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Having an abstract idea does not equal brainwashing. Just stop.
You don't know what "brainwash" means.
Having an abstract idea does not equal brainwashing. Just stop.
If you came into the world - a clean slate- and then were given a set of programs that you now consider "fact" - which may or not be fact - you have certainly been brainwashed.
If you have a different explanation - please share.
If you think you know something as "fact" when it may or may not be "fact" - then what do you call it?
You (and I and everyone else) were programmed from birth. If this is not brainwashing - what is?
The only explanation here is that you are a ing idiot.
Give an example of one of these programs.
I have no idea what the nonsense you are spouting. I just want you to shut up at this point.If you have a different explanation - please share.
It's called being wrong, obviously.
Programmed with what? Programmed about what? How does this have to do with believing in God?You (and I and everyone else) were programmed from birth. If this is not brainwashing - what is?
There is at least one person in this thread that is definitely brainwashed.
Care to take a guess which one it is?
I'd call it using rational thinking. After all, you don't KNOW that the sun will come up tomorrow. Does that mean you should just spend everything you have tonight on an awesome hooker party?
There's a thousand words for it. Theory. Hunch. Faith. etc.... c'mon man, think thru this just a little bit.
Well, one of the first ways of knowing if you are brainwashed - is that when your beliefs are questioned or attacked - you are stung. You feel like lashing out.
Pretty much describes your post.
Rasing children within a framework of acceptable social mores is not ing programming. Programming is a passive, receiver term. Raising a child is interactive, not programming.
yes.
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Look at the replies. Everyone lashes out because their views/beliefs/false thinking has been questioned or attacked. Clear sign of brainwashing.
If you think you know god does or doesn't exist - how can you not be brainwashed if no one on this planet knows this answer. How can you be the one that knows?
You don't. You are brainwashed into believing that you KNOW.
Brainwashing expert ^
We're lashing out because you are posting moronic bull .
Thinking and knowledge are not the same thing. I think that God doesn't exist. If God did exist, that would make me wrong--not brainwashed.If you think you know god does or doesn't exist - how can you not be brainwashed if no one on this planet knows this answer.
Stop throwing around terms you don't know the meaning of, dummy.You don't. You are brainwashed into believing that you KNOW.
Before all of you go into attack/insult/childish modes...let me state ...this is in regards to matters of love/god/freedom/spirituality. etc...
NOT regarding mundane and mechanical things like learning to drive a car, learning to do math, learning to walk, learning to brush your teeth - bs
I am referring to the above matters only. Things in life that matter. Not the mechanical robotic things that we all learned how to do to survive.
Otherwise idiots will turn it into another bashfest.
Having faith or believing in something that is not demonstrably evident is not brainwashing. Seriously. Go find a clinical definition of brainwashing then come back to this conversation.
Fair enough - you admit you THINK you know that god doesn't exist. Then I will take you at your word that you are NOT one of the people that bashes religious believers because they THINK they know , right?
Thinking and knowledge are not the same thing. I think that God doesn't exist. If God did exist, that would make me wrong--not brainwashed.
Stop throwing around terms you don't know the meaning of, dummy.
This is not how you prefaced the discussion. That you now need to clarify the boundaries is more than a little telling.
Love is a result of chemical reactions in the brain.
Gods are a result of humanity's lack of knowledge.
Freedom is a concept created by humans.
Spirituality has so many different meanings, depending on the person, that it is a meaningless word.
Where does the brainwashing come in?
How's this;
brainwash |ˈbrānˌwô sh; -ˌwä sh |verb [ trans. ]make (someone) adopt radically different beliefs by using systematic andoften forcible pressure : the organization could brainwash young people | they have been brainwashed into conformity and subservience.
How bout that?
Wrong. I bash people for believing in God because they do so for poor reasons.
One can believe that aliens exist based off the vastness of the universe and the fact that life has already sprouted up here. That would be a reasonable belief, but it wouldn't be knowledge.
People who believe in the supernatural don't have any logical basis for their beliefs, which makes them subject to ridicule.
You haven't made any connection whatsoever between the definition of "brainwash" and the claim that you are asserting. All you have done is vaguely claim that everybody has been brainwashed, and then you equated being wrong with being brainwashed, which aren't the same thing.
So you bash people who have been brainwashed into believing that God exists because you have been brainwashed into believing that God doesn't exist.
Got it! Thanks!
Good. Now, you've got to define the elements of brainwashing and apply them to context..ie radically different beliefs in context to X. Get to work.
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