Phony Niceness

Religious people seem to always want to suck you into their circle. Some days it is the Mormon coming by your house on a bicycle trying to convert you, or it is the preacher standing on the corner near your college trying to give you the new testament. They always act really nice toward you at the same time, so that it is hard to get annoyed. The unfortunate part is that it is a phony niceness, and just under their image there is an animal like all the rest of us. It is interesting how we can walk around acting nice, but I wonder what would happen if there was some kind of civil unrest or we ran out of food. We would just revert back to the jungle. There is an old Twilight Zone episode that takes place in the 1950's during the cold war, about a family that has the only bomb shelter on the block. One evening they invite a bunch of their friends over from the neighborhood, and they are having a jolly ol' time. And of course you know how the 1950's was the epitome of phony niceness. Well anyhow, suddenly the radio announces that there will likely be a nuclear attack. What happens is that the family moves into their bomb shelter, but everyone else goes into a panic and ends up acting like a bunch of maniacs and completely tear up the family's bomb shelter to get in themselves. Right after they have done that, the radio announcer suddenly comes on to say that it was a false alarm. Ofcourse everyone just stands there looking like complete idiots, and they will never view their neighbors the same way again. The point is, is that unless you change yourself with the truth, understand that you are not your mind, and that you are an immortal spirit in a mortal body, you cannot separate yourself from the beast within. We are bloodthirsty animals, right under the surface. We are just obedient to authority for the most part, and that is called civilization: when authority has successfully hid the truth about you under the guise of manners.

Oh and here is the Twilight Zone episode in case you want to watch it. It is really good. In fact many Twilight Zones have really great lessons in them (only the 1950s-60s series though, the 1980s one was crap).

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/entertainment/watch/v15133435DHMr5sx9