From jackoverfull@gmail.com Mon Feb 18 11:31:18 2013
Subject:Re: OT: Times change


Il giorno 18/feb/2013, alle ore 20.14, Goff ha scritto:

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> I would have to disagree. Modern mind control is technological as well as psychological. Studies were done decades ago in Texas using monkeys with their eyes wired open bolted in front of a tv monitor studying flicker rates and how the right frequency affects the brain. With the advent of modern digital screens they have learned to manipulate frequencies and OS software, commercials, even modern Hollywood releases, to affect certain areas of the brain, for example sexually arouse a watcher because they know how to affect that area of the brain.
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I can surely agree that the brain can be affected by what what it's fed, no doubt there, but we are in final control here. I can go without my phone for a week if I want to, just as I can go on without coffee (done both in some occasions, for various reasons), I even know people that decided to abandon smoking overnight, and we have a chemical factor there. It just takes will.
And of course today you can't really go on without your phone for a week, not unless you really are on a vacation and want to be left alone, since you'll have people calling, texting and mailing you, people relying on that particular technology to reach you.
But even with the situation being what it is the only thing usually preventing you tu turn off or ignore your phone is your own will (or lack of thereof).

> Studies have shown that Sponge Bob was designed to create attention deficit disorder in children.
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Source being?

> Edward Bernays from his 1928 book Propaganda is considered the father of subliminal messaging in advertising turning a want into a need like they did for cigarettes.
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Well, cigarettes (and other things) well and still are subjected to all sorts of propaganda using cinema, TV and magazines…It's rule number 1 of capitalism: if the consumer doesn't need your product you change their needs.

> To blame the user and not the technology is not the correct position to take. Granted some people may have stronger control over their impulses but the vast majority does not. How does this relate to clonewheels? We are victims and users of the same technology more so in clone use as we shift to computer based software with operating systems like Windows that are also involved in mind control, the same economic sanctions that force and corral us into accepting them into our daily lives. So talking about one thing, the device itself, should also have a secondary cause investigation as we are made to accept these new technologies without knowing the hidden agendas built into them. Granted if this does not spark your interest then remain as you were.
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It's likely I would have never taken up organ if I didn't already own an old, midi capable, DX7 and softwares live VB3 weren't around…until recently I had seen only a couple of those!
I could probably have afforded a "real" console organ at a certain point but I would have no way to bring it around nor actually the space to place it (not to mention I'm at the first floor…). Clones saved me a lot of trouble and allowed me to concentrate on learning how to play instead on how to get an organ and be able to carry it around.

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