There is this quote I found on the web, it had no reference or author.  I found it to be enlightening and embodies my very own work ethics. Humans started off with this mentality and as society grew only about 1-5% of the human population still maintain this discipline. 5% is being generous.

“The only place success comes before work is in the Dictionary”

Truer words have never been spoken. Some how the majority of the Human race developed this mentality that they deserve everything and need not work for anything. I get up everyday, I drive 60 miles to work and 60 mile back home. I go to work on time and I stay until the jobs (goals) for the day are completed. If I have to stay late, I do. If I have to leave and work later that night from home, I DO. I do not get paid over time, I only demand that others around me work as hard as I do, or at least half as hard as I do (I can’t expect too much).

I pay my taxes, I pay my insurances, I pay my mortgage and everything else you need to pay to live within society. I come up a little short some months and others, I come out on top. I live on the edge of my means, no more, no less. Things could be better, but things could be a hell-of-a-lot worse.

The one thing I do not do is… Blame the person next to me, expect the person next to me to pay for my expenses, my life style, my means. I know if I do not get out of bed every day and go to work, learn something new, advance my skill set, network within my industry or studies, I will not succeed. I will not sulk at the fact that Bill Gates makes more in 1 month then I will see in my entire life. I will not hate the person driving next to me in a Bently or the owner of a house down the street with more bedrooms and garages than me. They worked their asses off for it and deserve to spend their hard earned money any way they seem fit to do so.  So do I.

It is not up to anyone else to decide how I should spend my success. If I choose to donate to charities, then that is my right. It is not up to the government, my community, my fellow man to tell me how to spread my wealth, my success. Yes we are obligated to help our fellow man, HOWEVER, as my father so eloquently  puts it…

“I will not help you hurt yourself”

Giving my “success” to a mother of 4 going on 6 currently receiving tax dollar funded welfare, unmarried and unemployed by choice,  is not “helping” her. Teaching her a trade/skill, donating to a nursery school or school with before and after care programs, giving her a box of condoms even, is helping her. My money will only hurt her, her children and this society more (insert Him if you take offense to me using a woman as a reference). Equip these people to contribute to society and pretty soon you will have an epidemic of growth and success. Like… I know!!!! my God, what would we do if that were to happen???  I don’t know, maybe colonize mars, the moon, discover a new source of energy, etc., etc.

Now you may ask me, Is success just money to you? how do you weigh “Success”?  NO it is not just material, success is a goal or objective that you set to achieve for yourself. Whether it is quitting smoking, earning 100 dollars a day or donating some spare time to teach our youth. No matter what it is, when you set a goal you must work to achieve it and then and only then shall you succeed. Start with “Baby steps” set a daily goal, then set a weekly, monthly, yearly, etc. and work every day to succeed. You will gain confidence, strength, and happiness that could Inadvertently effect and change the world for the better. One success at a time.

I’m not kidding. Take these words to heart, for they are the hard truths of human-ish societies and will be the downfall of our species.

There are many reasons for war… love, power, money, but all have one thing in common. The human believes he is right because his moral and social code dictates this to be true. Moral code is engraved within the human mind by its peers and the morals are a socially acceptable collaboration of beliefs bestowed upon every generation, past, present and future, these in turn are deemed acceptable.

Since the dawn of civilized society religion has been at the root of war. Christians vs. Pegans, Muslim extremist vs. every thing else, etc. The inquisition was Catholicisms attempt to convert the world to one religion. Sound familiar? Nazis??? Countless have been killed over beliefs that are suppose to keep us peaceful, loving, and true to our fellow man.

How can a code of morality created to guide us to do the right thing be such a destructive tool and motivator for war. Easy, What is “right”? Who says what is right and wrong? who is right and wrong?

Your prayers have been answered… I will tell you what is right and from this you can bet your ass everything else is wong. A certain religious phrase pretty much nailed it on the head. All religion should have stopped right here.

“Do unto others as you would do unto yourself”

This simple phrase is the base for true and unconditional peace. If this was followed, “an eye for an eye” would be nulled. there would be no need for “an eye for an eye” because no eyes would have been lost to begin with. But wait, what if i am suicidal? I would kill myself so does that mean i can kill others? There is always an exception to the rule and this exception is… Do you have the “right” to take someones life or anything from another human without consent? In the purest form, NO.

If only it were that simple.

Religion is the pinnacle of human-ish Stupidity. Before you go off on a tirade because you probably thought i just said religion is stupid, first you must understand i am not saying religion is stupid. I am saying humans are stupid and created religion to compensate for what they cannot explain.

Religion in it’s truest form is a community of morally driven humans. It has nothing to do with wood and stone (churches). These started off as a safe haven to gather to share one’s beliefs. Churches could have been a fire, a bolder, mud hut, whatever. Then as trade was introduced to human culture and money and materials began to drive humanity, religion became costly. Wood and stones needed to be traded, stone workers and slaves had to be bought, religion now needed to make money. [link to elaborated article here]

Religion is also open to interpretation and this interpretation caused conflicts. No Human is the same or thinks exactly the same. Where one human sees good another may see bad and this is what caused the different religions to evolve (in a nutshell). Like Jehovah Witnesses and Catholics. Jehovahs think drinking wine is sin because it intoxicates the sacred body. Catholics drink it up like no others and are at no risk of sin (it may be hell the next morning though!). [Read more]

As time progresses, we have many tribes, societies, countries and humans making religions that conform to their societies and understandings. As the world’s human population grows and tribes, societies and countries bump into each other, their beliefs are shared. Some are accepted and others are insulting, neither believe there ideas are wrong, some may adapt others’ beliefs to their own, but none will change or conform their Religion. If you don’t believe in my God(s) you are a heathen, infantile, sinner, outcast and don’t deserve to be part of our society. See where this is going?

Life is simple and our brains made it complicated. These complications needed explanations, there has to be an answer for everything. The only way to control the human brain was to develop a couping mechanism for the unexplainable. Without this ability to coup we would go insane. Humans created a “Higher Power”, something that knew more then them and put their faith in that to solve the unexplainable. We gave it a name, a word, and this is where it all started to go downhill.

Religion is a free psychologists at best. A way to explain and work through the hurdles of life. It comforts us, it allows us to talk to ourselves without being deemed insane, it allows us the one uniquely human trait… to kill for beliefs and not just for food, territory or survival. We are insane, all of us.