What Would Jesus Do?

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script type="text/javascript" src="http://hb.lycos.com/hb.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ratings.lycos.com/ratings/lycosRating.js.php"></script> <script type="text/javascript"><![CDATA[//><!]]></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://scripts.lycos.com/catman/init.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-start.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-middle.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-end.js"></script> <noscript> <img src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/img/common/ot_noscript.gif?rand=578813" alt="" width="1" height="1" />  <iframe frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" width="728" height="90" src="http://ad.yieldmanager.com/st?ad_type=iframe&ad_size=728x90&section=209094"></iframe>  </noscript> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="06c085a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>The David Kaye Web Site</b></FONT><B>    </b><B> |     </b><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The David Kaye Web Site"><U><B>home</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Backstreet Boys"><U>Backstreet Boys</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Closet"><U>The Closet</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cobbler"><U>Cobbler</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Descartes Contributions to Contemporary "><U>Descartes' Contributions to Contemporary Mathematics</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Eoanthropus dawsonii"><U>Eoanthropus dawsonii</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gays in the Military"><U>Gays in the Military</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Gonads of Leibniz"><U>The Gonads of Leibniz</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gooey Eyes"><U>Gooey Eyes</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Nice Try"><U>A Nice Try</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Old Things"><U>Old Things</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Person"><U>Person</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Positive/Negative"><U>Positive/Negative</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Sermon on Masturbation"><U>A Sermon on Masturbation</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Stratfords 1999 West Side Story"><U>Stratford's 1999 West Side Story</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Sysiphean Predicament"><U>The Sysiphean Predicament</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="And This is My Beloved"><U>And This is My Beloved</U></A>   |   <B>What Would Jesus Do?</b>   |   <A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Womens Fashions"><U>Women's Fashions</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="06dd2e83.jpg"> <div> David Aaron Kaye </div> <div> December 21, 1998 </div> <div> Existentialism</div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:dakaye@yahoo.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:dakaye@yahoo.com"><U>dakaye@yahoo.com</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>What Would Jesus Do?</I></div> <div> If I was a character in a play, I would not want to be the Christ like figure. So many films, television programs, and plays have the main character a person who always makes the morally right decision based on what that person knows, such was Atticus Finch and Annie Sullivan. The most interesting character is not the one who acts according to "What Would Jesus Do?" but the one who doesn't. In the story I wrote earlier for this class, "Positive/Negative", the main character was no Christ like figure. She was one with extreme character flaws. She had a brilliant mind that proved her biggest flaw and found that emotions played a far greater role in her decision making than she wished. </div> <bR> <div> Antonio Saradin's play, <I>La Tosca</I>, is a story about a woman who is tortured by a Lieutenant, Scarpia, during the Second French Revolution into giving the location of an escaped political prisoner and her body in exchange for the life of her lover. After the order has been sent to free her lover, she murders Scarpia. Scarpia is an epitome of villainy, and is often compared with Jago. At one point in his attempt to get Tosca to bed with him he says, "How you hate me!... Enraged with love, enraged with hate. It's all the same to me." </div> <bR> <div> I find Scarpia's character the most preferable on to play. The character with the most mental illness or instability is usually the character with the most development. </div> <bR> <div> I was riding on a public bus in Okemos when a man with Schizophrenia got on. He was laughing constantly. He commented once, "Hey, that's a good one!" I came to the conclusion that the voice in his head was constantly telling jokes. This extreme case of mental illness stands out in my mind. I don't remember the other riders on that trip who just sat there and behaved themselves appropriately. </div> <bR> <div> The desire to be remembered as a character in a play has deep roots. It fulfills my desire to feel important - the desire of my id. In my own experience of acting, the roles I liked best were those that had the extreme personalities. I played a super-hero named "Condom Man" who would go into couple's bedrooms and be obnoxious as I taught them how to put on a condom. I played many flaming gay men whose femininity was the center of attention. I played a rapist, and for one performance in that role the audience got to ask me questions as a rapist. Usually audience members like to talk to me afterwards, but when this performance was over, all of the audience avoided me. I felt an uneasy happiness that I had portrayed the role well. The extreme personality was convincing. I had not only fulfilled my id's desire to feel important, but also symbolically fulfilled the id's desire to hurt others. </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>