What Would Jesus Do?

What Would Jesus Do? by Roxanne McDonald

The question has gotten alot of mileage, given Jameka and now Amber’s propensities in faith and Dick’s agnostic adversity. And the question is mulled over, as we see the “good” guy [the pious gal] doesn’t necessarily win in the case of Big Brother competition, nor do the good or evil stay true to anything, not their words, not themselves, and obviously not to each other.

How much is Jameka regretting having exposed her faith?

Yes, the whole dynamic lends itself to big-time trust issues.
Yes, the whole phenomenon of living together is bastardized exponentially once the game is “on”.
And yes, this week, this Tuesday, anyway, the odds (intended as such by Dick) are in favor of the mighty five voting ED’s mean, taunting, mocking, insulting, confrontational ass out.

But we at home can no longer count on the keeping to what are often knee-jerk decisions any more than we can trust in morality, justice, putting money where mouth is, keeping word, or following logical trend. No such things this season on Big Brother as staying true to agreements, emotions, and mores.

Example: I hate Jen and will guarantee she is miserable every day she is here has become first a ridiculous joke of a truce and a Jen is one of us and now a silent separation of sorts [with Dick ensuring EVERYone is going over to the enemy].

Another questionable “strategy” is using someone as a “pawn”. The pawn ends up going home 80 or 90 percent of the time. [In fact, as I write this, Dustin has been put up as a pawn (in Daniele’s place, against Dick), and Dick is thrilled, for as he says, “How many times in this game have we seen the pawn go home?” Exactly.

And another common bullshit copout backstabbing move—a classic Big Brother “strategy” that is both despicable and delightfully entertaining at the same time is the out-and-out LIE.

Dr. Will popularized this one with conscious, intentional malice and full knowledge of the deleterious outcome possibilities behind it. It is understood that the lie builds one’s chances for staying and for winning. (That’s not what I am emphasizing, here, that is.)

But I am not sure this season if 1) those committing the theme-of-the-BB8 House (Lies, lies, lies, yeahhh) are well-intended to start, then driven by cowardice when houseguests turn over their word; 2) they are fickle and really bad at the game and the lies are in effect mistakes in their

strategies because they aren’t, it turns out, smart enough to fashion a promise that turns into a lie; or whether 3) they have the propensity Will had and actually can handle the power of the lie, the power yielded by the manipulation and are just really clever and really good at faking it [the switch, the flip]…, making the resulting sell-out what the Iago-like John Malkovich Dangerous Liasons character, Vicomte de Valmont, CLAIMS is “beyond my control” when all the time the scheme is well wrought and completely under his [or her] control.

I swear I will not put you up. I promise I will put you up as a pawn and will do everything in my power to keep you from going home. You are my friend. The check is in the mail. I won’t…in your mouth. Along those lines.

And this eighteenth installment of Big Brother—with Dick winning PoV and the others [minus Jameka and Daniele at first] scurrying frantically after Jessica as she retreats in anger/fear to the HoH room…the all-of-a-sudden loyal ones right on her ass—makes me again wonder the strength of and value of conviction.

Is it cowardice, just good old human nature, or an actual move of wisdom to follow the HoH—to trash alliances, to turn on deals, to break already tenuous bonds?

What with all that God and Jesus talk getting bandied about and volleying back and forth between being the way, the power, and then the whoops God just split on me for that competition…we are left with that age-old debate over what true Christians do and say, what is and is not Christian speech, action, and mentality.

Yeeeah, what WOULD Jesus do if he were trapped in this season’s Big Brother House?

Probably have a nervous breakdown, be right in there with Amber, bawling uncontrollably.

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