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Don’t neglect the present.

I want to emphasize that if you understand my content, please overlook any mistakes in my spelling or English in general. If something isn’t clear and needs further explanation, let me know by referencing the post title, and I’ll provide clarification.

It’s my fervent wish that individuals can lead fruitful lives, benefiting not only themselves but humanity as a whole. If everyone grasps the importance of reciprocity, we can evolve to the next level, transcending the boundaries of belonging to a particular group and embracing humanity as a whole.

Let’s view things with clarity. I’ve been advocating for peace, both on an individual and global scale. My writing focuses on assuming the role of CEO in one’s life to cultivate inner peace, which can then radiate outward, permeating the world from the grassroots to the summit.

If you’ve been following my posts, you’re likely aware of the potent influence of the sense of belonging, as well as the equally potent force of free will. With free will, one can taste freedom and create balance amidst opposing forces. Ultimately, it’s the individual who makes the decisions.

You’re a mortal CEO crafting your own story or composing the melody of your life, with the guidance and reverence for the empty spaces.

Not only are you a CEO, but you’re also the bravest cat, capable of distinguishing between the pearl and the water.

Personal wisdom should be a pursuit for each of us. We can’t remain shackled to the knowledge of our ancestors. Every era brings new realities, and our understanding of human knowledge must evolve accordingly.

We must break free from the confines of pigeonholes and the boundaries imposed by religion and constitutions to reform humanity as a unified entity, if we truly wish to address modern-day challenges.

There’s a relationship between you and yourself. Who do you truly believe you are? Understanding yourself, connecting with yourself, and delving deeper into your identity are vital.

Consider why you possess the ability to think as a separate entity. Why can you achieve whatever you set your mind to? The answer lies in your direct connection to God, not in any man-made governing systems.

Even if you exercise free will and a sense of freedom, you must still understand, meet, and connect with yourself on a deeper level.

Why exert so much effort to be different? It’s closely linked to the knowledge instilled in you as you grew up. Now, as an adult, it’s your duty to understand that everything you do is your responsibility. You must transcend the boundaries of learned knowledge and graduate to become an evolved human being.

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If one foot is in the future and the other in the past, that’s fine. But be kind to your present and refrain from ruining it. Metaphorically and literally, this life is our present. By fixating on the future or the past, you’re neglecting the present. Consider your life—it unfolds one day at a time. If you squander it, each day adds up, shaping your entire life.

You can’t live frugally to save money and leave billions behind (A few years ago, a man left eighteen point nine billion dollars behind while leading a modest life in Toronto). It’s not about what you accumulate but what you consume or share throughout your lifetime.

Focus on the present to make each day livable, as it’s the only place where you have control to choose. If your choices are influenced by others, you lose your individuality. Take charge and be a CEO. Don’t let any kind of politics dictate your life because, naturally, you’re a free entity with free will. All conflicts and wars are purely political, and as a CEO, you must rise to make your own decisions.

So, do you still want to neglect your present for the sake of the future or the past? Consider this: the future is unknown, whether in this life or after death, as no one returns to tell us about it.

There are many assumptions, so you shouldn’t neglect the present based on assumptions. By no means am I denouncing the spiritual aspects of religions. I’m merely expressing my assumptions about the politics within all religions.

If my perspective resonates with you, embrace it. If not, continue with what you’ve been doing, but acknowledge that we can coexist with differing opinions. Atheists and religious people have lived together in Western countries for a long time.

I may not fit into either category, but I respect humanity and hold my personal views. I certainly don’t believe in squandering my living years pondering scenarios about what happens after death.

Your life is a melody written by both God and yourself. You have a purpose. If you understand it, it’s a pearl; otherwise, it’s just water. If you’re influenced in any way, you risk ruining your melody at best and neglecting your entire life at worst.

 

Despite its imperfections, democracy remains by far the best system we have. I still believe we can improve it over time as we evolve beyond emotional voting. Emotional voting is a reality in all human societies; it has been, is, and will be prevalent until we all start thinking like CEOs. Today, you can see people voting for whoever can excite them with convincing speeches about religion, nationalism, security, the economy, poverty, etc. If we all fall for these speeches or are emotionally attached to our belonging groups, we are under the influence of a sense of belonging.

This is just as bad as having a democracy in an uneducated society where people vote without knowing its real value. If you lose an election, you may get so upset that you start killing and dying over it. It’s not a flaw of democracy; it’s the human reality of being emotional.

In a democracy, a majority is a majority even if it’s a close one. You just can’t pick up weapons if you don’t win. Being civilized and educated should be the first demand for a democratic society. Unfortunately, we have problems with democracy. People don’t understand the real system of democracy because they lack self-understanding. They vote emotionally, and if they don’t like the results, it’s not the fault of the democratic system; it’s related to the problem of emotional voting.

Democracy is a valuable tool for governing an educated human society. It requires individuals to understand their rights, as well as, at least to some extent, the general knowledge of how the democratic system of governing works. If you don’t have an interest and you let anything happen in society, you are not using your rights.

These days, especially young people, need to be educated about their rights as they reach maturity. They have to learn and understand their emotional connection to their hormones before they reach adulthood; it will help them to prepare themselves as the changes arrive. Not only will they go through the turbulent zone to save the relationships in their lives, but they will also save themselves a great deal of confusion regarding their feelings and realities.

The value of spirituality is not only related to religions; our school systems should have a clear agenda of equal human rights, and it should be enforced as a rule to the kids, especially if they have been taught prejudice at home. Families should be exposed to counseling if needed and made aware of the court decisions about equal rights. Helping society to run smoothly is not a privilege; it is actually a duty as well as a right of each and every one of us.

That level of understanding can help the individual to evolve, understand, and accept that in the modern-day democracy, people can have differences of opinion but still are able to live together.

I go to Folklorama every year and see all different cultures displaying their culture with pride. It’s great to see the sense of freedom in a society where everyone is treated equally. My desire is to see a pavilion that demonstrates all nations becoming a melting pot of humanity. For instance, mixed-race children representing their identity with pride. Regardless of all the freedom, we still have stereotyping going on in our homes. Even the Pope and the Supreme Court have made decisions against prejudice; the problems still persist. It can only be dealt with by the individual themselves. To me, proof is in the pudding; just look at mixed-race children. They are perfectly functioning human beings; President Obama is just a fine example of that. (Back to emotional voting)

If you vote because you want businesses to be free to charge whatever percentage of profit and don’t pay taxes, you are voting for extreme selfishness, not spirituality. Because human insecurities will play a role in hoarding money, thus it would be taken out of circulation, which would make the rich richer and the poor poorer. In the long run, it would create chaos.

If you vote for and stick with your group of interest like trade unions or any kind of cause like sexual orientation or gender issues, you are voting for the other extreme because the voting is for human rights, equality, and social justice.

Politics always make people stick with their belonging groups, whether they are good for governing the whole government or not. If you make a lot of noise, you would get your way. That is the reason political parties need a lot of cash, and when there is cash involved, the votes are being sold. If you are selling your vote, whether it’s for your religious beliefs or sexual liberation, it is not a good democracy.

The individual has to know that equal human rights and the workable governing system are the most important things. Even in modern democracies, there is a big percentage of voters who fall for and let their emotions get the best of them. If we have democracy, we need to educate people to understand everything necessary for human rights. If we promote democracy for the world, we need to educate, educate, and educate people all over the world. We can only achieve the peace we all seek through the education of the ordinary individual. Until an individual has evolved from his emotional sense of belonging to the real sense of belonging to humanity, we would be running in circles. So instead of spending and sending armed forces, we need to focus on the education of the individual. Only then will they learn to create a balance between a sense of belonging and a sense of freedom.

A CEO’s knowledge is required to understand democracy, and anybody who is an emotional voter is not a CEO. A doctor without people skills, a judge without compassion, and a policeman with too much passion are the people who come out of the tunnel as successful professionals but not as successful individuals.

We need to be taught, not forced, because we have the ability to self-regulate, and we can mix and match existing knowledge to do justice to the people and ourselves beyond the boundaries of learned knowledge.

Since there are no boundaries of knowledge for an evolving organism, we have to relate and deal with each situation we face. You can use previous knowledge as a guideline, but you have to have a human touch as well, so you don’t carry some kind of guilt along the way.

At the end of the day, you can’t say, “Oh, I was just doing my job” if your decisions hurt someone. If you are a decent individual, you can’t just hide behind your job, especially from yourself.

It is not just the job; it relates to you as an individual as well because of your free will, and you will have to live with yourself knowing you have hurt someone innocent.

“Good times,” a magazine issue from October 2012, page 16, quotes, “We are interdependent in our society, and if you can lighten the load by bringing many hands, shoulders, and backs to the task, you can be successful.”

 

On the Discovery Channel, I heard that spruce trees don’t really have a deep root system, but they can withstand big storms and harsh weather. The reason is, and it makes sense, that their roots entangle together to help each other.

This natural phenomenon is present in human beings as well. As individuals, we may feel and think of ourselves as weak and vulnerable, yet we are an integral part of the real strength of humanity. Our reliance on the community and the community’s reliance on the individual may become confusing for the individual, especially if they have been given the education of inferiority, like being told they are born sinners and are nothing compared to God.

The fabric of the community depends on the thread, and that thread is the individual. The community may have an agenda to keep the individual weak so they can be controlled. But if everybody is dependent on the community, then how is the community going to get its strength?

It’s essential for the community to make the individual strong so that help is coming from the basic source. Any system that reduces the power of the individual ends up in dictatorship, monarchy, communism, and religious authoritarian governing systems. These systems have been proven wrong and failed for governing human societies. Any governing system that doesn’t comply with human nature will eventually fail. Communism failed after seventy years of success just because it chokes the individual from a sense of freedom. All other failed systems, including communism, promote a sense of belonging to the extreme and fail to promote a sense of freedom; it’s not one or the other, it’s the balance of both.

We have a natural desire to be free as individuals, yet we have a deep social need to be with the community. This extremely opposing nature needs balancing, and it can only be done by the individual individually, not forced upon by the community. If the individual can self-discipline or regulate themselves, the community does not have to force its agendas. It all depends on education; we need to encourage the individual’s deeply ripened spirituality so that they can automatically function as a CEO who is independent yet altruistic.

Let’s look at it from a different angle: modern science has been discovering things from the inside out. “The Economist” (Aug 18th, 2012 issue of the magazine) has a front-page story: “Microbes maketh man.“ “The traditional view is that a human body is a collection of 10 trillion cells which are themselves the product of 23,000 genes. If the revolutionaries are correct, these numbers radically underestimate the truth. For in the nooks and crannies of every human being, and especially in his or her guts, dwells the microbiome: 100 trillion bacteria of several hundred species bearing 3m non-human genes. The biological Robespierres believe these should count, too; that humans are not single organisms, but superorganisms made up of lots of smaller organisms working together. It might sound perverse to claim bacterial cells and genes as part of the body, but the revolutionary case is a good one. For the bugs are neither parasites nor passengers. They are, rather, fully paid-up members of a community of which the human “host” is but a single (if dominating) member.” This reinforces my view of God as a human society or humanity, and humans as the cells and other creatures as part of the whole picture. Vegetarians may not like this, but this is the law of nature: nature provides food for every creature for survival. We may live intellectually and make sense of things with our compassionate feelings, but the facts of hunger, survival, and reproduction remain to carry on the life of the species and literally God.

We still can be, have been, and will be savage beasts at times, but we have been progressively marching towards our potential. One can say God would not let Bambi, a nice baby deer, an innocent creature, die for food. But if it provides for the little kittens, it is nature’s way of providing life for life. It may not make any sense to the passionate feeler, but always remember we are a work in progress.

We may learn more of life’s wisdom as we evolve. From drugs to technology, social systems to religions, if we always come up with better and more effective ways to deal with our problems, that means there is still room to improve. So we can’t be passionate about human knowledge. Even scientifically proven things can be upgraded, and so can religious rules be bent or changed as society changes and evolves.

When it comes to human evolution towards potential, there are no holds barred, so there is nothing written solid, yes, not even the Ten Commandments. Everything is subject to change, so where are we going? Well, we are approximately on mile ten or maybe twenty out of a hundred, and we have changed so much in the last little while. Only time will tell; we can’t even imagine the next ten years.

Every era of humanity has been working to domesticate human beings, especially religions, working against the wild beast we all carry inside. Regardless of religion or any other human social system, if domestication is done by force or fear, it will eventually fail because as the individual finds themselves in a free place, they will defy the rules.

Strict rules may reduce the crime rate initially, but the population would feel oppressed and rebel. These days, with the internet, all the news travels around the world with no restrictions, so people know how things are done all over the world. This knowledge gives everyone the opportunity to compare themselves with others.

Some may think of it as a problem, but it should be taken as an opportunity to come together and create a justice system with human rights, regardless of belonging to religion or nation. In the past, the success and spread of religion have been based on the justice system it provided. In a strict rules society, you may have a lower crime rate, but today with our evolved social systems, we think that suppression of any kind is a crime as well.

It may seem that crimes are mostly related to individuals, but our groups have been committing crimes against humanity. So, every system, whether brought on by the people, as empires, or religions by the prophets, they all have some dark history. If the life lesson is about control, then never forget that as a mortal, control can rob you of your happiness, health, and everything in between. So, be aware that you have the control to manage your control.

It is election time in Canada, and all political parties are out to get support for their platforms. I personally have no favorite yet, but I still would vote.

There are few things I don’t like in politics, one of them is the negative attack ads. They are effective because the individuals whom don’t really look beyond the ads, are allowing them to be effective.

As a voter we should be able to understand the intentions and deny the awards to those whom use the attack ads, because putting some one down to win may be politically correct, but ethically and spiritually its not.

There is a common saying, that in love and war everything is a fair game, but I believe in politics negative attack ads should not be so forgiving because it is to make the people fool to buy into something may not be true reality.

These political ads to win are not the fault of the advertising parties, it is the problem of the individual who gets bought into them. Democratically voting needs, should be clearly defined for the individual to be educated enough to tell the differences.

I believe democratic countries are like organizations, they shouldn’t, can’t an usually don’t run by the one individual like a kingdom, even if it is a presidential system. If it was true, then president Obama would have done everything what he promised when he came in power.

If someone is attacking one of the candidate’s personal character or weaknesses, that is a low blow to the fairness, because it is not the individual it is the whole political party’s ideology or agenda what is most important in a democratic political system.

If the individual who is voting can’t recognize that, it is his/her lack of awareness. If you are buying into those ads and believe that democracy is one man system, you are not looking at a the way it should be looked at, if you still do you are trying to elect a king.

If it is true for you that you are trying to elect a king, that time has passed and kings have been replaced.  It is time, you start to look at the political agendas of the parties and learn not to vote emotionally because if someone is your relative, friend, neighbour or just belong to your religion, all these reasons are not enough for a voter to vote.

Personally I believe we have a problem these days because everyone has become a liberal, if you are a true conservative and you can’t or would not talk about the abortion, you have strayed from you conservative values. These days if you are in the extreme of the conservatism you are in the minority and can’t be elected. The population has been changed, the human rights have won in the court legally.

If you were a democrat, you had to become a new democrat to soften the image of the extreme socialism, give a break to the small business a tax break to become moderate, so you can be elected to govern otherwise there was no way of getting a chance to govern. Political decisions had been made to change their values, so political parties do what is important, change with the time, so the democrats are not democrats any more they are liberal democrats.

The conservative party has changed to progressive conservative party, meaning they had to come into the middle as well. If you want to get votes you have to make some choices and the political way of thinking calls for the changes even it is against the core values. This is the value of the typical political party trying to hang on to the powers. I personally don’t buy that conservatives are conservatives anymore they are liberal conservatives.

If you are liberal, well you are a political party as well, I believe there is nothing wrong with the politics as long as you don’t go to extremes to put each other down in the negative ads or promise something you can’t fulfill.

All political parties are political and changing tunes of their agendas are allowed but you can’t just use your values to entice your base line and use people’s belief systems like a toy to come into power. Religions have been doing a good job for that already, so if every governing system is a lie, where should the voter find ethics and values to live by .

If you are a voter, just look at the politics of the political party and then decide, don’t just fall or get bought into the negative ads you are smarter than that.

I whole heartedly believe that these days all parties have to change to get in. If you claim that you are a conservative you are not true conservative, if you are a democrat, you are not because you all became liberals. Now liberals have to claim their true identity because they always have been in the middle.

Going back to the religious politics pope just said that we should not treat the divorced people badly, well it is about time and I wish all religious leaders come out clean, because there is enough innocent blood in the fangs of the religious cats. Just look around the history and even today they don’t just lay off.

Today it is all about the human rights, these days you just can’t penalize anyone harshly, especially if you have the need of people to attend mosques churches and temples.

If you don’t change with time, you just get left behind, so pope is becoming and sounding more like a politician as well who is recognizing the trends of humanity and planning to survive. There was time for the religions to be used as political systems but these days things have been changing. Personally I believe spirituality is the only one consistent thing throughout the history of the humanity.

Today’s modern societies have the human rights, welfare system, universal health care, legal aid, and public school systems, used by the people in need interestingly they are not supported by the conservatives or republicans whom are by far the most popular parties  in religious communities . I can’t see anything political in these systems and only see an ocean of spirituality coming from the Godless people whom are called socialists. What is wrong with the picture of the religions where and when did the spirituality cross the religions boundaries and ended up in the Godless people.

The real politics of the religion.

Converting to Islam, Christianity or Judaism or any other religion by force is disrespecting to the spiritual knowledge. Religions have been using conversion and conformation as political tools because higher the number in the group, the stronger it would be considered. Everything has changed and we have to change with the time, our wars are not with the swords and arrows anymore so we have to understand the dangers of nuclear and chemical wars rising from the religious conflicts.

By force disciplining, corporal punishments and conformation has been is and will always be a failed strategy because it goes against the human nature. Sense of freedom is an innately ingrained force in the human individual. Any kind of fear related disciplining or conversion is spiritually unethical and in general morally incorrect and unfortunately most religions have used these practices throughout our history. In fact most human societies have had their share of brutalities thus most of our ancestors have been guilty, according to today’s standers. Politically it may have been acceptable to a group, but as a humanity it is against the human rights and freedom of choice.

Each and every one of us has the ability to think beyond the politics of the sense of belonging yet we don’t, because of the individual’s inability to understand and balance the opposing senses.

Logically thousands of years of old traditions and customs don’t stand a chance against today’s revolutionized human rights and internet era advancements of humanity.

Politics and religions may have been mixed but politics and spirituality don’t mix period. When the religions are tainted with the politics it’s even more important for the individual to make informed choices. The sense of belonging can rule the individual but as an independent entity we all have the duty to join the ocean of spirituality or humanity with conscience, personal ethics and justice. The universal rule of the thumb should be your measuring stick, don’t do to any one, what you don’t like done to you.

Personal revenge, land dispute and political differences can be the reasons to go to the wars, but any belief system should not be the reason to kill each other because every human knowledge is subject to change with our evolving knowledge.

Sense of belonging and religions are the culprits in most disputes, if you take these two out by individually believing, that you are a part of the whole humanity instead of your belonging group and spirituality not the religions is the path to God. You can change the world.

By taking out the religions and sense of belonging we can create heaven on earth, but the solution is within the individual. If we all become who can balance him/herself, we can see and take stand against the politics hidden behind the words where human politics incriminates God.

No one should have to change their believe system or religions they are born in. Equal human rights should be able to trump all kind of belief systems, the proof is already in the western societies. Just look at the melting pot systems people have been living together for a long time regardless of their belief systems. It has always been extremely religious people whom have been creating problems for the individuals.

Religions have been condemning and penalizing the individuals over the addictions, homosexuality and suicide because at the time religions came through we did not have the knowledge of the powerful brain chemicals. Even today we are going through the transitional time, religious people still believe these social and psychological problems are individual’s fault.

In general as a society our understanding has been changing for sometimes, but these changes move slowly because they are not just related to the one individual. Social changes happen with the evolution of the society as a whole. The societies have to go through the discussions, arguments and even wars before the major changes. It is unfortunate but that is what our history shows we have to sacrifice to gain a change.

Real evolution takes a genuine struggle by more than one individual. Equal human rights and justice have gone through a lot of sacrifice, today we can see people living from all colors, races, nationalities and religions in advance societies. It is possible, naturally we are social creature who can live in peace but our politicians don’t let us to follow our nature they look for what is in for them. They are more powerful with a smaller group of people, just like the pond with the boundaries the leader is a head honcho but in the ocean he/she is insignificant, so the fight for the control rages on.

Today’s awareness of human rights belong to the few individuals whom stood up against the mass for justice, so yes it always starts with the individual. If it make sense and is against the injustice it would resonate with the general population and the society eventually will adopt that change. Just look at the new changes especially the new pope is make some remarkable adjustments in Roman Catholic religion, a while ago it was about the human rights for homosexuals and now the accommodations to the divorced people. The signs of the changes to the religions are in the air.

If you are on the wrong side of it, it’s either you have fear of some material loss or you are victim of the politics of sense of belonging. Those two are powerful but the sense of justice is ingrained within you, so if you don’t change as a mortal, you may have to live with guilt which is not a good life to live. Inner turmoil is the cause of several social, emotional, mental, psychological, physical and spiritual problems so as a mortal individual you have a duty to live a just life to experience the real happiness.

If the individual is spiritually aware and evolved, he/she should be able to see when and where the human rights are violated even by their own belonging groups. If you can see, assess and judge, you can have in home discussions, communal debates and vote for the spirituality over the politics of your belonging group. Since the groups are formed by the individuals it would take the individuals to bring change from the bottom up.

In human societies most of the successful governing systems start with the bottom up philosophy but fail to continue because of the sense of belonging to the belonging group has the over power the insecure individual. Can we overcome the politics of sense of belonging? May be one day yes, if the individual feels secure enough to speak his/her mind.

The powerful people in every group use all the political tactics including violence to kill their own people to control the general population. They will use sense of belonging and religion to make the individual to feel guilty, they even portray God as some kind of monster to create fear in the straying individual, but it is all part of the politics to keep them in power.

We as an individual and as a human entity are in constant evolution, our previous governing systems like kingdoms, religions, communism and dictatorships have been failing because of our evolutionary nature, since every progress takes its toll every step of the way, humanity have been facing strong resistance from the powerful entities.

Even today our populations are torn apart there is a chaos and wars over nothing. Human life has been disregarded in the past, one can say our ancestors were not evolved enough to know the differences, but this day and age with our understanding we have to look at our behavior critically.

We have human standing up against the animal cruelty yet we all watch every day in the news killings of the innocent human beings. Spirituality is not just to stand against the animal cruelty it is all about the humanity as well.

Spirituality is everything to do with humanity with all its faults and differences.

Spirituality gives inner and outer peace because it’s the inner and outer harmony of the music of the individual’s life.

Spirituality is all about the evolution of human individually and collectively without the what ifs, it’s a totally blind trust in God and fearless living, which does not connect God to the politics of heaven and hell.

Spirituality allows the individual to understand the connection between God and the Man as spiritual and physical expression of the same entity, just like the positive and the negative wires, you can’t just light up a light bulb with one wire even if it is God, there is no light without each other.

Spirituality gives the power to become a CEO so the man can create balance between the opposing senses like sense of belonging and sense of freedom, a CEO can’t be herded like a sheep by the sheep dogs.

Spirituality is the man’s awareness to the sense of justice.

Spirituality is an awareness of the importance of love which grounds the individual as he/she is born in to the society, passionate love to create instinctive and universal love and in general love can be the foundation of peace, if it is taken away it can lead the Man to wars of hell.

Spirituality is not a pond or a web site with the self-created fear based boundaries, it is the space, an ocean and an internet just like God.

Spirituality is an indefinitely evolving entity, like human individual’s brain and body. Internet or God are good for everyone and everything if used right. Individual creates a good melodious song out of his/her life by respecting the empty space of God.

If you pick up the weapons to kill or destroy, you fall out of the spiritual world and yes even if you hide behind the religions. When you say you are doing well for your belonging group, remember the group you are trying to defeat belongs to humanity as well. Even if your war is related with the religion it is a political war because spiritual world is pure of injustice and you can’t have good for some and bad for the others. It is like one body with illness to one part of the body if you have a physical problem you suffer as a whole being.

We look up for God because we have the feelings of inadequacy, the feelings of inadequacy are strongly related with our education from our ancestors and we are taught all our lives that we are sinners and unworthy of God, if you want to go to heaven you have to listen and be obedient to the religious rules. Politics, politics and politics.

We are taught to look for perfections outside and are told God is perfect, powerful and majestic exactly the opposite of the feelings we have deep inside just like a depressed person.

Religions especially make the person feel inferior and our other governing systems keep the individual weak and controllable as well, but if you start to look at your make up and abilities, you are really something else and I mean literally.

Just pick any bodily function or a system, you would see the remarkable work of art, you would be amazed how your body runes and functions in the most intricate ways not yet completely understood by us. The brain can flabbergast you just to think about it. The soul inside of you is just a thing from another world literally, we got a long way to go just to understand ourselves. You represent God physically, each and every one of us does and every one of us should take pride in just being alive to work for God as God, if any one puts you down as a sinner or as an inferior to them just smile and believe in who you are.

Lets talk logic,

Are you a grown up who makes decisions everyday for everything you do? Do you have a job and are proud of it, get there on time day in day out, week after week, years after year? Did your parents teach you about to do this don’t do this? What does your law and order of the land says about everything you do? What does your religions say about your actions in everyday of your life? and finally, Do you feel you choose to abide by the law and order, or religious rules?

Do you think about what kind of decision power do you have? What kind of responsibilities do you carry on your shoulders? If you say I am responsible for all the departments of my life then you are a CEO of your life, yes the big boss, the big kahuna who calls the shots, who hires or fires the ideologies provided to you by the time and era you are born and living in.

How would you response to the situations if you were born ten or fifty thousands years ago? Would it matter, If you are fat, thin, bald, black, white, brown or any other problems do you think you face right now? What do you see in your future say you are going to be born five hundred years from now? In just last fifty years humanity has taken a big leap of faith, how much are we going to change is just not up in the air, it is a reality. Embracing it would be a good idea otherwise you are not only going to be left behind you may end up in a personal predicaments like committing spiritual crimes against the humanity, just like it is happening right now all over the world.

Where I am going with this is that your immediate problems you are facing right now may be are baseless. You just may have an identity crisis and are trying to fit in, impress or be admired. What do you feel at this time of your life?

If you think you have problems, I want you to pull yourself from the situation and sit about hundred feet up higher and look at the problems as a mortal entity. Say a mortal entity has one hundred years to live, if you can make it there. Life is full of situations and circumstances it is not a situation or a circumstance. Siting out side of the situation or circumstances can be done if you really believe that you are not just the body or an extension of the society you belong to. Now ask yourself again,

Can you do that? I am sure you can, but always remember you are not the body or the person a society has created, you simply live in a body to do your life and you are the one who over rides everything as a CEO. The body which is mortal, gets old and die, no ifs or buts, so it is your responsibility to live your life as it fits in the plan of the CEO. No situation or circumstance is above the law of the CEO.

If you let the trends, friends social rules, traditions, customs, or religious duties rule your life it is still up to you, but one fact still remains that you have and it should be always remembered that you are a CEO of your life with a certain amount but limited time.

Societies, religions, and laws and order expect the individual to live life according to their rules but the problem is that they carry on living but you lose life, so what to do in this kind of very personal situation? If you live amongst the people whom don’t understand where you stand you move to where they do, if it is not possible become a politician of your personal life so you don’t get killed because in the end of  the day no life no CEO. So do live life with the practices to enhance your mortal journey instead of sabotaging it.

You can eat whatever and whatever amount, become obese, have health problems and die sooner it is still your choice. You can exercise the hell out of your body just to find out that you screwed up, looked great but lost health in the end by doing too much, even if you did it for society, since you did it, it is still your choice.

That is the reason I have come up with the triangle philosophy it is not about the extreme it is about taking charge and becoming a CEO, and making decisions what are good for your life project. You could make choices to end up in jail, and spend rest of your life behind the bars of jails created by the societies, or you can put yourself in the jail of yourself, still it is your choice. Mortal life should contain the component of happiness and contentment otherwise it is a waist of life for yourself, for society may be useful but unfortunately it is a choice as well.

Being fat or not so good looking according to the standards of the times you are born in, is not the real scale it is how you look at yourself what matters. If society tells you something it is not a reality, until you buy into it and make your life a suffering journey. Still your choice, I can’t address the importance of being a CEO for the individual.

If your car is running great but it is not as shiny as you like it to be because you can’t impress your friends or other people around with it, but it is still running. You can work your ass off to get a shiny car but it can just sit in the garage and is no good for anything, it is shiny though. Your life is not only about the others around you it is about you as well, so it is you who has to look out for your personal interests, if not it is your choice and you just can’t complain about the problems you face because of your personal identity crisis. By no means I am preaching to become selfish it is about the reciprocation from both sides. If you want to look at it a little deeply your personal happiness is strongly related with serving humanity.

I am talking about the mortality and being a CEO if you want a running shiny car all the time you are looking for a big trouble. Yes and that is losing happiness in a temporary journey, if you lose that, what you got left is the regrets, discontentment and life without the fulfillments. Your life is always going to be on the horizon and the present moments, well, it is your choice to live in the future and piss on the present and make your whole life a stinky affair, because the reality is that it is the present what makes the past.

Simple advice you just can’t live a CEO’s life if you sacrifice it for either future or the past, you may be a good head of the department by doing that but not a good CEO.

Simple and logical reality is that future is not here and the past is gone and you just can’t go back in time and change it. That is the reality and the more important reality is that you are mortal, that is the bitter pill you have to swallow. If you can do that, sooner the better.

I read some where long time ago so I am going to write as author unknown, I am going to translate it, hope it comes out right. “quote”

“If you have dirt all around you and you don’t want to get your feet dirty, you should wear shoes, don’t expect the world to lay a red carpet down for you.” end quote.

 

The triangle of the man on the top and sense of belonging on the bottom right and sense of freedom on the bottom left. The ideal place for a mortal is to be in the middle of the bottom line which balances the triangle. (I wish I could learn to draw the triangle for you but I am not that good with the computer, anyway just picture it in you mind.)

Being a CEO it is your job to understand your balance, you just can’t live life in imbalances because it causes grief for you especially if you have a mortal life. You lose happiness regardless, because if you have it good you still have to leave it behind. A nice looking body or face is going to change, you can’t be feeling bad about something what is happening to everyone.

If you value yourself according to the standards of the society you would lose happiness as you age so get with it, be a CEO and look at your life the way its meant to be. A mortal.

 

You can wipe or wash your behind, or you can wear a nice suit and tie, a turban, a cap or any kind of religious clean cloths, those clean clothes are not the real gauge of you being spiritually clean.

The cleanliness is not from the out side, in spiritual terms if you wear the four jewels like compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice and love you are clean, without them regardless of the religion, nation race or ancestry, you can’t be spiritually clean.

If you wash regularly before the prayers, have a rosary in your hand and say God’s name all the time that still does not guarantee you, that you are clean at the soul level. That is the reason following just a religion alone can’t provide spiritual satisfaction to all. In order to reach in the spiritual world you have to personally understand the practical prayers, which means you don’t just pray to God by going to mosque, church or temple, you help and do God’s work like serving the humanity to feel deep happiness and satisfaction for yourself and spread what you feel inside.

The spiritual cleanliness of the soul has been talked about in all religions to a degree but some how the politics of the sense of belonging always manage to over power and rob the individual of his/her personal jewellery of compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice and love. Just look at the passionate religious wars and related spiritual crimes.

Spiritual cleanliness has the understanding and it believes that the whole humanity works like one individual body. The body has all different kind of functioning cells, yet they can’t function unless they all are working together for a living healthy body.

If you feel that you some how are better than others, spiritually you are going against the natural wisdom because human beings are the entity whom have to work together to create a healthy God. All human make the humanity and they are all contributing in God’s work to continue a functioning humanity or I should say God.

A brain or a heart cell just can’t claim that they are running the body because they too are dependent on the nutrients supplied by the colon cells, meaning if you believe you are better than other human beings you are full of it.

The word (Najes) comes to mind from my native language, our Mullahs use that word quite generously when they talk about the others whom are not clean. They believe before praying you have to be clean, yet I believe you can be a lover of God and say God’s name regardless of where you are whether physically clean or unclean. Just look at the birth, we all come from the najes yet it can be life saving new research says the baby born in natural ways gets exposed to the bacteria which builds the immune system thus saves life. This introduction to bacteria is essential for health, If you believe that certain religious practices are more important than life then we are at different pages of life. I believe religion is a thing which belongs to a full stomach and survival should take priority and supersede a belief system. There is a group of people in Christianity they don’t believe in blood transfusion, to me saving a life is like saving God himself because I believe or at least it makes sense to me that God and a ghost town has one thing in common and that is, that they both need human individual to be valuable physically clean or not. Sure we need to understand the importance of cleanliness but connecting it to strict rules from God is questionable.

My reasoning is that our religion started in the desert where water was not freely available so physical cleaning would be hard to achieve if not impossible. A mullah is using the words like najes to make the individual feel bad so he/she try harder to follow the strict rules of the religion. Just like the Christians have been told by their priests that you are all sinners regardless so they work hard to follow the rules.

Making the individual feel inferior and robing his/her self esteem is an old habit of the religions to control the individual. They want the individual to think that their belonging  religion is spiritually clean yet it is promoting prejudice and discrimination right from their educational foundation.

Personally I believe the real najes or the dirt of the modern day humanity is the prejudice, which is deeply ingrained in all human societies by all of us. Somehow we all believe we are better than others by being a part of religion, nation, race, gender or even in sports. It will take a lot of efforts to change and evolve for us to the next level. Where the individual becomes a CEO and crosses the lines of the sense of belonging, from the belonging groups to the humanity as a whole.

You can wash up all you want from the out side, and pray all you want, if you have any prejudice against any human being regardless of religion, race, gender or nation you are in reality a najes, so start cleaning yourself up first.

One individual at a time we can change the world, it already is happening all over the world. Equal human rights would compel all societies to change their constitutions, even religious leaders like pope has been speaking against the discrimination. I would like to see all religious leader come out and speak against the prejudice and discrimination even if they have to speak against their own belonging religions.

A religion should teach the spirituality which is the real understanding of humanity and equality, but it is strange that the closer to the religions you are more prejudice and discrimination you use. What gives? Ever wonder why this phenomenon still exists? Just look at our religious wars, passionate killings, burning even small kids alive and suicide bombings are clear sign of the spiritual crimes.

You pray, you feel the people whom don’t pray some how become inferior to you, you fast and brag about the sacrifice you are making for God, you give money to charity, you make sure others notice it. Instead of becoming humble you become arrogant with the religious knowledge, why is this common to be confrontational when it comes to the religions?

Is it because you are doing it to fit in, impress or be admired by the people around you, if that is the case, it is all about the sense of belonging, it has nothing to do with your personal spirituality.

In religions it is all about the heaven, hell, obedience and control. Just like the carrot and stick philosophy which is founded totally on the politics of control, yet in spirituality it is about the humanity and God boundless and free yet whole heartedly helpful.

You can dress up religiously, look and feel good and respectful but deep down inside of you there is the real person who knows about the reality of the front you put up. That real you can let you know about the right and wrong you do,  so connect with him/her honestly to understand that it is all about the humanity and God not about the sense of belonging to certain group of people.

Remember the right side up triangle where the man is on the top and the God and the Devil on the bottom. If you draw a straight line in the middle to divide equally, God is for your good side and the Devil is for your bad side. God can’t do any bad and the Devil can’t do good. The reality is that you can’t have one or the other because it is you, who has to choose the good, bad and judge to feel the benefits or harms.

They both are the sides of the man, and only the man can choose which side to pick. The man can choose to do some bad things in early or sometime in life yet do lots of good things in the same life time. It should be good enough as a proof for the sides of the individual to some but it may never be good enough to some.

The other reality is if the mankind is not there the good and bad disappears with mankind, so God and the Devil is on the shaky ground if the man start to lose ground.

God created man or man created God is not an argument it is the existence which is most important. I wrote  this as a reality a long time ago about the negative and positive wires you just can’t lite a bulb to with one unless it is a miracle and how often you see miracles happens.

Would you believe God’s work is done by the man and without the man it is called a miracle and how many miracles do you see at regular bases. If you believe God’s work is done by the man then you have to believe that Devil’s work is done by the man as well or you just have to  believe it is the man or a woman who just simple chooses his/her sides.

As I said before if you dig deeper every good action has a man’s hand behind it, so does the bad action.

If you say God did it, look at the person behind all the actions, you will always find the man or a woman. If you say Devil did it, simply look behind you will always find the man or woman.

If the big bomb falls and kills a lot of people, you can say that Devil did it, well think about it again, who made the big bomb and who decided to drop it. A Devilish act but committed by the  man.

The question is why God did not stop it? That is where the real problem starts, because it is not the God, it is the man’s good side could not control the bad side.

Why do you assume that God himself is a man and has feelings, just like you and me, ever wonder why we think that  way? why do we connect God with heaven and hell? What is the wisdom behind it.

Conventional wisdom says it is all about keeping a free willed man to be a subservient. Who will willingly sacrifice his/her life over something unknown and unclear. That is where  the religious knowledge becomes tricky. It becomes political and loses its spirituality, thus we have to start questioning.

My expectation of the man is to evolve to take charge and become a CEO, which I believe is a man’s destiny and responsibility at the same time.

You can put the expectations the way you want to, or if you have been taught by your ancestral knowledge, that God is good and the Devil is bad and man is a puppet. Well I believe man is the third equation thus is completely responsible to picking and choosing and changing his/her mind at different times in the same life time to be good and bad.

If the God and the Devil are the two sides of the man then only man can start or stop the good and bad individually. Believing good should happen all the times is wrong as well because if the bad never happens how would we know what good is? It is all about having the feelings to feel about the good and bad.

Only the man or a woman is capable of feeling not only personal emotional pain, man or a woman is spiritually ripened and can feel others or even other creatures pain as well. We all are capable of cleaning ourselves with or without the water so najes is our action which makes us buy into our belonging groups politics to look at others as najes.

Ironically bad happens all the time, we still discover the mass graves created by the recent history. Why can’t we learn and change? This question can only be answered when man learns about him/herself, understand emotions, revenge, eye for an eye, love loss to love robing philosophy and decides to use his/her CEO powers to choose the good Godly side and control the Devilish side of himself.

 

Imagine you take the kids shopping. They keep bugging you to buy them a toy, and since you’re in a good mood, you decide to buy them each a toy. They all want to open the toy boxes right in the store, but you say no. You tell them they can play with the toys when you get home.

You get in the car, and they still insist on playing with the toys, but you say no again. When you get home, you find out that you have company, so the toys go straight into the closet. The kids start playing with the visiting kids and forget about the new toys, just as you do.

A week or so passes, and you get a call from a charity asking for toy donations. You consider donating the toys but worry that the kids will be upset if they find out you gave the toys away before they could play with them.

God has blessed us all with gifts, and some of us put those gifts aside, hoping to enjoy them later. Life often gets in the way, and we keep postponing enjoyment, thinking we’ll have time on the weekend or when we retire. But sometimes, that time never comes.

As time passes, you receive a call from the doctor’s office, asking you to come in for further testing because they found something concerning. You leave the doctor’s office with bad news and sit in front of the TV, staring blankly at the gift you never got to enjoy. You feel like screaming and crying, just like those kids who never got to play with their toys.

A successful life must be fulfilling both intellectually and physically. If you focus only on intellect, managing finances while neglecting physical needs like food, sex, and love, you’re missing out on life’s essence.

Become the CEO of your own life, responsible for all its departments, not just finances. You can’t selectively fear and prioritize money alone. Remember, if you amass wealth but lose your health, you can’t enjoy what you’ve saved. Balance is essential in all aspects of life.

Since life is temporary, engaging in physical activities is actually an intellectual choice. Strive to find a balance between intellect and physicality.

Everyone has a life story, and how we respond to it determines our fate. You can obsess over control or accept the inevitable, knowing that our mortality is the ultimate truth. Don’t let the fear of external and internal problems consume you.

If you examine closely, you’ll see that your controlling nature often leads to psychological and spiritual issues. Instead of trying to control everything, accept the reality of mortality and adapt accordingly.

There’s nothing wrong with exercising healthy control. Man is the driver of their life, with God as a guide rather than a controller. We’re endowed with free will to evolve and realize our potential.

Believing that God controls everything can lead to passivity. Instead, acknowledge the power of individual decisions. Don’t succumb to religious manipulation that undermines personal agency.

Today, religious extremism perpetuates conflicts and denies individual freedom. We must empower the youth with education to transcend religious boundaries and embrace individual spirituality, connecting us all.

As individuals, we have a limited time on Earth and a responsibility to live fully, not merely exist. Reject the politics of belonging that hinder personal growth. Live by the philosophy of reciprocity, giving and taking in balance.

There has been an overwhelming number of comments, and several people have been asking me to write a little longer with a little more explanation and detail, so this one is for them. If you don’t like that much material, please keep in mind it is on the request from the other readers. If you would like me to write in detail about a certain subject, please write the title of the post, so in the future, I can write a sequel from the post.

Anyway, this is so far the best way of governing ourselves, and it’s called Democracy.

I am going to talk about this most desired governing system by the most educated people of the world. I will present it as it is. I don’t have any political favorites or dislikes in this matter. I believe it has its flaws and is not perfect. It can be used to divide people for political purposes just like religions or God. You still have to compare it with other systems to come to conclusions regarding the effectiveness. If I compare it with other systems, democracy protects human rights the best so far.

If you find your favorite to be something else like communism, socialism, Kingdoms, dictatorships, or religious governing systems, then I would agree to disagree, so I would expect the same from you because I am not arguing. I am simply trying to educate those who want to learn.

“One man, one woman, one vote” has become a thing of the past. Nowadays you have to make some changes according to the changes in society. Sexes and everything in-between have to be counted equally as well. As long as you pass the criteria of the genetics that you are a human being and at a certain age, you are one vote. That is the foundation of the modern democratic system.

If you want to have real meaningful democracy, you have to have the individual awareness of a CEO who can understand those voting rights first. You can’t just be voting democratically if you are influenced by the running person in any way, be it a relative, friend, or someone you just know. Especially, you can’t just vote because you have the same religion or have conservative ideology in modern-day civilization. You have to vote with the best-educated estimation.

Times have been changing and we have been evolving with human rights. At some time, they will clash with our old ideologies and would make it harder to govern societies. If you look around, that is what’s happening all over the world right now. This can only change when the ordinary Joe becomes educated enough to vote for the real purpose of voting. It is all about peaceful and comfortable living in a human community.

You bring democracy to the religiously torn countries, you will have the fundamentalists gain power from both sides, just like in the Israel and Philistine situation. If you can call that a democracy, it is your personal opinion. I would respectfully disagree because an educated individual should vote beyond the sense of belonging to a religion and just for security. The sense of belonging to humanity and human rights should be the priority. If we all can live peacefully in the Western countries regardless of our background, then there is no excuse for the people all over the world. My question is: If Israel were not a Jewish state, would Philistine matter?

When I was in Pakistan, 83% of the population lived in villages. Logically, with such a distribution, a truly successful democracy was improbable, as history shows. Each individual’s vote brings in the people in power who are influenced by religion. Introducing democracy would automatically create chaos because you can’t run the country on religion alone. Religions are and should be the path to spirituality exclusively. As a political governing system, religions fail to provide either, because politics and spirituality don’t mix very well. We have experienced more martial laws in Pakistan than democratic governance in 60 years, yet Pakistan was created by referendum. The chaos is an ongoing process because people don’t want to separate religion from the state.

If you look at religion spiritually, you don’t really need to play politics with it, but there has never been a time when God was not used for political purposes. Ironically, today’s wars among Muslims use God exclusively, with both sides chanting “God is great” before shooting or firing something to kill other Muslims. Poor God must be shaking his head in disgust.

These days, most civilized or developed countries are becoming melting pot societies because people are a lot more flexible and tolerant if educated. Mixing different races, nationalities, religions, or family backgrounds is common.

Today’s nations have to accommodate people from different backgrounds and protect their human rights. That itself is bringing a new set of problems because people seem to have sensitivity for and against discrimination, so the court systems have to catch up with fast social changes.

I believe human rights have to be on top of the agenda for every governing system because people seem to become defensive if they have been living a certain lifestyle for a while. When new people come in who don’t want to blend in or resist the changes from their previous lifestyle, conflicts can rise. Without the flexibility to accept and change, or in other words, evolving with the need of time, it is inevitable that clashes will take place; the level of education can dictate to what degree.

Looking at the language issue in Quebec, it’s clearly a sign of the politics of the sense of belonging. It has nothing to do with the identity of being Canadian. Most people in developed countries are generations of immigrants with ties to their previous countries, so regardless of the soft spot for new immigrants, discrimination arises. This discrimination is usually fear-based, which can be easily overcome if people think they are just part of humanity.

If you learn only one thing, that you belong to French, English, or any country you came from, these problems will always persist. Would you believe that this sense of belonging to a group holds you back or slows you down from reaching your potential individually and collectively?

There is a certain number of immigrants required to keep the workforce up and bring tax revenue, so immigration is a crucial part of the system. Some people feel they are just too good for certain jobs, so immigrants have to fill those jobs.

The problem is the sense of belonging, which is behind all kinds of discrimination.

One country can have provinces, territories, and languages, but the real connection is humanity. If your sense of belonging to your group is out of whack, you would be sensitive and fearful of losing your identity, but if your identity is humanity, you have no need to fear. Just like God and spirituality provide all the security without boundaries, religions and countries provide partial security with boundaries.

This language battle brings a story to mind from my childhood. I don’t remember the writer, so I would call it “Author unknown.” The fundamental idea of the story is the same, but I made some amendments to connect it to Canada.

I am going to call it Canada.

”There once was a king who had 13 kids. When he got sick, he called upon all his kids to come and see him. He told everyone to bring two sticks along. Everyone showed up, and they were told by him to pull one stick out and break it. Without a doubt, they all were able to do that. Then he told them to make a bundle with the rest of the sticks and try it again. Of course, no one, not even the strongest one, could break the bundle. So the old king told them to stick together like the sticks so no one can break you.”

Even though I gave the example of one nation, deep in my heart, my desire is that humanity can stick together so we can combat our issues like global poverty, hunger, health, security, even global warming and related issues as one humanity.

In melting pot societies, you can’t distinguish the identity of the individual. There is a mixture of black and white, brown, yellow, red, or even all-color kids. Religious and cultural mixtures have been going on for a very long time, so every identity is blurred, but one fact stands strong, and that is the individual spirituality for humanity.

Especially in mixed societies in this day and age, you just can’t govern in any other way without considering human rights because all groups discourage individual interaction.

It all boils down to how we identify human beings. If a person’s genetics make them different, they should not be discouraged, yet they are, and interestingly, efforts to discourage them have historically failed and continue to do so. If someone qualifies as a human being, their rights must be protected, meaning religion, race, or nationality should take a back seat. We must accept this reality and stop discriminating against individuals who had no choice in their creation process.

No one, not even a religion or nation, should have the right to discriminate against an individual who qualifies as a human being. As human beings, we should be able to vote for other human beings to govern us. While our political systems may vary, the purpose and desire to run the system remain the same. We aim to send our best to govern, and if they don’t do the job, we can replace them every four years. It’s a great system, only if it functions ideally.

However, when elected, members of parliament often find themselves as mere backbenchers, regardless of the number of votes they received. For example, an MP from a thinly populated area up north might receive far fewer votes compared to one from densely populated areas like Toronto. Thus, the number of votes can’t be accurately compared between urban and rural areas. An MP may receive a large number of votes but fail to achieve a high-ranking position due to political maneuvering. They may become a backbencher regardless of their vote count.

The successful political party forms a government with its brightest minds, regardless of their origin. This means that power lies in the hands of the party leadership. While most people vote based on a political party’s ideology, sometimes there are hidden agendas, and those ideologies may not truly believe in the democratic system. Their goal might be to gain power through politics. Once in power, they systematically diminish opposing groups through negative propaganda until they are marginalized.

All political parties should be transparent about their agendas and should be accountable to democratic values. In a democratic society, all parties should be legally bound to uphold democratic values and protect human rights. This ensures that when they come to power, they are compelled to follow these criteria. In societies with vast differences in thinking, party systems in a democratic society are essential.

The principle of majority rule is fundamental to democracy, but is it always upheld? In reality, our party system often undermines this principle. The number of votes doesn’t always matter; it’s about securing seats and positioning preferred individuals in power, regardless of their vote count. Politics often distorts these processes, and while no system is perfect, it’s our responsibility to make the best of what we have.

Democracy, flawed as it may be, is still better than dictatorship, communism, monarchy, or religious governance. Yet, what is deemed right or wrong can be subjective and sometimes undemocratic.

When political affairs require the brightest minds, the number of votes becomes irrelevant. One thoughtful individual can steer a ship full of emotionally charged individuals by anticipating future problems. However, a compassionate individual can also teach people to govern with empathy and emotional intelligence.

The key difference between running a business and running a country is that in governance, it’s the ruling party that can be ousted, not the other way around. Therefore, believing that a good businessman would make a good political leader is not necessarily true.

If we look further to international organizations like the United Nations, they should also be based on democratic values. However, the veto power held by powerful countries undermines this principle. It’s not about what’s right or wrong; it’s undemocratic.

When democratic systems claim to uphold democratic values but openly use undemocratic practices, it’s purely politics. It’s better to clean up these practices rather than deceive. While the affairs of democratic organizations may be overseen by their brightest minds, this doesn’t always equate to true democracy, especially when one vote per person isn’t a reality. In underdeveloped countries, large populations often don’t translate to democratic representation.

The members of the United Nations are diverse, including kingdoms, authoritarian dictatorships, and religious governments, alongside the veto system. Power isn’t necessarily related to democracy; it’s always been tied to politics. Politics isn’t inherently wrong; it’s just politics. It should be managed carefully by the brightest minds of humanity. Humanity has been evolving and will continue to do so until we reach our potential, so until then, no system is flawless.

In my opinion, anyone seeking political office should study political science and learn how to govern. No one should be allowed to hold office without the necessary education. If someone is wealthy, politics shouldn’t be seen as another adventure; it should be taken seriously, and education should be mandatory.

Compassion is crucial in governance; sheer logic isn’t enough because sometimes the numbers don’t add up. Democracy has its flaws, but it’s proven to be better than any other system mankind has tried. It will continue to improve as we evolve because it’s not limited like religious governance systems are.

Most religions focus on society as a whole but disrespect individual free thought or free will. They shun the strong-willed and attract the weak and vulnerable. Fear of God, death, punishment in the afterlife, and greed for heaven are used to control individuals.

Human rights, on the other hand, focus on individual freedom, free speech, and dignity. Throughout history, murderous regimes and dictators have used religions to gain power and control populations. Religious governance uses fear and promises of rewards to control individuals, leaving them damned whether they believe or not.

Religious institutions often amass vast wealth through monumental buildings and other costly endeavors, demonstrating the lucrative nature of religion. From architects to money laundering, signs of manipulation by the powerful are evident.

Ordinary people seek spirituality but often end up being manipulated by politics, making them vulnerable to exploitation. This is why individual awareness, dignity, and human rights are crucial; the individual is responsible for their life, yet society carries on beyond their life.

When the powerful manipulate governance systems, the importance of the individual is lost. The greater good becomes secondary to the politics of control and power. Whether it’s God or man calling the shots, the bottom line is the politics of control and power.

Democracy, with its one vote per person principle, has flaws. Sometimes, an individual with millions of votes becomes a backbencher, while someone from a remote area with fewer votes becomes a minister due to resource advantages. Thus, the principle of one vote per person is questionable and often falls short.

 

As we continue to evolve, our knowledge remains incomplete until we reach our full potential. Among us, there are many who passionately believe their knowledge is absolute. This egotistical phenomenon has persisted as long as we’ve been conscious of our existence. Despite learning something new almost every day, we still cling to the belief that we’re right about whatever we hold dear.

Can anyone truly claim to possess complete knowledge? Personally, I feel far from perfect or complete in my knowledge because I’m constantly learning. I prefer to carry a basket of the unknown so I don’t become egotistical about what I know. However, I do hold some strong convictions. I believe it’s vital for all human beings to grasp that we are continuously evolving entities. Until we realize our full potential, our knowledge will never be complete, and with incomplete knowledge, one should not become an extremist. As individuals, we are not mere followers; we are the CEOs of our lives, thus responsible for our actions.

Passionate convictions can lead to extremism, especially when proven wrong. For example, contemporary debates over sexual liberation often revolve around the issue of equal human rights. Even the Supreme Court may find itself divided on such matters, highlighting the changes our world is undergoing.

Rights once considered acceptable can become wrong, and wrongs may become rights. Practices like human sacrifice, sati, killings over religious differences, racism, sexual inequality, and human rights violations have undergone such transformations over time.

If asked about fundamentalism, many would point to religious extremists. However, upon deeper reflection, one might find that atheists can also be fundamentalists. It’s the fervor one invests in their belief system that defines fundamentalism, regardless of the issue at hand. While religious fundamentalists have the right to believe in their path to God, actions like extremist violence cross a moral boundary, negating any claim to spirituality.

Fundamentalists often believe their knowledge is superior and seek to impose their beliefs on others. This inherently creates a political situation where spirituality is overshadowed. In a truly spiritual world, nothing but the truth should prevail.

Humanity’s constant evolution renders it impossible for anyone to claim complete knowledge. Denying someone their human rights leads to racism, religious extremism, and prejudice.

Fundamentalism arises from the belief that one’s knowledge is absolute, for or against any subject. It’s crucial to recognize the changes humanity has undergone and is experiencing.

Our understanding of God, religion, and spirituality varies widely. Instead of imposing our beliefs on others, we should learn to agree to disagree, fostering mutual respect.

Education systems must be reconsidered if we truly desire world peace. Inner peace, achieved through individual reflection and acceptance, lays the foundation for global harmony.

Humanity’s strength lies in unity, just as a family’s strength lies in tolerance and understanding. We must transcend our differences to protect our collective future.

By educating individuals to embrace diversity and reject dominance, we can transform nations and religions. The individual is the cornerstone of humanity, and their well-being should be our top priority.

Every progress, especially regarding social changes, comes with a price. Conservatives, who are comfortable with the status quo, resist change. We see every group, from race to sexual identity, having to fight for humanity to reach a point where human rights override and prevail over all our traditions and customs to become common-sense law.

Humanity has been, is, and will be going through changes as we evolve. Some people still don’t believe that humans are evolving entities. Sure, we don’t grow horns or wings, but we’ve been changing and evolving in every department of human knowledge you can think of, except for religion, of course.

Religious people are typically against change because they desire us to be frozen in the era of the prophets. If you look at countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India, populations in villages live and dress as they did in ancient times. I don’t believe poverty is a legitimate excuse; they have honor, pride, and ego ingrained by their respective religions. Religious education does not allow them to adapt with the times, so they still fight over even the simplest things, like food. One group worships the cow while the other kills and eats it. These differences are deeply ingrained and fiercely defended by the populations, yet they share the same society.

Interestingly, here in the midst of Western civilizations, we have religious communities who are similar to those people. While there may not be news of fighting, the differences persist. A few years ago, there was significant news when about four hundred children were apprehended by authorities, only to be returned to their religious communities. Some still believe in having multiple wives and dozens of children right in the heart of North America. Why?

After all the progress of civilization, why do we still have such vast differences in our belief systems? If you look deeper, it’s all about following religious rules and the sense of belonging. Another commonality in these communities is the attempt to block modern education; some even prohibit children from watching television. Despite this, I believe we must remove and grow out of the real culprit behind all this: prejudice.

I believe in individual liberties. Since we are all mortal, we can’t claim that what we believe is right should be imposed on others. It’s fine as long as it’s based on the principle of not doing to others what you wouldn’t want done to you. If you have multiple wives and dozens of children and can provide for them happily, it’s your human right to live however and wherever you please. However, when you start feeling superior to others, that’s where the problem arises.

For example, Native children were taken away from their communities to be indoctrinated by religious people, leaving a mark so deep that the Prime Minister had to apologize for the mistreatment of natives. Now, people want the Pope to apologize as well. Again, the principle applies: don’t do to others what you wouldn’t want done to you. Your incomplete knowledge is not necessarily superior, so don’t enforce your belief system; it becomes a political system and loses its spiritual aspect.

A democratic society calls for the majority to create rules and control, but I believe this is a flaw of the democratic system as well. If someone is happily living their way of life, we should not have the power to strip them of their human rights. Prejudice isn’t just about not liking each other; it’s believing that you are better than others.

*Regardless of my criticism of religious rules, I still believe that if you are going to offer people a system of living like democracy, you have a duty to give them something better than what they have. I won’t delve into statistics because I don’t have them, but I firmly believe that if we are promoting something to sell to people, it should be an improvement over their current situation. For example, if you want to promote monogamous marriage to people accustomed to polygamy, you must demonstrate the net benefit to individuals who adopt the one spouse per person system.

If you have a system riddled with problems and a high divorce rate, and you try to impose it on people who have lower divorce rates and fewer problems, you can’t argue that your system is superior. The same goes for exporting democracy to countries with lower education levels; they may struggle to sustain a democratic system when easily swayed by political rhetoric.

Governing a nation with a less educated populace, unaware of their rights, is a dirty business. It not only tarnishes democracy but can also incite chaos, as seen worldwide. The best way to address this issue is to spread knowledge among individuals so they can make better-informed voting decisions. The stronger the individual, the better they can discern the politics hidden behind religious authority.

The purpose of religious education or knowledge of God is to help humans evolve from animalistic behavior, promoting values like love, compassion, sacrifice, and forgiveness. However, I see prejudice being promoted by every religion, and even democracies, so I speak out against it.

One cannot claim superiority simply by belonging to a certain organization; personal character determines one’s worth. If you believe you’ll go to heaven just because you’re Muslim, Christian, or belong to any religion, and everyone else will go to hell, you need to evolve as an individual to grasp the true spiritual aspect of religion.

Just look at history and even today, how religious people incite violence and killing over religious differences. They disregard individual suffering, using the hope of an afterlife to further their political agendas. Spirituality has been trampled by a sense of belonging, whether to religions or empires.

Fortunately, in North America, individuals can leave their religious communities to join modern lifestyles due to human rights and individual freedom. In other places, it’s not that simple; leaving could result in ostracism or even death by conservative societies. Consider the staggering number of people who died trying to flee war-torn countries for Europe; all they seek is a normal life and peace for their children.

Today, human rights, equality, and freedom of speech are spreading like a new religion. Just like every religion or governing system faces challenges initially, we’re going through a tumultuous period. Like other changes, this will take its toll. We’ll overcome this rough time, but it might worsen before improving. I don’t make predictions like religious books, but I believe in humanity. I believe, as individuals, we all have common decency and will overcome our animalistic behaviors.

Ironically, individual freedom, feared by all groups, will connect humanity and dissolve the “us vs. them” concept, eroding group politics, religions, and nationalism. The formation of the European Zone and common currency is a modern-day phase of the changes humanity is undergoing. Countries like Greece may face tough times, but eventually, things will stabilize.

The major problem is our wars, which drain our economies. Wars cost lives and cannot be sustained without consequences. Look at the price tag of the Iraq war. Between the insecurity of war and individuals stashing money away for security, little is left to circulate, leading to lasting side effects that harm humanity.

Regardless, I believe we must stand on the right side of change. Objecting to unstoppable changes always leads to opposition to human rights, as seen in religions and governments overseas. I believe they are gradually becoming obsolete.

Conservatives will resist until the vast majority turns against them. Just as democracy, gender equality, human rights, and freedom of speech triumphed over imperialism, racism, and prejudice, religious prejudice and national superiority will be engulfed by individual awakening.

For now, individuals are confused due to their sense of belonging to their respective groups, but not for long. Eventually, we’ll realize that real security lies in standing together as humanity. Regional, provincial, or federal governing systems will still play a role, but there’s a change uniting people worldwide as humanity.

Our problems point to the solidarity of humanity: climate change, the internet, space exploration, and open education. These are ingredients for bringing humanity together. Will I witness this in my lifetime? Maybe, maybe not, but I can hope. For now, nationalism and religions resist individual freedom, but they also oppose each other, fermenting change.

Once, there were tribes; then nationalism arose, followed by religions spilling over national borders. Now, the same awareness crosses race, religion, and nationalism, uniting people of all colors under the banner of humanity.

Authoritarianism is being challenged by democratic schools of thought globally, indicating humanity’s desire to empower individuals and seek justice for all, which are human rights.

All wars, past and present, have underlying causes, and one of them is individual freedom. Personal insecurities keep individuals confused and fearful, feeding into a sense of belonging to certain groups.

As time evolves us, we’ll learn that we all bleed if cut, hunger when hungry, get sick physically, hurt emotionally, and seek revenge for loved ones killed. We’re all human, still evolving, far from being finished products.

As we learn more about the politics of our groups, we’ll stand together as humanity. Look at education today; Western societies promote individual strength for success in all areas of life, worldwide. Yet, we haven’t solved our democracy-related problems.

Sooner or later, we’ll realize the problems and their side effects. One side effect is strained relationships everywhere, but as a society, we won’t collapse. We’re creating universal healthcare systems and support for the elderly.

As basic education levels rise, we’ll see when we’re being used or exploited by our political leaders, making governance increasingly challenging. This awareness will lead us to belong to humanity, changing the concept of “us vs. them.”

How will we deal with all the changes? Just as we’ve done before. We’re not perfect where we are today; it’s not the destination yet, so we must embrace change. Change has always been part of human societies; we can’t hide from it. The trick is knowing which side to stand on. If you’re educated, it won’t be hard to decide; if you’re not, you might be swayed by popular trends, even if they’re based on prejudice.

 

A few years ago, I visited my mother shortly after my father passed away. One evening, we had a conversation that touched on a sensitive topic. Growing up, I had observed my mother blaming my dad for everything that went wrong in her life. Despite this, he endured, and our family remained intact. As our discussion unfolded, I pointed out that despite praying five times a day and fasting yearly, she never truly, deeply, and I mean genuinely believed in God. This revelation shocked her. I explained that my father was just a man, and she blamed him for all her problems. I asked her if she ever considered whether her life story attracted those problems, rather than causing them. This wasn’t what she expected; I wasn’t suggesting blind faith but rather a profound, transformative belief in God. She began to cry, seemingly overwhelmed by guilt or a newfound realization.

For some people, life seems controllable. I don’t dispute the influence we wield, but control is another matter entirely. Seeking control can become habitual, leading individuals to extremes and causing them to forget their mortality. Trying to control everything, even the uncontrollable, sets one on a path that robs them of happiness. Despite all the blessings one may have, they can remain unhappy throughout their life.

I find it peculiar that the closer people are to religion, the more controlling they become. It should be the opposite; a belief system should ease life’s burdens by fostering trust in God.

Certainly, you have agency in your life, but if you choose to exercise it, it should be to live a life of health, happiness, and success. If you’re writing your own story, aim to create inner peace and enjoy the journey because it’s temporary.

Imagine going on vacation to a hotspot; you wouldn’t want the worries and stresses of everyday life to follow you. This short journey will end, regardless of how you write your life story.

If you’re stressed, depressed, or anxious, look closely; you may have what I call a “pit problem.” Constant fear depletes nutrients, leading to physiological symptoms. I believe that by giving spirituality a chance to address the root cause, you may rise above physical ailments.

The awareness of mortality breeds a fear of death, which fuels the desire for control. These twin fears wreak havoc on individuals. Life and death are undeniable facts; there’s no need to fear them. Our expectations spiral out of control, leading to self-imposed deprivations and anxieties.

A CEO understands that life is temporary and shouldn’t be micromanaged. Instead, they control behaviors that rob happiness. If you were the CEO of your life, would you recognize what’s truly beneficial? The question is, are you allowing space for serenity to help you create happiness in your mortal life? (Melody of life)

On a sheet of music, notes alternate with empty spaces. Music emerges from both; without notes, there’s silence, and without empty spaces, there’s constant noise. Neither extreme is suitable for human beings, especially concerning free will.

While meditation can benefit stressed individuals by quieting the mind, it doesn’t solve all our problems. Total silence or becoming a monk can hinder our evolution. Instead, use meditation to center yourself, but continue pursuing growth. Speak when it’s your turn and learn to stay silent when necessary.

Each individual must compose a rhythmic melody of life. Complete silence may hold a spiritual essence, but it doesn’t fulfill us physically like human beings. So, we each write our own music and must use our free will to create a melodious harmony.

If you spend hours beating a drum vigorously, you’ll exhaust yourself and exhibit symptoms of burnout, much like many modern individuals without faith. Find spiritual faith, whether in religion or elsewhere, as long as you don’t believe it makes you superior. Religious prejudice is the cause of many wars. Becoming a CEO can help you understand the spiritual aspects of religions, as well as the political.

We carry memories, but dwelling on past wrongs harms us. Remaining bitter is unjust to oneself and doesn’t create a fulfilling life. The enjoyment of life’s music and the adverse effects of noise are both for us alone.

You must devise a strategy to live a better life, so you don’t carry burdens constantly. This is no easy task for controllers, so learn to be a CEO; it’ll help you discern what’s best for your well-being.

You aren’t solely responsible for your success; you can’t survive without oxygen. Your physiology depends on oxygen to function. Without it, you’re essentially lifeless. Therefore, don’t boast; be humble before your time runs out. Connect with the source and contribute to humanity however you can. It’s not about belonging to religions; it’s about personal spirituality. Your true connection to the source is reflected in your character and practical aid to humanity, not just prayers, fasting, or loyalty to groups.

When you believe in God but blame someone else for your problems, it’s often due to expectations. Whether from yourself, a spouse, partner, or God, these expectations stem from a desire for control. But life isn’t that simple; otherwise, we wouldn’t seek solutions to our problems. God wouldn’t be there to lend a hand, and free will and potential would be meaningless.

In tough times, we become resourceful and build rafts to help ourselves individually and bridges collectively. When something happens, it challenges us to take charge of our lives.

No job, spouse, or religion is worth sacrificing your happiness for; life is temporary. Like a vacation, you don’t want to ruin it by losing your happiness. Being a CEO means not sacrificing your company’s most valuable asset due to misplaced blame.

Each job loss or breakup builds walls higher until you’re trapped within self-imposed boundaries. Ultimately, no individual, group, or even God should have the power to make your life miserable. Fix your belief system and take responsibility for your happiness.

Remember the triangle of health, happiness, and success. Without spiritual, physical, or emotional health, happiness is unattainable. And without health and happiness, there’s no success in life, regardless of how you define it.