Posted by d0pamine on October 13, 2007, at 7:41:18
In reply to Re: Obsessive thoughts about the world and panic, posted by wisekaz on October 13, 2007, at 6:01:46
I was aware that the things I was seeing were having an adverse impact on my thoughts, my imagination and even my dreams and that they were largely not based in reality. I see the mind as a bit of a machine and the information it obtains by means of its input (eyes, ears, etc) to be a bit like code (programs). Once an idea is allowed inside, the mind has a limited number of options as to how it can deal with it. For instance, one generally can't choose to simply forget something that they've seen or heard. I would also argue that one can't simply disregard it when making future decisions or even when simply having random thoughts during down time (assuming one's mind ever has down time in the presence of a continuous bombardment of so called entertainment). Any given piece of so called entertainment viewed in isolation may seem to have little impact on anything, but the cumulative effect over time changes much about who you are and what and how you think. As benign as it may seem, I assure you that the consumption of entertainment is the absorption, adoption, and acceptance of programming, the programming of your mind, and nobody is immune to its impact.
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