The answer relies upon the discovery, of three individual elements which will become the human soul.  What is truth/ what is desire/ what is identity; as a function of thought (the soul translated into our world).  Thought is an alternate dimension, to the human experience/ thereby the difference between our human existence and every other biological reality on earth.  Thought makes us human, which then stands as the truth, of what makes us decide what our choice and our reality as a personal distinction shall be.  Consequently thought is the force which becomes the elemental answer of who we are, as an individual; or the desire, we adhere too, because of that thought.     The question is: WHAT constitutes the ability to choose, that which becomes “our truth; our desire; or our own individuality”?  Even though truth, desire, and individuality open the door to thought/ these are still not the fundamental description of why we choose what will become truth to us, desire in us, or the demand “I am, this”.  So before we get to thought or the critical stepping stones to that relationship comprised of truth, desire, and individuality.  There must be something else that instructs and establishes freedom to initiate choice.  That would be, the isolation required by the boundaries set into place inside:   that do demand your decision, or more critically the direction your life shall go.  Because in this world of time, there are only three mental variables:   love, hate, or survival.  To participate you must choose between them, and carry the burden of your choice (a need, or a reality;  you cannot escape), or establish the happiness of love within your heart (as life accepted, a blessing based upon relationships).

  Building or destroying those relationships then comes next/ as you have chosen the direction of your desire for love or hate.  Next comes the reality of that decision to assemble and seal, the critical demands of what is or is not true regarding that decision, as an individual life.  Love builds relationships as intensity allows/ hate destroys relationships as opportunities provide.  It is, as simple as that.
Sharing is the creation of a place within which we can be as family to each other, “not the same”/ yet joined by the honesty of a similar truth or desire or composition of purpose.  Caring is the decision to provide an opportunity where others have failed, simply to express, “I am here for you/ you are a creation of life, like me”.  Hatred assumes that is weakness, and will always plot and plan to take advantage or destroy the bond provided here, because it is a witness against their own failures.  A reality that reveals, their own life as a lie.
The difference between love and fear is: I will accept the risk, because you are worth the price/ OR I will fail, running away to hide;   because people have convinced me that trust is a trap used to make me cry.  Those that do so, (cause this fear to be realized),  sin terribly.  A sin is:   to destroy, what GOD has given, or granted to be, the blessing of life.

The freedom to choose, to learn what is good or bad about what you did choose, to repent and begin again/ which means simply “clean house and start over”.  The opportunities to shift away from loneliness: the demand to “choose again, and rebuild”.  The decision, that becomes the directional force;  that establishes your individuality, are all composed by freedom, and the demand you SHALL choose for yourself/ as life grants you that possibility.  Life is the essence of an understanding, which allows you to create yourself, as a participant in existence.  Individuality is the decision to apply yourself to that decision, and make the creation you do desire.  Truth is the essence of our relationship with life, energy, and mass.  While desire is the truth of your own essence, the essential freedom to care and share, or hate.  
Of interest is want, the creation of an entire world inside, that shuts out all of life, “but me”.  Want is the essence of selfishness, the reality of I don’t care/ I won’t share, because none are more important, none are equal “to my own little world of self”.  Thereby want is a derivative of desire/ but its direction never leaves the isolation of self.  From this, the demand “look at me/ pay attention to me” is formed as a relationship of purpose within selfishness.  Or more simply “see my world/ envision me as special because of myself:   but don’t touch”.  Because, Nobody is allowed inside.  Want builds a wall, to separate life from life.  Want searches for happiness, but is restricted to “sitting on the fence”; because you cannot discard want, unless you change the heart.  Every human heart is conceived by the search for friendship among humanity.  Every human heart is a development of access, established by tearing down the walls that separate us all.  Heart reaches beyond the boundaries of self/ loneliness searches inside the boundaries of self, and closes the door.  But even so, the human reality is such that media and university are combined into the disgrace of measuring each body or face, so that it can be rejected at a glance; thereby increasing loneliness and its consequences.  “Killed me/ so I will kill you”.  And more. 
Or more simply, we each translate our behaviors and the behavior of others, into the possibilities within which we are allowed to participate or build a life for ourselves, with or without friends/ because that IS WHAT “you chose”, rather than me.

So the question is:   HOW great, is the influence of others upon the decisions and direction of our own lives?  The answer is “up to you”.  But the reality is:   we can, be forced outside the circle of acceptance, and told to live alone.  That has consequences which must be addressed through the essence of thought, or the reality of intervention.  Intervention is a discipline, which allows us to escape our current situation by relying on “rules, that cannot be broken; so say the righteous”.  Thereby religion walks into our lives, as the foundation of rules tested by humanity, as valid enough to work for our lives if we try.  Can’t be changed because all the rules were created long ago/ thereby none exist to argue with; so we can then argue among ourselves, and believe whatever we like.  The righteous find their power to rule others/ the others find some form of peace and harmony with life and living or they do not stay.  The rest simply search in their own ways.
The circle of acceptance is, the creation of a fortress of people, who then keep the world out by insisting: “you, don’t belong here”.  It can be large or small, but will always seek to verify itself by proving we can, and will, control our “little world together”.  These people tie themselves together for a common purpose, if you don’t belong to that purpose or design/ you cannot enter within their environment as “a herd, or a pack” separated from the others.  The rule is simple, “we want this, help us; be used or abused by us, or we don’t want you”

if we ask, WHY do people play games with life, be it our lives/ their lives/ society/ etc?  The answer returns as, “I want, to participate/ BUT I do not WANT, to be personally at risk”.  Therefore a game is my answer.  Games give rise to pride, because they allow for “winner or loser”/ I am better than you;  a quality versus refuse and rejection to some.  Thereby the creation of a division, that allows for “master and slave/ violence and abuse/ lust and prostitution”, among the multitude of contributions games make to our lives.
If we ask, WHY do people love?  The answer exerts, “this is not a game, and I am at risk for my life, my future, and our existence”.  Thereby there are no winners or losers here/ only life and death choices which become the essence of our lives and our living together as friends or not.  Consequently from this beginning, the creation of what is recognized as true happiness, respect, and hope will be formed.
The brain is an elemental assembly intimately tied to the body itself/ therefore a current and real participant in death.  The question is: WHAT does death mean? Death is the closing of the door, which isolates our reality from time; leaving only the truth of what is, or is not spiritual in us to decide the rest.

Spiritual is not a relationship with the brain, that is functionally simply about time, and cannot participate in anything beyond time, because it has no reference.  Reference means:   knowledge bound by truth, to our own existence.  Thought alters that knowledge by understanding what is our relationship within this truth, as life or death or a participant therein. Spirituality is then the complex interaction between knowledge, understanding, and wisdom, which forms in the cradle of thought.  Elemental to creation is the gathering of information/ the disciplines necessary to participate/ and the respect assembled from a desire to think.  Thinking is NOT a participant of the brain either, as this is an elevation beyond the simple dimension of time into the womb of an alternate experience.  We begin as babies here/ nobody gets a pass, you must grow the experience or it will die and be removed from you.  Thinking is the participation in a dimension beyond time that recognizes an invitation of this kind, REQUIRES extreme RESPECT.  It is not for all, truth must inhabit your world of personal existence.  Thinking removes the expectations of the brain; what has or has not been your past in time.  Therefrom the question is formed:   WHAT is real, and the reality begins, “what is the truth”?
The equality of life is real/ it is a gift, NOT a personal achievement.  Individual identity however is a personal decision that achieves the reality of your own desire if time and our relationship with survival allows it to be.
That is enough for today.  Best wishes.

Another day; with a little basis of reference, we move on to the creation of developmental distributions and the social consequences of that act.
People choose to act as a herd because they have encountered resistence for the personal choices they have made, and the price of isolation,  is more than they are willing to pay.  Consequently to assure themselves of a more deliberate tie to the herd they search for organizations that will put “their mark” on them.  Therefore, clearly a part of this group or herd/ and cannot be denied;   because I now obey the rules of the herd.  The most legitimate example of this although used everywhere is simply found in religion.  The people who will accept “new converts” into “the flock”/ IF you accept what we say, and DO what you are told to do.  If not you are exercised from the flock, and their mark removed/ a new brand in its place. 

What is important to understand begins at rejection, and why.  People are commonly withheld the opportunity to be themselves in all manner of situations; by other people who do want to be superior to all, and find ways to group together an influence that will not be denied easily. To establish control on the group and thereby on society itself: SOMEONE has to pay the price of an example that proves “not only can we or I be mean to you/ we can steal, kill, destroy your future, or do other things equally disturbing to your life”.  Because we have power!  Power is the participation in pride that serves to embellish the trophy, “I am superior to you”.  The worldly actions, that prove I can make you my slave.  Therefore be it in grade school or lower/ out of school or near death: the endless rant is, “I am better than you”.  Or more simply humanity is forced to deal with the pride and power struggle of some; during all periods of life.  That forces in the mind of many, a clear and utter demand to prove “I am equal/ or better”.  Lives are lost in this pointless excuse to demand YOU MUST accept me:   see, “I have evidence now”.  There is no superiority, there is only a game.  Games change, because the rule makers insure themselves a trophy.  It is a failure to believe you can win the game of the proud/ unless you can defeat them with their own money.  It is failure to be greedy/ because that simply proves you are exactly as bad as they are; truly equal, a detriment and a disease to society yourself.

Society NEEDS humanity to be equal, and understand that is true; or it collapses under the weight of its own failures, and constantly turns to war.  War is about removing those who are a burden to the rest or to this environment, thereby making life difficult for the whole.  War is about removing the burden of those whose money has proven to be too much to bear:   consequently someone has to die, to re-shuffle the pile, and grant access to new faces thereby.  War is about eliminating the competition, one way or the other. 
The distribution of pride, want, and power throughout society during all time periods of life, ARE the single most destructive elements we face in the search for peace and harmony in this world.  Or more simply:   pride forces life into a game of surviving humanity,  upon us all.  Want forces everything this world is or can be, into a frenzy of get this before the others take it/ ruin it/ control it/ or make us beg for it;  or we cry and war.  While power is the single hidden element constantly decreeing:   you shall NOT be equal here/ I am a god, and will enslave you instead.  These three establish considerable hate, tragedy, disgrace, war, and failure.  Nothing good can be said about any.
But the question is: WHY, do we allow them to impact our lives in ways that can be controlled by ourselves; with limited capitalism/ limited property controls/ limited leadership failures (world court)/ and simple laws we create for ourselves. The answer is, it is easier NOT to challenge the status quo, than to change a world.  However, your world has already been challenged with complete destruction.  The consequence of that is you literally have nothing to lose but your lives, by not intervening and changing society on earth..  Not a game.  Reality versus power/ pride/ and want.  The truth between what is mine, and what is ours (what belongs to the future) as a relationship to life itself.

The endless tirade is: that all must choose “between them and us/ or with us or against us”.  There is no or little middle ground in a herd.  Being an individual who chooses for themselves, has consequences, the herd will abandon you, ridicule you, and many times seek to do you harm.  Can’t be trusted, go away.  That has to change.  Freedom is the right to choose for yourself, without restraint by the others; “my choice”/ not yours.  While liberty is the right to demand, we must all be able to trust this; because our lives and our society and our future is involved here too/ not just you.  Therefore what is liberty understands we do owe an allegiance to those who have provided for our lives, given us the right to stand for ourselves, and survive.  That standard set is RESPECT.  Freedom sets our relationship at an individual standard, that says:   because I must take care of myself, and accept the burdens that I must or chose; I shall also RESPECT myself.  The fact that these decisions and how they are legally applied to my life are mine, not yours.  You have no say, unless reality beyond yourself,  demands it must be so.

It does need to be said, that all organizations of people who are working for the common good among us, for a world/ is not a bad thing.  It helps those who are in agreement, to build their own “little world”.  Those who fail to find agreement within themselves, more often than not fail their own communities as well.  Consequently it is not as simple as it sounds to be individuals, organized for the common good/ as opposed to a herd, which operates under the basic constraints of mob control.  The common difference is: the ability to think for yourself.  That reference to truth is not found by intellectual games/ but lives honestly in the common sense, that understands life is not a game, and there are real consequences here.  We must choose well.  The real difference between the individual and the mob however is:   that once a choice is recognized, it takes a respect for freedom to accept, WE ALL have to live within the realities of this decision/ whereas the mob rules for itself, we have the power, “Lets make them slaves, lets steal, or make them fear”.  So we can have more for ourselves.

You have lived by a ruthless demand for greed/ you have worked for an endless demand for more, regardless of the cost to environment, society, health, or any other concern beyond yourself.  You have purposely used apathy (to hell with you) and ignorance (don’t you tell me/ I don’t want to know) to claim, “not my fault”.  You have aggressively scorned society with the demand for slaves, for resources simply to throw them away.  You have assassinated your own children, with an absolute disregard for their future, their resources, their needs for life.  You have assaulted and killed, or more correctly have an entire planet on its death bed; by attacking the oceans, air, climate, life, and absolutely everything living and its needs; by choosing to play god.  By mutilating life.  By gambling you can be gods over energies you cannot even comprehend.  By proving the religion of university, is in fact your god, whom you do idolize and worship because of their fancy words, filled with fantasy and delusion.  WHO ARE in fact, preparing your deaths by sacrifice to their own utter disease of arrogance and failure.  By worshiping the brain (not life).  Nothing more than a tool to interact with body.