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Nothing is ever 100% true. Within every country, race, religion, scientific "fact," comes the an array of both truth and the unknown, or fiction; meeting somewhere in the middle as a balance of relativism and absolutism. It is necessary to have a balance or chaos will pursue.

Some would say if there were an argument between two people, "there's her side, his side, and then there is the truth." Because no matter what you believe, there is always going to be a different perspective than yours. No two people will see a situation exactly the same.

No two people, no matter if they were born at the same time, by the same parents, will they ever interpret life and truth in the absolute same way. Who we are inside and the environment we grow up in will determine what spectrum of truth we will fall on.

Without light, there can be no darkness`. Without darkness, there can be no light. Without either there would be no good art. Art is made with the contrast of black and white, happiness and sadness, joy and suffering. Nothing is ever what it seems. If people understood that relativism and absolutism is best when met somewhere in the middle, there would be world peace.

Like the Yin and Yang symbol, harmony is only met in the middle when energies or "truths" can mingle amongst each other with recognition of the beautiful differences between the two. Accepting both the good and the bad, the wrong and the right, the up and the down, will bring you closer to truth. It is never either, or.

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Living life in truth requires a degree of self awareness and self accountability. No one is expected to be perfect or live without flaws, in fact by taking that risk it is only then that you will live. Except in living an honest lifestyle it is important to access all facts with your highest level of intelligence. To be able to be consider all perspectives in lives situations and not solely thinking of your own.

As you age and grow with wisdom and experience, you can begin to learn new ways of thinking. Your environment will determine how far your thinking will go. Some people will limit their own selves by only exploring the areas they are comfortable with, while others will venture into unknown territory and find joy and thrill in expanding their minds and awareness of everything as a whole.

When you embrace the challenges, changes, and potential opportunities you actually begin navigating your life and truth. If you wait for life to happen to you and repeat the same behaviors in life, never searching for more, you cease to grow.

It is in the mistakes or risks that we take that we learn the most. In all solutions or truths that have been found, there were hundreds of failures or lack of consciousness and academic abilities within societies that limited their own abilities of truth.

This means that within societal constructs, environmental influences including paternal, government, education, and community, people may have limited truths and realities. So when someone speaks of something that is different from what we know to be true, it is important to consider where they're coming from and why they may be considering something to be true. They may be very stern in what they believe, but they also may not have received the information in the same formation that you did, so they may have decoded the message differently, especially if they're not someone who can evaluate information unbiasedly and by a case by case basis.

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A translator of different languages is known as an interpreter. It is because in order to translate a language you must interpret the message to the best of your ability, however, that doesn't always mean that the translation of the words will have any actual meaning in the different language.

The encoding and decoding of a message can be very impactful when the audience has a clear understanding of contextual backgrounds of the information. When there is a barrier such as a language or religious difference it can be hard for the receiver to decode the message how it was intended. Because there are a number of factors that can make this process difficult it is easy to understand why communication is something that many people struggle with in general. It is also easy to understand why some people who are very deep into practicing and having faith in certain religions can have conflicts with other faiths, because for them their beliefs can be very literal and personal. Because there is not a very clear, factual line determining the absolute truth in life, everyone will continue fighting about the gray area because it occurs by design.

To be able to interpret something from a fluid perspective someone must be open minded to the many things that makes someone who they are and what influences have played a role in how they perceive something. For example, things that may be culturally appropriate here in the United States may not be as accepted somewhere like Russia or Japan. Things said in Spanish like "Mira a mi Gordita" translates in English to "look at my fatty", but could easily be mistaken for an insult if you did not understand the context of the culture and that it actually is coming from a place of love.

Religion has had a major influence on the cultures within different societies. It exists within every region of the world in different forms. Learning religion is like learning a new language, you realize when you see life in a global perspective with respect to all of the different people that exist out there, you will open your mind to a whole new level of thinking that has endless potential to learning and brand new experiences.

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Life is a balance of academics and spirit. Without one the other does not reach its full potential. For a long time many people thought these two contradicted each other. But when you think of a scientist as merely being a human being it is hard for that individual to put aside their own spirituality when coming into a lab.

In fact in any practice, having the knowledge of the study is important, but it is spirituality that keeps people afloat in the unknown. Any discovery of science has always been made with some degree of faith, even if the scientist themselves were not part of a designated religion.

For any kind of practitioner of scientific or academic study it is in the art of their practice where they make their advancements. Scientific practice can be very literal and many times blind someone of the potential that may exist when they think outside of the lines. Religion is full of blurred lines and open to interpretation, somewhat of an art for the spirit to wonder into.

When someone has a strong spiritual connection and uses their connectedness in their careers they are more likely to succeed in their endeavors. It's not even about having a deep involvement in organized religion as it is having a self awareness of ones own mind, body, and human spirit and experience.

For people who were born into lives with no academic riches, spirituality many times has become the tool that carried them far enough to get them to the side of literal riches. Having faith when there is no clear plan or answer to carry us through life is the key to getting there. From a literal point there may seem to be no solution, but it is in the act of taking action even when we are unsure of the outcome that we then begin to see other doors open that help us later on and then it begins to make sense.

For myself, I never had intellectual inheritance and I never had spiritual inheritance. For me I dabbled back and forth not knowing which direction to take because nothing seemed to come to fruition. When I lost all hope I began to pray to my dead ancestors, my guardian angels whom I felt the presence of at times of near death. I prayed for companionship because of my loneliness in the world and because I felt I hit rock bottom and had no hope in ever living a better life. I prayed deeply for days and weeks, begging God to end my life or give me something to live for.

It was then that God sent me an angel, or maybe it was my guardian angel hand picking and delivering my soul mate. When I met my husband I was at my lowest point. He was so full of life, faith, hope, and his spirit was so bright. I couldn't understand how someone at his age had never seen the darkness before. Many times I laughed at him what I perceived as naivety.

He was a migrant. He came to the U.S. with no clear plan of how or when he would be able to live his American dream. In my mind I thought he was crazy for even believing it existed at all. He had so much faith, and by the time we got married and had our daughter I remember admiring his hard work and faith that one day he could give us a better life. I worked towards our goals too because my love for him would not let him make the journey alone. But I did not believe to the same degree that he did. I believed in him but I did not believe it would ever really get better. I thought faith was blind, naive, and stupid.

My love for a man I thought was crazy eventually proved to me that faith is so important in success. Everyone in my life had always told me it was impossible, that success was for the privileged. It was in the spirit of my husband that I started to believe and have hope again. He carried me long enough that I could see the vision he had. By the time I had the strength to stand on my own too, I knew without having any knowledge of how things would work out, I could still reach the destination I was hoping for.

In the past when I would fail in the literal world, I would give up feeling that I had exhausted all options. It was in my faith and determination that I found the importance of action and spirit together. I am now happily married to a first generation United States citizen, I am a first time homeowner on my side of the family, a first generation college student, a first generation business owner, and I have 3 amazing children who I am changing the outcomes of their lives for and will live a better life than I did. The mix of scientific academics and religious faith brought me to my destination.

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For centuries indigenous religions and communities have been annihilated by western religion and their peoples. It is a heartbreaking thought to know that people were peacefully living their own lives and had invaders come in and imprison, kill, and colonize them, their belongings, and especially something they hold close to their hearts, their faiths.

Today we hear a construed story about how uncivilized that these communities were and that the colonization of them were what was best for the future of the world. It is bizarre to think that any human being could claim superiority over another human. I think the most dystopian part about any of it has to be the fact that these colonizers, mostly all from Christian faith, claim in their religion that "thou shall not kill" and claim to live righteously amongst all of those they compare themselves to.

The triggering factor behind the history has to be the fact that we are still seeing an ongoing religious colonizing war. We also see people who are of "great Christian faith" funding genocide, funding the killing of innocent children, funding the coup of our government and others worldwide, funding the prison system, maintaining oppression worldwide in the name of capitalism, endorsing the destruction of our planet in the name of profit, not caring at all who's lives are at risk or what irreversible damage is caused. In fact, a majority of all of "Christian faith" followers find righteousness through violence and destruction, which in my opinion was exactly the opposite of what "God" or "Jesus" would have wanted.

I always say this, but I do believe if Jesus came back to earth, or if God sent another messenger or child of his, the Christians themselves would have them crucified. Jesus was a refugee, more than likely a man of color (despite the whitewashed depiction), he still loved the addicted, the poor, the sex workers, and all "sinners." Jesus told us to love our neighbor, to care for the innocent and sick, and that we are not to be the judge of anyone because only his father could do that. If Jesus Christ was alive today he would be labeled a radical communist hippie and more than likely would be taken out by the greedy corporations who control the U.S. government. The mere idea of actually using funds to help the majority of people in the United States is such a radical idea that anyone who even considers it is immediately censored and labeled as a nut job, if they don't "unalive" them all together.

The wildest part of modern Christianity is watching the unfolding of the war in Gaza and the parallel potential civil war brewing here in the United States. Those believing to be of religious superiority are the ones inflicting pain and suffering on most all of the world at the present time. There is no way to stop them in their path of destruction. The media is bought by the ones making the fortune in the suffering of the majority. For those who blindly follow these people, they believe they're the exception.

I always wondered when studying history what kind of mass manipulation would have to take ahold of a society for them to be okay with events like the holocaust, slavery, the mass colonization and killing of Native Americans, etc., but I see now how that was made possible. Controlling the narrative and education of the masses. By keeping them held down, confusing them about things too broad to wrap their heads around, and turning facts into a blind team sport competition instead of realistically analyzing things from a compassionate and knowledgeable case by case basis. The governance and ones in power must maintain suffering of the majority to continue to have control. They must turn people against others and use their own ignorance to convince them to commit atrocities.

The intellectual, the artist, the humanitarian will suffer greatly inside during this physical and spiritual war. They will be tied and forced to watch the evil deeds being carried out. They will scream and no one will hear them. History is doomed to repeat itself.

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As someone who never had direct religious influence there were so many things I questioned when considering organized Christian religion. The first being the idea that God is a man, that he was able to bring his understandings through the teachings of his son Jesus. God is thought of to be a man and the creator of life. But something that never made sense to me is my own idea that women are the ones who actually create life.

I've always heard the debate between men and women about who actually creates a human life, and many men believe they do because without their sperm the egg would never become fertilized. However, just like the natural heirloom seeds that exist in nature and gardening, the closer to the mother plant, the more potent and likely to succeed the seed will be. It is an amazing scientific fact that the egg that I was before getting fertilized existed inside of my mother while she was still developing inside of her mothers womb. How could my existence rely on the development of my tiny code of DNA 25 years before I was ever even conceived? Because I believe the existence of human beings and the creation of life comes from a female.

In Hinduism their beliefs respect and consider the realistic idea that all of the realms of spirituality and existence come from both male and female figures. This I believe is very true in the same sense that I believe biological males can possess feminine qualities, and biological females and possess masculine qualities. I believe in all human beings we have a belonging in both gender ideologies because it is important to have the balance of both for survival and the best quality life.

American society many times will convince us that we are either/or male or female and must there for be masculine or feminine. But when I look around at the different examples of people I know, I believe that it is mostly true that we possess both within us. Some qualities more than others. What is a man without his ability to nurture his crying child? What is a woman without the ability to be a warrior? How does a society or anyone in their own lives build the most righteous path without some form of destruction?

In hinduism there are many deities that represent the multitude of aspects that exist within someone and within the world we live in. In my opinion it is such a natural and pure way of thinking of spirituality. It doesn't give all of the thanks to one figure. It doesn't leave out the bad but essential qualities of ones self. It is very fluid and inclusive of all of the life that exists within the world. It also focuses a lot on oneself and having a deep understanding and awareness of self. I believe that is why opposite religions try to convince us that hinduism, or ones who do not worship one big God, are bad and evil. By steering us in the direction away from our inner selves, they can keep us in fear and control to serve their own purposes.