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Will Smith in newest GQ on his marriage to Jada Pinkett

"Jada never believed in conventional marriage," Will said in a recent interview with GQ. "Jada had family members that had an unconventional relationship.

So she grew up in a way that was very different than how I grew up."

The two came to the decision after having long discussions about what it meant to have a perfect relationship.

Will Smith has opened up about his open marriage in a new interview with GQ Magazine.

According to Smith, him and Jada Pinkett had to have many “significant endless discussions about, what is relational perfection?” he said.

“What is the perfect way to interact as a couple?

And for the large part of our relationship, monogamy was what we chose, not thinking of monogamy as the only relational perfection.”

It seems the power couple made the decision in 2011 after much arguing, so much so that their daughter Willow begged them to stop.

Smith says they had to rework their marriage and mold it into something that worked for them.

“Marriage for us can’t be a prison.

And I don’t suggest our road for anybody...

But the experiences that the freedoms that we’ve given one another and the unconditional support, to me, is the highest definition of love”

During their 24 year marriage, Smith confirmed that both he and Jada have engaged in sexual relationships outside of their relationship.

"We have given each other trust and freedom, with the belief that everybody has to find their own way,” he said.

Will Smith needed some help in the love department when it came to dealing with his open marriage to Jada Pinkett Smith, so he enlisted the help of love and intimacy coach Michaela Boehm to fix his little problem.

Boehm spoke to Insider about why couples are urged to cheat on their significant other, days after Smith, 53, told GQ that his biggest fantasy was to have a “harem” of girlfriends that included actress Halle Berry and dancer Misty Copeland.

According to Boehm, people in relationships cheat due to unexplored fantasies.

“In many people, the gap between what’s expected in a committed relationship and what they haven’t explored for themselves creates problems.

That’s why so many people get divorced or cheat, or do strange things within the relationship,” Boehm explained.

She also added that visualizing your deepest and darkest desires and fears “allows you to feel how the experience sits in your body, without any real repercussions.”

Instead of acting out on the feeling, she tells her clients to picture it.

Her aim is to remove the shameful stigma around one’s own fantasies.

“A lot of people just go along for all kinds of reasons.

There typically comes a moment where enough growing up or exploration has happened and the life chosen as a late teenager might no longer fit,” Boehm continued.

The “Switch” rapper admitted to GQ in the profile cover story that “the idea of traveling with 20 women that I loved and took care of and all of that, it seemed like a really great idea.”

Are Will & Jada anomaly’s or are they beginning to represent the norm?

Let us take a look at some more stats:

The Millennial Spiritual Revolution

There are more than two dozen examples of Millennials being substantially more likely than any other generation to reject biblical principles in favor of more worldly spiritual perspectives and practices.

Millennials, defined in the CRC research as people born between 1985 and 2002 (i.e., aged 18 to 36 at the time of the survey), are far more likely than any other generation to:

Define success in life as happiness, personal freedom, or productivity without oppression

Consider an abortion performed to reduce personal economic or emotional discomfort to be morally acceptable

Consider premarital sex with someone expected to be their future spouse to be morally acceptable

Deem reincarnation a real possibility

Be liberal regarding fiscal and social policies

Champion liberal theology

Millennials and Absolutes

Millennials were also much less likely than Americans from older generations to hold numerous positions, such as:

Being deeply committed to practicing their religious faith

Believing that the universe was designed, created, and is maintained by God

Believing that human beings were created by God, in His image, but are undermined by personal sin and therefore need to be redeemed through Jesus Christ

Accepting the idea of “original sin”

Agreeing that the universal purpose of humanity is to know, love and serve God with all of our heart, mind, strength and soul

Embracing the Bible as their primary source of moral guidance

Believing that every moral choice we make either honors or dishonors God

Accepting the notion of God being the all-knowing, all-powerful and just creator of the universe who still rules that universe today

Considering Satan to be a real and influential being

Participating in religious activities such as worshipping God; praying to God; studying the Bible; seeking and following God’s will; and asking for God’s forgiveness for their sins

Identifying as a Christian

Believing that after they die they will spend eternity in God’s presence solely because they have confessed their sins and have accepted Jesus Christ as their savior

Defintion:

Pragmatic Theory of Truth: Any idea upon which we can ride … any idea that will carry us prosperously from any one part of our experience to any other part, linking things satisfactorily, working securely, simplifying, saving labour, is … true INSTRUMENTALLY.’

Basic idea: Whatever leads to the most prosperous conclusion is what is true

Hilter & Stalin- Eliminate your problems which would lead to prosperity

Moral Relativism:is a theory, which claims that there are no universally valid moral principles.

Normative ethical relativism theory says that the moral rightness and wrongness of actions varies from society to society and that there are no absolute universal moral standards binding on all men at all times.

The theory claims that all thinking about the basic principles of morality (Ethics) is always relative.

Each culture establishes the basic values and principles that serve as the foundation for morality.

The theory claims that this is the case now, has always been the case and will always be the case.

Basic Idea: The society or culture you live determines right or wrong.

It is not a transcendent axiom.

It is a social construct.

Meaning no culture has a right to tell another culture what they doing is wrong.

Essentially morals and values are learned not absolute.

Ex: Female Circumcision, China Forced Abortion, native countries who worship the creation

Situational Ethicist: They look past any standard of right & wrong and simply perform what the circumstances demand.

They determine right or wrong based on the situation presented to them.

Basic Idea: Right or Wrong is determined by each situation rather than by a divine standard.

The Early Sciencetist who constructed Racial catagories to justify slavery.

Republican Party

Post Modernism:Postmodernism, born under western secular conditions, has the following characteristics: it emphasizes pluralism and relativism and rejects any certain belief and absolute value; it conflicts with essentialism, and considers human identity to be a social construct; it rejects the idea that values are based on developmental realities and also rejects the essential influence of human actions on human destiny.

In educational goals, postmodernism emphasizes the institutionalization of pluralism, the strengthening of self-organized morality in learners and in educational principles, avoiding dogmatism, fighting against systematicity and emphasizing on individual freedoms.

In educational methods, it emphasizes learner-centered discourse, serious attention to the marginalized people, and the denial of pattern-based ability

Basic idea: Post modernism is a term used to describe a belief that encourages pluralism meaning the blending of cultures without regard to ethical differences.

The Post modernist relishes the ethical differences without having an opinion if that ethical belief is right or wrong.

The only wrong to the Post modernist “is to say something is wrong” They emphasis the person autonomy to figure out their own moral framework without regard to how that framework affects anyone around them.

It emphasis the learner over the teacher.

The teacher no longer teaches, nor guides, the teacher simply let’s the learner explore.

Ex Democratic Party

Post-Truth Era: Truth is unknowable and doesn’t matter.

Basic Idea: “Who cares” live your own truth

Result: Cancel Culture: Any word of rebuke, correction or disagreement is considered damaging to the psyche and therefore deemed off-limits

That has lead to:

No children singled out in school for doing well and everyone getting the same reward so kids don’t fell bad

Participation rewards in sports

Starting the score over after two quarters because the score might hurt someone’s feelings.

Teaching not teaching moral and ethical principles, but Teacher simple just letting kids figure things out without an boundaries.

Will Smith & Jada stated that they never put an boundaries on the children.

And wherever their mind went they allowed them that freedom.

How has the affected the Church?

The church is not a building it is made up of people from the world.

The people who make up the church are largely biblically illiterate, so these philosophies that undergird our culture are able to invade the church and effectively allow the church to function in the same way as the world.

The Bible predicted this:

Let us define Truth:

Truth: That which corresponds to reality

mathematical truths: 2+2=4

Cosmological truths: The Sun rises in the east and sets in the west

scientific truths: What goes up must come down