Logically if you use your ability to choose with free will, you are and at least you should believe that you are a CEO of your life. Not taking responsibilities of your life has other reasons like politics of sense of belonging so simply you can’t blame God that you were not blessed with every thing like others. Interestingly right from the get go we all have to deal with highly preached and equally powerful sense of belonging to our groups but still there has always been, is and will always be a segment of population who thinks and takes responsibilities of their actions. Sense of belonging does not only effect us politically it has long tentacles penetrated deep into even our psyche and physicality. Only spiritually we are safe from it, in all other ways we are compelled to response emotionally and physically because of our education related thoughts and related hormones secretions.
If you don’t understand you can’t think, if you can’t think you can’t find solutions. You may actually believe that there is nothing wrong with your behavior just because you are surrounded by so many people who think and believe like you. A group of people would have tremendous effects on the individuals who belong to them by birth. Brain washing ability of the politics of sense of belonging molds people into puppets and useful fuel for the war machine. If something is popular in the society as children we would idolize and automatically grow the desire to follow it because it is coming to us from our authority figures.
Logically we have been around for millions of years so in the bush or cave time no one would have thought or have the concept of becoming a lawyer, doctor, politician, business person or professional athlete. We are born in today’s times so our automatic desire will be to be whatever is popular today. Since we are blessed with the free will we can choose to work hard, starve ourselves and constantly suffer with the price we pay. Simply to fit in, impress or die with the desire to be admired by the people around.
Blessings of having free will get overlooked and compromised if you personally don’t assume the responsibilities of being a CEO. This is all about the cause and effects so if you can’t go that far back and know the causes of your extreme behaviors. You simply can’t even acknowledge that you actually have any problem. For instance if you don’t understand the importance of balancing sense of belonging with sense of freedom. You would not be able to even consider that your health and happiness is connected to your thoughts. You simply would not even think to look for or find solutions for the problems like Big-o-mania, Bulimia or anorexia, anxiety, depression and even suicide. Whether this self destruction is related to mental health, acceptance of personal weakness or to a fiery and inspiring speeches coming from the leaders of belonging groups. Still it is your personal duty to understand the cause or causes of your radical behaviors. Never forget that your free will has been given to you for making independent decisions to stay in balance. Having free will and ability to use it, makes us all responsible for all our actions. so it is not the extreme related choices it is all about creating balance. Remember if you have lost your self-esteem because of your imbalances you can’t or don’t even consider yourself as an independent entity never mind being a CEO of your life. Now you look at your decisions of taking destructive chances for others, if you don’t stand for yourself who will? How far are you willing to go for sense of belonging to hurt yourself or on the other side if you hurt others and end up in jail that is hurting yourself in more ways then one? Regardless if you go too far towards either extreme you will end up hurting yourself. Interestingly you are the most important part of this picture and openly and proudly hurting yourself yet by choice. Being the CEO your best bet is to create balance otherwise you can be hurting without even knowing the causes. There is nothing wrong having sense of belonging until it goes too far and you start to hurt others or even yourself because of it.
Individually understanding the importance of becoming a CEO is crucial, because sense of belonging could be the mightiest thing to challenge with personal sense of freedom. From all kind of individual health problems to all the way up to our political and even holy wars and everything between is tainted with the politics of sense of belonging. Its tentacles are into everything good, bad and the ugly of humanity has to offer.
As an individual you may think you are a strong willed individual but you can only see the real picture from your actions. If you push your limits to fit in and sacrifice everything for the approval of people you belong to, remember that makes other people strong not you. Since you are the CEO of your mortal life you know that you have limited time so you have to create balance to look after yourself.
You individually believe in God or not, whether God is out there somewhere in the space or exists within every cell of you. Whether you feel strongly and are under the influences of your hormones, believe in your irrelevance and have low self-esteem and suppress your intellect just to follow what your belonging group says. Either way not only you are an extremely complex and constantly evolving entity, so logically nothing should be an ultimate knowledge for you. Whether it is social, medicine, science and technology related or God related as human individuals we are never done with our learning.
As long as we are evolving everything would always be questionable because we are still learning new things everyday. When it comes to our politics of belonging to our groups regardless of their authenticity there is a lot of room for assumptions related traditions, customs, rituals and rules. Our arguments usually go beyond the individual intellect yet being mortal its all about the human individual’s life. How they spend their living years whether they benefits or harms of believing in whatever their group believes in. It is not about real rewards of heaven nor its about the punishments of hell. Its not even the question of physicality of life after death or the world we have been preached to believe. Its all about how we live in our living years, if we become a good person because of our religious knowledge then having a belief system is an asset. If we commit spiritual crimes even in the name of so called religion and God that is simply because of political belonging, spirituality has nothing to do with it. If you go and think politically for the survival of your belonging group say so, don’t bring God and religion in it.
To me it is all about what a belief system can do for the individual in their living years. Did they live their life as a good and decent person or they have been killing and robing love of someone in the name of their belonging groups. In the nutshell I am saying our living years are our physical reality and life beyond our living years is a metaphoric reality. If you put your metaphoric reality above yours or others physical reality you have taken a political path and strayed from the spirituality. You simply have the potential to become an extension of a cult, which makes you lose your individuality. You remove all the responsibilities off of your shoulders and undermine yourself as being a human being. With an atom of autonomy sitting within, every human being can use free will and personal sense of justice to become a reasonable, compassionate and loving human being. It is all to bring peace and harmony within not only individually but collectively as well.
World would not be where it is today because we have been discovering what has been making sense to us. To me not believing in God means everything has happened randomly. The so called scientific explanation of marble being exploded and continually expanding is not a clear enough answer even if it is coming from the scientific community. Simply we should ask where did the marble come from and why it exploded? This organization in total chaos may seem random but dissecting even a worm would explain that organization is the reason for things to be alive. Since there is life all around us we should respect it while we are alive, instead of killing each other over who is right about the start or the end of life. Wisdom is to understand and respect even the lowest or simplest level like a worm or even a virus. There is a whole lot of sophistication, wisdom and order for them to function so not believing is as questionable as believing. If you are able to remove the politics of sense of belonging you would be a lot more open to question which is the foundation to learn more and evolve.
Our problem is the politics of our sense of belonging which has taken over our religious beliefs which has tainted our spirituality. Religions have left their spiritual messages behind and have become political authorities. They have swapped God for political power and control and could not resist to lucrative business of governing. They used individual, God and everything in between to be politically relevant.
They have even been fighting wars to ruin the beautiful things like spiritual belief system and converted it all into an ugly political human reality. Our group politics of belonging has overridden our spiritual principles. If religions would have stuck with spirituality exclusively we would be praying and worshiping God under one roof regardless of our differences and belonging. Who am I kidding? This is just my dream to see people over come their divisions especially when it comes to our metaphoric realities. God and spirituality is and should always be above our politics of belonging to our groups, but it is not the way it is. So I am trying to do my best to work against extreme related politics of religious beliefs. My dream is to bring the beauty of having a belief system of spirituality and equal justice for all to the fore front to make people look at humanity as one organism or I dare say God. Different colors, sizes and shapes but one humanity with equal human rights and equal justice to all human individuals throughout the world. It is not who has right or wrong opinion about the things belong to before or after life but it is all about who ends up living an internally and externally successful individual mortal life.
Unfortunately even the best of our scientists have not been able to prove everything without a doubt yet they take pride in repeatable facts. They have not been able to break down and explain our repeatable metaphoric realities like love, compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice, honor, pride, reasons of our hormonal responses, placebo effects of healing and a whole lot of everyday lies and truths of human individuals. So no one should be able to put others spiritual beliefs down unless their knowledge is unquestionably correct and without the assumptions. What was before big bang or why big bang happened?
An other issue is faced by human societies is that we have our politics of sense of belonging which has penetrated tentacles in everything we do. Sure we are progressing but our evolution in science and technology has not been able to help in our social and morality related issues. Our politically influenced and imbalanced evolution raises more questions than giving us answers. As an ordinary individual we all need to over come the lures of the politics of belonging to our groups and as governing authorities we should be above the politics of belonging to certain group of people. In today’s equal human rights world our governing authorities should seek and adopt justice system which treats everyone equally. Since spirituality and justice system don’t mix with politics, what the majority of people believe in should not matter when it comes to justice system and spirituality. Whether it is science based or religion based if it is for some people but not for all potentially its prejudicial, discriminatory and political. Even if it is democratic it still can’t lose its equal justice. Humanity has suffered enough loss of human individual in the name of belonging to our groups so it is time to change our ways of thinking and governing. Whatever very group has been preaching and practicing whether they are race, nation or religion base or not, logically they should not go around equal spiritual justice.
We have been and are still openly taught to be superior over the others, and if you are successful to make others feel inferior that is even better. Now the question is, is that political or not? Same politics has been used by the religions to make even their own followers to feel inferior, irrelevant meaningless against God and Devil. Purpose behind openly preached education is to have power and control over the ordinary individual so they can be easily governed. Reasons of individual low self-respect and low self-esteem are deeply rooted into our politics of belonging. Especially when it comes to religious affiliations.
It is clear for us all to understand why ordinary people have been preached not to have confidence, self respect and self-esteem especially about the things of after life. Fear of punishment of hell and greed of heaven is openly taught that as if it is one hundred percent correct yet no one has been able to come back to tell us the real story with some evidence. If you question you would be told that you are a non believer so it is like you are responsible for their short comings. LET’S LOOK AT IT THIS WAY TO KNOW HOW POLITICAL PEOPLE CAN TWIST, TURN AND HIDE THE UNCLEAR TRUTH YET STILL GET AWAY. If you give people a task they would follow for a little while and then a high percentage can’t carry on with it. Sort of like a new year resolution. They would know that they did not follow the program strictly so they would not blame the program itself but rather silently accept it as their own short comings. We believe in our religions wholeheartedly so instead of questioning and blaming their practices we believe there is nothing wrong with our religions. Now you have to find out who is responsible for your spiritual problems or short comings? If God can’t be responsible the next person in line to be blamed is you as an individual so the group is Scott free to enjoy the position of trust. Interestingly since you already are believing that you are irrelevant and have accepted yourself as a sinner that means you have taken the blame on your shoulders. What an easy way for the religions to carry on with their politics unquestioned. Even if you question the authenticity of their traditions, customs, rituals and rules, you would be threatened to be shunned and told that you are out of line and are committing even a bigger sin. Unfortunately regardless of their politically tainted belief systems, an ordinary individual thinks and still believes that their religion is a spiritual and true path to God.
So over the centuries religions pushed and pushed even against scientifically proven facts to stay politically relevant. They stood and still stand against everything, from blood transfusion to legitimate abortion to genetic code to stem cell research and everything in between. Progresses made by the medical industry to save lives has been usually criticized by the religious populations. Interestingly when it comes to individual health, most of them shamelessly use all the advanced procedures provided by the medical industry. They all use modern medicine and go to hospitals just like everyone else yet still believe wholeheartedly whatever the religions preached. Regardless of what I believe, to me saving life is an ultimate spiritual thing because it is saving a working horse or hand of God who helps convert spirituality into physical actions. People are too quick to judge and say we are meddling in God’s work as I said remember to ask how does God’s work get done? You may not get any clear answers but to me it is interesting that every other human knowledge has been and is questioned to death along the way but majority still does not believe in questioning our religious knowledge regardless of its brutal history.
If you introduce and use carrot and stick philosophy which does work for other creatures or I should call it animals. If you use that for human beings, that means you are standing human beings into the line up of other creatures. I believe as human beings we do have an animal side but since we carry our spiritual side within it makes us stand in a class of our own so treating human beings as animals is degrading. Our atom of autonomy takes us to different heights of evolution. Sure we function physically like other creatures but our spiritual side helps us to be a complete human being so considering a human being as an animal itself is against spiritual truth.
With our atom of autonomy we are able to self regulate and act as a God like entity ourselves. Our compassion, personal sense of justice, our ability to forgive, sacrifice for others and love unconditionally has nothing to do with being an animal but everything to do with being a human being so using carrot and stick philosophy and treating human beings like other animals would be a spiritual mistake.
Things like atom of autonomy may not appear clear to some people but these human spiritual qualities are not our exclusively taught behaviors we potentially bring them along from before birth. You may question all that because we have been and are still committing crimes against each other so it is easy to believe that we are similar to other animals. Unfortunately we compare human beings with other animals quite often but that is always related to our behavior so anyone commits crimes is treated like other creatures. Carrot and stick does not work for human beings in the long run. Remember we learn and change as we grow up but other creatures simply can’t change so comparing human beings with other animals is simply wrong. What works for human beings is not exclusive so using carrot and stick philosophy for everyone should be questioned.
I thought studying low and high crime rates of human societies would be interesting so I tried looking for the answers in Google.
Lowest crime rate was seven per 100 thousands and the country was Switzerland and safest countries in the world to raise family were.
1) Iceland
2) New Zealand
3) Austria
4)Portugal
5) Denmark
6) Canada
7) Czech Republicans
8) Singapore
An interesting fact is, other than Singapore which was #8 most of these nations are not exclusively religious. Regardless of religion why religious nations did not make to the list? This is the question to all religious people because they all believe a religious person is better than non religious. What is wrong with this picture? Where is the disconnection? Why a religious society can’t keep its crime rate down? Why people comparatively are not happy in religious nations? Last question is should the religious societies be doing some soul searching and clean up their acts?
According to UN sponsored report four years in a row happiest places in the world were.
Finland
Denmark
Switzerland
Iceland
Netherlands
As I said, this all should put religious nations governing systems in question. They were suppose to be the contractors and directly connected to God to give human beings spiritual satisfaction so they can be happy and content. If you want to solve this puzzle, question, question and question.
Personally I believe if religions wouldn’t have treated human individuals as animals, kept spirituality as their path to God and avoided the politics of sense of belonging to preach that their religion is the only and ultimate truth. They would have happiest people with lowest crime rate. If you start to look at the reasons of the success of these societies, you will find interesting facts. God or not you will find all the spirituality you can handle in these nations yet we call them Godless and not necessarily religious. If they are better to raise families, religious societies have to learn to question themselves. Individually you may still take pride in being religious but you have to question why religious societies can’t pan out in the two most important facts. Individual happiness and low crime rate. You may not question out of your loyalties to your belonging groups but all the above is still a reason for you to think WHY?
A society with religion but nothing to show in crime rate or individual happiness and contentment scale is a matter of concern we all should have. People don’t follow religious rules because either religion is tainted with hidden politics behind them. Maybe they are spiritually impotent or human individual is not valued and respected. You have to find your own reasons and question the hell out of everything. Remember it is not as important nor it is all about the life after death. It is all about how you are spending your living years, if you are not happy and built a habit of being unhappy how are you going to be happy even in after death. It is not about the sacrifices you make in your living years will earn you a spot in heaven it is your help and reciprocation during your living years would make the difference. It is not your prayers and the tasks of fasting would mean anything anything to others or even God. It is and would always be your practical help which converts spiritual thoughts into physical actions.
If I were to pick one known function of life and look at its ac curacies and sophistication, it would not be fare so in general if you look at our functioning body and our ability to act independently to use compassion, justice and love. That would take us away from the line ups of all other animals. Now remember I said known functions, that is because we are still evolving and we don’t know everything about ourselves yet. If you start to look at yourself critically, you will start to not only learn to believe in God, you will gain some respect for the other human individuals and yourself as well. All the known and unknown abilities of the individual are wasted when one gets killed or kills while following the politics of belonging. Killing and you being killed for a cause is common in many human societies. All this is related with the politics of the sense of belonging to a group that we have chosen to accept to affiliate with. To fit in, do I try to impress others in our group so I will be accepted ? One’s sense of being admired and accepted is related with the sense of belonging. If your sense of belonging is warped, you need to awaken your sense of freedom to match it to your being, so you can make good decisions according to the importance of your life.
Throwing away a perfectly functioning body in the name of cause or just to fit in with the others is a clear sign of the individual weakness so stand up to your potential a human being. Human individual have two sides and with these two sides they must commit to accepting the responsibility to create balance between the two. Both spiritual and physical sides are related with our behavior. The physical side wants security because it knows about the mortality of all humans yet the spiritual side has the wisdom to be secure from within by connecting to the source. The examples are always seen in the extreme because we all are human beings. We want to have physical experience of life while we are here. Going to extremes either way is not wise for any mortal. Being extreme is a non spiritual because if we are still evolving going to or taking extreme measures would be unwise. When you are an unfinished product you just can’t claim that you know every thing regardless of the number of books you have read. You are still learning, so you simply can’t make extreme decisions like killing or getting killed.
Religions, medicine and music hit us in such a way that we think that we know everything there is to know. Interestingly enough we have been reacting to these things for millions of years and we are still learning more everyday.Yet we have claimed all along that we know every thing. This thought is not to put anyone down but it is explained so as to point towards the evolving nature of human individuals. God gives human individuals the chance to enjoy this mortal life. The only way a human being can enjoy the bounties of life is through the animal side. Controlling or killing the animal side is simply impossible because we are intertwined in such a way that one can’t live without the other so it is not a wisdom from God. It is more to fit in, impress or want to be admired by the people around us. A healthy individual should have a balanced approach to life, reciprocating that is by the act of giving back to be useful to God, you can do good while enjoying a temporary visit. Enjoying a good food can make the animal side happy and satisfied. A useful being is a reciprocating being, God’s work needs to be done regardless. If everyone becomes a monk and believe in simply taking but not giving or reciprocating means you are giving up the enjoyments of the journey and become dependent on the others to feed. How would humanity function ?
You can put ash all over your body and walk around naked without showering for years or put on a Hijab and claim to be a clean person in your social settings. This would not stop the world from rotating around the Sun. Physical and spiritual cleanliness is meaningless to God if the human is not there to reciprocate. Your prayers, fasting and other forms of personal sacrifice and related sufferings are from the customs that were passed down and it comes from the actions expected by your political or religious group that you choose to follow.
Your spiritual work is directly between you and God because you are the real subcontractor working for God. If you can help people who are suffering and praying to God by fixing up their luck, but you choose not to help, simply you are not reciprocating and doing your job as a subcontractor. You can worship and self sacrifice as part of your personal suffering, but if you are an able human being and you don’t help the others, you are not reciprocating. In my opinion, everyone who is working is reciprocating. Some may say I am getting paid for the work I perform but if you logically look at all humans they are helping each other. You may think the actions are for the other human beings and not for God. If you want to see God spiritually but you can’t see or understand then you must search for God. If you want to see that God physically exists through the living human beings, so search for God in these helping human beings which would logically be reciprocating to God.
The real dirt you want removed from your being is your spiritual dirt. When you can pray to God but feel no remorse and self responsibility by bombing and blowing up some innocent people, it is clearly disrespecting God given identity. You can have your political reasons, but a spiritual crime is a spiritual crime. There is no other way to describe it. You are responsible because you have been blessed with free will which gives you a roll of subcontractor. You may care about the physical hygiene but in reality its the spiritual hygiene that matters the most.
God blessed human individual with free will, thus He gave us equal power to make our own decisions. Some of us may think this is not true because even the leaves on the tree can’t move without God’s will. Look around and see if everyone is moving around or living as puppets live. We live within a family raised by the same parents. We all seem to grow up to be different. We choose different paths, we value different things, we even think and feel differently. We even put different levels of efforts and worshiping in our personal lives. Why all the differences? Are we sure that God wanted us to be the same? This is not to discredit anyone’s knowledge but to make some sense to ones self.
Logically if the leaves can’t move on their own, how can it be believed that someone can abort a child without the God’s will?.
We can put God on a pedestal because we feel so vulnerable that we can’t even breath on our own if the oxygen is taken away. God does whatever is God’s Will. By giving us free will, God gave human individuals the role of a subcontractor and we all know that subcontractors work is for the contractor. We get God’s prescribed job done but we choose how it gets done, so does this bring your importance up as an individual and make you feel responsible for your personal actions?
Metaphorically it is said that a drug lord can help the people belonging to his community to the point that everyone starts to feel that it is their duty to help him. They feel that the purpose of their lives is to protect him because he supply jobs and helps community. Now, if you think beyond your everyday life you would be able to see and know that the drugs kill even the innocents. Have horrendous negative effects on the society somewhere else. If you understand what a Drug Lord does and you make a decision that you don’t care about what happens to other human beings or what drug lord is doing. You keep thinking that helping the drug lord, is the right and good thing to do? I think not! This act is all about the politics of the sense of belonging which has robbed individuals of a personal sense of justice. Belonging impulses to the point that one can’t think as an individual is not what is expected and is working against your free will. This is the start of an individuals destruction of a human being. A destroyed individual is not and can not be a subcontractor of the Almighty, now take this to a step further and switch that drug lord with your prime minister or a religious guru and ask yourself how are you fairing? God gives us an equal opportunity to be good or bad. Knowing what our good and bad spiritual level is crucial at all levels of humanity. As an individual, if you don’t have a personal sense of justice, you would be following and enforcing the rules, rituals, traditions and customs of your belonging groups. This makes you subservient to a group of people and not a subcontractor to The Almighty. The more you preach the politics of your belonging group, the less valuable you personally become. If you can’t see how drugs effect people beyond your community or if you can’t see how your belonging nation or religion is treating other human beings beyond your group. Your sense of belonging is almighty to you not your personal sense of justice nor God almighty so no you can’t over come the politics of your sense of belonging.