Who is doing molding, Individual or God?

Watched a movie titled MUTE 2018 TV-MA

It started with an Amish proverb.

“Quote” “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 full speed with all your effort but the deer is running, turning faster than you and 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 if you are a deer you are running for your life with all you have got and thought comes to you, God please give me some more speed and save me from this certain death as I have to stay alive to feed my baby.  Both sides are praying to the same God but for absolutely different reasons. This will put God in pickle in what to do. If God lets cheetah catch deer is this the same as letting Bambi starve to death? Is God mean and merciless for deer and its Bambi?  If the deer gets away, cheetah’s babies can potentially die of starvation so is  God mean and merciless to cheetah but merciful to deer and Bambi?

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE ?

Everything is wrong when and if you bring this into humanity with really high expectations from God. Since we all have knowledge of our mortality, things are different. First of all its not a life threatening situation for us. Second we are evolved enough to understand. This is the reason 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 always have been, are and will always be on the bases of our group politics. In order to keep our group morale high we all tell the group that 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 and the opposing group is Evil  and our 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 cheetah and deer. Cheetah and 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 Cheetah or Deer.

Human beings usually are cunning enough to put blame on their God or their Devil to deflect responsibilities of 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 accept our responsibilities whether these responsibilities are individual or collective.

 Putting God and the Devil on the top and human in the bottom corner is clever and political but not an honest or truthful. Deep inside we all individually and collectively know that as a human individual 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  our groups, we as an individual, 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 return home and they suffer trauma from their service. They live their lives in trauma and some kill or die because they cannot understand or get over their times they served in the war)

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

How much of a will or I should say free will is playing a role in this life and death drama? Is it sheer luck and God has 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 punish. 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 one puts in 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 of cave dwellings to high rise living a lot has happened to us. This journey has been a tough one but it has been a worth while 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 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 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 wit 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 assumptions of the groups we have chosen to belong with. 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 thoughts 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 in still 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 efforts do 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 installed with as growing up as an individual.

Where do you fit in as an individual to take responsibilities related to your every day life? How much efforts do you put into your personal life is almost always relevant, so do you use God? 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 installed with as growing up 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 cheetah catches the deer, that it is God’s will. If cheetah does not catch the deer, this is God’s will also. So logically you are taught that cheetah, deer and you have no personal free will.

Remember you can’t be believing half way 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 creation of diseases. Spirituality creates physicality and physicality makes spirituality meaningful to complete a mortal circle of the human individual life. Always remember, the purpose of human 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 a mortal with a gift of thinking, breathing and a living body to experience this life. Should we mess it up or take charge to live this life with 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 from within the social settings from its own kind.

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

In favor of personal efforts verses prayers one has to be fair as individual, sure I believe in 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 of 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 beliefs, isms or any and all systems of governing.

Society and God is made of human individuals so yes individual is the most important link. Just like a chicken can lay eggs to make more chickens human beings can create mass, societies or humanity so it may seem less important to you as an individual but in reality without the individual thread no fabric can be weaved so respect yourself, as an individual. As mass we need to respect the individual as well so we can survive as a mass.

For instance if you feel small and weak, you would think and want to build big muscular and strong body with higher levels of testosterone to become assertive and aggressive. Now think what would you do for it? Would you go to mosque or church to seek help from priest or mullah and pray or take charge, go to gym workout and seek help of a personal trainer instead of priest of mullah?

Its a common sense related decision, we automatically make choices even if we are very religious. God or not, religion or not there are certain levels of understanding we all have.

Free will, personal efforts and the use of brain has been around since the dawn of civilization, so is our politics of control and power. If you take charge and put efforts in your life, you automatically be ahead of those whom don’t put efforts. How do you justify the poverty regardless of efforts? Well here comes the politics. We have been using our brain powers to achieve control and power on others to create groups or belonging groups. We even have been and are able to pass onto our off springs other people as property just like kingdoms. Yes we still have kingdoms in present world and royal families have children to make sure their wealth stays in the family.

Modern day internet has opened up everything so everyone is exposed to the democratic values, equal human rights and sense of belonging to humanity as a whole. This modern trend is growing like an out of control and rapidly growing tree, majority of educated individuals want to flock under.

Authoritarianism, kingdoms or isms like communism and socialism, have to modernize their way of governing. From south Africa to Russia and China things are changing but the 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 that means there is no going back. You can claim to be nationalist but world has been changing right before your eyes, especially with the internet and information highway nothing can be kept as secrets.

From flogging the blogger to dismembering the journalist are efforts to put the worms back in the can by the Arabs but they are not alone in that struggle. Americans are trying to go back in old days, British tried with Brexit as well, but question is how long can they hold on until changing times sweeps them away. Humanity is growing closer to each other, when UN leaders laughed at Trump, it was not about issues at hand it was laugh of the power of shifting times.

Problems like global warming and wakening of politics related to equal human rights can’t be controlled by big guns or high walls. These problems can only be dealt by united human efforts of all humanity. We have gone through full circle, if we don’t change according to demands of changing times our survival as a humanity would be in question. So there would not be a winning nation everyone would be a loser. Remember every single thing is valuable on the face of the earth because humanity puts a value to it. If planet is inhabitable nothing would matter. 

Say a whole city goes under water with climate change, all human beings rich, poor or middle class all will lose so it is time to care about the humanity as a whole. Our wars can destroy nations and their budgets but global warming related problems have the power to destroy beyond the borders of nations. The refugees have to leave everything behind to survive and assets left behind can’t be valuable until rebuilt and repopulated. A ghost town is a ghost town no matter how you look at it.

In the end of the day its a game of survival weather you are a cheetah or a deer you need to know that the free will is there to make a choice to put more efforts 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 of creating peace so humanity can evolve in all departments of life not only in war related weaponry. 

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

Don’t let anyone tell you that human efforts are not meaningful. Just look into the history and even today every single progress has been and is made by the efforts of human individuals. Just to acknowledge the importance of God remember it is all done by able, living and breathing bodies. Since we can’t live without oxygen or able body nothing is done without blessings of God. So back to square one. Did the cheetah get deer with personal efforts and free will or did deer survive by personal efforts 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 the human beings or human beings are doing the molding by the evolutionary nature?

God has done Godly job by providing us with oxygen able body and free will, now its up to us to catch our food or avoid from becoming being food.

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

Adopting and evolving according to demands of time and era I am born into is my quest. We should not have to be running from our own kind to survive, nor should we have to give a second thought to save our housing planet. Being a physical component of God human beings have a lot more responsibilities than religions have been teaching us. Since God’s work is done by us we need to get our acts together and take charge of the things what we have been assigned for.