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This is the last blog of the year so I wish everyone happy holidays.
I hope our wars come to end so the individuals can feel like a human being. Loss of love is the worse feelings for human beings so that emotional knowledge of pain causes everyone wants to rob love from each other in revenge, which is the cause of our perpetual sufferings.
When it comes to love, I personally lean towards universal love (read love triangle). I do care how people around me think about me, but somehow, I feel strongly about humanity and want to show the picture how I want to see the world in my living years.
I feel the responsibility to contribute with my knowledge if it can help the people to see beyond the boundaries of their respected religions, nations or race. If you feel you are stuck in the politics of the sense of belonging as an individual you have the potential to grow out of that knowledge which is compelling you stay with the status quo.
Taking sense of belonging to extreme is an emotional trait of human beings. Self-destruction has been with us from the beginning. There may have been a lot of research done about our behavior but ordinary folks do not understand emotions that well. Three things touch us in the zone what we don’t really understand—God, music and the sense of belonging.
Should we learn more about these phenomenon?
We also need to control our extreme behavior. As an individual, you can put everything you got into community. It is great for the community, but you are and should be your best friend, you are your best shoulder to cry and you are your best confidant. Not some community member. The only way you can be your friend is if you raise yourself to the CEO’s level and do justice to yourself and the community you belong to simultaneously.
I call the sense of belonging an emotion, because it has the power to cloud even a brilliant mind.
Keeping yourself neat and clean is a social education and duty. It is human education. God has nothing to with it. Picture a mother or father who cleans up the baby. They do not care if the baby gets dirty again. Their love is greater than the feelings of responsibilities.
When parents raise a child, they want to install their knowledge in their off-springs, but if they do not encourage the child to explore and evolve, they are doing a disservice not only to the child but to the humanity thus they are working against God’s will. No child should be locked into turning exactly like parents.
Every individual who goes to mosque, church, synagogue or temple, wants to taste spirituality, but ends up exposed to hatred and group politics. They glorify war stories, or stories of victimization are part of the sermons, and compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice and love in the name of God is lost under the in these revenge related war stories.
Just remember we are evolving and our past stories are about less-evolved ancestors, if you think they were better than us think again, your one cell phone puts you far ahead of millions of brilliants of the past. Their actions were related to the animalistic side, where survival or marking territories for more power for their group was more important than thinking about the humanity as a whole.
If you are impressed or disgusted by the past stories, it is time to forgive and forget, because today we are at a different level of evolution. Today, our actions are not limited to the sword or spears. Today, our actions can have far-reaching consequences. Remember World Wars I and II. There is no glory in wars even if you are the winner. Innocents die in wars, it maybe acceptable in the political world but in spirituality it is unacceptable.
We have been blessed with the free thus with the CEO status. As a CEO, you cannot let past stories, sense of belonging and emotional politics rule your actions. There is no collateral damage in God’s world. So before you take the wheel, remember to be sober. At the end of the day, you call the shots; you are the CEO, if you claim that you are were drunk that is why you got into an accident or you just can’t claim that you were doing you job. As a CEO those reasons are not good enough to put responsibility on something else.
Today, if we start to use our free will, become CEOs, and refuse to listen to the rhetoric of mullahs, priest, rabbis or political parties whom take us to the spiritual crimes, we will be able to create peace that no one has been able to produce for thousands of years.
If sense of belonging comes knocking at your door, you have to look at yourself first as an independent entity, then as a part of God. Remember humanity is one entity and we all are part of it, and our group politics thrives on our personal insecurity.
“Ideologies separate us; dreams and anguish bring us together,” someone wrote whom I don’t know so I would say the author unknown.
Unfortunately, we naturally feel more secure in a group so to us the idea of the whole humanity seems like a stranger, because of our barbaric past which has left us without trust especially when it comes to personal relationships and other nations. The thought of belonging to humanity gives the need to come out of national and racial prejudices, tough but potentially do able. Forgiving and forgetting past disputes need emotional intelligence for the individual so one can move on to find inner and outer peace. If you look at the background of all traditions and customs, you will find that they all relate to group identity. Turbans, hoods, beards or shaven heads have nothing to do with spirituality or God. They are all related to the group and our sense of belonging.
I find it hard to understand why all cultures—advanced or backward—have lived for the future and afterlife. Maybe it is because of mortality and the political education related with the control.
Some live life as taught that this life is a test so they can have a better eternal life, which makes them to live small and save so they can leave their material assets behind. This strategy means this life has to be sacrificed for the life after death. Then there are people who are so insecure, that they try to secure themselves as if time is running out. Living for the future is promoted all over the world. This is part of your sense of belonging as well and is a smart strategy of the controllers. Suffering and hording is not new, people use to take their belongings to their graves.
Our banking system has created an extreme and an unfair class system. One can make money, buy properties, have a large business, lead a comfortable life but still one can only eat so much and use money a little more than one who lives in the poverty. It is all about feeling secure yet there is no security for a mortal man. If one still makes more than he/she spends, what happens to the rest? If there is family, it can be left for them, otherwise the government takes it or people use to leave it for the church, meanings the controlling authorities would have the political incentives to preach the frugal life style. Hoarding is a mental health issue when looked at the individual level, but no one looks at the hording of the money is an acceptable social disease as well because, even as a humanity we have sufferings from extreme poverty, starvation, disease and death.
We have been fighting wars, taking over the other’s resources and hording them. All empires have done it and it is still happening. The British, French, American, Chinese Russian are still holding lands even faraway parts of the world. In our history, politics and religions have always defeated humanity.
As an Idealist, I believe we should have the United Nations as our international government, with its own law and order and taxing system and justice for each and every individual and all humanity. If it is done right, charities would not have to compete for donations and spend money on marketing. Instead, the money can go directly to those who need it. Poor should not have to depend on some insecure individual’s donations because the person would always be hoarding. Even if it is a small percentage, it will make a difference to the hungry and the dying. Rich countries would not hold poor countries as hostages with their political agendas. This kind of thinking does not make me a socialist. I am still for the individual and social liberties, but I am against hoarding and its politics of justification.
Every country already has a central government, provincial government, district governments and even divisional authorities. So why cannot we have an authority overriding all nations, races and religions. Presently, the United Nations may have a justice system but its enforcement have no powers over the veto power nations and face pressures from powerful nations to do the justice, thus has lost respect in all over the world and became an impotent organization. It could not even stop the small warring nations.
No one should go hungry if banks are full of money. Every child should have the right to live, without facing politics. All religions condemn poverty, yet we have been unable to remove poverty regardless of thousands of years evolution, just look at the religious buildings and the money laundering scandals.
Governments have to enforce taxes because they just can’t govern without helping the needy, no charity can help run the nation because as a human we all are somewhat insecure or at least are brainwashed to be insecure.
If all countries start levy 1 per cent poverty tax on sales of goods, hunger can be removed from the face of the earth!
If no one dismantles the hoarding, children will continue to starve. It is time to find a solid solution. Group politics and sense of belonging will come in the way. But you can think of belonging to humanity as a whole rather than your group.
Life is not just about the numbers and scientific facts, yet some of us look at life as numbers and do the math, as if everything will turn out as predicted. Our lives are unpredictable regardless of all the numbers and scientific facts, just look around, everyone wants to be doctor or a lawyer but how do you become night cleaner or worse being homeless.
Being CEOs, we have to find our balance. If we reject all religions and God and become atheist, we are looking at life from an extreme. This does not give you the answers. God has blessed man with free will and it is man’s choice to choose the extreme or find a balance because your melody of life is beneficial or harmful to you as an individual.
Today, we are considered evolved and a scientific force and we have thousands of years of religious knowledge under our wings, but when you look at our social problems, we just seem to be beasts. Should we still call ourselves higher than other creatures? Or say the natural selection is the base of our evolution. You cannot argue with facts because facts have been changing, yet one fact has not changed: we are still the beasts at times.
Our inhibitions have made us the human being from a beast, but our sense of belonging affects our free spirits and it can become the shackles to rob the individual from his/her happiness. If a mortal loses happiness it is the loss of everything because of the mortality.
With the free will, there is a bigger picture at play: You can make decisions yet at the same time life happens to you!
The social doctrines are like a song society gives you to sing but with the free will God gives you a choice to over ride your song of sense of belonging, which you have sung so often that you start to think it as your own song. If you believe that the thoughts you have are your own, think again. If you are not trying to fit in or trying to impress or be admired by the others, only then you are thinking your own thoughts.
There is nothing wrong to be a player in the team but you are a perfectly functioning independent organism as well. So when it comes to healthy living and survival, you have to play the role of an independent entity. You cannot let insecurities rule you and make you give up your God given status of a CEO.
Nations brutalize other nations, sometimes in the name of empire, sometimes in the name of God. Land and its resources have been the cause of conflicts and politicians have been using nationalism and religions to attain their political agendas for thousands of years. Group politics and greed has created a gap in wealth distribution throughout the world. Today, we are drawn to better paying jobs even we have to travel to faraway lands. This brain drain is encouraged by developed countries. So their strength grows. The powerful nations keep pulling people from all over the world, without giving second thought to the effects. We should train and educate people all over the world so they can fight against the poverty. As the population grows so does the poverty unless we all start to think as one organism, because sooner or later our policies come back to bite.
We are all part of humanity so our actions should help instead of hurting humanity. If you want to belong, belong to humanity, instead of a certain group, race, nation or religion.
Being a part of humanity can inspire and activate individuals throughout the world. It has the power to strengthen the economy and raise living standards, eradicating hunger and poverty. Independence and self-reliance is a natural desire. If inspired by the feelings of being a part of the whole humanity, the peace can be achieved, otherwise people will always be slaves of the sense of belonging to their immediate groups, nations, race or religions and thus always fighting to dominate each other.
Our history shows that our civilizations have gone up and down because of wars which have kept us from realizing our potential. It will be easy to focus on achieving the potential to evolve, if the whole humanity works together. Even God would help because in a sense, God is humanity and humanity is God.
The theory of big bang start or the end of the earth seems convincing, which makes it popular and acceptable throughout the world. From religions to science, we have been accepting lots of theories about our beginning and our end but always with assumptions. Even science cannot provide solid proof of the beginning or the end. Existence of God is as mysterious as it was thousands of years ago. There is no advancement in human intelligence in terms of religion. We still kill each other over it like we used to do thousands of years ago. Today we have bigger bombs with the help of science. So will science help in proving religious theories? Will we explode or implode? Do we have an inevitable end as predicted in the holy books? Can we change the inevitable?
I believe we have the ability to change the inevitable. We just have to understand evolution and our potential. We have always prayed to change the circumstances. Today, we have to learn to live with each other with our differences. Do we have the power to protect human race and other life forms?
Our life is made possible and sustained by synergistic, rhythmic and continuous natural systems. If one claims that there is no one who is responsible for the harmonious melody, he/she should look at incomplete knowledge critically, if you can’t access your total brain power how can you make a judgement about something you can’t comprehend. We are not a finished product and are still an evolving organism. Instead of insisting the correctness of their ancestral knowledge we should say no to egotistic stubbornness, which has been claiming unaccountable innocent lives.
Today, if we feed a hypothetical situation into the computer, we get the devastating assumptions that ruin our present and make the future scary.
Religion has been using people ‘s insecurity and fear for thousands of years, yet religion is the source of hope. This puts an ordinary man in a confusing position so he obeys because of lack personal spiritual knowledge. If you do not question, you cannot find answers. How can one seek answers without disrespecting authority of the religions? You are told believe blindly, without a doubts, because that way, you give your powers to the powerful, and that’s the politics. They use the power to control everybody, including the extremists, who then hold you hostage.
Religions and emotions have one thing in common. They do not have a solid foundation. If religion crosses spiritual boundaries, it becomes authoritarian and dictatorial, especially if you mix emotionally-charged people in power. Governing people should never be an emotional matter. It should be based on well thought out constitutions with room for amendments. If you believe that all religions came from God, why do we have so many religions? Should we believe that God cannot make up the mind?
We have been killing each other for thousands of years in God’s name. All religions ask its emotional followers to blindly believe. If this is the message coming from all religions, how can it be corrected? The bottom line is the individual’s own belief system. Only with the CEO’s eyes one can see the politics hidden behind the name of God. Since it is almost impossible to separate religions and emotions for most people, politicians take advantage of this.
Some people talk and love to hear people talking about them—it is a sign of insecurity. Some talk about other people—it is a sign of smaller living. Some talk about issues and events that affect humanity—it is a sign of someone seeking his or her potential. The mortality will always keep us insecure. Since we all are insecure, we fall in love with religions and its stories. If someone questions these stories, he is condemned, and even murdered.
If we were meant to be obedient, why did we get free will?
Evolution does not mean we are going to grow wings,horns or change our colors. If you can learn new things, grow more muscles, fight infections or be able to live well in a polluted environment, you are evolving. I believe every creature including human being has been created with potential to evolve, and for us to achieve our super organism status we need spirituality not religions. Spirituality brings peace and harmony. If you long to belong, belong to humanity.
If the whole humanity gets together, we can change the predictions in the holy books. God granted us free will for a reason and this is the time we use it. It is the time to come out of the boundaries. Whether it is religion or sense of belonging, it is time for spirituality to be the priority.
If you look at the fundamentals of religions, common sense makes a beast into a spiritual being. Being spiritual means we need to look beyond our selves and evolve to help humanity, thus God. Somehow we bought into the politics of our sense of belonging to our belonging groups thus we cannot. We band together with our kind, whether it is a family, gang, community, nation, race, gender or religion. It is because we find security in numbers.
Westerners say Muslims are rigid; they fight and do not give up. I think when politics overpowers religion; it fails to represent humanity like spirituality does.
Islam has five pillars and one of them is jihad, a concept which is being abused. In spiritual terms, jihad means to get together to fight. Fight what? Could it be the enemy who is hell bent to destroy you or it could even be poverty, hunger, disease or anything against humanity or God. Politics has been able to twist noble teachings of spirituality and use God and religion. The real meaning of jihad is to help humanity get rid of wars and injustice.
Most religions are strict with rules. They leave little room for the individual to breath. Religious people say God is doing everything for us, yet they follow strict rules and punish themselves it has twisted control.
We have the ability to live this life with intellect but at the same time, life happens to us, so we need to balance both, instead of picking one. Since we have been blessed with the free will the individual happiness is a part of the deal from God. We need to enjoy this life while we do God’s work and serve humanity. It is the balance what matters; extremes are part of individual’s insecurities. They should not be a part of the community because collectively we should be smarter. When an individual chooses extremes, it affects his health and happiness but when a community chooses extreme, it is dangerous. We have seen this throughout history.
When we critically look at our education system, it seems inconsistent. You cannot teach children to be loving and peaceful and then send them to wars to kill and get killed.
You cannot tell them that everything in life is happening because of your actions or God’s will because in real life when they have to face life, they will fall apart. We need to tell them the truth and the truth takes the path nature has chosen for us. Straightforward and honest truth helps to create CEOs, the balanced individuals who know how to fly solo.
It is ironic that mullahs and priests preach God’s words and believe that God is merciful yet want you to follow rules with the fear of God. They want you live your life in control or face punishment. If God is forgiving, why are we presenting God as punisher? There is no set way of us to live, because we are always evolving, and that evolution is a fact.
This life is heaven and hell at the same time, depending on the individual’s circumstances and attitude. If one is aware of guilt, killing an innocent can make this life hell.
Militaries and religious extremists work hard to recruit people when they are young. The motive is to make them emotionless killing machines. We raise our children to be good citizens; we tell them to live in peace. Yet as they grow up, we give them guns to kill other human beings and sometime the innocents. There is a contradiction in education, but no one is willing to take the responsibility. So I believe its up to the individual to rise up and assume the duties of a CEO.
When prophet have spiritual awakening, when they receive the Words of God, the words are processed by their brains. Every religion starts from those words and gets politicised as it evolves, the sense of belonging creeps in to taint it. When they teach others, the words are their own interpretations and filled with their emotions and sense of belonging. Our experience of the world affect our thinking and especially the politics of our sense of belonging has the potential to even change our spiritual thinking, our values have been changing with time today it is a different ball game the risk is to great not to become a CEO.