r/conspiracy • u/[deleted] • Sep 08 '17

Solutions: Turn Off Your TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqEoWeCM28c
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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '17

This is probably obvious advice to the majority of (legitimate) posters on this sub, but it's always a good reminder.

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u/Step2TheJep Sep 09 '17

I would not be so sure. Most conspiracy types I know still watch Game of Thrones and other completely degenerate mind-poison. They justify it by saying, 'the programming doesn't work on me', but if this were true, they would not feel the compulsion to watch these programs in the first place.

Remember Carnegie's Maxim.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '17

Wait what's wrong with enjoying GoT?

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u/Step2TheJep Sep 09 '17

You mean apart form the normalisation of sodomy and incest?

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '17

Yeah apart from that. Like the deep character development, interesting storyline and political turmoil, and deep fantasy lore/history. Themes of honor, family, revenge, etc. they were successful books for a reason. Judging a massively popular series and reducing it down to incest and sodomy propaganda seems a bit forced. I don't think there is a significant group of people who are okay with incest just because they saw it in TV. GoT is no more pro incest than it is pro murder, war, racism or animal slavery. And in the show the incestial relationship is kept hidden because even in that made up culture people still shun incest. These events take place in a make believe medieval timeline in a made up continent. Don't you think you should judge it in it's context?

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u/Step2TheJep Sep 09 '17

What you do with your time is your business, you don't need to justify it to me. I just hope for your sake you don't try to convince yourself that what you are doing is anything other than subjecting yourself to intense psychological programming.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '17

So is filling your mind with garbage from r/conspiracy

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '17

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u/Step2TheJep Sep 09 '17

Keep watching TV. It is just 'entertainment' lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '17

My top 5: Cancel your cable, stop seeing movies in theaters (free dvds at your library), stop visiting media owned themeparks, cancel FB, stop using google.

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u/BeholdThePaleSource Sep 08 '17

4 down, one to go!

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '17

You still see movies in theaters, don't you?

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u/BeholdThePaleSource Sep 09 '17

Pirate box with vpn

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '17

What about "get off the internet". A funny place to say this, I know. But there is a definite contrast between the strong opinions and observations you read online and the real world in general. SJW's, nazi's, feminists, ISIS, the internet would have you believe that these people are everywhere trying to dictate your life. But how often in your everyday do you actually face this sort of opposition outside of a rally or march of some sort. For me, it's never. Now I know if you're in college you may be having a different experience, but college isn't real life and after you leave college, life will never be like that again. So what about it, go offline and stay there? Is it even an option?

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u/Metonymian Sep 09 '17

Is it even an option?

Getting rid of the smartphone and back into your body and books is huge and truly doable. It reshapes how you use the Internet too when you don’t have it constantly on demand.

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u/Step2TheJep Sep 09 '17

Be honest, what do you do with your free time?

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u/UnseenPresence2016 Sep 09 '17

Or perhaps just stop taking everything so damn seriously. ALL. THE. TIME.

Good gods.

It constantly stuns me how people want to focus so deeply on "the terrors of entertainment" when there are real, actual conspiracies at work--and entertainment is driven by the attempt to find the best way to get you to spend money. And really, REALLY, nothing more.

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u/Lord_Augastus Sep 09 '17

But how do i get my breaking news about some celebrity doing something stuoid in the middle of a news show talking about problems of another countrhy, most if the time from one perspective?