Who is a Fundamentalist

 

Since we have been, are and will always be evolving, our knowledge is not going to be complete until we reach our potential. There are a lot of people among us who passionately believe their knowledge is complete. This egotistic phenomenon has been around as long as we have been aware of our existences.  Interestingly we have been learning something new almost everyday, yet we still believe that we are right about whatever we believe in.

Is there any one who can claim that his/her knowledge has been completed? I personally feel that I am far from that perfect and  complete knowledge because, I am learning something new all the time. I believe in carrying a basket of the unknown so I don’t have to be egotistic about my knowledge.

I do have some passionate convictions though, I want all  human beings to understand that we are an evolving entity. Until we reach our potential our knowledge would not be completed and with incomplete knowledge one should not become an extremists. As an individual we are not the sheep, we are the CEOs of our lives thus we have to take the responsibility.

If we passionately believe and proven wrong, we have the potential to get lost. Just like these days people are divided over the sexual liberation yet it is a matter of the equal human rights. Which I believe should be good enough to quash the argument.  Interestingly, even the supreme court was divided over this. These divisions are related and are the proof of the changes, the world is going through.  

Our rights can become wrong and wrongs can become right, so what was right few decades ago can turn out to be wrong. For instance human sacrifice, sati, killings over religious differences, racism, sexual equality and human rights are a few things we can talk about.

If I ask anyone what is fundamentalism the answer would be that the extremists of the religions. But when you look at it deeply an atheist can be a fundamentalist as well. It is about the passion you put in your belief system, that passion is what makes a fundamentalist regardless of the issue. If the religious fundamentalist believe in his/her religion to be true path to God, they have the human rights to believe whatever they want to believe. But when it comes to extreme related killings that is where I draw the line. Robing some one of love is a spiritual crime thus that belief system is not spiritual anymore.

I believe, they believe that their knowledge is complete and the other groups or individuals whom don’t understand God like they do. They should be forced to understand their way of understanding God. This alone creates a political situation and in the presence of politics their is no spirituality, in spiritual world “nothing but the truth” is the theme.  

If humanity is learning about the new discoveries everyday and evolving constantly I don’t think it is possible for someone to claim about the completeness of their knowledge. When you deny someone of their human rights, you fall into the vicinity where racism, religious extreme and prejudice resides.

That is what creates a fundamentalist is who believes in his/her knowledge is completely right, in favor or against any subject.

If you are one of them who believes that, you just have to look around and see where the humanity has been, is and is going. If you don’t see the changes you have been in a denial because of the learnt ancestral knowledge.

The reality is that every human knowledge has been changing, thus no human knowledge is immune to the change. No constitution, no religion, no customs or traditional knowledge is written in the stone.

Now if you feel it has been established, then I believe an atheist has the same ideology as the orthodox religious individual. Because they both use their passionate views, regardless of the incomplete and imperfect human knowledge.

This passion has been around since the beginning, we always have had pointless wars over the differences of opinions. Its a fact, when someone gets killed it leaves a trail of hurt people, so the passionate emotions get involved as well. Then sympathetic behavior kicks in with in the belonging groups to fan the fire. It all is related with that all powerful sense of belonging. This sense of belonging gives birth to the ego, pride and honor thus we are highly effected by these three kids of the sense of belonging. Even our behaviors and attitudes are formed by our sense of belonging.

If we as an individual start to question only then we would be able to resolve our personal and social issues. We will discover the source, and yes it is our deeply personal and individual insecurities. Naturally we are compelled to seek security because of the awareness of our the mortality. By joining the groups for that reason we intentionally  become victim of the overwhelmingly imbalanced sense of belonging.

As an evolving entity we go against our nature and even God’s orders, when we start to put boundaries around us. Security is one thing but working against the evolution is another because staying in the boundaries works against God’s will. Human beings suppose to reach to Godly potential.

From burning books to killing forward thinking individuals has been the black mark on the face of humanity.

Our history shows and proves the passionate power of the sense of belonging, in all groups of people. As an individual, we are all blessed with the powers of a CEO who can override the sense of belonging but if the belonging society does not allow the individual to be a CEO we got a big problem.

That is why it is crucial to make sense, of being a human being individually one person at a time. Having a belief system which insists on being directly connected to the God is as valuable and as important as it gets. Since it is our individual responsibility to create a melodious melody out of our own mortal life, thus the responsibility of the inner and external peace falls on the shoulders of the individual.

Our individual journey needs a balance to create comfort in the living years for us and the people around. All religions at least spiritually promote to remove or reduce the stresses of living years but in reality the individual ends up more stressed following the customs and traditions of belonging religious duties. These duties can create problems in the parenting a child, dealing with divorce or other personal and social issues.  You just can’t pick universal love over the instinctive love ( read love triangle) it is all about the balancing not picking and choosing.

It is an individual’s duty to live this life to give and take, (read reciprocation)  speak and stay quite as it is needed to make this life good for society and self at the same time. Whether you are an atheist or an extremely religious is your personal choice but you still have your duty to yourself to receive, give and then receive because individual has to go through life’s full circle.  As a baby you need and you receive, then your turn comes to give as grown ups and then you get old, that means you need to receive until you complete the full circle so if give more than you take, it makes you spiritually happy.

Radicalism and extremism usually belong to human individual’s personal ego, which is a result of the imbalance within the psyche. If you believe everything you have been taught, you underestimate the personal powers you have been blessed with. Your ability to think and even the use of the free will is universal, each and every one of us has the responsibility to learn to use that free will so you can become a CEO.

Questioning comes from the judging mind which is not a privilege, it’s a human right. If any governing system discourages or suppresses that it is clearly against the democratic values and equal human rights.

When one is taught about the religion, nationalism, race, gender cast or even family superiority he/she learns all about the sense of belonging which is the foundation of the fundamentalism and prejudice. It works against the individual and personal values. Raising a child with the knowledge which is predominantly preaching prejudice, would not produce the results of tolerance of others and world peace. Ask yourself if you are guilty of installing the knowledge of the superiority in your kids, I would not doubt the most of the population on the earth is doing that. If we all are guilty of that how are we going to get the opposite results?

It’s time to reconsider our education systems, if we really desire the world peace. It would come from the individual’s inner peace, that means from the bottom to top not from the top to bottom. We have been trying to do that by force, from the top down with no success for thousands of years.

Times are changing faster than people can change, the technologically we have become advanced but spiritually we have regressed because of the religions have chosen the political sides.

Instant news, internet and other ways of communication among the youth has the potential to create peace or destroy everything quicker than the abilities of the previous generations. We came long ways from fist fights to swords to bullets or bombs, and now we have the  weapons of mass destructions.

As a passing generation we should not leave the legacy of wars for our coming generations, just like our ancestors did. We have been killing each other for thousands of years over the reality which we don’t even understand.  It’s time that we should start to lay down the path of peace for them by coming out of the status quo.

If we can’t agree about the knowledge of God and religions we should give each other a break, like accepting the effectiveness of placebo.

We should learn to agree to disagree instead of forcing our ancestral knowledge into each other’s throats. Every nation’s ancestors can’t be right, the proof is in the pudding, just look around the chaos and the wars we have inherited from our past generations, especially when it comes to the religions. We can’t solve anything because of the demands religions put on the individual to believe blindly. The value of the individual opinion is discouraged and punished by shunning.

Humanity is an ocean and everyone of us is a part of it, when you stand separate, you meet your fate by crashing at the shore and disappear regardless of your ego.

Even we have a grave yard full of empires,  because they egotistically thought that they were separate from the ocean of humanity. They considered themselves as waves and waves always crash and disappear at the shore just like a mortal human individual. ( This idea of crashing waves on the shore is from the movie” Tuesdays with Morey”).

Our strength is in joining each other to take care of the place we live in, our happiness is in relating with m,.[]

 

the ocean, our future depends on standing on guard together .

As a family we are all taught to tolerate each other regardless of the differences. Family members fight with each other more than the others because of the expectations. Human beings are family, they can come from where ever but they will have the expectations  from each other including the expectations of understanding.

I will bet if some alien invasion happens all human beings would band together to fight regardless of the differences. When somebody ‘s territory gets invaded people of the belonging group band together to fight, just like a family would and the conflict grows bigger as the people get killed. The death brings love loss, which fuels and stokes the fire.

Our knowledge should be coming from the bottom to up, for instance the individual should teach his/her family to be a part of the ocean instead of teaching them that there is nothing beyond the boundaries of their pond, then the family joins the community with the same education.

This trend can change all the differences from race to gender to nation to religion because the individual is the foundation of the humanity. If an individual learns not to dominate and accept the differences, all the nations and religions would become cleaner, their politics would change because the ocean is one. Same as the cells of the body with the same mission and purpose to maintain health of the body and keep it alive. The wellbeing and the survival of the body or in other words ocean or the humanity should be the top priority for the individual and the individual should be the top priority for the humanity.