Hypocrisy=religion

When have I faced hypocrisy? The word hypocrisy brings back floods of memories from my childhood back to mind in an instant. I grew up in a southern Baptist home and my father was a Baptist preacher in my early teens. I was force fed ideals, thoughts and morals that were never mine or I never even fully understood. I grew up being told that if you don’t act a certain way, believe a certain way, and present yourself in a specific manner then hell would be your home. I never understood these things and when asked was scolded or punished in some way for questioning what I was just supposed to take on faith. The idea of questions never sat well with my father and after growing up I have realized that they don’t sit well or have any real place in the Christian religion. I remember one specific instance where I asked my father about evolution. Although I meant the idea that things must adapt to survive he took the question as me entertaining the thoughts of Charles Darwin. I was severely punished and my question was never really answered, much to my confusion. Blind faith was never something I could just accept. I knew even as a boy that there has to be a logical explanation for everything that happens no matter the context or background of the event. Similar instances occurred frequently in my child hood, unanswered questions, and punishment with out explanation. I never grasped these things until I grew up and moved out away from then to form my own ideas and beliefs. The preachers at the churches we went to were just as bad. They encouraged questions but when they were asked failed to give a reasonable answer and always redirected me back to my father for yet another whipping. Now that I have grown and entertained many ideas from different cultures and faiths I have still found hypocrisy in most all of them. So I have decided that I refuse to be that way with my own children that I want them to respectfully question authorities and beliefs. I want them to be there own people and form their own ideas free from fear of persecution because of them. So I completely believe that religion of any form hold the most hypocrisy of any single thing is this world.

Gdr

I just recently watched the new Justin Timberlake movie In Time. I went into it thinking it was just gonna be another action movie to add to my collection. I got the biggest surprise so far this year however, it ended up being modern take on the Marxist theory of the have's verse the have not's. The movie uses the idea that in the future people don't use money anymore they use time. The same time that they use to live. No one ages past 25 and carry their bank account around in a clock beneath their skin on their forearms. When your time runs out you die! I won't go into the movies specifics but what's really fascinating is the idea behind it. It's revealed in the plot that the haves control the time available on the market by raising or lowering the price of living thus controlling the poor population.This movie really takes Marxism and Darwinism and runs through the wall with it. One of the leading villans even uses Charles Darwins' birthday as the combination to his safe. This movie has taken several big movie ideas and put them all together including Robin Hood and Bonnie and Clyde. I would high recommend this movie to anyone who could appreciate a change of film pace that combines intelligent ideas, high action, classic shakespearian romance, and top actors. Enjoy!

GDR#5

Do I believe Troy Maxson is racist? That question alone is an extremely tricky question on an even more slippery slope. Racism is all relative to the person who is considered racist and the person or people viewing them as racist. I have no doubt that some of my fellow classmates would absolutely view Troy Maxson as a racist. However I do not see him that way. I imagine him to be just an average man who has been yanked around many many times and because of that has a very unhealthy view of what he considers the “white mans world.” While many would see his world views as radically racist in todays time we have to remember that this is not set in todays time. It is set in a time when distrust of another race could save you from many heart aches and troubles even to the point that your safety could rely on your distrust of others. What some take for racism is actually lessons learned through many years of hardships and pain. Negros of that day were denied things they worked hard and fought harder for only to be told no because of their skin color. Troy Maxson is not the only example of this as there are numerous other negros who were denied the fruits of their labors because of skin tone. Many of these were in the civil rights era that most of us know of through history classes and the like. But what is sometimes overlooked is what happened when a black man wouldn’t accept no as an answer and would try to take what he felt he deserved. They were met with brutal treatments by many whites including the kkk but what was more frightening was when the police, the people sworn to protect the public would punish and mistreat them instead of protecting them the way they should. These are the reasons I feel Troy Maxson isn’t a racist but as I would consider a more practical man who is more concerned with the protection of himself, his family, and more importantly his sons.