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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Explanation: Miracles are on the rise?
DrStock on December 10, 2009 at 8:01 PM
I guess Will Smith never heard of this guy…
Seven Percent Solution on December 10, 2009 at 8:01 PM
I am really disappointed in Will Smith. I thought he was too smart to buy into the Obama mystique.
Conservalicious on December 10, 2009 at 8:03 PM
I prefer to look at Obama as a flash in the pan.
mizflame98 on December 10, 2009 at 8:03 PM
I can’t watch. I think Will Smith is an excellent actor. Too bad he’s into the cult of the 0ne. I believe there will be less Will in my future movie choices.
4shoes on December 10, 2009 at 8:03 PM
False gods; graven images; ridiculously ludicrous
This is all so 2008, and pass the Barf Bag
Janos Hunyadi on December 10, 2009 at 8:03 PM
The uptick in “religious experiences” corresponds with a downturn in real, biblical faith.
pugwriter on December 10, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Whatever he does? ANYTHING he does, Mr. Bennett? Even if he were to ”air raid villages and kill civilians” as John Kerry said so eloquently??
Tony737 on December 10, 2009 at 8:07 PM
He just wants to play Obama in the upcoming feature film (you know they will be one).
ThePrez on December 10, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Shameful. One hesitates to believe this can be real. Shows how easily the glitterati can be fooled.
I’d mention another trickster whose tale comes from an old book many have read, but I wouldn’t want to make the atheists feel all jumpy or anything.
Poor Will Smith, how can this person even have a chance?
rightwingyahooo on December 10, 2009 at 8:08 PM
The O holes and Obamunists are still crawling out of the woodwork.
elduende on December 10, 2009 at 8:09 PM
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign…
Matthew 16:4
CurtZHP on December 10, 2009 at 8:09 PM
If you do not know what is natural, then more things seem supernatural…
ignorance++
alexwest on December 10, 2009 at 8:10 PM
If that wasn’t bad enough, his beautiful acress/rock star wife Jada Pinkett said:
Tony737 on December 10, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Another Hollywierd O’douche that will never be watched in my house.
farright on December 10, 2009 at 8:13 PM
What’s shocking is to see such Obama worship after a year of his public screw ups!
Are all AAs ready to go the distance with Maobama, even if he proves to be a one-termer and a total loser?
Jenfidel on December 10, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Yes, it`s quite a remarkable thing when merit is thrown out the window for celebrity.
ThePrez on December 10, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Probably because in 1962 most people didn’t over analyze stuff. Having sex felt good, hitting your thumb with a hammer hurt like hell, nothing more to think about.
lowandslow on December 10, 2009 at 8:15 PM
That poll… my mind is blown…
Smiles on December 10, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Like the event that killed off the dinosaurs?
Maybe he’s right… after all, doesn’t the Mayan calendar suggest that the current “world” will be destroyed in December 2012?
So, just what calamity will Obama unleash a month after losing his reelection bid, and a month before he’s evicted from his current living space?
/conspiracy theorist
malclave on December 10, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Obvously you don’t remember The Fresh Prince of Bel Aie. Besides acting is a profession populated by morons. Will Smith is no exception
Tommy_G on December 10, 2009 at 8:19 PM
A bunch of weirdos hanging out on the internet?
Cuffy Meigs on December 10, 2009 at 8:20 PM
I’m just here to giggle at all the people who will reflexively and sanctimoniously claim that they won’t watch any more Will Smith movies.
DaveS on December 10, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Well, I liked Will Smith, and enjoyed his movies….but if he, like so many other hollyweirdos want to pander, and use their voice as a vise, in order to sway others to dive into this hope n change cesspool, then he’s on the boycott list I have.
I’ve just had enough of this crap to last me a life time.
capejasmine on December 10, 2009 at 8:21 PM
Obama reads off a TelePrompter. Will Smith reads off cue cards.
Fresh Prince is pretty stale.
JammieWearingFool on December 10, 2009 at 8:22 PM
“Bootlicking”?
It’s more like… well, take a guess…
newton on December 10, 2009 at 8:23 PM
You giggle? Wow! The women must LOVE that in you. ;) LOL
capejasmine on December 10, 2009 at 8:24 PM
He’s a Scientologist.
FloatingRock on December 10, 2009 at 8:25 PM
I take it Allah that you have never experienced something you could not explain.
BL@KBIRD on December 10, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Yeah, I felt the same way the first time I had sex.
Not just an evolutionary flash point for me. An evolutionary flash point for humanity!
jaime on December 10, 2009 at 8:27 PM
So does this mean that anyone born after Jan. 20th, 2009 has superpowers or no appendix?
ThePrez on December 10, 2009 at 8:30 PM
jeez Will, thought you had a brain………………………..oh well, I guess it was just an act.
khacha on December 10, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Jeeze loise! The Fresh Prince was his first acting gig no? And yes, I’m well aware of all the morons in hollywood who would be better off to stick to acting.
4shoes on December 10, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Mirage?
I think that our country needs to see a good President right now. I think that the fantasy dwellers of the left see a halo because they seem to need Him to have one.
For the sake of these poor wretches, and the rest of us, I hope that the Savior starts showing some skills and character attributes that are mostly invisible right now. Today’s speech was a good start.
I wish we could have elected a Will Smith character. Or Denzel Washington.
IlikedAUH2O on December 10, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Anyone know if Will has keeled over into full blown Scientology yet???
Ahh…I just had a ‘Flash Point’…..in my pants…
BigWyo on December 10, 2009 at 8:32 PM
For some reason I thought Fresh Prince was a little smarter than that. Could be putting on a show to get a little time on CNN. He does have a couple of big movies coming up.
angryed on December 10, 2009 at 8:32 PM
elduende
O’beyholes popped into my head when I read that.
DanaA on December 10, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Not surprising, but I really wish these actors would stop this crap. It’s tough to watch their movies knowing what douchebags they are. For example, The Departed is awesome… but I can’t pretend I’m not aware of the idiotic things Damon and Dicaprio have said over the years.
In fairness, even if he hated Obama he’d have to pretend to like him because we’re only a few years off from him being cast in “the role of his lifetime”. Come on, look at the ears!
RightWinged on December 10, 2009 at 8:34 PM
I love Will Smith.
All I’m gonna say.
nickj116 on December 10, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Morgan Freeman is such a better President then Obama. In several movies, I seem to recall.
Resolute on December 10, 2009 at 8:36 PM
I’m thinking Jada/Will Smith aren’t aware that people of Iran (who protested the crooked election) were slaughtered in the streets and Obama said nothing – not one word for 11 days. Also, M/M Smith must have missed that Obama stood by Zelaya against the wishes (courts & constitution) of Honduras! You would think, however, Jada & Will would know that Obama snubbed the Dali Lama…
Maybe the Smiths watch network news??
TN Mom on December 10, 2009 at 8:36 PM
How long will this current slobberfest go on?
tru2tx on December 10, 2009 at 8:37 PM
The flash point of human evolution… hmmm.
Does Will Smith mean that Obama represents the vapor pressure of human evolution reaching a point where it can ignite in a gigantic explosion?
I hope not.
bobbacoup on December 10, 2009 at 8:37 PM
You mean you have not? I guess God is just not into beta males.
F15Mech on December 10, 2009 at 8:38 PM
I stopped paying any attention to Will Smith a few years ago-after he whined about how racist the country that made him a millionaire was.
annoyinglittletwerp on December 10, 2009 at 8:39 PM
Looks like Smith is looking to bring The One into the safe folds of the Scientology group. This could be the new selling point for Dianetics. Voiceover: “Is Obama The One? Read the book. Has Obama been blessed by Tom Cruise? Read the book. Can Thetans be eliminated from your body? Read the book.”
cyclown on December 10, 2009 at 8:40 PM
People are becoming more spiritual, but less dogmatic in their religion, that is the answer. By the way a spiritual moment in in the eye of the beholder, one mans walk in the woods is another Walden. While one man’s sense of the divine may be an others assumption of a chemical reaction in the brain.
rob verdi on December 10, 2009 at 8:41 PM
OMG. How would MSNBC handle him?
IlikedAUH2O on December 10, 2009 at 8:41 PM
To all you conservatives across the land there’s no need to argue Obama just don’t understand.
Update of my fav song when I was 9
Daveyardbird on December 10, 2009 at 8:41 PM
My 22-month-old daughter suffered massive skull fractures in a terrible accident. She was in a coma. Her doctors did not believe she would live.
She lived.
Her doctors told us she would never walk. Never talk. Never feed herself.
Three weeks to the day after that accident she walked. Out the front door of the hospital.
A month later, she said, “God a nice man.”
My wife asked, “Have you ever seen God?”
“Oh, yes. He there when it was dark. He tell Allie ‘Go back. Not time yet.’”
So the answer is “yes.” I have had that experience. God exists. He is there. He is most definitely there.
Thanks for letting me share.
___________
RJGatorEsq. on December 10, 2009 at 8:42 PM
..A flashpoint, eh?
If you mean flash=throwing up, then, yeah, Obama made me reach a flashpoint long about Janiary 20th of this year.
C’mon, Will, old son, the waistband on the last suit you’ll ever wear is getting a little tight.
VoyskaPVO on December 10, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Seven Percent Solution on December 10, 2009 at 8:01 PM
Thanks for the link. As former USMC I tracked with this very well.
obleo on December 10, 2009 at 8:42 PM
So much for going to a W Smith movie. When a person identifies himself as an anti-american, I do no send him money.
proconstitution on December 10, 2009 at 8:46 PM
I’d want to see that graph broken down along political lines, if only for my own amusement. I have to wonder how many liberals would count Obama’s very election as a “religious or mystical experience”.
russcote on December 10, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Will Smith is queued up to be thrown under the bus for failing to state that Obama represents an “unprecedented flash point” in human evolution.
ya2daup on December 10, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Will Smith. Nice guy. Good actor.
But only that.
Clueless in the bigger picture. Who’s surprised?
TXUS on December 10, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Thank you, for sharing! I’m a doubter who wants to believe, sometimes I do, your story gives me hope.
4shoes on December 10, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Well, here is one more actor I will stop watching.
Terrye on December 10, 2009 at 8:47 PM
flash point: a critical situation having the potential of erupting in sudden violence
theperfecteconomist on December 10, 2009 at 8:47 PM
lol. O’beyholes is what they would like to turn us all into.
elduende on December 10, 2009 at 8:50 PM
anyone else notice Will’s ABs in Legend?
poppieseeds on December 10, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Darn it. I always liked Will Smith too. Unfortunately I will have to add him to my list.
Oink on December 10, 2009 at 8:53 PM
The onslaught of television programs such as the “psychic” John Edward, Ghost Hunters, A Haunting, ad nauseum.
tru2tx on December 10, 2009 at 8:53 PM
The folks in Hollywood need to put down the Victory Gin and go detox somewhere.
alwaysright43 on December 10, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Uh oh..is he talking about the Berkley study done a few years ago about the blacks in the world not being as evolved as the rest of the population? RACIST.
faol on December 10, 2009 at 8:55 PM
He just wants to secure his leading role in the Obama biopic. Can’t blame him for falling victim to the Colin Powell-esque need to prove his blackness by supporting The One.
RachDubya on December 10, 2009 at 8:56 PM
There was an article in USA Today (someone leaves them in the lunchroom, and I’m a compulsive reader) — I think it was today’s edition — about how Americans are becoming more multi-religious. Attending services of several faiths, instead of just their own.
That could be part of it. “Mystical experiences” seem to be more easily accessible in religions other than Christianity.
Tanya on December 10, 2009 at 8:59 PM
The interest and normalization of the supernatural in our culture has risen–look at the number of shows/movies that feature this element. Those who have traveled or interacted with people in cultures who practice animism, for example, can attest that episodes with the supernatural are quite common.
I think in our culture, the paranormal has lost some mystique and people are more comfortable exploring and experimenting. There is a danger, however, as I know from personal experience with both holy and unholy supernatural entities, that exploring the other-world and is not always a positive experience.
conservative pilgrim on December 10, 2009 at 8:59 PM
What Will Smith refers to as a “flash point”, I prefer to think more of in terms of a momentary wet fart.
pilamaye on December 10, 2009 at 9:02 PM
I could care less what Will Smith has to say. But I am a bit rattled by the people who, like that woman who was attending one of his speeches gushed, ‘He gonna pay my mortgage! I won’t have to worry ’bout puttin’ gas in my car no mo’!’ Morons with a religious zeal like that (because of the size of the bloc they represent) can do far more damage.
sawbuck on December 10, 2009 at 9:06 PM
What is their definition of a spiritual or mystical experience? Feeling inspired listening to some religious music? Accepting Jesus as your savior? Talking to dead people? Seeing God? Doing peyote? Reading a book written by a ghost writer for Al Gore or Obama? This survey isn’t worth much unless the question is better defined. It only shows that Americans are more touchy-feely and mystical-minded than in past decades, which is scary.
mydh12 on December 10, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Will Smith and his wife are Scientologists.
They’ve even opened up their own private school for preK-6th grade children that features a Scientology teaching curriculum developed by L. Ron Hubbard, and they have donated quite a bit of money to Scientology organizations.
When Will Smith talks about himself, he starts to sound like Tom Cruise. In fact, he’s almsot as far off the deep end as Tom Cruise when he gets going… except he doesn’t jump up and down on the furniture while physically assaulting the host.
Frankly, Will Smith seems like a decent family man but he is an elitist Scientologist with no grounding in reality at all anymore. He has been assimilated by the Scientologist Borg hive-mind and is basically just a tool parroting what he is programmed to do and say.
SilverStar830 on December 10, 2009 at 9:10 PM
Watching the true believers break down will be the best part of 2012.
jhffmn on December 10, 2009 at 9:10 PM
My two favorite scenes in The Departed, when both DeCraprio and Daemon get whacked.
john1schn on December 10, 2009 at 9:14 PM
These silly actors are making it more and more difficult to “suspend disbelief” while watching their “work”. They really are stupid people, illustrated by the lack of understanding of their audience and the whole illusion as entertainment thing.
Buckeye Babe on December 10, 2009 at 9:15 PM
That ranks up there with cold heat as the most asinine oxymoron of all time.
Congratulations, Fresh Prince, you have pwned yourself but good.
hillbillyjim on December 10, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Sure. Sexual liberation.
RushBaby on December 10, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Isn’t Will Smith a Scientologist freak?
voxpopuli on December 10, 2009 at 9:16 PM
An aging populace accumulates memories of experiences of all sorts.
Kralizec on December 10, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Yes. He and his wife both are.
SilverStar830 on December 10, 2009 at 9:19 PM
The large number of celebrity scientologists is evidence that the weak minded are easily brainwashed.
Daveyardbird on December 10, 2009 at 9:20 PM
BEHOLD…..THE CALIPH THE BLESSED, OMNIPRESENT GODLIKE BARACK I !!!!!
Does anyone now doubt that people are losing their minds in this country?
What would the left have said about people if they were worshipping a freaking POLITICIAN like Bush or Cheney?
Will Smith, Beckham, Tom Cruise all headed for the great truth of Scientology. What doofus in Hollywood is next?
We started boycotting this guys’ movies and products when we found out he was getting chummy with Cruise and being recruited to help fund Scientology.
Will…….Hollywood/Fame is going to throw you away like yesterday’s trash (after you’ve sold yourself out completely and have no soul left). Ask Marilyn Monroe, and the parade of other celebrities who sell all for fame and wind up with nothing.
Keep worshipping Caliph Barack and the mighty Queen Esther and see what it gets you.
PappyD61 on December 10, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Exactly. ****I don\’t much listen to what actors and musicians have to say about politics, but I\’m always amazed at the Stalinist bent of so many of y\’all. \”I\’ll never watch Will Smith again.\” Yeah, like when Stalin decided he didn\’t care for the politics of artists, writers and musicians and had them exiled or suppressed. God forbid that Will Smith should have an opinion that differs from yours. I wonder how I can find it in myself to watch Clint Eastwood knowing that he\’s a –gasp — conservative, or ever see a movie again with anyone who\’s ever contributed to Big Hollywood? Maybe it\’s because artists should be judged on their art, not their politics. I even find myself amused by The Nudge (sp?). Heck, he\’s a psychotic right wing freak, but it\’s free country. And, he\’s confident enough in his ideas to take as well as he gives out. Unlike so many here….
Bleeds Blue on December 10, 2009 at 9:22 PM
Only just life, the universe and everything.
splink on December 10, 2009 at 9:22 PM
Will Smith is just a Tiger Woods that hasn’t been caught yet. Can’t wait for this arrogant hedonist to get his comeuppance.
MaiDee on December 10, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Stretch and hyperbole much?
splink on December 10, 2009 at 9:24 PM
I’ve seen 2 movies with Will Smith in them-Independence Day and I am Legend.
They both sucked. He sucked as an actor. I see no reason to watch any of his other movies.
single stack on December 10, 2009 at 9:26 PM
LOLWUT
SilverStar830 on December 10, 2009 at 9:27 PM
No, we’re not Stalin, and yes it is a great thing living in a free country where we can decide not to spend our hard earned money on some dumb actor who’s politics we don’t agree with. What the hell is wrong with that?
4shoes on December 10, 2009 at 9:29 PM
Um, your drivel is dripping again. Y’oughta see somebody about that.
hillbillyjim on December 10, 2009 at 9:29 PM
God what an idiot! I hate it when actors open their mouths and minds and shatter my opinion of them. The entire notion of a single person being an evolutionary milestone is ridiculous. They don’t even understand their own ideology, surprise.
The worst part is that it isn’t even arguable that zero has done ANYTHING. How about a little peace in our time or maybe just a balanced budget or SOMETHING besides winning a rigged election and running a once run great country into the ground.
America1st on December 10, 2009 at 9:29 PM
Who knew Will Smith was so breathtakingly stupid?
clnurnberg on December 10, 2009 at 9:30 PM
As usual, you’re an idiot. Refusing to do business with someone (which is what refusing to watch their movies is) is a lot different than enslaving them and murdering them wholesale. Typical leftist turd.
single stack on December 10, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Smith’s just another pampered, uneducated star. I won’t besmirch real actors by calling Smith an ACTOR. He’s famous. he’s a rapper, he’s a political imbecile.
john1schn on December 10, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Better weed.
Funny, I’ve looked at the rise of Obama as proof of “devolution”. In a few thousand years, we’ll probably be right back where the poor souls who never left the Amazon rain forest are today. Forget movies, the hot “new” invention will be the wheel.
venividivici on December 10, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Messiah and Hollywood actors have a great deal in common: someone else feeds them the words that make them sound intelligent.
n0doz on December 10, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Laugh of the day. Thanks for that.
RachDubya on December 10, 2009 at 9:38 PM
So Cruise converted them. Huh.
conservative pilgrim on December 10, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Exactly. But also it represents the devolution of America and the death of Liberty. All one has to do is attend public schools to see the deterioration of the idea of Liberty.
America is dead.
SMith as delusional as AP, sad. But oh well, matters not, we are all doomed anyway.
klickink.wordpress.com on December 10, 2009 at 9:43 PM
“I ‘O’bot”
Hening on December 10, 2009 at 9:45 PM
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