On 2 June, 21:08, kdephil <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for your great opinions. > I've learned that the term brainwashing may not be good one if > everyone has been brainwashed. > When a child learns from what it was taught to them does it mean > they're brain washed?
I would say, no. Unless they were brought up in a 'cult' environment and what they were 'taught' was strictly the beliefs of the 'cult'. There's a difference between general learning and 'conditioned learning', which might be a better term for 'brainwashing'. Brainwashing usually has ulterior (hidden) motives as the reason behind the specific teaching, rather than just the general objective of education. For example, at school, you are taught a variety of subjects and it is difficult to see that as brainwashing, unless, if at your particular school, you were only taught mathematics as represented in the Bible and geography as presented in the Bible and physics as presented in the Bible and language as expressed in the Bible and the only literature you were allowed to read was the Bible, then you might have reason to believe that you were being brainwashed. I.e., the theme behind all of the teachings is the same when being brainwashed and whether that groundwork theme is a religious text or any particular philosophy, THAT is the keynote signature of brainwashing. As an example, Edward Alexander (Aleister) Crowley was taught at home and was only allowed to read the Bible up to age 11, as he was raised by a very strict Puritan family. Eventually, he rebelled so far that his own self-education (and I include in that his time at Trinity College, Cambridge, which was by his choice), although very wide in scope, was still pre-occupied with religious overtones. The result was a man who declared himself to be The Great Beast 666 himself. Well, he wasn't. But it was that early strict, doctrinal upbringing that focused his mind from an early age and, although he ended up rebelling against it to the extreme, that brainwashing that was done had everlasting effects. He did realise that and, although a very intelligent man, he could never release himself from that conditioning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley > Later, when a person questions what he was taught,only then will a > they be free, > > I do keep some of things I was taught from society , but not after > questioning it. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > If you guys don't think what i have learned is in the right path or i > am missing something plz replay.
