Day 94: Morality Character

We adopt values, belief systems and opinions from our parents and from our environment where we classify things as ‘right’ and as ‘wrong’.
The first thing we think about when looking at a person with moral principles is that they are quite strict in what they accept and allow, and we also to a certain extent link religion to them. But these individuals have only taken morality to an extreme level. We all carry morality within and as ourselves by how we had programmed ourselves into believing that certain things are ‘right’ and other things are ‘wrong’. The morality character stands as the judge and jury of what it has been programmed to believe is ‘right’ and what is ‘wrong’ and will thus enforce this from a position of self-righteousness onto others.

Let’s have a look at the building blocks of morality within and as ourselves.
One of the small aspects of where we are standing morally, is where we had allocated a specific time stamp to where and when we are allowed to do specific behaviours as well as speak about specific things. Although strictly speaking we do not see this as morality within and as ourselves, it is the morality character within and as ourselves that stop us from behaving in ‘inappropriate’ ways or speak of ‘inappropriate’ things at ‘inappropriate’ times.

Depending on what our parents have taught us we may even not be able to speak about certain things at all. For instance in some cultures / households speaking about sex and sexual aspects is a taboo. From the parents perspective this is the moral thing to do and once the child has adopted this belief as their own – their own morality character will not allow them to speak of sex.
A strong moral belief that we as a western culture is starting to destroy is that a person is not allowed to have pre-marital or extra-marital sex. A hundred years back this act would have been seen as immoral though today it has become quite an often occurrence; though the morality character within and as ourselves as our pre-programmed designs may still make us feel guilty for our actions because even though more and more people are doing it, there is still a level of ‘this is wrong’ existent within and as each person.

The key factor that we are looking at here within the morality character is thus the adopted ‘beliefs’ of what is ‘right’ and what is ‘wrong’ and we thus react to what has been classified as ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ through feeling ‘self-righteous’ or feeling ‘guilty respectively. As when we are doing the ‘right’ things we see ourselves as better than others and when we do the ‘wrong’ things we see ourselves as being ‘guilty’. It is thus our pre-programmed designs that ‘tell’ us whether what we are doing is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’.

We have thus through this abdicated our self-responsibility to the pre-programmed designs of what is ‘right’ and what is ‘wrong’, where we listen to knowledge and information passed down through our past generations instead of allowing ourselves to look directly, see what is here, look at the consequential outflows of our actions and thus make decisions based on what is best for all.
What is certain is that our customs and behaviours change over time, where one thing was seen to be ‘wrong’ a 100 years ago becomes part of our behaviour today. Why do we place judgments on things in this century just to revoke them in the next century?

Our forefathers used morality as a form of power to control the things that are said and done within a population – Using religion as a means of invoking fear of ‘wrong doing’ in individuals. This is why religion goes so hand in hand with morality, because once the church has shown its support in what is ‘right’ and what is ‘wrong’; everything that was classified as ‘wrong’ will be seen as a sin and thus those who ‘sin’ will have to answer to God - and we puny little humans fear the wrath of God. But throughout all of this – I have not seen God in the equation – I have only seen humans classifying things as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ and using religions as a means to tame the human from doing the ‘wrong’ things according to what man has dubbed as ‘wrong’ in Gods eyes.

If according to the religious individuals - God had created the sexual organs – and we as human have made this a ‘wrong’ thing to talk about – We as religious individuals are then saying to God that he doesn’t know what he is doing and we know better than him, thus perverting the act of sexuality by making it a taboo to discuss and understand. Thus essentially through our ‘morality’, perverting what is here within and as the physical, creating consequences of people not understanding sexuality, thus creating unbalanced individuals seeking to understand through perverted ways the sexual act and thus creating consequential outflows of a society that is obsessed with sexuality. Is our man-made morality standing what is best for all?