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    Is TV etc. brainwashing us?

    Brainwash: verb, pressurize (someone) into adopting radically different beliefs by using systematic and often forcible means.

    We can learn by repetition. I know that six sevens are forty-two because I repeated it aloud with my infant's class time and time again. It wasn't radical or different, but it was a fact and by a systematic means I was taught it and won't forget it. So what is TV etc. systematically teaching us? What's repeated over and over again systematically affecting people's beliefs?

    1. Evolution. How many times have you watched a nature documentary and someone says that a mountain or river or whatever is "X" million years old? It's not a geology show is it? No but drip, drip, drip; systematically dropping the idea of old age earth and evolution into people's minds while they're watching something else.
    2. Homosexuality. The only new TV drama I watch is Doctor Who and it has the homosexual characters. They add nothing to the story line, their sexual sins don't need to be in the show, but drip, drip, drip. I can't remember noticing it the first time I watched the shows but there are a quiet a number of homosexual characters in Midsomer Murders all portrayed in a good light. The latest I saw weren't part of the plot in any way. Drip, drip, drip. Agatha Christie didn't put homosexuals in her novels, but when they were adapted for TV ... drip, drip, drip, you're there to be entertained but homosexuality being normal it being put into your mind.
    3. Clergy. The first time I noticed this would have been 30+ years ago in a Little Golden Book. It was a simple story of a kid/rabbit rushing off to school as he thought he was late and it turned out to be Saturday. No probs, but just one person in the background images in the book is portrayed as doing something wrong, someone is pulled over by the police; a clergyman.

      In the above mentioned Midsomer's there were two clergy (one female naturally. A lot of Midsomer clergy are female) and both were portrayed as bad. One was money hungry and prepared to hurt others to get her way and the second was a kidnapper/multiple murderer. Drip, drip, drip.


    Does this work? It's worked on me.

    OK I hope you know that God created the world about 6k ago, homosexuality is sin and not all clergy are bad, but on a young mind, if they're getting all this drip, drip, drip from TV and never hearing the truth from the church, what do you think they'll believe?

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    They'll believe just how this nation seems to be going as a whole, more liberal. The colleges are getting more and more liberal, teaching the kids that way. Heck, even grammar schools are indoctrinating the kids in LGBT 'doctrine', TV spews it 24 hours a day. All that exposure definitely has an effect.

    Something I always taught the students in Bible college were these two principles:

    1. Whatever you expose your soul to it will conform to.

    2. Whatever you give your attention to you will develop 'affection' for.

    If you expose yourself to something over and over, it WILL have an effect on you. It's impossible for it not to because that's how we're made. We can counter this by exposing ourselves to the things of God through reading the Word, meditating the Word, reading/watching godly things, prayer, praise, etc, etc, etc. The 5 senses are the university to the soul/mind/belief system. The information that comes through the senses has everything to do with what we believe. As the old computer saying goes, garbage in, garbage out.

    But I'm still not a young earther.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    They'll believe just how this nation seems to be going as a whole, more liberal. The colleges are getting more and more liberal, teaching the kids that way. Heck, even grammar schools are indoctrinating the kids in LGBT 'doctrine', TV spews it 24 hours a day. All that exposure definitely has an effect.

    Something I always taught the students in Bible college were these two principles:

    1. Whatever you expose your soul to it will conform to.

    2. Whatever you give your attention to you will develop 'affection' for.

    If you expose yourself to something over and over, it WILL have an effect on you. It's impossible for it not to because that's how we're made. We can counter this by exposing ourselves to the things of God through reading the Word, meditating the Word, reading/watching godly things, prayer, praise, etc, etc, etc. The 5 senses are the university to the soul/mind/belief system. The information that comes through the senses has everything to do with what we believe. As the old computer saying goes, garbage in, garbage out.

    But I'm still not a young earther.
    I noticed TV and movies portraying homosexuals in a sympathetic light years ago and every show had at least one, and they were the funniest, most endearing character on the show. I don't think that was an accident.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FunFromOz View Post
    OK I hope you know that God created the world about 6k ago..
    Good post FFO except for that one little part. ;)

    Quote Originally Posted by Susan View Post
    I noticed TV and movies portraying homosexuals in a sympathetic light years ago and every show had at least one, and they were the funniest, most endearing character on the show. I don't think that was an accident.
    Yep and it started slowly with only an occasional gay character popping up here and there but now their presence on many shows far exceeds their actual percentages in the general population.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Susan View Post
    I noticed TV and movies portraying homosexuals in a sympathetic light years ago and every show had at least one, and they were the funniest, most endearing character on the show. I don't think that was an accident.
    Nope. No accident at all.

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