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could you be brainwashed into thinking you're posting on a forum?
In other words silverblk, if you accept that your premise on nearly anything could be due to brainwashing, why should we believe you on anything?
could you be brainwashed into thinking you're posting on a forum?
What is spirituality?
And I chose not to be a Christian, so I am not brainwashed there.
Yes, it could very well be the case. Which part of -- WE-- did you miss?
I stated from the top - this is everyone's story.
So if you could possibly be brainwashed, about anything and everything, what makes YOUR idea of what reality is have any more power to it than anyone else's ideas? Why should we listen to YOUR ideas of what the world is like when they might not be real either?
This is not anyone's story. The story is so fundamentally flawed in the assumptive behavior of cognitive events, that it's not even intelligent fiction.
It's utter and complete ignorance. To predicate any conclusion upon asinine narratives like " - he just went on autopilot and shrugged and said, “meh- I’ve seen squirrels." is a study in abject stupidity.
That you can't/won't see this is telling.
I am not discussing the merits of formulas and textbook teaching - I am coming from a different world. I am like you and everyone else ...maybe there is one difference;
I might have reacted a little defensively when I began to discover some of my brainwashing and tried to defend my "knowledge" my "status" my "culture" my " les" etc...
But something else happened....I began to really force myself to remain open...for one good reason. I began to look around at the world and see the unhappiness, the condition of the world. I saw people killing each other and wars, oppression and blah-blah - the entire human stupidity --and I wondered....who is doing this?
It is people just like me doing this? How did they become this way? How did they arrive at this?
I continued looking and remaining open so I continued looking at myself. How did I arrive here? How was I put together?
Instead of doing what everyone is doing here - which is - attack -- I instead grew very angry that someone or some society brainwashed me.
Freddie's story might explain some of that - but it appears that I won't continue to waste my time showing that...
Regardless - I got angry at the brainwashers -- for awhile -- then just tried to re-program myself.
You guys though - I am baffled as to why you would not want to find out how you were brainwashed...I am not surprised ..but It just seems to me that I would be more interested in how a brainwashing happens than trying to insult the person showing me how it could happen.
smh
And I don't get this guy's irrational hatred of labels. If we didn't have labels, how would be able to communicate? We wouldn't even be able to characterize a squirrel without labels.
The majority of what sbm has posted over these last few days has been fringe nonsense.
Agreed. Your world is predicated upon ignorance....where "We don't need no book learnin'!" appears to subs ute for actual introspection and examination.
The answers to many of your questions are already out there, yet you can't be bothered to look.
Tautological approach is tautological.
Might want to visit "self-actualization" at teh google while you're at it.
I think it takes a lot more courage and openness to do the opposite of what has been drilled into you by people who were brainwashed than to go outside of that and find your own way - but we all have opinions.
You might see a Donald Trump and see a successful guy who makes millions and try to emulate and applaud him.
I might see a brainwashed person with bad hair and greedy enough to continue suing people and continue to chase ($$) something that will never bring true happiness. I might also see someone who has no need to continue this chase and wonder - why is he still chasing those things that he already has in abundance?
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silverblk mystix actually criticized the use of basic logic multiple times, and called anybody who used it in the context of religion "brainwashed." You know from the get go that his argument isn't going to make sense, since he did that.
He also called love a complete mystery and brushed off the scientific explanation for it. He's been posting cultish, fringe nonsense that he had labeled as "truth."
Show me how Paiget was brainwashed. That you are completely ignorant of his work will make that impossible.
My way to discovery is largely through logic and observation. Although, inexplicably, I root for the Dallas Cowboys, so you might be on to something there.
How about this? There is not a binary solution set for your flawed premise. Brainwashed/Not Brainwashed is a ridiculous outcome.
Lunch time for me. I've apparently been brainwashed to eat when I'm hungry. Go figure.
You forgot to answer this question Silverblk
In fact Silverblk, how do you know that you weren't brainwashed by someone/something else in the middle of your reprogramming?
I will leave you with something else.
I heard your music and consider you a great musician. I have held this respect for you since then - in spite of your recent and constant attacks and insults towards me.
I am noticing you a bit angry and defensive and it is interesting.
This is a great question - I thought I answered it but I think I answered one part of it. In case you missed it - yes it is possible that I was also brainwashed to believe that.
The other part - very interesting and a great question;
Why should anyone listen to me? Or my version?
Great.
You should always investigate it. Research it. Question it. You shouldn't take my word for it - you should question it, dissect it, never stop - but hopefully --in the end it is truth you are searching for. Not re-confirming what you already know but hopefully arriving at the closest you can ever come to truth.
Not from a book or from someone only because he has credentials but truth.
Wherever I am in my journey is not where I will end up at...I don't know where on the percentage scale I am at ...in Freddie's case ...you can see where he went from 100% and went down....
If I came into the world at 100% and lost it through brainwashing...I probably am still pretty blind.
Hope to one day eradicate a lot more of my brainwashing.
What a re ed waste of time... you REALLY need a life
Lrn2contextualize. I'm not defensive...I've got nothing to defend. I'm not angry...I've got nothing to be angry about. I've not insulted your nor attacked you. I've insulted and attacked your flawed premise and the resultant position you are taking on this.
Understood. Read through some of your posts directed at me - you might see it. No big deal - just observing it.
now if you were boutons......
, I've even lightened up on him.
I thought we already established this.
In mechanical things...you are right...we need to function, blah blah....
this is not about robotic,mechanical trained things....
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