ldsfaqs wrote:Embracing by choice a statement of faith that if oft repeated, thinking it wise and good, is not brainwashing.
Begs the question.
ldsfaqs wrote:Further if you're going to make that claim, then ANYTHING can be called "brainwashing" simply because it's repeated by us or something/someone else, which completely eliminates the meaning of the word, especially as it relates to something that is 'bad', which is how you people attribute it as well as the dictionary.
You are correct that "we people" use words according to their dictionary-prescribed meanings. That you Mopologists alter the meaning of words generously in order to define your way out of a problem is not to your credit.
Repeating something and "brainwashing" are not the same thing, brainwashing involves repetition but repetition is not brainwashing. A square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not necessarily a square.
Slogans typically convey value judgements or outright propaganda or misdirection and the repetition of the slogan reinforces the truth of the slogan absent analysis.
Frankly though, we ALL are brainwashed..... But what you don't understand is that we ALL within freedom CHOOSE the brainwashing we like.
I do agree with you that Mopologists choose to believe things because the thing is something the Mopologists like, rather than something that is probably true, which is why you and others are so upset with Kerry right now.
In contrast, people who don't have freedom like North Korea as less able to choose "not" to be brainwashed by a particular ideology/way.
But that's only because competing conservatives and then the Left, of course, prevent you from taking people's freedom to consider anything contrary to Mormon Doctrine away as is done in North Korea. If you and Droopy were allowed to write the laws of this country in a way that you believe is constitutional, people would be emigrating from the USA to the DPRK.
In Mormon Doctrine, every knee shall bow and confess Jesus is the Christ, am I wrong? In spirit prison, the wicked will be tormented -- as DPRK dissidents -- and experience "eternal hell" until they confess Jesus is the Christ (in the manner prescribed by Joseph Smith, which likely includes acknowledging the Book of Mormon as true). How is this different than the DPRK? It's more severe. As soon as you can bring the heavenly order of things here, you will.
We are FREE, they are not. We choose what we embrace of our own free will by having choices between and over other things. THEY DO NOT, BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ELSE!!!
As noted above, you're only free because the Mormon Church's power is held at bay. As the influence of Mormonism increases, such as when reaching deep into Utah Valley, the likelihood of people not knowing anything but Mormonism is very high.
