in our control, period. So whatever we do, as individuals or collectively, is all dependent on the whole universe going in favor. Otherwise, what kind of ability can a dead body have?

Where did we learn all this from? It’s our society and parents who keep preaching to us that whatever you want to do, you can do it if you put your efforts into it. When we achieve whatever we want to, it sends a signal to our psyche that we are the ones who did it. If no one explains how things are done in reality, our own knowledge and belief systems become impotent of spirituality.

Sure, our present knowledge is important and a must. For instance, if a mother is breastfeeding the baby to keep it alive, or someone teaches us how to survive in all kinds of circumstances—like hunting and fishing in the past as well as modern-day jobs—these are the skills we have learned from our belonging humanity. They all come from the people we are born from or belong to, but there is always more to life to learn as an evolving entity. No matter how much we achieve, it will never be enough until we hit our potential, so we personally and individually should always keep our mortal nature in front to live a mortal life.

When you do something for the people you belong to—which I believe we belong to humanity as a whole, not just a group of people—you are not doing a favor to humanity. You are reciprocating to God for a living, breathing machine that survives with the fuel of oxygen and food, so you are returning the favor through your actions during your living years.

Learning to at least respect the people who have been helpful to you, like your parents and the humanity you live in, is not only a duty; it is common decency. Your reciprocation is a spirituality-related game we all need to play. If everyone plays fairly with a sense of responsibility, then humanity as a whole wins.

If you do good things out of greed for heaven, this works against your sense of personal responsibility. You may say that you will not work and live at the expense of others. You may be able to do that, but deep inside, you are not respecting the requirements of being alive—you, humanity, and God, who lives through humanity. Understanding this is important because if you do not respect God or the people around you, you are actually disrespecting yourself.

Disrespecting oneself stems from knowledge based on a disease. This disease is created by people who give all the glory to a spiritual God but disrespect the physical component of God. They glorify God and curse the Devil, taking the human individual out of the equation just to make you insignificant so they can control you politically. If you feel that you are not worthy, you may fall victim to that education and lose self-respect. You may let others take your share, which puts you down even further to the point that you think self-disrespecting behavior is normal. This behavior may show up in your life just because you have learned that you are not responsible for anything. If everything is done by God and the Devil, that makes you just a puppet ripped to be controlled. If the whole community or nation becomes victims of this politics, it is a path to destruction and the end of the evolutionary process of the human individual and community. Therefore, I do not believe a religion should be a political system. Religions are spiritual systems, and they should stick with spirituality and spirituality exclusively.

A parent would not be able to take care of their offspring and would not be able to teach them to fend for themselves if the social fabric is designed in such a way that no one is taking responsibility for their actions or themselves. It can lead to the point that, even as communities, we can’t take care of ourselves. But thank God, luckily, we are human individuals who come equipped with a personal sense of justice and emotions of compassion, so not everyone turns out the same way. Not only can we take care of ourselves, but we also automatically grow the responsibility to take care of others as well.

If parents or society help too much to be relevant or politically strong, it can hinder the process of our kids growing their metaphorical wings to fly solo.

If you talk openly about wanting them to fly without others’ help, they may put more effort into flying solo. We are like other creatures in nature. We can get used to receiving help and learn to like living as dependents. Whether it’s a policy for the controlling authorities to keep you weak or your desire not to put effort into flying higher, these desires do not match with human nature because we are designed to evolve, and evolution requires constant struggle to push and pursue to the next level.

That is where the conservatives or religious people get spooked because if everyone learns to fly solo and higher, they would not be able to answer the questions asked by the higher-flying individuals. They would not be able to create a fear of God or blame the Devil for your actions, so they would not be able to control you politically. It’s not natural for human beings to stay put and feel good about it. We have a natural duty, and we are programmed to reciprocate to feel good about ourselves. We all have a need to be useful; otherwise, we become self-destructive, depressed, and lose our zest for a happy life. By nature, we find deeper happiness when we are able to help those who need help.

Whether it’s socialism, communism, or religions, they all promote ideas that clearly leave room for spiritual injustice to the individual. As human individuals, we all come into life as mortals, so the awareness of mortality automatically makes us insecure. Our insecurities show up in our actions of daily living. If these insecurities seep into the masses, which usually is the case, everybody wants to secure their personal and collective lives. Either way, it does not and cannot stop at life preservation; it leads to hoarding of all sorts. From beliefs to take along material things into the spiritual world to having fear of hell and greed for heaven, all are related to the knowledge of mortality and related insecurities.

This hoarding removes wealth from circulation, which in the long run can be harmful to a society full of mortals. It is not about the life of a mortal; it is the business of living, so we start to remove the wealth away. From the terms mattress savings to property, to the stock market, to bank savings, to retirement savings, and on and on, even insurance in every aspect of life, yet being mortal.

Interestingly, we have systems set up that allow us to leave everything for our offspring, family members, or other loved ones. If we don’t have this, then governments are eager to take over. So far, that is how things work, and that is the best humanity can offer. We can help those who can’t fend for themselves, like the disabled and the sick.

As an evolving entity, humanity is doing the best it can, but individually and collectively, our insecurities can take us to our three major problems.

As Said-i Nursi said, and I quote:

“Mankind has three problems: Discrimination, Poverty, and Ignorance. Discrimination can be solved with love and compassion, Poverty can be solved with sharing, and Ignorance can only be resolved by education.”

My question is, how do we share if we are bombarded by the education of insecurities? If everyone, rich or poor, is addicted to hoarding, then no charity system can be evergreen. You can say survival of the fittest is a success, but I would say, what kind of fitness and success? Health, happiness, and success are the keys. If you are not healthy or lacking oxygen, you can’t be happy, and success without health and happiness is useless. We are social creatures. It matters to us that we are useful to the people around us, and a dog-eat-dog philosophy does not fit into spiritual human living. Physically, you can feed your body and satisfy your brain by impressing others, but if you are still unhappy or depressed, remember that being mortal has taken a toll on you.

In spiritual worlds, reality is a reality, so I am putting forward ten things to remember.

Educate yourself about yourself.

Learn to live a moral life.

Don’t do to anyone what you don’t like done to you or your loved ones.

Make it a duty to reciprocate and be thankful for the functioning body and oxygen provided to you.

Look at the taxes you are paying as a spiritual reciprocation because you are actually helping others. Sure, you should ask how that money is used.

Remember, it’s not what you have accumulated in your mortal life; it’s what you have consumed and used for yourself and the needy. In the end of the day, that is what counts for you.

There cannot be a human book that holds evolving knowledge that is holy or otherwise. Only an evolving entity can gain more knowledge and find solutions for present, evolving problems. Locking, freezing, or putting ceilings on evolving knowledge is not only impossible, it’s non-spiritual to suppress human evolution. We are heading towards our potential, and it’s our responsibility to evolve to make God even more majestic, significant, and relevant in our lives.

The politics of nationalism, religion, or any other “ism” is related to our individual and collective insecurities. As mortals, we all have one destiny. Security is not part of it.

No gender, race, nation, or religious identity is from God. There is nothing more spiritual than equal human rights because the physical identity of God is humanity itself.

Killing each other in the name of race, nation, or religion is not only a sign of lack of evolution, it walks it down and makes it against God’s very existence. God’s meaningfulness comes into existence when human beings put their backs and shoulders together to bring physicality to spirituality and make it meaningful.

As a mass or a society, we should have respect for the individual’s life because they come and go, but as a society or as a group, we carry on.

Our traditions and customs, whether they are religious or social rules, are all designed to have peace and order in society. However, they should not be at the expense of the individual. For instance, Sati was a custom or tradition in India for widows, where they were burned alive with the dead body of their husbands. Muslims and the English both tried to remove this law but with very little success. Practices like this should never be the rules of human societies because they disrespect the individual’s God-given free will and mortal nature.

When God blesses you with whatever it is, it is yours to consume and use. For instance, you come into this life with a functioning and living body and brain. It’s yours to live however and whichever way you want, but when it comes to the people you come to, it’s a different story. They are like parents; they feel that they own you and your loyalties should be with them. Otherwise, you should be shunned.

Since everyone knows they are mortal, they try to secure or take security to the extreme. That extreme creates a set of problems for the individual and society simultaneously. From parents to Big Brother, everybody lays a claim on you, and you naturally want to practice your individuality. Yet regardless of everything and every effort from you, your fact of mortality never changes.

Big Brother-related government and religion both are in a different kind of mortality. They are like empires or communism; they exist beyond the length of a human individual’s life, but they are mortal as well. Our history shows that with human evolution, we have a graveyard full of empires and dynasties.

Ironically, a parent does not want to lose a child because of the pain of love lost, yet they send them to rob someone of love in the name of nation and religion. Our groups don’t want to lose the individual, yet they build walls to keep others away. Why these contradictions? Security-related political control.

A bigger population from all and different schools of thought can be intimidating for the conservative governing authority. Yet the reality is that, at the end of the day, we are all able bodies and useful to the societies wherever we choose to live. The real problem is the politics of a sense of belonging. If we choose to belong to humanity as a whole, these political problems vanish. If a society treats everyone with equal human rights, people flock to those countries.

Sure, there are different motivating factors and reasons, but a house with four walls does not make a home. Home is made with love, and love can’t be forced; all parents know that, all lovers know that. But for some of us, life with love politics is a way of life. Governments, religions, and Big Brother-related authorities always have political agendas. I believe they should learn that a brain drain has been, is, and will be a fact of life regardless of what era we live in, so respecting the individual with equal human rights is not and should not be based on politics. It should be the law.

Equal human rights and a sense of belonging to humanity as a whole is the spiritual answer we all should be looking for to sustain communities. Humanity has been and is full of ghost towns for different reasons. Look around, or as I said, look at the graveyard of the empires. The main character of all the glorious days has been, is, and always will be the human individual.

You can have every facility, such as houses, roads, electricity, water and sewer systems, cinema halls, theaters, playgrounds, schools, churches, or mosques, but nothing is valuable until a human individual gives value to them.

I know of a poem in Pakistan, and it goes like this:

“A lily in the forest cries for thousands of years; it is very hard to find an appreciating eye in the garden in the forest.”

Personally, I believe God is like that lily, and human beings are or have an appreciating eye. God is a spiritual entity, and God’s actions require human physicality; otherwise, it’s all useless. This is one of the most motivational reasons why religions promise their followers an important spot in heaven if they recruit another human being for their belonging religion.

A while back, I wrote a blog titled “God’s House for Sale for One Dollar.” It was triggered by the news from a town in northern Ontario. Lack of attendance was the reason given by the sellers. Anyway, God is meaningful and valuable only if humanity exists, one individual at a time. Killing each other’s belonging individuals can’t belong to God, nor can it be spiritual. I would go so far as to say it’s a spiritual crime, and don’t you dare let anyone tell you or convince you otherwise. You cannot kill in the name of your belonging groups, especially in the name of your religion, because you are actually told if you kill for your religion, you are killing for God, and you would be rewarded a spot in heaven. This can’t be further from the truth because of this example.

Imagine pulling one thread out of a piece of fabric at a time. It may not make any difference in the beginning, but in the long run, it will weaken and eventually make the fabric vanish. Now imagine that fabric is God, and you are the thread. Now ask yourself, would you kill each other or pull the thread from that fabric?

Remember I said when life is given to you, it’s yours to live the way you want to. Are you strengthening God or weakening God by following your religious orders to kill each other?

Ask this question to yourself without the political pressure of your sense of belonging to your groups. It is to make you honest with yourself. If you still come up with the same feelings of a sense of belonging to your group regarding this, you have been brainwashed and have no personal sense of being.

Being an independent individual is what God had meant for you. That is the reason why your umbilical cord has been cut, and you have been blessed with an independent and functioning body and brain, so you can make your own independent decisions. If you are not making use of it, you are disrespecting yourself as a spiritual physical entity with Godly powers.

Whether you are a nuclear scientist and don’t believe in God, or you are a religious scholar and believe in God with all your heart, either one of you logically just can’t be pulling one thread at a time or burning the whole fabric just because of what you believe in.

Humanity and God have been put in a vulnerable situation because of your political affiliations, so snap out of it and take responsibility for being a human being. Remember, we are creatures who have evolved from bush and cave residencies, so we should evolve from our bush and cave behaviors as well. Politics and belief systems aside, your personal sense of justice should be able to overrule your desires to kill to feed your political sense of belonging to a group.

Conservatism is important, but one must be cautious when explaining its significance. It is not a natural trait, nor is it a God-given quality. Conservatism is rooted in an insecurity-based politics, which makes it naturally at odds with the evolving nature of human beings. As a species, we are constantly evolving, and while conservatism is necessary to set the rhythm of this evolutionary process, clinging to it means adhering to outdated religious or political rules that govern our societies.

Humanity must continue to evolve and adapt until we reach our full potential. To pursue this potential, we need to break free from all boundaries. The belief that living in the past is the safest and best course of action is simply wrong. During evolution, there is no ultimate human knowledge—whether it be religious beliefs, national constitutions, or governing systems—nothing can be perfect because we must adapt and evolve according to the needs of the times we live in. If we keep living in the past, it is like looking backward and not paying attention to what lies ahead. If you don’t pay attention, sooner or later, you will collide with something. This is what is happening worldwide today. Conservatism is colliding not only with new generations but also with scientific and technological evolution. From abortion to euthanasia to blood transfusions to stem cell research to advancing genetic knowledge, these developments confuse the conservative population, yet time does not stop.

Contrary to popular belief, loyalties are not usually for sale, nor is it a clap with one hand; they require commitment from both sides to make a noise. When it comes from both sides, it can lead to a thundering success. A belief system cannot be forced or enforced because our awareness is constantly evolving and changing.

This adaptation to evolving knowledge is rare—some have it, most do not, because of our individual level of understanding. Our personal and individual loyalties should naturally be towards both God and humanity as a whole, but we have been stuck in the past because of conservatism.

Race, gender, color, nation, or religion are all related to our installed knowledge. Dissecting our identity to the core can bring clarity to the individual. As living, breathing human beings, we are all a bundle of physical and spiritual combinations. I was watching an Indian movie, Delhi 6, and I would like to quote a fitting passage:

“In every speck shines his divine light
Look within yourself, he is not far from you,
If you have love for yourself then embrace everyone
Because we are all in his form. That is worship.”

In plain and simple words, any system that brings glory to some but destroys others in the process is not from God, nor is it spiritual or natural. It is influenced by human insecurity and related politics, individually and collectively. Humanity has been a victim of identity confusion because of our politically tainted beliefs and governing security systems.

Since the beginning of our awareness, our politics have revolved around family, clan, community, nation, or belief systems. But these days, with the internet and our individual evolution, we are slowly but surely creating a global village. Some of us like the idea of venturing out, but branching out is very difficult for the vast majority to process. Change is in the air; you just have to look at humanity’s reaction to conditions such as the spread of Ebola, AIDS, and global warming. Our space stations and satellites have been at work for a long time, but what we don’t realize is that they are joint ventures of humanity as well.

When groups preach and promise superiority over others to their followers, it clearly teaches that other groups are inferior. Whether it is related to race, gender, nation, or religion, it is all connected to the politics of prejudice and discrimination. You can say to yourself that you are not prejudiced, but if you still consider your group better than others, you are influenced by prejudice and discrimination. When it comes to equal human rights, there is no middle ground—it is either all or nothing. In a court of law, you cannot claim you are not responsible for a crime because you belong to a certain group; no one will listen to you. It is time to own our actions because we all have the same free will and sense of justice.

Equal human rights mean that there are no differences based on color, gender, race, nation, or religion. You cannot just claim that you are going to heaven and everyone else is going to hell. No one can or should claim they are a little bit right or wrong. If a justice system is blind and treats everyone equally, you cannot and should not be conservative or liberal when it comes to being a judge. It is all about the law, and the law should always be based on a solid foundation of equal human rights for all.

Interestingly, when it comes to religions, we are taught to conform and believe blindly. If you question the authenticity of the rules or disobey, you are looked down upon by the leaders and other believers for not having faith in their teachings. Group mentality often leads to the prevalence of discrimination and prejudice, regardless of the group. This discrimination is not only directed at outsiders but also at insiders, leading to the formation of subdivisions or sects within groups. Such divisions are not beneficial for humanity as a whole. Intolerance, violence, and even wars can be stopped if we start taking individual responsibility. However, we are often insecure due to our lack of political knowledge, and groups create external enemies to manipulate us, while most people get hurt by their own kind.

Religious beliefs that attempt to divide people are not rooted in the texts or holy books. They stem from discrimination and prejudice-driven politics, born from an out-of-control, non-spiritual sense of belonging to the groups we choose to follow. Loyalty to family, clan, community, nation, or religion is considered the right thing to do in a group setting, but this can lead to spiritual crimes in other contexts. This is why humanity is divided into hundreds, if not thousands, of pieces.

The solution is not in looking for a savior, dynasty, empire, or superpower to control and overpower every race, gender, nation, or religion. Loyalties are not for sale, nor can they be forced or enforced. The problems are related to our violent nature, and we need to come to terms with it from within as individuals. No one should let anyone use them for political purposes.

The individual is the most important aspect of this picture, so educating individuals holds the key. Helping people to evolve further will enable them to see that the Earth is round and has no physical boundaries or walls. Human beings, along with other creatures, are residents, and there is nowhere else to go, at least not yet.

Passing on to another dimension after death is another story. For now, we need the knowledge of evolution so we can learn to live with each other. Western societies, as melting pots, are clear examples of our ability to live together and trust other human beings, even if they do not belong to any particular group. Genetically, we are all matched. Scientifically, we are all made of the same stuff. Spiritually, we may be alive as part of the same entity, like human bodies with God as cells, because we live, age, and die the same way as our cells and bodies provide living conditions.

All our differences are caused by our taught and installed knowledge from our ancestors, who survived and climbed to the top of the food chain. Their main pursuit was security, not only from predators but also from their own kind. Since then, security has been the primary focus of our societies, compromising our trust through ancestral knowledge. They lived and survived like other creatures, and by connecting to our conservative knowledge, we continue following the same path. It’s time to forge ahead and embrace changes, even if it is not easy to take chances. We have no choice but to evolve.

We mark our territories and fight over them just like our ancestors did. But now we have sophisticated chemical and nuclear weapons that do not respect the boundaries of communities, other creatures, and innocent beings. This human dilemma is strongly related to group politics. We consider our belonging group as the main authority, influenced by long-held beliefs of prejudice and discrimination. It’s time for a change because humanity needs to evolve to the next level and overcome the shortcomings of our ancestral knowledge.

Can we solve our social problems? Certainly not as groups, because we have been trying for millions of years to dominate humanity, and it has never worked. As groups, we have always been political, and unless we change our path, there will always be prejudice and discrimination against others. As individuals, we can hope to be educated enough to learn to belong to humanity as a whole. This goes against everything we have been taught and believed as a group, so it will be an uphill battle for humanity to overcome the old ways of doing things. Judging by what is happening in the external world, each of us has a constant internal battle.

Changes are needed from within individuals. We all evolve differently and at different paces. Most of our societies suffer from conservatism and are politically divided, so they swing back and forth as the hands of power change. Iran is a good example. Like other nations, they want scientific advancements, but they try to control their population through conservatism. Before the revolution, that society was quite advanced, but things changed when conservatism took hold of power. Now, Turkey and America are going backward, and Britain voted to leave the European Union, forming Brexit. These actions are similar to how animals mark their territory out of fear. I don’t play political games; I view everything through a spiritual lens. For me, equal human rights and justice for all with a boundary-less Earth for one humanity is the goal. I may be an idealist, but that is what I believe in.

As individuals, it is time for us to wake up and evolve with changing times. In my opinion, spirituality is love for humanity and all its aspects. Peaceful coexistence is possible, but it requires effort and courage to break free from the shackles of conservatism and group politics. We need to nurture an environment that promotes individual growth, understanding, and acceptance, fostering a world where everyone has an equal chance to thrive.

It is mind-boggling to me that many religious people, who should embody spirituality in their interactions with society, do not demonstrate this spirituality when choosing political parties. They often oppose helping the needy in their time of need and then have the audacity to call liberals godless people. Spiritual initiatives like equal human rights or universal healthcare are openly opposed by conservatives, and most religious people vote for conservatism.

My issue is that people attend a mosque or church with the desire to become godly, yet they act against helping the weaker, elderly, or vulnerable in need. This is quite contradictory. Social services are also opposed by these so-called godly people.

On the other hand, leftists who believe in socialist agendas often neglect justice for the individual. They always prioritize the masses, causing individuals to lose their value in that system. In spirituality, there is no injustice, so equal human rights is the best spiritual system for governing. We must balance individual rights and collective human rights as societies, but sacrificing individual human rights is not spiritual. Therefore, individuals should have the ability to take the state to court to fight for their rights.

Evolutionary nature tells me that we are not perfect. Will we become perfect when we reach our potential? That question can’t be answered without assumptions, but I believe in doing the best we can with the best of our knowledge. What the future holds is not relevant to the present, so I wouldn’t bet on it. To address present problems, we need present-related solutions. If we keep looking to the past for solutions, we will never change and will never be able to bring humanity together because we have been taught prejudice and discrimination as ancestral knowledge or wisdom. Even today, our schools teach religion and nationalism before anything else. Historically and presently, we follow group-related politics—whether related to race, gender, nation, or religious beliefs—all of which eventually breed prejudice and discrimination. No individual likes to be treated with prejudice and discrimination, yet those who treat others that way are people too. It comes down to the spiritual rule 101: “Don’t do to anyone what you don’t like done to you or your loved ones.” To me, it’s a personal and individual problem, always related to personal security. If everyone feels secure, we would naturally support equal human rights.

If we eliminate discrimination and prejudice-based politics as groups, we can educate individuals to connect with humanity as a whole. However, a group would never do that because it would lose political power. So, change must come from the bottom up, led by educated individuals.

Imagine a world where no one does to others what they don’t like done to themselves. What would happen to humanity? I can just imagine wars disappearing, and we would find internal and external peace. However, this is a stretch for now, and I may not see that much human progress in spiritual sections. Creating peace, whether internal or external, is within our grasp, but do we really want it? This is the question we should all individually ask ourselves in the dead of night when we are alone with ourselves.

Our sense of belonging has three offspring: Ego, Pride, and Honor. They always make us weak individually, thanks to our out-of-control sense of belonging to our groups. We can’t stand up against our groups even when they are doing wrong. Emotions are powerful, but ego is a power that can cut both ways—it can be a weakness as well. When you think about what others will think of you when you take any action, you become a victim of one of the three offspring. If we dig into the causes of our actions, these children of belonging will show up, letting you know that you have been put at the bottom of the triangle by politics when you should be at the top. This is what I mean by “who flipped my triangle.”

I believe in individual strength, which makes people question socially accepted truths and related rules. If we don’t have people questioning what we do, our societies will never change or evolve. Conservatives constantly question the whole nature of evolution. If no one had proven it to them, they would still believe in a flat Earth. They can’t see that all human progress has been gifted to them by evolutionary people. They shamelessly use all technology but still can’t accept enough to give credit where it’s due. They use drugs to live with diseases but oppose medical advancements. Some people are against blood transfusions, yet they still want to live in the past, even though transfusions save lives. All progress in science, technology, medicine, and social sciences has come from people who broke away from the confines of conservatism. Most scientists don’t even believe in God. To me, it’s a matter of how you look at God and what it means to you.

Conservatives use all the facilities provided by boundary breakers but stubbornly reject accepting evolutionary nature. I believe we are designed to break our own rules. Our rules are there to slow the rhythm of social control so we can adapt and evolve rhythmically without tearing ourselves apart. Conservatism is necessary but shouldn’t be something to get stuck on. Getting comfortable in those boundaries is unnatural for humans; it’s influenced by fear-related politics. No power has ever been able to stop this human phenomenon. Evolution is in our genes and can’t be harnessed, so we need to follow our nature instead of resisting it in the name of conservatism.

Religions have enjoyed popularity and still do to some extent, but they were not and still are not able to stop changing humanity. Where we were, they wanted us to stay, but we are compelled by our nature to evolve. We can’t stay where we are. Things like honor killings are progressively becoming questionable. Wars are unacceptable to certain segments of populations across all groups, nations, and religions.

By looking broadly into history and even present days, we are becoming aware of our behaviors. We now know that conservative politics compels individuals to commit spiritual crimes against opposing groups in the name of a sense of belonging. A person may not want to kill their loved one but feels compelled to do so because society points fingers at them. This compels them to commit spiritual crimes against their own loved ones. So, yes, even as societies, we need to change this kind of out-of-control sense of belonging.

The real war is going on inside the modern, changing human being: to stay within boundaries or change with the times. I believe our evolving nature is powerful enough to bring about change. It may take time, but we have been, are, and will always be evolving. Can we change conservatism? Well, it has already changed. No political system in the world has a purely conservative party anymore. They have to become liberal or progressive conservative parties to survive. If you look at the agendas of conservatives, they have moved to the middle to win. Otherwise, in Western nations, there is no room left for them. Humanity has moved on to changing times, so no one wants to be left behind.

Since this is a continuation from my previous writing titled “YOU, BODY, AND BRAIN,” I will begin with a quote from Jiddu Krishnamurti. I watched a movie called “The Last Shaman” in 2016, which is rated TV-MA. Here’s a passage from the film:

“In oneself lies the whole world, and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there, and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open except yourself.”

I believe that knowledge is humanity’s treasure to pass on to future generations. It is not a material thing but possesses the power to benefit or harm individuals. As such, it should be regarded as an asset. Knowledge is passed down to us from known and unknown sources, and there is no one particular way to own it. You can go to school, read books, think, explore, adapt to evolutionary changes, or you can lock yourself into the conservative, rule-oriented ways of living and let others pass you by, or you can break all boundaries.

Rules are created by the groups we choose to belong to, and while they can be patented or copyrighted, it is impossible to hold onto them forever due to our mortality. Since the internet entered our lives, there has been a significant shift in everything from music to books to movies. Some people have succeeded, others have not, and many have become wealthy, but humanity continues to expand and adapt to new ways.

One thing is for sure: we should respect and credit those who teach us, regardless of where they are from or which group they belong to. Humanity should respect the source, whether it makes them billionaires or helps them explore and take humanity to the next level.

Our knowledge-related discoveries can help or hurt us, depending on how we look at them. This applies to everything from weapons of war to the side effects of medicine, scientific discoveries, and the way we govern our societies. This constantly evolving human knowledge is proof of our imperfections. We have always claimed that our home group has the best knowledge, and we go to wars to test our lethal weapons on others, just as lab animals are used to determine the effects of chemicals and gases.

As a child, I learned that you don’t become poor by sharing one special thing: knowledge. Today, in a world of patents and copyrights, things have changed. I respect anyone’s knowledge if it benefits humanity as a whole, but not if it is used by a group of people who just want to rule the world by force. As groups, we have been trying to patent and copyright every field of knowledge, from war weaponry to spyware, internet hacking, satellites, space stations, and everything in between. We have authenticated these along with our exclusive holy books for thousands of years. You may find the same knowledge with individual and political twists in every field.

One of my goals is to burst the bubbles of politics-related group identities. I believe we should all see what lies beneath these layers. Regardless of political hype, we are all human beings. Logically, all individuals are born into humanity, so we all belong to humanity first.

Group politics stems from old survival-related problems. This can be seen in other primates fighting for territory and killing each other to keep control. The difference between us and them is our sophisticated war weaponry and political rhetoric. Politicizing and following group politics may seem natural, but our realities are real. We need to evolve to overcome these urges.

Today, we have the capability to extinct ourselves and other species if we don’t evolve beyond our hormone-driven emotional reactions. I’ve learned that a single thinker can save a ship full of feelers. We need to act on more than just emotions because politicians can use us as puppets for their hidden agendas with just a fiery speech to stop us from thinking as individuals.

As individuals, we don’t grow horns or wings; our evolution happens before our eyes. Unfortunately, we kill each other for different reasons, but our emotions, whether individual or collective, are the biggest culprits. Imagine if we stopped and worked together as one entity. We would reach further and faster to achieve our goals. Group politics may have helped us survive and evolve, but humanity needs to take the next step and abandon barbaric practices to prove we are an evolved species that does not believe in group politics. We are one humanity.

There will always be problems with some evolving faster than others, individually or collectively. We may believe differently, but if we accept that we are all human beings and belong to one humanity, we can overcome politics-related wars. The United Nations exists, but it is meaningless without consensus due to political powers of veto, which are not based on population.

We should live honestly, both individually and as groups. We should reciprocate as individuals and groups to collectively improve humanity’s quality of life. God does not need your help, but when you help each other and the less fortunate, you reciprocate with God for your free oxygen and healthy body. This should not stop at the individual level. If you believe you belong to humanity and God as a whole, it doesn’t matter your identity; you automatically become a human being. No one should feel bad about their identity or feel inferior or superior to others if they wholeheartedly understand their real identity: a mortal being.

I would rather be useful to all of humanity during my living years. Worshipping for status, power, control, or material things is self-defeating. Wanting these things after death is futile because they are for a living body and brain, not a soul. You can only enjoy the taste of food, sex, or material possessions while you have a functioning body. Without a living body, these desires are meaningless. If you fear the heat of fire or the torture of the grave, remember these affect only the physical body. A soul cannot be burned unless it is burdened with crimes.

I have no idea and have not met anyone who came back from the dead. There is no video evidence of what happens after we die. I cannot tell you for certain about dying and coming back to life. If someone claims certainty, they are lying because an evolving entity can’t be certain about anything. For now, I know that the pain of love loss hurts deeply and might be the pain of the soul. Committing a crime that causes such pain is a spiritual crime.

Robbing someone of their loved ones, especially if they are innocent, should be recognized as a spiritual crime. When done in the name of holy wars, it is politically justified, but to me, it is the biggest lie. It cannot be justified, regardless of political twists, because even one innocent’s blood should be pricier than all religious beliefs combined. If you believe you will go to heaven by robbing someone of love, it is highly unlikely, even if done in the name of religion. God has given us free will, which comes with personal responsibilities. Blindly following your group’s political views can lead to spiritual crimes.

When people pray, sacrifice, and worship for good things in their living years, it makes sense. When they pray for the same things in heaven, they must first make honest efforts to achieve these in life and understand what is needed after death. Life after death surely does not need material things. Knowing the difference between the needs of the living and the dead is essential. Without a physical body, you cannot enjoy honey, milk, or virgins. It doesn’t make sense. Religion starts where logic fails, highlighting the difference between the needs of the living and the dead. Why put God through the task of giving you a new, permanently young physical body?

After someone dies, their material possessions are divided among their loved ones because these things no longer mean anything to the dead or their soul. If you want in heaven what you lack in life, it is impossible because those things change in value after you lose your body. You would need heaven to be like Earth, with a physical body to enjoy material things. If you don’t believe in reincarnation, how would God please you after death? These tough questions should be asked to oneself and their groups. Group leaders will point to holy books as proof, but killing each other over beliefs has to stop. Our holy knowledge should have resolved this in the past two thousand years if it were capable.

Our problems are related to our evolving nature, so knowledge can never be frozen or encased. We can’t have ultimate knowledge until we reach our full potential. If science has debunked the minimal brain power theory, why are we still learning new things every day? We may be using our brain power, but what about evolutionary nature?

We still don’t understand what happens before birth and after death, other than religious scenarios. We can’t comprehend how we pass our intelligence to our babies, who are smarter these days even as newborns. It’s not good to argue or kill each other over evolving knowledge. Egyptians and Chinese believed they needed material possessions in life after death, but tomb robbing proves otherwise. There should be a movie about the mummy’s revenge for tomb robbing, but the point is that a soul’s needs differ from a physical body’s.

As living beings, we need to feed our body, brain, and soul. If you feed the wrong things, you need to judge and clearly define what is for what. Feeding your soul can’t be achieved by feeding your body and brain. Knowing the differences and understanding the YOU part in the equation helps.

My main goal is to advocate for not killing each other over belief systems. Do not doubt anyone’s religious beliefs. We all come into life with free will and responsibilities. Our actions have consequences, so by treating others as we want to be treated, we can create peace. This peace helps us evolve socially to respect each other. If you are told to commit a spiritual crime in the name of your group, judge it individually.

Your sense of justice and the knowledge of personal responsibility should guide you. If you are told you will be rewarded in the afterlife by committing atrocities, remember that you are human first, belonging to humanity, and your final judgment should be made by YOU, not the group. If you believe in God, know that He has given you a brain and body to use in this life. Treat yourself with respect and responsibility. Humanity should follow this in these times of rapid technological advancements.