Its not about believing in God or not but it’s all about you as an individual. Where do you stand or place yourself in grand scheme of life? Personally, I believe that you have to get some respect from yourself because after all, you are a third equation, being an optimist ,at least I believe so.
Remember good or bad , nothing turns into physical actions without human individual’s input. So make sure that you recognize that. If you believe in miracles, believe, but just don’t bet on it or worse don’t kill someone who is an innocent fellow human being or get killed yourself because you killed an innocent person.
A preacher of any religion can say it’s all God’s will but logically, reality becomes quite murky when God has to use human individuals to bring Godly spirituality into physicality.
As a mass our problem is our politics which is a tool to keep individuals under their control. Sure, an individual is still weak and vulnerable compared to the mass but equal human rights that we understand in today’s world has been changing our political landscape. Today, if a mosque or church building is sitting empty, who pays for its upkeep? God simply just does not pay God’s bills. God’s house is only valuable if there are human beings who use it.
Let us look at this as a way to become personally responsible for our own individual actions. Maybe this may be a little crude but it just makes sense to me. In this day and age if you are being prejudiced and discriminatory against someone just because of their race, gender, political affiliations or religious beliefs, you are a prejudicial and discriminatory, “Small thinking pin( Head) with a political foreskin, foreskin or not by discriminating and looking down upon others you just have lost your personal and individual identity of a decently evolved human being. Regardless of what you hide behind, you just can’t hide insecurity related prejudice and discrimination. Since your belonging groups have you brain washed you just can’t think with all the gifts you got from God. The real problem you have is the out of control politics of your sense of belonging to your groups.
If you grow up in a group your sense of belonging is automatically tainted with the politics of your group. If that is all you know because of your political sense of belonging , you may even believe that your group and your ancestors have been, are and will always be right and everyone else in the world will be wrong. If that is the case you can add ignorance into your being a prejudiced and discriminatory as well.
Remember, as we become grow ups we become responsible for our actions. When it comes to our politics of nationalism and religions we have been stood still and not continued to evolve because we are rewarded with the praises for being a who just follows. (Now the question comes to mind that how can we become metaphorically speaking and become a former Pin heads?)
First : Of all personally and individually we have to acknowledge that as a thinking entity like human being, being a Pin head is wrong and yes even if it is the price we pay for belonging to any group, nation or religion.
Second : With God given personal abilities to think and choose we have to be circumcised of our political fore skin because we just can’t change the facts by hiding and justifying our actions for our groups that we choose to belong to.
Third : Individually we become a CEO of our lives. Remember, as a human being, you have been blessed with atom of autonomy related free will, which brings responsibilities to you personally.
Fourth: We memorize and learn the first rule of spirituality by heart and repeat it everyday. “Don’t do to anyone or anything that you don’t want to be done to you or the people you love.”
I hope it is enough to clear things out for you but if it still is not enough start looking at yourself spiritually, genetically and scientifically. If that does not work, start removing the layers of your political identities installed by your belonging groups. Do this one at a time and reach into your core to find that long lost decent human being that you are. If that does not work, you are a hopeless case of being a political fore skin wearing Pin head. Remember ignorance may be good in a political world but is not a blessing in a real spiritual world.
I am not trying to put doubts into peoples minds about the existence of God. Quite the contrary, I just want everyone to take individual responsibilities of being a human beings. I want to create awareness of what we are all made of and where we all potentially stand. My intention is to make each and every one of us to take charge of our own lives and become a CEO of our own lives. No belonging group should be able to take advantage and use its followers to advance their political agendas especially if they are extreme related and dangerous to innocent lives.
As individual we should all take responsibilities for our actions because as we come to life we bring along some gifts from before birth. Along with genetics of a mortal human being we bring compassion and love along with atom of autonomy related free will to choose. Choosing to become a Pin head instead and being proud of it is just absurd for a free will using entity like a human being.
Once you have your free will, its yours to keep, you can use it to live the way you want even if our parents, society, nations and religions want us to live according to their political agendas. If you listen and lose your happiness or don’t listen and lose your freedom, then happiness or even life is a big problem. Individuals have to survive so personal politics is in order as well. If your personal insecurities are forcing you to become a weakling , remember a weakling is a weakling whether you have political foreskin or not. Now what word should be used for a group of Pin heads? I have never had to use this kind of writing so I am unable to find a word for them. How about simple prejudicial and discriminatory Pin heads?
Gift of free will can help or hurt us individually and my focus is to give individual an individual strength so my focus is not us as groups because to me if a person chooses a bad path it is a choice so the consequences are on the individual’s shoulders as well.
You can choose to wear religious clothing, grow a beard or wear a turban. You can cut or grow your hair or wear a robe with a cross. None of these things will make you a pure person unless you have a good personal character. It’s your choice related actions which will determine where you stand in the spiritual world. Remember we as individuals give powers to our belief systems like religions to make us even educated people to become prejudiced and discriminatory beings, to boot it has the power to add passion to be proudly passionate in being ignorant. Exactly the opposite to compassion spirituality teaches. If you want to stand up for God and spirituality do so but don’t bring belonging groups politics into it. Its all between God and human individual, good deeds of human individual are your reciprocation for being alive. Spirituality is not a political platform to launch wars over who is right or power and control. Don’t be a Pin head especially in the name of God. If a religion preaches prejudice and discrimination it is a political system. Now find me a religion which is purely spiritual I can bet on it that you would have a hard time finding it. You will find a lot of Pin heads committing spiritual crimes in the name of the politics of their belonging groups and yes they are in the name of religions and nationalism so they are purely political.
Logically you can’t punish someone if their action don’t hurt anyone. You can ban alcohol, smoking pot or gay sex but these laws would be standing on the shaky ground not only because of its impossible to enforce it can be challenged in court of equal human rights. If two people have an uncommon relationship its their right to live the way they want to, as long as they don’t drive while drunk or high to harm others. The birth of equal human rights is related with don’t do to anyone what you don’t like done to you or your loved ones. If even God gave us freedom to choose by blessing us with free will then who gave these powers to other individuals to violate someone’s human rights. If one is willing to give you your freedom to choose, why do you interfere and rob someone of freedom to choose?
Don’t put down your kids or others if they don’t want to pray because that maybe your personal way to reciprocate but remember it is on the not so sure scale but having to work and help others and yes even if you get paid for your practically helping others is a reciprocation on the for sure scale. (Read Love Triangle) Your kids are your instinctive love and following rules of your belonging groups is in your universal love so choosing one over the other is your prerogative not your kids or others around. Its your duty to create balance not choose one over the other. Losing kids over what your belonging group thinks is a real sign of imbalanced human being.
Putting lipstick on a pig does not change the fact being a religious individual does not guarantee a person with a good character, just look around. Hiding your character behind thick walls does not change the core of problematic behavior. I know I am not being politically correct if I am saying the things as they are. People from all schools of thought have been involved in all kind of scandals from money laundering to sexual crimes. These are universally known facts among organized religions.
Personally I don’t buy everything that is sold to me so whatever happens to me after I die is going to be on my shoulders. I have been trying to live life as a mortal who has free will and a duty to reciprocate to others for God. I believe in practical prayers over and above regular prayers. If you think you have been a practical soldier of God, you should not have any fear of life after death because your living years are more meaningful than you have been taught.
Balancing living years with personal and individual rights with God by the duty of reciprocation is as spiritual as it can get. Remember its your practical prayers what matter the most and God needs, everything else is plain and simple politics of sense of belonging related conformation rituals and nothing but.
The way you worship or are clothed are highly dependent on where you are from or belong to. Your traditions, custom and rules of society dictate how you live with the sense of belonging related political knowledge but the essence of spirituality keeps us all going with good universally. One can be an atheist and spiritually aware being, no one should have power to judge and say that who is going to heaven or hell because you don’t know for sure. This carrot and stick philosophy has been good for past when we were counted as animals in present days its an insult for an evolved human being to be counted animals.
I don’t believe in self mutilation or any kind of self harm or even monk-ism because I believe God needs human beings to have functioning bodies to reciprocate practically. For the individual to have a regular job which usually is helping others, is reciprocation. If you are working and giving help to others it should be better than receiving help. Choosing how to reciprocate is important, practicality should be kept in the core of your actions praying, worshiping, fasting or self harming or suffering cross the lines of practical help to others but it still can not hold ground of practicality. God needs practical help from the human individual all day long and no prayers can match that. Now would you like your kids to be praying or practically reciprocating to help God helping the needy. This practical reciprocating is universal and spiritual it has nothing to do with religious beliefs or national rules, compassion all the way to God from God but through the human individual.
That is why God is in all human societies religion or not, if you appreciate free oxygen and a functioning body you automatically will be inclined to reciprocate. Since reciprocation is related to spirituality and is personal, and yes it is directly between God and the human individual. Where ever a human being is performing a good deed God is present so no religious rituals traditions or customs required to be spiritual.
You can hide behind beard, wear turban, robe with cross, a nikab, hijab or any other religious identity signs does not make you a good person. Specially if you some how believe you are superior to other human beings just because of your belonging to certain group of people or your prayers and fasting. Just by understanding spirituality one becomes humble and sees God in other people regardless of their belief system. Even thinking of prejudice and discrimination against innocent beings can get you out of spiritual zone and put you into a political zone.
If you are in minority and are being discriminated against yet you still personally think you are superior to all others around the world you are in a political and spiritual pickle from both sides.
Our spiritual knowledge suppose to make us better for God and humanity which in return should help us to be content within our skin. Our religious knowledge and differences did not help us as humanity for thousands of years, in a matter of facts, it actually has helped us to bring more of passionate destruction to each other. Our evolution should be able to help but I believe our politics of sense of belonging has been hindering so its our duty to evolve in our spiritual area as well as we have been evolving in all other areas of life.
As humanity we should put more of our efforts to remove all politics out of our religious beliefs. Every single one of us should make sure that all our religions are spiritual and nothing but. Let our governing systems be under the rule of equal justice systems to all humanity. Doing that will not only remove powers out of the hands of religious leaders and their extremist followers, it will help bring equal human rights as well. Not only it will remove the roots of prejudice and discrimination out of humanity, it will spread equal justice for all. Humanity can live without religions but it can’t survive without spirituality related justice.
The problem with religion is, that they allow people to think and say, if I am following the rules so should everyone else, if they don’t they will be subjected to punishment to be shunned or looked down as inferiors.
To me it is a foundation of prejudice and discrimination in all religions because our political religions have created such a situation that the followers think and feel that they are superior just because of following the rules of religion regardless of they are political or spiritual.
Lets change the rules to evolve further.
Humanity needs to step into new paradigm to come together otherwise we would spend another few thousands years just to realize that our group politics is not able to take us where humanity needs to be. If we think our knowledge is complete a scientist can say we know everything about the space or big bang theory or time without a doubt 100%. It is just like a religious fanatic who says everything is done or created by God. The trouble is that regardless of our civilization level we still are not even able to use our potential brain powers. If we believe our knowledge is complete regardless of the comprehension or ability to understand life completely we become can be labeled as ignorant? Sooner or later we are going to get in the zone of assumptions and an assumed knowledge can drive one to become radical or come out on the other side as a crazy individual.
Our knowledge has not been, is not and will never be completed because of our evolutionary nature. As we learn more our brain keeps producing and regrowing more neurons so there is no cap, no boundaries or freezing to human knowledge, just like space it is not comprehensible, even our bodies are subject to evolve just look at our standers of athletics especially bodybuilders they are keep getting bigger.
Whether it is medicine, science and technology, social sciences, political governing systems or even religions we always should have room for our evolving nature. Plain and simple we don’t know everything there is to know so believing that our knowledge is complete is nothing but ignorance.
Being born in certain race, color, gender, nation or faith, logically and factually does not change us from being a human being. That is only if you start to look at it with our genetically and scientific ally proven knowledge. If someone is penalizing you for that, or even if it is you who is penalizing some one innocent. Always remember these days we are all aware but are ignorant of one’s innocence because of political agendas of our belonging groups.
Penalizing an innocent has always been, is and will always be spiritually wrong. No matter which way you cut it, a wrong is a wrong, period. Regardless of any religion or nationalism, prejudice and discrimination have deep roots in ignorance and it has nothing to do with one’s education level either. If you are a prejudiced and discriminatory being, you just need to know the basic fundamentals of spirituality because it helps you to use your personal sense of justice and sense of equal human rights. Don’t do to anyone what you don’t like done to you or your loved ones.
I believe prejudice and discrimination is a taught behavior. One has to just look at babies interactions. We follow whatever is taught to us by our belonging groups and life circumstances so groups use and take advantage of the individual insecurities and vulnerabilities. Since not everyone of us is a CEO of their lives so they can not see the politics behind our social norms. We follow individually and collectively yet blindly to stock the political fire of sense of belonging passionately. It should be our spiritual wisdom dominating our actions, we should not be used as a useful idiots or pin heads.
Even if we overcome our group politics we find other ways to discriminate even against each other. From color, gender bias to weight and obesity and also to age, disease and addictions. We are a product of our societies and our behaviors are programmed politically.
To undo all that perpetually and repeatedly packed ancestral knowledge is not going to be easy. It surely is not going to come from the top down because our belonging groups are political entities and political entities do not surrender their powers to people or individuals that easy.
If you personally want to find out about your own level of prejudice and discrimination. Honestly ask yourself deep in the dead of the night, do you want everyone else to be ruled by your belonging group or want everyone follow your taught faith?
Do you think an obese individual is at fault?
Do you think your education degree makes you better than others as an individual?
Winning at sports event makes you feel great, but do you think you become better than everyone you beat in all aspect of life?
The same goes with a job title or money. Do you feel superior to the less fortunate?
Looks, body, status, nationality, gender, color or religious beliefs and everything in between may make you feel good but its all data related boost of self-esteem. Reality is that you are a lot more than that installed data. A human being is not superior and I repeat not superior to another human being just because of data. An other living breathing human being is not any less because of our spiritual awareness. You may be in better position physically and mentally but spiritually you just can not be different, we all are simply cells of God’s body and help God to function.
Remember, just like everyone else, you need oxygen to breath, food and water to live.You get sick, get old and die and replaced just like our cells so what makes you any different? If you still think you are better than others you have to understand mortality before it is too late because you may have a chance to be a spiritual being.
If you don’t understand, you have to understand the meanings and purposes of your life in living years so take charge and become a CEO of your life. That is what you have been created as or you have evolved for, that is what you always have been and will always be.
Your education of material and physical living is a half knowledge, so are thoughts of superiority and they usually stem from and are actually related to an inferiority complex.
If you think you somehow become a better person by following rules of your belonging groups it has nothing to do with spirituality and yes even if it related to your religions if it is not spiritual it is political period. As a CEO it is your duty to know the differences.
Extreme behaviors like becoming a suicide bombers or mosque shooters is related to cause you choose to act upon. If you are a CEO you would think about the innocence of people you kill before acting on beliefs of your superiors. Remember we are not toy soldiers, we have ability to think independently, physically function individually and our umbilical cords have been cut at birth.
As human beings we all are an atom of autonomy who is blessed with free will which makes us all responsible for our actions so choosing to be extreme is a personal and individual responsibility. If you are an adult and choose to act on behalf of your extreme beliefs and choose to rob some one of their love because of your taught knowledge, you just have to ask yourself , “Would it hurt me if someone robs me of love?” If the answer is yes, then take this message to your heart that it is a spiritual crime. You must believe it and assume your responsibilities. If you want to follow, always follow spirituality over religious order, follow humanity over your belonging group’s politics.
Personal identity has always been there for you but if you let others rob you of it, you are reduced to a warrior ant, a worker bee or a human toy soldier. The last time I looked, human beings were supposed to be genetically and intellectually higher beings or creature than bees and ants. What I see now is our group of human being is not fairing any better than ants or bees.
We all are able to become a CEO to call shots for our own life but our politics of sense of belonging reduces us to the point that we can’t even question our belonging groups.
Why do we commit spiritual crimes in the name of our groups? Interestingly you have been sold a false security. Our genetics and mortal nature says otherwise because you never had that security to begin with. There is no group of people who can really provide security from death and disease. If you don’t believe me, just look around and see for yourself. The only thing that people can do is to pray for you.
As human beings our mortality is a fact regardless of what you have been taught. If you are told you are safe from the enemy, question is which enemy is talked about? Enemy of the group or the enemy within the group. Just look at the local crime rates in societies, remember criminals come in all colors, races, genders nations and religions.
Following rules is a sign of a disciplined creature but lets see, in human societies and humanity in general, most if not all the break through discoveries came from the trail blazers and rule breakers so believing that staying in boundaries can make you a better human being is completely false. If you are told that you are going to heaven by following political rules of a group of people you have got to be able to separate spirituality from politics. If you can’t do that just don’t commit a spiritual crime in the name of belonging group and yes even if it is for a religion or God especially if a religion ask for a crime.
Our problem is that we are told or are forced to stay chained into traditional, customary and religious knowledge. It is all good and fine with me until it is spirituality based but when we start to conflict with each other over the differences. If our politics of sense of belonging overrides everything and we start to commit spiritual crimes against others and justify them as if they are not considered spiritual crimes. Politics or not religion or not, our actions are related to our free will so one way or the other human individual is responsible for their own personal action.
If a devout follower is trying to do good but has been teaching others to believe everyone else who does not follow are bad and wrong you are ACTIVELY PREACHING PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION. Now find me a not guilty group. Our race and even genders preach us that you are better off if you follow and stick with them. Our nations teach nationalism our religions preach the politics of a sense of belonging yet openly and the world wants peace, good luck for that. Unless we change our sense of belonging to one humanity with equal human rights for all we are not going to achieve world peace. IF YOU WANT WORLD PEACE, CLEAN UP YOUR RELIGIONS AND NATIONALISM FROM PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION. We can do this one household at a time but we need to start with our self individually.
In today’s space station and internet era we just can’t have our cake and eat it too. If you want your metaphoric walls up you will have to face the evolution related realities of today. Internet related trade has been growing and regardless of nation, race or religion, most people want good deals. In old days no one knew what price was charged in the next city, never mind another country. Today everything is on the internet and we are aware of everything that is going on in far lands. If we stop importing people would order on line if they have to pay more for their locally produced goods, simple as that. Today humanity has become a little village, especially in the information technology we find ourselves living in.
Anything controlling can be considered as oppression especially if freedom comes to question there would always be a push back by the people. If you want something in your country and the price is higher than other nations pay, the whole world would know in no time so humanity has to evolve to keep up with changes. If a political leader puts a ban and forces you to pay more than others pay then the reality is, that leader is not going to last very long and today’s politicians know that. Illegal smuggling to black marketing of the goods become common which is worse than giving a little more freedom to people.
Our old style of governing systems are not working. Our religions have failed us spiritually by letting the politics of sense of belonging rule them. When you mix black and white it create brown, brown and yellow or any other mix create unique and colorful humanity, when you try to protect and hold onto your good old days you simply are left behind or are called bigot and a prejudiced and discriminatory individual or pin head.
Look at the Brexit and Mexican border wall. How difficult things have become if it was even fifty years ago even the people who are against would have been for it. Today things are changing so rapidly that our evolution accordingly is a must. All the signs of our problems pointing towards humanity is not working together. Global warming related weather extreme, internet related trade and transportation which can spread any infection faster than in the past. Just look at us right now everyone is stuck in homes just because China wall could not keep Corona virus in. In order to survive as nations we have to help each other survive as friends or as one organism or humanity for our own benefits. It can all vanish if we act like pin heads and use our nuclear weapons on each other.
If we Spiritually continue to help each other we will be much stronger as we work together. The Wall of China can not practically protect China from global warming or nuclear disaster. We have bigger fish to fry and some countries are trying to build walls to stop migration yet the real threats are way beyond the walls.
Oil companies should pay to build water pipelines along with oil pipe lines as well as a gift to humanity to keep people living and surviving in their own homelands. Conservative style politics or even parties are not going to survive very long as the political landscape changes. As it is, they are having a hard time keeping themselves purely conservative. What will happen when their own followers become victims of global warming related problems. Will they be ants, bees toy soldiers or simply “PIN HEADS” or an evolved human CEO who can understand politics of foreskin?