Someone shared a video with me today, about the subtle differences between brainwashing and mind control with false religions. Cults are usually understood as being brainwashed, but do you think it's possible for someone to have their mind controlled without being brain washed? I've always thought the two went together. What do you think?
2007-03-08 04:28:07 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
P.S. the only difference I can see is that brainwashing is often "forced".
Webster definition:
Brainwashing: a forcible indoctrination to induce someone to give up basic political, social, or religious beliefs and attitudes and to accept contrasting regimented ideas.
2007-03-08 04:32:00 · update #1
By the way, I'm a christian.
2007-03-08 04:32:28 · update #2
The 2 could be interchangeable.....
But I just trust in Christ....so it doean't matter to me.
2007-03-08 04:31:52 · answer #1 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All belief systems manifest some form of mind control by the very fact that the belief system itself will limit what an individual will or won't think about. The only real difference between what you are referring to as mind control vs. "brainwashing" is the intensity of the conditioning and the extent of the limitations built in by that conditioning.
2007-03-08 04:38:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
False religions are the least of what we need to be concerned about when it comes to brainwashing and mind control. Psych Ops has taught these skills for many, many years and its not just an American thing.
I see false religions as being as much about people who have no good religious base from which to identify a belief that is patently false. pssst
2007-03-08 04:33:50 · answer #3 · answered by pst 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because babies don't have totally stepped ahead serious questioning skills, and it truly is a lot less embarrassing to flow alongside with a superstition than evaluate you've wasted your existence on stupid and violent fairy memories. and many human beings are unwilling to renowned their own mortality. "Why do they no longer understand it truly is accessible for someone to be a reliable persons without religions" because religious "authorities" tell them in the different case, as a way to save their followers from questioning them. edit: "Atheists won't be able to deny the very undeniable truth that maximum folk in this global are Christians or Muslims." Argument from acceptance is a logical fallacy. with the exception of, Christians and Muslims disagree, so that you do not actually have the numbers to make an argument from acceptance. human beings are certainly superstitions. that would not make superstitions properly desirable. At one aspect in time, maximum folk contained in the global concept it became flat, the sky became a good looking good dome, and stars held on that solid dome like little lanterns. reality would not make concessions to what the final public of people imagine. the final public of people could properly be incorrect. reality isn't a democracy.
2016-12-05 10:12:24 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-03-08 04:31:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christians are not brainwashed we aRE MERELY WASHED BY THE WORD OF GOD
2007-03-08 04:30:58 · answer #6 · answered by Tribble Macher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
possibly but it all seems the same to me
real extreme case was Patty Hearst
2007-03-08 04:30:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋