Theres a lot of people who always knew this! And its not just children who can't distinguish fantasy from fiction on television. What a powerful tool for abuse by those in power!

Originally posted by Vikturtle
Strange, though, how people reacted when they found out and I couldn't discuss their programs with them. Some even seemed a little angry about it.

I get that about not watching the news or horror/cop shows. I don't watch any news whatsoever !!

I don't need to see/hear who killed, raped, stole from, or invaded.
Nor do I want to watch movies/shows of the same.
I'm sick of violence.

Yet people think I'm nuts for wanting no part of it.

Very interesting thread.

I'm gonna have to come back to read it all.

TV is indeed the banal scourge of our Society today.
MY friends you are best advised to not invest in its fancy imagery of smoke and mirrors where the subtle mind is proved to be a haven for discordant thoughts of unbecoming and of the true happiness and joy that there is to life.
Why cant we put a petition in for a World NO TV day. As there is all sorts of other frivolous World.."this and that" Days. Why cant we have one that will mean something on a grander scale?

I don't watch any TV at all, and I'm dumber than a box of crap. I'm also chronically depressed and have absolutely no positive self image... at all.

So there's got to be some other cause besides television. Perhaps it's reality? I would nominate reality as a good reason for the "reptile mind" to be in hiding. Reality sucks.

Originally posted by mattifikation

I'm dumber than a box of crap

I think this particular one-liner will be ok

Library !!

I think TV makes you more reactive and emotional while you are watching it, then you suffer from a kind of withdrawl afterwards, when you switch off the TV, where you enter a semi-depressed unemotional state. The TV programs you by manipulating your emotions while the lizard brain is turned on. Then when you turn off the TV and enter the depressed state the programming sticks with you and your emotions respond automatically to the programming you received, because in your depressed state you are less able to form new emotions. Only the old, programmed emotions are able to resurface. That's the main reason why TV advertising is so effective.

TV advertisments usually feature some kind of familiar social situation, so that real-life situations can trigger the pre-programmed lizard-brain response. For example, "Oh, here comes a pretty girl. She won't like me unless I smell like Axe body spray."

There are some very good points made here about why doing other things than watching TV such as going outside and doing something physical is more productive, obviously.

However, how is somebody who's watching a show any different then the millions of people throughout history who go to a play at the theatre?

Do you think what you watch and hear at a theatre is just as harmful considering how realistic technology is today in a lot of homes that can reproduce that theathre visual/audio experience?

Is going to a theatrical play and seeing a beautiful women on stage trigger anything different then if you saw it on a TV? Or, is TV more harmful or triggering more of that "reptilian brain" more then it did for Romans watching people slaughtered in a colloseum versus watching a horror flick?



Aside from becoming less physical and maybe less social I don't see TV increasing any primitive parts of the brain anymore then what we already see out in the real world already.

Being in Alpha state isn't a bad thing, it just depends on what you do with it. For the purposes of brainwashing or marketing though, it can be like being hypnotized where Neuro-Linguist Programing becomes easier as does suggestive manipulation. Watching TV you can almost get an idea of who is regurgitating what they think is a "style" of TV/film, and who is using this stuff specifically to manipulate -cough-politicians and the news-cough-

Theoritically, that article just scratched the surface of possible "brainwashing" methods that the TV is capable of. Most people don't talk about the fact that you can have a subliminal track of both audio & video going at all times that may or may not even be traceable with recording devices. Especially when you get into quantum theory kind of stuff & emf fields.

Everyone just has to remember, when it comes to mind tricks. Once you know of the trick, it's pretty much useless. Kind like the old "I got your nose!" magic trick people do to kids. But once the child realizes...uh my nose is still on my face. It doesn't work to well after that. Same thing with a lot of the lame-ass voodoo the people with money and power might try.

I haven't watched tv for years, I don't see a point anymore... the media is the biggest brainwash i've ever seen and I want nothing to do with it, I'd rather read and learn factual information then watch senseless shows infront of the tv.

but do you think aliens and extraterrestrials are watching tv right this instant

^ Do you think so?

Do you think they project thoughts through the T.V used on a subliminal level to control your thought patterns?

Moving on with the topic, to me...T.V is the ultimate waste of time...in most cases. There are a few shows out there that put your mind into some serious work, doing some serious thinking, but, the funny thing is...most people choose not to stimulate their brains. They choose to be lazy, foolish and gullible.

Ahh...how humanity baffles me.