Honor Thy Fathers

“Honor thy father” is one of the best-known phrases — and one of the most misunderstood.

When we’re kids, we look up to our fathers (and mothers), but when we become teenagers, we find many reasons not to “honor thy father”. This is because our DNA sequences tell us to move forward instead of looking backward. Our interpretation is then rebellion against the parent, but it’s really a series of mathematical sequences that tell us to let the ancestors and the past go.

Part of the problem is “honor thy father” is interpreted to mean “do as you’re told by your parents or be as your parents”. What it really means is this: we must recognize the foundations of those who have come before us, but we must also recognize their ignorance. We can honor them by adding to their knowledge and moving one step above their ignorance.

When you teach this to your children, they will move a step above you. This is evolution.

Watch parents in the audience as their children graduate from college, and you can see their pride and joy. The parents do not feel like that because their children are about to become them; instead, it is because they know their children have received knowledge they do not have and are preparing to make their own way in the world based on that new knowledge.