can someone offer me an intelligent explanation of what exactly the term "brainwashing" means.
2006-09-05 19:15:21 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No but I'll give you an example of it....the teaching of evolution in the public schools. In 1925, when creation was the only doctrine that was allowed in our public schools about origins, Clarence Darrow, the ACLU lawyer who was defending evolution in the famous Scopes Trial, said "to allow only point of view on origins(the creation view) is educational brainwashing". Funny, the ACLU today doesn't have any problem with the fact that there's still only one view allowed on origins. I guess that's because that one view today is evolution. I wonder why that's not still called brainwashing.
2006-09-05 19:35:44 · answer #1 · answered by upsman 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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Brainwashing, also known as thought reform or re-education, is the application of coercive techniques to change the beliefs or behavior of one or more people usually for political or religious purposes. Whether any techniques at all exist that will actually work to change thought and behavior to the degree that the term "brainwashing" connotes is a controversial and at times hotly debated question
2006-09-05 19:19:15 · answer #2 · answered by mallimalar_2000 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Loss of willpower, try reading the bible, and thats close enough. When brainwashed, be alert for the following symtoms: Irrational ideas, a sense of group community, and unreasonable loyalty to a person, or higher power.
2006-09-05 19:18:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
here it is .
church ]that has to be the biggest brain washing organisation there is.
its got people killing each other .
it makes people strap bombs to themselves coz there promised lots of virgins whan they die.
it makes people blow up abortion clinics or walk in with a gun and shoot people .
2006-09-05 19:30:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
temporarily removing your brain and scrubbing it with a cloth soaked with soapy water.
2006-09-05 19:17:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
means take out your brain and wash it.
2006-09-05 19:19:04 · answer #6 · answered by Andrea 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Huh? Does that include water and soap?
2006-09-05 19:17:38 · answer #7 · answered by MenudoPie 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Programmed or trained thought.
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2006-09-05 19:17:20 · answer #8 · answered by Pashur 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
manipulation
2006-09-05 19:18:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋