| Now about the "voodoosim" remark I made.
I perhaps goofed in using that term because few people know anything about voodooism from a realistic standpoint.
What I was really talking about is the "power of suggestion" and how that can strongly effect one's belief system.
Which is a kind of hypnotic procedure commonly called brainwashing by us laymen.
Repeating the same thing over and over is how people learn things in school or so they can remember what they must learn. Like repeating the same name brand over and over in advertising so that it becomes something you have faith in as being the best product.
The power of suggestion. In the case of this debate, would be the suggestion that smoking makes you sick. But the actual research report is not even what I am talking about.
I am talking about what happens when the anti-smoking control freaks hire slick advertising firms to scare people into thinking that cigarette smoke is a hazard to everyones health.
Those people who's business it is to use the power of suggestion to minulate public opinion with a team of phychological experts. now they are much more advanced then the primitive witchdoctors of voodooism. But more or less mimic the same sort of methodolgy.
That part of my debate is also being debated in another thread here, and so I will not rant too much about how advertising works. But one thing about it is that they are not limited to just repeating facts. Advertising is not a news source, and they can sell an idea to your imagination as well as too your logical aspects of thinking. So, they cannot be trusted - nor any of the stats or other stuff they use to intimidate you with.
RE: see also thread in this forum called "keep consuming". |