I don't usually write notes or journals, or anything really besides code for websites. But I just thought I'd share some thoughts I had recently. I heard someone, a few days ago, say something along the lines of "God can help you overcome any addiction and any problem" and it made me realize something. People use God as a symbol for police of free will. After all, its not God that controls what we do, but its our own will. One of the greatest quotes I ever heard was "if there's a will, there's a way" and I think that this is the philosophy that all people should live by if they want to succeed in life. People think that if they want to accomplish or acquire something, they need to pray and wait until they get it. In reality, they have the power to get anything with just their will. Most people are taught that they can have anything they want if they pray for it, or that they can get over any addiction only with God's help. If only they would realize that they can accomplish anything with the power that is inside them. If people were taught that they have that power within them, they would have more faith in mankind, rather than a deity. I'm not saying that God does or does not exist because nobody can say with complete certainty that God doesn't exist, just as nobody can say with complete certainty that he does exist. But nobody should put their entire life in the hands of an entity of uncertain existence. These are the same people who lose all faith in themselves based on a self-deluded notion that they have a curse or bad luck. The way I see it, there's no such thing as bad luck. Just bad decisions and unfortunate circumstances. Just as God is a symbol for police of free will, the devil is a symbol for full exercise of free will. Most people like to split everything into black & white, good & evil and create these symbols to avoid taking full responsibility for their own actions. There are no phantasmal forces controlling what we do or say, we have complete control. Most people aren't even aware that they have full control because they are used to being fully controlled. God, religion and government are just ways of controlling large populations and turning them into blind followers. The world is full of followers and very few leaders. In a utopian society, the meek shall inherit the earth but in today's modern society, the wolves take advantage of the sheep. The sheep need to be more like the wolves and and not just act like them. I always saw policemen and soldiers as nothing more than sheep in wolf's clothing. Policemen are, with the exception of a few, nothing more than cowards with guns. People should respect police officers as heroes not fear them as bullies. And soldiers are just expendable pods who volunteer to die, kill and torture people for an idiotic government with mindless leaders. "War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter to kill each other." Before the leaders of our world became leaders, they were simple followers themselves. Now, they start wars over money and religion and actually believe that they are doing God's work, never taking responsibility for their own actions. I can understand people who think they need a God or a religion, or just something to believe in when they have nothing else. People living in poverty or in prisons who have nothing left except hope and faith. Even then, they need to realize that they have to get past all that and take action to improve their circumstances. When I see able-minded and able-bodied homeless people, I can't feel sympathy for them because they have the power to overcome, just no power of will to go through with it. I believe that once people realize the power that they possess, this world will finally reverse from the downward spiral that it is heading towards. People can agree or disagree with this theory, but in the end these are just my opinions or my drunken words of wisdom...