Hindu Ramblings: Noble Intentions, Protecting the Earth, and the Optimistic Future

Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Is trying good enough? The answer is simply no. Is trying your best good enough? Maybe the answer is yes....and in a sad unfortunate amount of times, the answer is still a firm negative. When someone hurts you, and says "sorry it was not intentional", does that do anything to ease the suffering? Usually not. Yet when you are on the other side of the coin, you cannot comprehend why someone would not understand that you did not mean to hurt them. 

It feels that no matter what step we take, there is an imprint left on the Earth, whether it is a footprint in the soil, or an outline made of moisture that after leaving the shower. Sometimes without looking, our footsteps lead to destruction, lead to breaking something we did not see, lead to taking the life of an insect, a slug, or perhaps an even larger creature. Was that an intention? Yet the small amount of broken material or the loss of life is there all the same.

As we walk forward in life, let us always try to use each step as one toward kindness, awareness, and duty. However, sometimes things will break, and others will be hurt. Where does one go from there? It feels the answer is a little more complex. Some people need space and time to heal their emotional wounds. Others are more resilient and demanding, they will recover by removing you from their life all together. It is never easy to embrace rejection from someone, but you do not want the relationship to end. It does make you stronger, but there are ways to get stronger without destruction. 

Let's us try harder not to hurt anyone or anything. Let us walk forward with only the smallest amount of imprint on the Earth, for if our steps are too heavy, the ground, the grass, and the home will break with ease. 

Words are not enough. Actions are more valuable than words. Where is the effort in our words? We can say many things, but at the end of the season, what do we have to show for ourselves? Our works and efforts might not be enough. We do not need to fight. We need to nurture, but we also need education before we can become nurturers. The answers to all our questions seem so much more understandable in retrospect. Hindsight is 20/20, and the rear view mirror is often clearer than the windshield. 

Yet who are we to make mistakes and blame it on the past? Who are we to make mistakes, and say that we should have tried harder? Who are we to do harm and brush it off?  

Let us study the past. Let us plan for the future. Let us live in the present, but thoughts, ideas, and dreams will not be enough. For the medicine of the Earth is often in our actions. If we did wrong in the past, there is a way for us to do greatness next time...not just do better, but to achieve the highest possible form of greatness. 

Education. Kindness. Optimism. Planning and Preparation. The sharing of ideas and knowledge.Learning the way to care for all things. Learning the way to share love for the Earth without trampling a single blade of grass. How to love the oceans without dropping a single contaminant. How to show kindness to the stray animals on your street without any neglect. 

There are many things that one can say. There are many plans that one can make. There are many inspirational things that we can tell ourselves, but through the course of our actions, we will see the true examination of our love. 

Let each day be one of not only dreams, but also education, and show your education to what tomorrow will bring. 

The Humanity Party: Religion is a Fantasy - Or is It ?

There is a fascinating new political movement going on in the America, but accessible anywhere in the world thanks to social media. Their name is the Humanity Party, and they have some very bold and interesting plans on ending poverty.

I'll post a link to their website, so people can see the details of their platforms and also all of their videos, but for now let's look at two specific tweets that came from the Humanity Party.
http://www.humanityparty.com/index.html

Again, if we could just get rid of the fantasy of religion and the idea that there exists an entity outside of ourselves that will help us and save us, we would then become more focused on saving ourselves and solving the problems that WE created ... that the "dragon" created.
-June 29th

Most people believe in God because they don't believe in their own goodness and of others. God is the concept of "good," the moral compass of our humanity. But until people learn to love themselves, first, above all, and then their neighbor as they do themselves, God will exist.
-June 29th.

I will also post a link to their Twitter account, so you can follow all of their updates, tweets, posts, and so on.
https://twitter.com/humanityparty1

Now, let's get to perhaps the more pressing issue of the day. I am coming from the spiritual side, and when I first read their tweets regarding religion as a fantasy or people believe in God because they don't believe in their own goodness....I did not quite fully understand them. It took me a few times to read over the tweets to grasp what they are trying to say.

Response 1:
Religion is not a fantasy term. There are an enormous amount of religions in the world, and religions such as Hinduism and Jainism (once you get deep into their theology) often deal with observations of the cosmos and existence itself. This is referred to as religious cosmology. For starters, religion contains many things from many aspects of human life, and how would a religion like Pantheism (which states that either the universe is God or that nature is the equivalent of the Divine) hold up to any sort of fantasy term. It is dealing with real life and existing properties.

Response 2:
Let's look at how we approach God and religion.
I would propose that the vast majority of humans use the term religion to mean that spirituality can affect culture.

God - 

A concept, idea, property, or anything that is greater than our material world.

i.e. the divine

Spirituality-

Someone's personal  connection to the God or the Divine. 

Religion-

When spirituality begins to affect culture. 

One persons viewpoint, individual practice, and feeling about the divine is not religious (Sorry Jordan Peterson, Maps of Meaning is a off point). Once it begins to affect a social group, and change the course of the that social group, it is becomes religious. One person who prays to God in their own way is not a religion, but when people start praying five times a day toward Mecca as described in the Quran, that is religious.

One person not eating fish on a Friday because they have a reason is not  religious, but when a social group proclaims that fish should only be eaten on Fridays and one should attend a service on Sundays, it becomes religious. Religion is when Spirituality affects culture.

There is no fantasy associated with that. It is not impossible that certain fantasy-elements could be incorporated to a religion, but that is not the heart of the issue. Moreover, it is not guaranteed that there is any connection between religion and fantasy. To reiterate, many religions devote a large portion of their work only to try and understand the cosmos, and through observation...I repeat observation...they have discovered that the our material world is contingent upon the existence of something greater.

Response 3: 

The most important of all responses. "But until people learn to love themselves, first, above all, and then their neighbor as they do themselves, God will exist."

This statement is supported by the assumption that humans have any control over God or the Divine. The fact of the matter is that as human beings we do not get to decide whether or not God exists. Many critics of religion can articulate well-worded prose and debate performances on this subject, but first one has to accept the premise that a human can control the outcome of whether or not God exists. Humans can control the outcome of very few things, and more importantly, just because one person says one thing it does not alter the universe of existence.

Humans have no control over whether or not there is a God.

All discussions of religion and politics aside, I invite you once again to visit the Humanity Party's website and check out their videos.

Wild Ideas in Politics and Religion.

Abnormal Thought - Natural Intention

This is the first post on something new here, the Wild Ideaz Blog. The original hope for this was that it was going to evolve into a podcast. My plan was to create a podcast called the Wild Ideaz Podcast that would cover the same sort of material, but let's say that the blog is a starting point.

The namesake for this blog comes from someone who told me that I must be rather young to entertain such Wild Ideaz....they were highlighting my open mind when it comes to politics. The person continued by saying that Wild Ideas are things that they just market to uneducated young people.

Love is at the center of it all.

There might be a certain degree of truth in that, but there is also a large degree of falsehood. I enjoy discussing far out ideas that cover the political and religious spectrum. In addition, historical conspiracies and futuristic scientific development might also make an appearance here on this blog.

To add, I must say that I am not perfect when it comes to these things, and a lot of things that I am going to put forth are opinionated. Sometimes I even get it wrong, but I want to try my best to promote an honest take on some of the more entertaining subjects that are around on the internet.

Let's begin.

The upcoming topics will be the Tax Wall Street Party, the Green Party, the Humanity Party, Dennis Kucinich and the Left Wingers, the Sanders Institute, the Lyndon Larouche Movement, Hinduism, Jainism, Peace Activism, Veganism, Conspiracy Theories, Jordan Peterson, and some others.

I also hope to launch some short stories on this blog. I might load them here or work it into a second blog as long as I can find a way to make it cohesive with a plan for a novel that I have in the works.