Will Smith: Obama represents a “flash point” in human evolution
posted at 7:59 pm on December 10, 2009 by Allahpundit
Not Barack Obama the man, mind you. Barack Obama the idea. Which, in fairness, is true. The evolutionary “flash point” in question is called religious worship and it happened a long time ago; the cult of The One, of which Smith is evidently a proud member, is just the political example du jour. But whatever: After watching Demi Moore pledge to “serve our president” and Tony Bennett encourage people to support him in whatever he does, no amount of celebrity bootlicking should surprise anyone.
Instead, and since it’s semi-related, let me use this post to open discussion on something that’s been bugging me all day. How to explain this trend from Pew’s new survey on Americans and faith?
Supernatural experiences are also up over time, although not quite this sharply: 17 percent reported having them in 1990 but 29 percent claim to have them now. I’m at a total loss to explain it. Any theories? Click the image to watch.
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If Obama, as has been said, projects back to people what they want to see, then I guess WIll Smith is seeing himself as the flash point as projected off the mystical Obama.
This is apparently something only liberals are able to see – kind of like polar bears drowning all over the place.
PoodleSkirt on December 10, 2009 at 9:50 PM
He must be one of those veteran right wing extreemists DHS tried to warn us about./S
cobrakai99 on December 10, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Yep. I could credit UhhBama with that.
cntrlfrk on December 10, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Only thing I’d do with that book is burn it.
chemman on December 10, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Very interesting…and puzzling. hmmmmm. Thought provoking too!
scalleywag on December 10, 2009 at 10:04 PM
F – for sentence structure and punctuation.
Your post is completely unreadable and makes about as much sense as a greased chicken. Obviously you are a product of public schooling. Don’t worry there is help if you are willing to do some work on your own. Us not wanting to purchase a product or service from a person in what is left of a free market society is not at all the same as sending them to the gulag and executing them.
cobrakai99 on December 10, 2009 at 10:04 PM
I see plenty of seats filling up for the not going to heaven for worshipping a false prophet tour.
madmonkphotog on December 10, 2009 at 10:05 PM
maybe he meant “flash in the pan.”
29Victor on December 10, 2009 at 10:05 PM
annoyinglittletwerp, I also heard him slander America with the racism lable and haven’t watched any of his movies since right before Wild Wild West.
Bleeds Blue, you should change your name to bleeds stupidity. Geez.
Hard Right on December 10, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Angelina Jolie goes after Obama again.
http://omg.yahoo.com/news/angelina-jolie-calls-for-action-from-obama-on-sudan/32522?nc
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Bleeds Blue aka Bootlicker
CWforFreedom on December 10, 2009 at 10:09 PM
No question that the average IQ in America is on a downward slope.
Tav on December 10, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Bleeds that is hilarious and just a little overstated. /
More stretch than Hillary’s polyester pants or Pelosi’s face.
You truly are a boot licker- look in the mirror
CWforFreedom on December 10, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Just two actors sticking together, what’s the big deal?
pandgora on December 10, 2009 at 10:23 PM
They have an open marriage. Not judging. Just reporting.
thebrokenrattle on December 10, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Why it is that those whose jobs require them to repeat, verbatim, other people’s words are such such morons, such blithering idiots when they have to engage their brains and speak in their own words?
SilentWatcher on December 10, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Light fuse and get away.
Use only under adult supervision.
Do not aim toward face.
Dr. Carlo Lombardi on December 10, 2009 at 10:31 PM
In what direction?
Speakup on December 10, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Does Jesus toast or Virgin Mary food stain count as a religious experience? That could be part of the explanation.
OxyCon on December 10, 2009 at 11:09 PM
This is obscene. I don’t even know what to say about someone this stupid.
Connie on December 10, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Someone please save this poor, severly confused child in a man’s body. He may not e poor from a financial perspective, but he is definitely intellectually impoverished.
CynicalOptimist on December 10, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Damn…..one more in a long line of actors that, from now on, when I see them on the screen all I’ll be able to think of is what a dumbass he/she is.
I really enjoyed his acting, now he’s gone and spoilt it…
Janeane Garawfullo ruint a bunch of flicks for me. Mystery Men for one…
Ya forget their stupidity after a while, but Garawfullo keeps poppin’ up with something stupid or insulting.
Nothin’ like alienating half your audience.
Army Brat on December 10, 2009 at 11:41 PM
I’ll buy the flash point comment. A 2nd American Revolution is building fuel and our current (p)resident is the fuse that will finally light the cleansing fire that will burn away the dead wood and tangled underbrush that has been choking the forest for 70 years.
Too late for Smokey. This one is going to ground. They have no f**king idea how hot it is going to get for them.
PD Quig on December 10, 2009 at 11:46 PM
Zero is more like a flush point.
viking01 on December 10, 2009 at 11:50 PM
“Never trust anyone who makes their living pretending to be someone else.”
- Steve McQueen
Surfcat on December 10, 2009 at 11:52 PM
‘Obama the idea‘ has been tried and has failed every f*#king time.
The ignorant are going to suffocate the free.
daesleeper on December 11, 2009 at 12:02 AM
Will Smith supporting Obama is utterly predictable.
If Obama had the views of Sarah Palin, Will Smith would still be backing Obama 110%.
cyclo on December 11, 2009 at 12:06 AM
More like flash in the pan.
Kind of like Will Smith – not much range, but plenty of hype.
Both think they are more relevant than their level of expertise and talent would support.
I’m sure Little Willy has a good tax lawyer to shield his earnings from the Obamagenda that will soak the earnings of most people in his tax bracket, and every other working American, when the Socialist Hopenchange agenda takes hold.
Hypocrite.
realitycheck on December 11, 2009 at 12:13 AM
They are more discreet in the gay bars.
David2.0 on December 11, 2009 at 12:39 AM
Not true. IQ bottomed in November, and has been on the upswing ever since.
unclesmrgol on December 11, 2009 at 1:11 AM
Watching the true believers break down will be the best part of 2012.
jhffmn on December 10, 2009 at 9:10 PM
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Please let this happen.
ms on December 11, 2009 at 1:18 AM
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air praising the Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers.
mudskipper on December 11, 2009 at 4:13 AM
So old Will Smith has his own version of the faux hockey stick graph -nothing went up until the messiah came. What would you expect from a man who chases weird creatures from outerspace and talks to his cigar smoking dog all the time?
Don L on December 11, 2009 at 6:20 AM
Will Smith is more proof that even idiots can become rich.
BottomLine5 on December 11, 2009 at 6:48 AM
Will Smith = Scientology.
albill on December 11, 2009 at 7:22 AM
I’ll still watch Will Smith movies, the good ones anyway. It’s just disappointing,yet not surprising, that is a worshiper of O.
vcferlita on December 11, 2009 at 7:29 AM
Ya’… and Hitler represented a “Flash Point” in History too. Now STFU and go pretend to be somebody else that your not.
ronnyraygun on December 11, 2009 at 7:33 AM
Will Smith: lives in a $20 million mansion in Calabasas, CA. He has his first son attending OCHS which is about $20,000 per year. His other kids (the ones he has with Jada) attend a even more expensive private school. He is soooo in touch with the heartbeat of the average joe on the street.
Sure, we should give a flying piece of crap what he has to say. Yeh, keep talk’n Will.
/sarcoff
jbh45 on December 11, 2009 at 8:49 AM
Actors are just sooo smart! 0bama will get his “oscar” in 2010.
joe btfsplk on December 11, 2009 at 9:12 AM
Actors do live in another universe. The world of make believe.
Kissmygrits on December 11, 2009 at 9:23 AM
I think the increase in supernatural events correlates directly to the waning of religious institutions. People need an explanation for the universe and their existence and since religion is so out of fashion (on the way back, though) and G-d is a verbotten concept, the supernatural events substitute for belief. These events prove to people that there is something more than just them in the universe. Organized belief is needed by man generally, not organized religion specifically. Now that religion recedes, the organized beliefs of atheism, global warming and supernatual events fill the breach.
allstonian on December 11, 2009 at 10:03 AM
Sans teleprompter and not one “er” or “uh” What an amazing 5 minutes! If he would have been at my front door I would have grabbed my musket and followed him to the inn!
My advice: go to his site, read his position on the issues, and if think he’s worthy, donate to his campaign.
Thanks SPS for providing that link.
Mr_Magoo on December 11, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Will Smith is a flash point in evolution.
But it is in the wrong direction.
(I guess that this is a racist statement too.)
thgrant on December 11, 2009 at 12:10 PM
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Will Smith is a good actor–Comrade Obama (PBUH) is a bad actor! And Adolf Hitler was a “flash point” that lit the fuse that destroyed his country. The Messiah is on track to doing the same to our country.
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TSUNAMI COMING in the 2010 and 2012 elections.
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John Bibb
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rocketman on December 11, 2009 at 12:15 PM
I prefer his brother, Carlton.
Sharke on December 11, 2009 at 12:41 PM
Are these people ever embarrassed by their audible dribble? They string words together to make noises with a familiar sound but no actual meaning.
YiZhangZhe on December 11, 2009 at 1:00 PM
First of all Will Smith is an Actor: Actors do not so much perceive reality as redefine is within a caricaturized framework. Smith is speaking of the greatness of the screen-version of a scriptwriter’s Obama.
Second, that while, yes, the pursuit of a religious crutch or an idolatrous comfort is part of the core of human experience, the current increase in the Perception of a personal religious or supernatural experience is easily attributed to a subtley increasing cultural redefinition of those words and the meaning of those experiences and an increasing popular perception that those experiences are normal and healthy.
Beyond this, the Bible says that the antichrist will do attractive supernatural things called miracles and so, today, a population that is open to perceiving miracles in an attractive light should predicate that prophetic view.
flicker on December 11, 2009 at 1:14 PM
An increase in ‘supernatural’ experiences could be explained by a reduction in rational thinking.
The present generation is more knowledgeable than any before it, but the preponderant intellectual climate is still that of sentimentality, superstition and wilful ignorance, and the tools of logic are not widely taught even to those supposed to be cleverest.
YiZhangZhe on December 11, 2009 at 1:30 PM
Actually he a “flush point” and he’s sending the economy and our lives down the toilet.
TrickyDick on December 11, 2009 at 1:59 PM
Idiot.
gdonovan on December 11, 2009 at 4:26 PM
As a Christian who HAS had a couple of experiences that I think qualify, I nonetheless suspect that the vast majority of those reporting “religious or mystical experiences” had new-age-y power-of-suggestion experiences (or for that matter Christian power-of-suggestion experiences — speaking in tongues, for example, which may be real for some, but are most likely not for others).
But I absolutely believe some of them are real. I can offer you no verifiable proof or my experiences, and I know some will scoff, but I don’t really care. In my case, I wasn’t wanting/seeking/fearing/remotely considering such experiences. They (especially the first one, when I wasn’t really a believer and wasn’t thinking remotely about God) came totally out of the blue. On both occasions, I heard what sounded like audible words, but perfectly clear (I’m somewhat hearing impaired, so voices are usually muffled). In the second case, I was singing (Christian) praise songs in my car on the way to work, when quite suddenly I heard a very simple message: there’s going to be a layoff; it’s going to include you; it’s going to be alright. I had not heard a soul mention layoffs, didn’t have a clue. If I had known, I’d have never thought I was vulnerable. Sure enough, I got to work, and a few minutes later the boss came in with a somber expression and said “Joe, I need to see you in my office for a few minutes.”
I know, some of you will say, “you must have subconsciously picked up on some vibe” — but that’s pretty impressive specificity for picking up on a vibe, an ability I have NEVER exhibited before or since (ask my wife, who has to kick me in the shins because I never pick up on her ‘shut up’ vibes). So believe what you will; I know what happened. I was there! ;o)
RegularJoe on December 11, 2009 at 6:00 PM
I’m inclined to give Will Smith a break. He’s a kid , but he’s smart. Smith will be ok , he’s got a decent head. He’ll come around. He’s in his 30s , when he grows up he’s gonna be a conservative :-)
Rick554 on December 11, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Okay, have I found yet another actor whose movies and dvds I shall now ban from my presence forthwith? The list of acceptable hollywooders is getting mighty short for me.
Then again, he does come off as a dear lovable kind of dope.
Maybe I can cut him some slack.
At least he wasn`t vicious. Just plain dumb.
Actors are people, too??
Depends on the actor?
Or was he acting?
Fohget boudit . . . .
Sherman1864 on December 11, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Oh, Will…I figured you to have more sense than that.
Let me put on my Klan hood and say it: When push comes to shove, people of color will always stand behind one of their “own” no matter what they do, no matter how inept they are, nor even how much they actually despise others of their race.
Sad.
Dr. ZhivBlago on December 11, 2009 at 9:13 PM
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