My Divinations on life

This article is all about how i view culture, religion and conciousness ( Sense to right or wrong ) in my own ideas.

Disclaimer : Consists of some hardcore reality facts, if your not accustomed to some counter-culture ideas, please don’t read this article :P . If your open minded , ready to accept things in life as you see it and perceive it continue reading.

Culture : To me culture is just a set of ideas that every group/community have been following since the evolution of human beings. History suggests, since our evolution man has tried to associate himself with more people and try and establish or implant his ideas on the group that he has created. All these ideas and ways in which groups act/behave transcends from generation to generation, forming what is called as culture. The way in which the group behave or the traditions that the group or community follows is based on ideas that were perceived by founding members of the group or community. As a part of the culture, things/Ideas were added from each generation and in some cases it reached a stable state (which i can be considered as the  Peak of the curve in a graph) since there were no interactions between groups/communities. I think this is the reason we have distinct different culture in different part of the world. The period, before the emergence of communication technology and the reaching of the stable stage or peak i assume it would be very long where no ideas where added to the community and the ideas followed by their ancestor’s where just redundantly for next few decades. Once the communication age started we began contacting groups and being influenced by other good or the most likeable ideas of other communities. We then started adopting these ideas in our lifestyle. Thus this way one culture was influenced by others.

Now the real question is, Do we need to follow our culture (or set of ideas that we have been following from generations) be more rigid and conservative or be more open?

Once all these thoughts struck me, i decided, why could i not assimilate the best of ideas (that are reasonably considered good not violating our consciousness(hoping our consciousness is aware of activities that are perceived to be unlawful by the world)  ) from every different cultures that are there. This way, i define my own culture which has many inputs that are considered to be good from different societies/countries and inputs that are there in the realms of consciousness to me as an individual .

This is one way of looking at it.

Religion: To me religion is a mechanism created to make us stick to the culture. Organised religion is just doesn’t seem to suit me. I think the religions were made to make people stick to groups/communities in order to preserve culture. They were created because of the fears of the community that a person might be influenced by following another culture culture. These are the group of people who are not ready to accept other ideas and philosophical view points from their culture. This fear of losing their culture and ideas, what they believe in drives the community to restrict individuals of the group to follow a custom. We start following this custom, without understanding what it was meant for, this in-turn becomes the traditions for the culture. Traditions being followed without the knowledge of what exactly is going on. According to me, every human being in this world is allowed to have his own ideas and be influenced by others and things like organised religion in the society can only hamper the process of civilization development.

Consciousness :  I presume conciousness as a set of beliefs that we align ourselves to from witnessing the happening’s in society. We have perception of what is good and what is bad,and if we follow the mental model of this perception, we sense our consciousness according to this perception. We develop this perception due to our culture, traditions, ideas, beliefs. 

If the society or community had a  (now considered bad) tradition from the beginning, say for example, stealing others food if it was considered good, for generations we would be in that perception an think that doing such an action is good. It will a part of our consciousness by now. We align ourselves to what we have been following and considering good since our birth. We can change this consciousness or alternate this according to the way we want but make sure we are in sync with the societies, as long as we don’t commit any unlawful crime. 

There are several other people who have pondered about consciousness. This would be a good starting point for all of the things you want to know more about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness.

If by any chance some of you guys read this, do comment and tell me what you think