Brainwashing: any method of controlled systematic indoctrination, esp. one based on repetition or confusion?
824154
It does.Sort of like what the bush administration is trying to do.
935693
by brainwashing at least 100 people that can spread your word and brainwash another 100 each for you original group and so-on, till you have enough people that your to large to be called a cult\n\n\na friend of mine once said,   if one person were to worship a potatoe as god he'd be considered crazy.   if you have a 1000 people worship the potatoe you have a cult.   if you have a million people now you got a religion
457149
You don't "get" a non-believer to become a believer - that implies you want control of his mind, lending credence to the idea of brainwashing. Instead, you calmly present your opinions (*IF* asked for them), and you have the courtesy and respect for the "non-believer" that you'd wish him to have of you, and allow him to make up his *own* mind *without* any undue outside pressure to "see the truth."
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It is called a Messiah complex ... and you would be surprised how many Christians and Atheists share this problem.\n\nTOP TEN ways to develop a Messiah-Complex\n\n- Always preface your indoctrination sessions with the words, "The Holy Spirit is the best teacher."\n- Make sure that 90% of your posts are Bible quotes to refute other people's unauthorized Bible quotes.\n- Like the King that you are; demand proof, demand respect, demand apologies, demand allegiance and shame your unruly subjects until they submit. (and don't forget to demand proof.)\n- Stubbornly ignore polite and direct requests from others to be left alone.\n- Realize that God depends on you, and you alone.\n- Recognize insubordination as the spirit of the antichrist.\n- Make outrageous claims to put people on the defensive. (ie. "When are you going to stop beating your wife?")\n- Have the uncanny ability to always be at war with yourself or those around you.\n- The world is your audience. Show them the way.\n- Persuade others to join your crusade of sanitizing the world of all the people/ideologies that God forgot to kill first.
231711
Collective brainwashing is far more efficient than doing it one person at a time. This is true for all churches not only Catholic.
311399
What do you mean, "what if?"\n\nThere is strong evidence that religions are a memeplex (a group of self-replicating ideas).  \n\nReligions often use the same "tactics" in order to convert people to their belief systems and hold onto them.\n\nExamples of meme tactics:  You can question anything about other religions... but you cannot question the validity of your own.  If you have/experience "questionable" thoughts or ideas, you must "pray" for answers.  This sets up a self-reinforcing cycle, making people become more fervent believers.
642487
I believe that you have a mental confusion.  I do not require thoughts in order to perceive.  Also thoughts can be controlled through discipline of the mind.  This has been recorded for several centuries.\n\nThe human mind is a tool.  Thoughts are the results of using this tool.  If the tool is not required, then the mind can be shut off.  Just because you may not be able to do this does not make this a Universal condition.\n\nYes, you can control thoughts.  Yes, with training or discipline, you can stop it, mold it, shape it or do anything with it.
356832
Brainwashing is just one of the tools used to include you into the flock. It's all to do with power, control, manipulation, wealth and empire building.
783303
For the most part, yes. There are certain denominations that I'm aware of that "train" their Bible scholars to memorize scriptural passages in a particular sequence as their method of rebuttal in the event that certain, specific confrontations occur.\n\nSomething that is akin to "if" and "then" type of programming. "If" such and such is mentioned, "then" use the following verse... and on and on, ad infinitum. Naturally they are all primed to regurgitate certain verses and then tested [POP QUIZ!] to find out if they know their stuff before moving on to the next lessons...\n\nSo, yes.\n\nPeace be with you!
223891
The brainwashing, it's not working on this one. Quickly, lie to him in an angry voice. That should work for a few more years.
1175021
Try "The Displine Book" by Doctor Sears.\n\nThe main thing to recognize is that there is no magic punishment that is going to stop them from misbehaving. No matter what method you use, you have to be prepared to use a lot of repetition!
156504
>>Though Logotherapy does not focus on helping the patients to regain his belief in God but time and again this is just what occurs, unintended and unexpected as it is. Frankl stated, "It is the business of existential analysis (Logotherapy) to furnish and to adorn as far as possible the chamber of immanence, while being careful not to block the door to transcendence." The Logotherapist has an "open-door policy." Through this door that is left ajar, the religious person can go out unhindered. Conversely the spirit of true religious feelings has free entrance. For the spirit of true religious feelings requires spontaneity. It appears that this "open-door policy" as well as the fact that quite often a person's faith is renewed during Logotherapy is based upon the fundamental assumptions of Logotherapy which form a chain of interconnected links: 1) Freedom of Will, 2) Will to meaning, and 3) Meaning to life. ***** 1) FREEDOM OF WILL: Frankl said that there are two classes of people who maintain that man's will is not free: Schizophrenic patients suffering from delusions that their will is manipulated and their thoughts controlled by other and along side them, deterministic philosophers. Under deterministic philosophers, he includes philosophers, psychologist, theologians, and other who hold to a deterministic view of human beings. The later often admit that we are experiencing our will as free, but this, they say, is self deception. Psychoanalysis has often been blamed for its so-called pan-sexualism. Frankl states that there is an aspect of Psychoanalysis that is even more erroneous and dangerous: that of pan-determinism. By that Frankl means the view of man that disregards his capacity to take a stand toward any conditions whatsoever. Man is not fully conditioned or determined; he determines himself whether to give in to conditions or stand up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist, but always decided what his existence will be, what he will become in the minute. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.<<\n\nMore can be found here:
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Only if you believe the disinformation campaign where stuff like this was orginially published.  Fact is that this cannot be done.  Just won't happen.  University study after University study has shown that you can't control people with hypnosis.  Makes for good TV and fanatasies but not reality.
478431
When you grow up in a Christian envioronment the conditioning is very strong, it takes a long while to stop believeing the Christian stuff long after you've rationalised it away...but eventually the brainwashing goes and you one day realise you are free and it's a great feeling of clearness and of having a clean head...but it really can take years.
910318
I don't feel brainwashed--more like bombarded...\n\nENOUGH ALREADY!
404202
Yes, they are pushing a dangerous and addictive (to some) idea that is totally fallacious and without any evidence at all, they should not be allowed to foist their abusive indoctrination onto children, let them believe what they will inthe privacy of their own homes...this is freedom of religion but please do not deprive young children of their right to freedom from indoctrination.
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In Islam. They already did the brainwashing, now they call it "Ethnic Cleansing".\n\nThey clean your brain with smoke first.\n\nthen clean your clock with a AK-47\n\n\nGo figure.