Has not watching tv changed you?

And what you do is also up to you. But millions of hypnotized Mind Slaves glued to their Idiot Boxes must and will have an affect on the planet I am forced to share with them.

And so I am reduced to trying to help them see how harmful this media is to their minds and their spirits.

Ubsurprisingly, this is a daunting and thankless task.

People just love their opiate so much!

I'm a father of 7

Nobody cared or even knew who Oprah was or what she did or where she went as a example in my household.

Completely oblivious !

Change.. heck yes !

Amen !

P.S. I have a 50" with Cerwin Vega/ JVC surround sound sys in the living room too. DVD night is becoming passe we tend to mock movies before we even watch them wondering how crappy this movie will be and end up watching old classics like Shawn of the Dead, V and the likes.

Sadly in my area in the last 5 or 6 years since we dumped cable then the rabbit ears I think I might have come across one other person(family) who turned off the tube. In my line of work I speak to people daily.


Cheers!

There is a pretty big difference between sitting on a couch having programming shoved AT YOU as opposed to sitting on a computer SEEKING INFORMATION FOR YOU.

The main difference is rather or not the person is seeking information. Most tv-tards are not, most internet-tards are not. When one is seeking truth the internet is obviously a much better source for info in that it doesn't PUSH to you but you choose what to consume.

Does that which they consume equal truth? Not my place to say. But I know they have a better chance of finding truth online then pre-programmed TV.

The bolded part above makes all the difference.

People watching TV are not using their minds; TV is a mean of achieving the direct opposite: turning their minds off. Numbing themselves with pre-digested ideas and mindless entertainment.

That is its primary evil. It literally puts you into a hypnotic state. There is a mountain of evidence that this is so; it is beyond dispute that TV changes your brainwave pattern.

Now, who do you think is very eager to have you in this hypnotic state? Could it be the same government who gave people money so they could buy themselves a digital TV?

Even if that point of view is just alarmist (after all, we are on a conspiracy website!) the inescapable fact remains that TV affects the minds of those who watch it in ways that radio or print media do not.

The main difference is that reading forces the reader to use his own mind. His mind must work to decipher the written language into meaningful concepts. When this process is going on, he will be actively evaluating the ideas being presented, rather than turning into a slack-jawed, drooling receptacle for whatever information the programmer chooses to deliver.

Which is likelier to occur: A man who is reading/processing abstractions will read a lie or an attempt at propaganda and reject it? Or the man hypnotically watching TV will have that same lie presented on a 'news channel' and reject it?

And for those who will say, "TV can't affect me because I'm 'awake'!", you overlook a rather glaring fact.

You don't live in a vacuum. For every person who can conceivably watch TV without harm there are literally millions who cannot.

I'm willing to do without it entirely if it means that my less aware neighbors will no longer have their minds destroyed by it.

Aren't you?

My point was to counter AC1554363's argument that there is no difference between TV watchers and Internet users. With the exception of the Facebook crowd there is one hell of a difference.

Your post points that out quite nicely.

Agreed. The hypnotic and subliminal effects of all television viewing is a thread in itself.



Last Edited by IRQ_1 on 09/18/2011 10:41 AM