Our Goal in life is Self-discipline over Things and Matter

Reality is the reason for certain actions being right and other actions being wrong. The basic principles of reality underlying right and wrong include: the creator is the origin of the creature therefore the creator is to be worshiped and obeyed. Things and matter are less than spirit therefore of less value. But things and matter are good in their own right because they too come from God. Our goal in life is self-discipline over things and matter. Discipline over our attachments to this world. We shouldn’t exclude our selves from matter and things because they are good in their own right neither should we become things and matter because the soul is greater. Man is not an animal. Animals are not persons. Man should be loved as man and animals as animals. Man cannot be treated as an animal: raised for food, hunted or used as a pet. Neither should animal be loved same as man, treated like a family member, given food when a neighbour starves, buried in a graveyard with man. The body does not reign over the soul but should serve the soul. Reason that understands truth guides will that guides emotions and feelings. The will is free, emotion is not. Ought is based on what is. The rules of conduct are based on reality. What we should do is based on how things are. The thinking mind is the power of the soul by which we understand and know truth. The thinking mind is more than a smart computer, a data processor, a logical reasoner, it has the power to understand and know the nature and essence of reality.