this question is in reference to a question making this claim in education / teaching.  I'm a complete laymen in regards to advertising so keep it simple but detailed in regards to both subliminal messaging and / or cult likeness. In advance, I thank you for sharing you expertise.
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quarterton, your email isn't set up in here so here is your crayfish answer\n\nhttp://lobsterpond.com/order.htm\n\nthere is a book on this page for sale, check it out\n\nhttp://atlaspub.20m.com/redclpg.htm\n\nand another book in here\n\nLarry
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no.you should not believe in that,many people get offended but not me.u should believe god instead of that stuff.what i'm saying is some people just say they saw spirits just to get attention,if u see a video or a tv show that shows "Spirits"it's just a flashlight on the wall or a holographic projector.e-mail me sometime at surferchick@yahoo.com
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Your right! Even websites lie. They list huge religious organizations as 'Cults.' Wikipedia, and the US government for two such. Who can believe the government anymore?\nAnd you can find thousands of advertisements in your bulk mail with deliberately misspelled words so if you do business with them they can get out of trouble legally.\nAs far as humble Christians, many think they know all there is!
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We have entered the age of HYPERREALITY. The 'real' is now only simulated by signs...\nThe sign (in our capitalist world is MONEY), starts off as a reflection of our basic reality...\nThen it masks and perverts reality...\nThen it makrs the absence of reality...\nFinally, it bears no relation to reality whatsoever; it is a pure simulacrum.\n\nSimulacra can still dictate our existence, but the existence they create is meaningless and inexplicable.
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Honestly I couldnt agree more. Some folks may be offended by seeing the 10 commandments or maybe "Jesus Saves" on billboards but, I personally could live without seeing Viagra and Trojan ads. \n\nWe arent allowed to show a commercial for cigarettes anymore but we can discuss in detail how fast a car goes in a commercial and yet, people fail to see that car accidents cause more deaths in a DAY than in a year of smoking related illnesses.
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LOL..good question.. I'd bet you could crap on a sheet and spread it around to look like Jesus, you'd find a bunch of crazy people to believe it's a sign.
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well humans can "draw down" god's & goddesses into them.  It is a process known as "trance possession" whereby your body is "ridden" by a god, goddess, spirit, ancestor, etc...a milder form of this is  performed by trance mediums during "seances"... It is also known in some circles as "aspecting" where the deity aspects within the human who opens up the appropriate channels to allow the spirit to enter the body... the persons body is still a human body, but the spirit within the mortal shell is that of a god, goddess, spirit, ancestor etc... this is more prevalant in voodoo, santaria, candoble etc, but some wiccans and other neopagans practice it as well...I have had sex with "god" who had been aspected into my husband during a midsummer rite... and i have to say... it was different... not like the normal rustling of the sheets on your average friday night...but much more intense...it was not my husband in there...you could see it in his eyes...his actions were unprdictable, we have been together for 15 yrs...and i know how he is... and how we do things... but this was wild, primal & different...but as for banging Yngwie Frey during my last session of gnosis... if i could be so lucky...that has yet to happen... when i am experinceing the gods in that capacity it is more on an intellectual level, then on a purely physical level...(not that i wouldn't jump at the chance... FREY IS HAWT!!!)
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Part of it is that the Mormons are there. And certain elements in Mormon belief happen to use words that network marketeers were also using in describing their schemes. The crossover resulted in the Mormon population being particularly vulnerable to MLM scams, and thus a fertile home ground for moneymaking schemes in general.
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I notice that visual pictures of an item seem to be the most effective for us.  For Easter, I had a cadburry bunny picture on our computer desktop and I kept craving them.  Recently, a lot of comercials for Carl's Jr. bannana splits keep showing on TV and my husband has been rooting around the house for bannana split ingredients.  Mentioning them in words doesn't seem to have the same effect.
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I agree with mainwoolly (and not for the first time); I suspect that nonsensical beliefs of all kinds actually have a real-world, real-time effect, on the human mind if nothing else.\n\nWe all know people who never make a decision without first performing a tarot card reading, or faithfully check their horoscopes every day, or whatever.  They simply do not hear you when you point out that it's a pile, no, a truckload, nay, a Matterhorn of horse-hockey.  These same people retain enough sense to enable them to pass their drivers' license tests; to get and hold jobs; to raise children who stay out of prison (the majority of them, at any rate).  \n\nAnd they never notice the contradiction, they never notice that their own brains are divided against them.  It's like walking around with a big ole ugly-a$$ nine-hundred-pound gorilla perched on your shoulder.  I've never studied psychology so I can't understand how or why this works for anyone; but apparently it does.\n\nHow much might more have been accomplished already if so many of us weren't permitting ourselves to be held back in this way?  It doesn't bear thinking about, really.
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No.\nIt's just as believeable as the "Praying trees" farce.\nPeople can make any pattern look like anything they want it to look like. It's just a few overzealous faithfuls who want to spread the name of God and His works.\n\nJenova\n(d.yuffie@gmail.com)
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If you think about it, we are all scammed everyday in many small ways.  Mass media is all about scamming covering such broad and different fields as the Irak war, which really was a mass scam, and going on to a series of little things in consumer products.  They implant certain ideas or images in your mind and just let your mind and desires do the rest.  You can differentiate perhaps in scams that are legal or paralegal and others that are ilegal or even criminal, but they are all scams.
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I've read an in depth article on the Masonic rituals written about the testimonies of past 33rd degree Mason's who came out of that "religion".\n\nThey claim that it is a Satanic deception that embraces all religions but the true religion of Christ and that members don't get to know this until they have reached the very upper levels of Masonic degrees.\n\nHere is a link to the article http://www.bibleprobe.com/freemasonry.htm
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Sex and mild erotica is widely used tool for advertisers. It not only catches the attention of the audience but also makes those commercials the talk of the town. I am sure you can remember quite a few times when you have found people discussing an ad cauz of its erotic nature. I love the ad of naukri.com (a job search site) in the ad an employee spells the name (Mr Hari) of his boss as H for Hitler A for Arrogant R for Rascal and I for Idiot, it is a funny ad and has a very strong message. I personally think people using sex for advertisement believe strongly that " Sex Sells" I think they don't want to put in extra effort to make a good commercial and rely on sex. I want to buy something when the price is less than the value OR the value is more than  the price :)
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I find it funny that people atomatically assume that since a thing does not exist within the scope of their personal experience, it must be a delusion, hallucination, or short-comming fo a sort on the part of another.\n\nI speak to God nearly daily.  He speaks to me.  He may not use an audible voice, but I recognize it when he speaks.  Does that make me a nut case?  I do the best job I know how to live out a life worthy of the sacrifice that Jesus made.  I know I fall short way to often, but my hearts desire is to fulfill the expectation he has for me.  What part of this threatens you?  And what justification have I offered any of you to call me delusional, tweaked out, dazed, crazed or sedated?  Or is it simply you have made up your mind about all Christ followers based entirely on the experience you had with a few?\n\nI find it funny in a really sad way that there are so many trolling the religion and spirituality section of Y!A simply to stir the pot and verbally harass or defy those with beliefs in God.  I recommend you start your own section.  You can Call it "Infallible Logic and Answers to Every Question You May Have From Those Who Know Everything."\nYou can even set criteria preventing any nut jobs with delusional tendencies and hallucinations from joining.\n\nOr in short, I'd rather be tweaked out over the Great News of Jesus Christ than seeking satisfaction by bashing people who seem to have something I want but can't find.
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Absolutely. The thing most people don't seem to realize is that there are things that go on within the spiritual world that are much more real and involved than the world we see around us. I have known several people who have seen things like what you are talking about. One of my best friends grew up as a missionary kid in the Ivory Coast. The people of one of the nearby tribes had this tradition called the Speaking of the Dead in which the men of the tribe would hoist a newly deceased person over their heads and ask it questions and depending on which way the body would cause the men to lean, they would have their answer. It was sort of like the "ouija board" concept. One of the missionaries was standing about 20 feet away watching this take place and when they asked the body a question the body literally lunged out at the missionary and then fell to the ground a little bit short of where he was standing. There are demons out there. Satan is very real and whatever was possessing that body did at all like what was possessing the missionary, which was the Holy Spirit. The demons in this world know they are defeated and therefore hate Christians. Christians, because of the blood of Jesus Christ have power and authority over these spirits that are all around us. Believe me... it IS real. \n Whenever people talk about ghost stories... things they've seen or heard... I have no doubt in my mind at all that what people see is real. Theyr'e not ghosts, however. They are simply demons who are trying to stir up as much confusion regarding the "afterlife" as possible. The more confused people are about what is possible to happen to them after death, the less likely they are to make a decision. \n I have also known someone who cast a demon out of someone else. My high school algebra teacher, a very wise and Godly man, had a troubled sister about ten years ago that became possessed by a demon. He rebuked that demon in the name of Jesus Christ and it fled from her. There is power in the name of Christ. Trust me. I've seen it.
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well, as soon as you realized you're right here in Earth, taking in breathe and fulfilling your mission to accomplish with "imaginarysociety", there you go!!! Reality exists! If not, then images in that website wont exist! LOL!!!!!!! Nice way of ad, though!!!!