I want to clarify one thing before I begin. I do not support arguing over religious beliefs, but I firmly stand for justice and equal human rights. I believe our belief systems exist to spiritually fulfill individual needs, not to serve the political agendas of groups. If you are content and spiritually fulfilled with the religion you were born into, that’s commendable. However, if you believe your knowledge is definitive, this read is especially for you—particularly if your affiliation is doing more than providing spiritual fulfillment. If your clique, political party, religion, or nation is leading you towards becoming a prejudiced and discriminatory individual, you must grasp this triangle before committing any spiritual transgressions for your group.
Any nation or religion struggling to grant equal human rights to its citizens, whether due to religious beliefs, skin color, or gender, needs to comprehend this triangle. We must all prioritize spiritual justice at the apex to succeed in our mortal lives. Understanding this triangle can genuinely enlighten us about what justice truly entails. It’s not the fault of individuals for being born a certain color, gender, nationality, or into a specific belief system—they are innocent of what they are being punished for. Punishing an innocent person is a universal spiritual crime. Therefore, if you choose to punish someone, especially for their religious beliefs, you are not only guilty of a crime against that innocent individual but also against God. After all, they were born according to God’s will, yet you were blinded by the politics of belonging to the extent that you, personally and collectively, failed to see it. Committing a spiritual crime against an innocent individual is a grave offense in itself, but implicating God elevates it to a higher level. An individual may become prejudiced or discriminatory due to negative personal experiences, but as groups, nations, and religions, we should all feel ashamed to be unjust, especially towards the innocent.
I believe in individual strength and personal accountability. No one should surrender their human identity to their group affiliations. It’s a fact that groups indoctrinate their followers from a young age, to the extent that even as adults, they struggle to take responsibility for their actions. As human beings, we are constantly evolving entities, which means all our knowledge, including what I am writing here, is subject to change and evolution. Thus, engaging in conflicts over who is right, despite our ongoing evolution, logically hasn’t been right, isn’t right now, and never will be right. This blog post aims to explain why prejudice and discrimination still persist in humanity and why achieving equal human rights remains elusive.
THE BEST DEFENSE AGAINST PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION IS TO ADVOCATE FOR INDIVIDUAL EQUAL HUMAN RIGHTS. DEMANDING GROUP RIGHTS IN ITSELF IS PREJUDICIAL AND DISCRIMINATORY.
Spiritual Sense of Justice
Individual Group or Mass
This triangle provides insight into achieving foundational knowledge of equal human rights as intended. Equal human rights are not just crucial for individual balance but also for understanding collective equilibrium. First and foremost, it’s important to acknowledge that a human individual is the central figure in the entire narrative, despite the political rhetoric suggesting otherwise.
Whether it’s a group, community, nation, or religious belief system, they all regard the individual as fundamental to their essence or as a thread in their fabric. Without living, breathing individuals contributing physically to all kinds of groups, the life-giving essence of entities like God, the Devil, groups, nations, or religions can be extinguished. They all lose their significance or even their existence without the active participation of living human beings. To me, this makes the individual the most pivotal aspect of all human-related scenarios, whether political or related to belief systems. All these entities depend on the physical contributions of individuals to be acknowledged as tangible entities.
As you can see, I have placed spiritual sense of justice at the pinnacle, with individual and mass at the base—this represents the correct orientation of this subject. Placing justice at the bottom, with individual and mass at the top, turns it all into a political issue, giving rise to prejudice and discriminatory behaviors. Regrettably, even religions that preach spirituality have failed to prioritize justice at the apex, thereby reducing themselves to mere political entities. They propagated that God was solely for their group, not for everyone. To me, politics couldn’t be clearer than this. Not only did they become political, but they preached prejudice and practiced discrimination openly. This is why they currently face such challenges from the global spread of this new religion of equal human rights, which is spreading like wildfire. If you scrutinize the opposition standing in its way, you’ll find religions and conservative nationalism are increasingly becoming the minority.
When justice and politics are intermixed, with individual and mass placed at the top corners of this triangle, spiritual justice, particularly, loses its significance, and society begins to suffer in various ways. As I often say, just as spirituality and politics cannot be blended, neither can justice and politics. Hence, when religions incorporate politics into their belief systems, or when a nation merges politics into its justice system, spirituality is compromised, leaving them devoid of their true purpose.
When you live in a world with nearly two hundred justice systems, it is impossible to find one that can serve humanity as a whole without any prejudice and discrimination. You simply can’t remove politics from these exclusive justice systems, especially if you don’t question them and continue living within them as if they represent the best knowledge humanity can offer, leaving no room for evolution. This is why, even in this era of equal human rights, humanity still suffers from prejudice and discrimination. If you look at our international organizations like the United Nations, which grants veto power to certain nations, it automatically becomes a prejudiced organization, making equal human rights an unattainable dream. If you have an international court that nations can opt out of joining, it cannot be a real court nor deliver real justice. If you can’t evolve beyond your group politics and prioritize justice, you simply cannot achieve equal human rights for all individuals worldwide. This means prejudice and discrimination-related killings will persist for future generations to contend with.
No matter how loudly humanity calls for us to work together, if the politics of group belonging are foundational to our constitutions and religious beliefs, we cannot bring true and spiritual justice to all. If the United Nations, the International Court, or other international organizations are unsuccessful, it’s because they habitually sweep issues under the political rug. Calls to work together against climate extremes, global warming, internet crimes, or to bring equal human rights to all individuals are not being heard because, individually and collectively, we do not or cannot prioritize justice.
I personally believe the politics of group belonging is an individual issue, so if you bring it down to the individual level, things can change. As groups, we have not, are not, and will not bring the necessary changes to combat global problems due to our political interests. Humanity cannot achieve equal human rights because, as groups, we would lose the political power that makes us relevant, so we resist. If you bring it down to the individual level, things can drastically change, especially if the individual becomes a CEO. By individually putting spiritual justice at the top, we can remove politics from justice, one person at a time. An individual can start the change from within by granting equal human rights to others and receiving the same for themselves. As reasonably evolved human beings, it can be easy to accept others as equals, and we would not do to others what we don’t want done to ourselves or our loved ones. When an individual loses personal identity, we see ourselves as part of a group, and as groups, politics can take over everything, including our decency and human identity.
Sure, a personal sense of spiritual justice doesn’t grow on trees, but each of us brings it from before birth. It just needs to be nurtured individually, but our groups systematically dismantle it by politically brainwashing us from the start. Our installed data becomes more important to us than ourselves, causing us to lose our personal sense of justice, relevance, importance, and self-esteem all at once. By losing personal identity, we become puppets for our groups, yet with pride. In my triangle philosophy, the individual is not only the third component with God and the Devil. According to spiritual justice, we are all equal to our groups, nations, and religions. By losing our individuality, we become mere fuel for our group disputes. You can’t regain your CEO status if you don’t even want it. If you want to remove prejudice and discrimination from your life, you must first take charge of your life. Nurture your personal sense of justice to the point where you can prioritize it for yourself. Then you will be able to see the group politics hidden behind your nationalism and religious beliefs. Unless you assume and assert your inherent CEO status, finding individual importance within the ocean of politics is not easy, especially among your politically powerful groups, God, and the Devil.
In a nutshell, justice starts and ends with the individual. Remember, don’t do to anyone what you don’t want done to you or your loved ones. You can only achieve that level of spirituality by taking charge of your life beyond your political affiliations. Being a CEO helps you to put everything and everyone, even your group, God, and the Devil, as departments of your life. You can’t run the show without accepting your real identity, so do justice to yourself first before seeking equal justice for all.
Sure, God, the Devil, nations, and religions are big and strong, but you need to discover what is behind their strength. Dig in a little, but logically, and guess who shows up? Yes, it’s you, the human individual. A living, breathing human being who lends physical hands, backs, and shoulders to make these entities strong. In reality, the human individual is the main character in this whole spiritual picture, making everything a physical reality; otherwise, it’s just a mirage, like what lies beyond the cliff of belief systems. If you give yourself up, it’s your choice, but always remember you are the life and blood of all the above, including yourself. If you don’t do justice to yourself, it’s your choice, but don’t forget to recognize the politics behind the brainwashing you received in your tender years as the cause of your weakness.
In reality, you are the vehicle carrying all the entities like God, the Devil, nations, and your religious beliefs within you. It’s not the space or the ocean itself but the knowledge of them all. What is more important to you? God, the Devil, your group, nation, religion, space, ocean, and all that you know, or yourself as a mortal being on a temporary visit? Hypothetically, take yourself out of the equation and see what happens to all that you know. Now ask yourself about your importance, honestly. Your answer won’t come from somewhere out there but from within you. Think about it for a while, then assess the value of everything you consider important during your temporary visit. I don’t want you to become a selfish entity because that makes you incomplete; instead, learn to create balance so you consider yourself a relevant and important being with self-esteem.
Now, let’s look at ourselves as individuals with general knowledge but from a different perspective. Sure, we are born to our parents and communities, but we bring along much more than we are taught to believe. Just look at yourself and ask why we have all these abilities and what we are literally capable of. Before diving in too deeply, let’s simplify some things. Generally, we have two eyes, ears, a nose, and so on. Sure, we look different in colors, shapes, and sizes, but we all function exactly the same way. We are born, need oxygen, food, water, and love, and hurt from the same things. We eat, sleep, get old, sick, and die the same way. So far, everything is the same, but what happens to us with the political knowledge of our groups? It can draw a different picture for everyone. Why? Don’t you want to know your personal answers without political influences?
Since we are social creatures, we individually and collectively need to understand much more about ourselves individually before engaging in any relationships of life. From family and friendship to community to nation and belief systems related to God and the Devil, to individual understanding for self. Our personal powers, like free will and the ability to function independently, should be critically examined by us individually. As mortal individuals, it is essential to create balance rather than blindly following what is advised and popular according to group politics. When you look at the relationship between the individual and the community, with spirituality as the foundation, you can easily see reciprocation in action. Reciprocation is an act of give and take that goes both ways, so ideally, this triangle should help understand it all. Relationships with parents, family, community, nation, and religions, even God, all depend on the philosophy of give and take. So how can you overcome personal and individual insecurities to create this crucial balance without becoming a CEO? If you are insecure, you will be inclined to take, take, and take because you want to secure yourself. Unfortunately, with the knowledge of a CEO, anyone can understand that for us mortals, there is no logical security; otherwise, we would be trying to overcome our mortality first.
Regardless of all the ego, pride, and honor, we should simply look at our mortal nature and keep it at the forefront to be honest with ourselves. By doing so, you can learn to give and take equally yet gladly. How would you know that you can’t just take and take? Interestingly, we all come with our human nature, which includes a built-in spiritual side as an atom of autonomy, along with other traits that dictate the need for compassion, love, justice, and sacrifice. Understanding your spiritual side will lead you to your inherent personal sense of spiritual justice.
Spiritual justice is pure and should transcend all forms of political affiliations and concepts of freedom. If you believe in taking, taking, and taking, you are leaning towards the extreme of individualism. Being selfish is not, and should not be, a trait of a decently evolved human being. As humans, we feel deep spiritual happiness when we are useful to others and genuinely enjoy giving, even when it results in a net loss for us. However, if you constantly give, give, and give, you fall into another extreme, neglecting the balance necessary for spiritual justice to be at the apex of your life’s priorities.
No matter what you have been taught, either extreme is detrimental, especially for a mortal being. Given our mortality and free will, choosing either extreme is unwise. If you belong to a group that promotes constant giving, you will be influenced by the politics of that group and serve the collective. This often leads to unfulfilled expectations from the group, resulting in unhappiness, even though you sought deep spiritual satisfaction from your actions. If you give solely for God, remember not to neglect yourself, as you are also responsible for your own well-being. God might question whether you used your free will wisely.
On the other hand, if you live by the principle of taking, taking, and taking, you will not be happy when required to pay your fair share, such as taxes and fees. The issue is not how you live or what you have but your spiritual fulfillment during your temporary existence. If you lack spiritual fulfillment, you need to examine the reasons, with extremism being one of them. While prioritizing others and God can be noble, you must find a middle ground to achieve personal meaning and happiness.
We need to view ourselves as equal entities, whether as individuals, corporations, communities, nations, or religious organizations. All should be treated equally. Remember, politics and spirituality do not mix, just as justice and politics cannot mix. When they do, spirituality is compromised, and belief systems and justice systems become prejudicial and discriminatory. This is why the statue of Lady Justice is blindfolded.
The Essence of Equal Human Rights
Real equal human rights mean that an individual is not only equal to each other but also collectively equal to all human organizations, nations, and religions, as justice should be blind. Equal justice stems from our spiritual nature, but the undermining power of the masses cannot be ignored. Historically, humanity has often sacrificed individuals for the masses. Unlearning this tendency is a challenge for both individuals and societies. Consider the injustices committed by the masses, not only against individuals but also in the name of God, politicizing the divine.
Where do you personally place God in your life? How much do political influences affect your thoughts? Can you stand up against your group if it uses God for political reasons? As a human individual, you possess a personal sense of spiritual justice. By maintaining this balance, you can navigate life’s complexities like a natural CEO. Your mortality should remind you of the importance of spiritual justice. Ignoring it can create internal conflicts, risking your happiness and contentment.
The masses have always preached individual sacrifice, but if the masses continually take, it is not just. This triangle of balance and reciprocation is essential. Whether between individuals, corporations, nations, religions, or God, everything should be founded on and balanced by spiritual justice.
The Balance Between Individual and Collective
Consider socialism, which, despite appearing great on the surface, prioritizes the masses over individuals, potentially going too far against individual liberation. Religions share similarities with socialism, both sometimes opposing individual freedom. Conversely, total individual freedom can lead to societal chaos due to individual insecurities. The disparity between the 1% and the 99% is a result of individual insecurities.
Balanced and equal justice for all inclines individuals to reciprocate, as it is based on equal spiritual justice. Without spiritual justice, individuals and the masses may rob each other by resorting to extremes. Law and order without a justice system are impotent. Individuals must contribute fairly while ensuring the system remains just, fostering balance and peace.
Taxes, often viewed politically, should be seen through the lens of spirituality. A spiritual perspective on taxes promotes the understanding of reciprocity and the purpose of life.
The Circle of Life and Reciprocal Relationships
From birth, we rely on others. As we grow, we care for the vulnerable, continuing the circle of life. If everyone viewed reciprocity as life’s purpose, societal harmony would be easier to achieve. The philosophy of taking without giving harms relationships, whether with a mate, family, friends, or community. Extremes of giving or taking are detrimental to social creatures. Decency and social nature are vital; balance is essential for a meaningful life.
Financial security is important, but so is social compassion. Inner peace and harmony with your autonomy’s atom are keys to a fulfilling life.
The Role of Spiritual Justice
When people lose their sense of spiritual justice, they lose their humanity. Placing oneself above others, or belonging groups without spiritual justice, reduces one to a mere creature lacking spiritual awareness. Nurturing our spiritual side strengthens us as individuals and brings inner peace.
Becoming responsible and taking charge of your life means not succumbing to the politics of your belonging groups. Balance, created by spiritual justice, leads to a successful mortal life. Without spiritual justice, life leads to prejudice and discrimination, making equal human rights unattainable. Spiritual justice fosters empathy and eradicates prejudice and discrimination.
The Importance of Individual Responses
Regardless of your knowledge base, remember that your responses to it matter more than the knowledge itself. Responses under the pressures and political influences of belonging groups are personal.
Influenced responses are signs of individual insecurity and spiritual deficiency. Our sense of freedom should be as strong as our sense of belonging to create balance and avoid extreme choices.
Understanding your strength can save you from self-inflicted pain caused by political influences. You are not the data installed in you; you are the one running the show. Avoid spiritual crimes in the name of your belonging group. Your actions can harm others and yourself. Learn from war veterans’ experiences and recognize that your installed knowledge can hurt you.
As a responsible adult, reevaluate everything and become what God intended—a CEO of your life, knowing it is your responses to knowledge that define you.
For instance, if a father tells his son that he will be a loser for the rest of his life, the son’s response can go in entirely different directions. He might become determined to prove his father wrong, or he might accept it as the truth because it comes from an authority figure. How the son responds is highly personal and individual. If he chooses to prove his father wrong, it is a response that comes deeply from his heart. Our knowledge has the power to cut both ways, so choose wisely, as we can be hurt by our own choices. Especially when we are torn by the powerful sense of belonging and the equally powerful sense of freedom from within. That is why it is important to be the CEO of our life so we can not only understand these pulls but have the power to create balance.
If you find yourself blaming either yourself or another individual for the shortcomings in your life, and you claim to believe in God, there is a contradiction in your belief. Either you believe in God’s will or you don’t. Blaming God may reduce your stress, but blaming yourself and others shows confusion. Clearing things up for yourself is easy but also the most difficult thing to do because it involves questioning your personal belief system. It is a common disconnect in belief systems yet difficult to address because of our ingrained beliefs. This confusion doesn’t help reduce stress or bring comfort; it makes one’s personal belief system questionable because you can’t speak from both sides of your mouth. Either you believe in God and God’s influence in your everyday life, or you don’t. You need to be clear for yourself, especially in your deeply personal belief system, because having faith can help you live a calm and peaceful life. God’s existence is highly dependent on the individual’s belief system. As individuals, we all need to carry on living with some hope and optimism, especially given our awareness of mortality. Otherwise, a lack of belief has the potential to drain the life out of our already temporary existence. This is where understanding the importance of spiritual knowledge comes in, as our hope and optimism can turn our tears into valuable pearls, whereas a lack of spirituality reduces them to mere drops of water. This means you can benefit from your belief system or waste it all, regardless of being a regular mosque or church-goer.
There is no doubt that larger issues matter to us human beings, but our mortality and personal free will tell us to become the CEO of our life so we can balance our life when making decisions. If you become a CEO, you will understand how important it is to take charge. You simply can’t afford to lose focus on yourself as a temporary being. Your personal happiness and contentment should top the chart of your life. If you desire to understand yourself better, it is a sign of being a CEO. If you think about the consequences of your actions, it indicates your spiritual side is intact. Whatever makes you think about that also makes you a responsible being. This is your key to living comfortably within a mortal skin, regardless of the realities you face in your everyday life.
If you find yourself arguing passionately about things beyond your lifetime, such as politics, religion, or God, ensure you don’t stress yourself to the point of losing your precious relationships. Your family, friends, and personal health and happiness mean more than you are taught to believe. Stress and related illnesses can be prevented by making the right choices. Remember, it is your responsibility to protect yourself from your emotional politics and even from yourself. Whether it is science, nationalism, or religious belief systems, they all fall into the larger issues, but fortunately, you are the CEO of everything, so if any of them cause you stress, keep this in mind.
Science-leaning societies may excel in technology and medicine but may end up with social problems. A lack of spirituality among their citizens can rob them of fulfillment. Most advanced nations lack balance between their social problems and their advances in other areas of life. The lack of spirituality is quite pronounced, from divorce rates to bad relationships and lack of trust, which can be connected to the unwritten education we receive written between the lines. If science and numbers are your ultimate education, you can’t learn anything about compassion, nor can you quantify love. You can’t understand why helping others feels good because you would count that help as a net personal loss.
When we talk about Mother Nature or Father Time, we assume and label them as if we know all about them. First of all, who are we to assume their sex if we don’t even know them? If we don’t know them, why do we need to have an opinion about them? From religion to medicine and everything in between, this human arrogance of knowing everything is present throughout history. Even today, it is one of the biggest causes of the problems humanity faces, and there is no way to quantify the death toll due to this egotistic behavior. Yet, in the same breath, I acknowledge the benefits of our progress and evolution, which come from our competitive nature, so the key is to evolve continuously.
I am, however, advocating for having a metaphoric basket for our unknowns. Especially at the individual level, we should accept and place all that we don’t know into this basket instead of following the assumptions of our ancestors egotistically. When it comes to personal life, you can reduce your stress by having the outlook of a mortal being. The tendency to harm humanity with assumptions and disregard for individual human life is more common with religious extremism. Even today, people are still being killed around the world for being born into or having different belief systems. It is just like being killed for being born with the wrong color of skin or gender. Remember, I said born in. What does that mean to you? To me, it means that the individual has no fault of their own and is completely innocent. If they are being punished for something they have no control over, who are you to punish them? I would even stand against God if an innocent person is punished. I personally and individually believe in having spiritual justice at the top corner of my triangle, so I will speak against injustice.
Our knowledge should not make us forget that no individual should be punished for something they have not committed or have no control over. Simply ask yourself, if you were on the receiving end of your actions, how would you respond? Remember, at the heart of our knowledge, whether it is our belief systems, science, or medicine, the purpose should be to help individuals live better mortal lives. If somehow, somewhere along the way, we have lost the main purpose of our knowledge, it is up to us individually to question it.
Instead of helping, we have gotten into the politics of belonging, which brought wrong results to anyone who did not belong. When and how does an individual who belongs become a human being, and the one who belongs to the opposing group is reduced to an animal? How and what changes us to treat each other as animals? Is it our holy or scientific knowledge, or do we still need to evolve from being animals? To me, it is all politics of our sense of belonging to our groups. Question yourself individually to find out what you really believe and where you stand as a human being.
We all want to believe that we have the correct knowledge. Religiously, we believe in God; scientifically, we don’t. But being entrenched in something while we are still evolving is our foundational problem. Where do you think that comes from? You got it—it all comes from the politics of belonging to our groups. That means you individually will have to learn to understand where to draw the line for yourself. Either way, you will have to bring it down to your individual level and question before you act on behalf of your belonging group.
Since we are continuously evolving, we should all have a basket for our individual unknowns. Remember, our knowledge needs no cap, freezing, or restrictions to reach our potential. Most of our problems are related to the politics of belonging because, individually, we deny not only the existence of God but also the factual and scientifically proven aspects of our life. We have been killing each other without being sure why. The answers are not so clear, other than the politics of belonging groups. If you say it is because of ego, pride, and honor, I would ask where you think they come from. I personally believe they are born from our sense of belonging. If you honestly question your behavior, you will learn your honest truths; otherwise, you will only carry on with the colors of your belonging group.
Remember, justice is not exclusively written in holy books or national constitutions; it is based on the human common sense that we all possess from before birth. Since it belongs to our spiritual side, which provides us with an awareness of justice, we are not nurtured spiritually as much as we are influenced politically, so our physical side overrides our spiritual inclinations. That means individually we get robbed by the politics of belonging. It is highly likely that if an individual is insecure, they will seek security even at the price of personal sense of justice. On the other hand, if the individual becomes a CEO, they can understand personal responsibilities; otherwise, they would believe everything written in holy books and constitutions as the last word. Since our holy books and constitutions preach individual irrelevance and demand obedience, they preach prejudice. Common sense justice, like “don’t do to others what you don’t like done to you or your loved ones,” may be easier to practice at an individual level, but with group politics involved, things can become tricky. Sure, as creatures, we are connected to our belonging groups, but for us human beings, it is a choice. We are not genetically programmed, so hiding behind political influences is not a human spiritual truth. Regardless of our connections and willingness to kill for our belonging groups, as individuals, we all have a responsibility to continuously evolve to become spiritually aware human beings. It would be equivalent to denying God’s will if we keep acting as warrior ants or worker bees.
We are human beings, and the existence of God is our unique characteristic, so don’t deny yourself because of the politics of belonging. Trust me, your spiritual sense of justice is your greatest strength, and if your belonging group teaches you otherwise, leave them, or else the sense of belonging will keep you insecure and without the benefit of spiritual justice. If your belonging group makes you fight your wars for them, you are living with injustice and lack of faith, so be aware of the politics of belonging to groups.