As a fan of all things 80s, Ghostbusters was probably my favorite movie before The Goonies came out. A couple of Halloweens ago, a local movie theater showed the 1984 film on the big screen, and we didn’t miss it.
When Ray, one of the ghostbusters, tells the malignant entity Gozer the Gozerian that she has to cease her supernatural activities and go back to where she came from, she asks him if he is a god. And Ray answers…no. She then tells him that they need to die and attempts to kill all the ghostbusters.
After they are able to recover from being zapped and nearly blasted off the rooftop, Winston, one of the other ghostbusters, tells Ray, “Ray. Whenever anybody asks you if you’re a god, you say YES!”
The lesson here is faking it or telling a little white lie sometimes is acceptable. Especially if you are in a scary situation, like I don’t know, dealing with an ancient, ultra-powerful, malignant entity from another dimension who wants to destroy the world.
