Thursday, December 10, 2015

Midterm Paper

So I'm late on this blog, but I'm going to blog on my midterm paper. I have had many papers to write this semester, but the only one that I have enjoyed was my midterm paper for Intro to Digital Media Art. I chose to write about the Gospel as Comedy through the eyes of Forrest Gump. It seems like a strange concept to compare Jesus Christ to a mentally-retard, middle-aged man, but after watching the film and analyzing it for this paper, I have found a lot more parallels with the Bible than I had thought there would be! I think that the most important thing that I learned from writing this paper is that you can learn about faith and religion and the gospel from anywhere. Forrest Gump is not meant to teach you anything from the Gospel, but it did. And I do not think that we should try to connect everything we are exposed to to the Gospel, but I do think that if we see something that makes us thinks of the Gospel that we should pursue that connects because it's like a rabbit hole to understanding. I just wanted to post and appeal to you suggesting that you should not deny that mental connection, but rather embrace it because it can help us in our Spiritual life and growth.
can you spot the Biblical parallelisms in this clip?

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