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In one sense false, in that people in a Gulag have no free choice or control, nor when persuaded to think as commanded, by media repetition and personal laziness. In another sense, vide Epictetus & Co., true, in that the scope of individual control is highly restricted.
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@USNavy Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale made it out of Vietnam after 5 plus years in captivity sane and true to America. He credited Epictetus’s Stoic philosophy, which he learned as a grad student at Stanford before he went to war. -
He was an honorable man. Hearing-aid and all, on TV debating someone so far below him in understanding that the vertigo alone could have hobbled him.
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You can, however, control what news and information they see, and so indirectly control their thoughts and beliefs. The playbook of the mainstream media.
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When I speak, I repeat what I already know. When I listen, I acquire something new.
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And New is not necessarily good, nor bad.
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Your beliefs are formed by repetitive inner dialogue. Extinguishing your thoughts through fear and replacing them with state think, belief indoctrination, the currency of politicians and media. Be careful of repetition it’s the tool of the brain washer!
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Not true and contradictory in itself. What they think will be what I made them to think. Implanting thoughts is as easy as 1,2,3. Changing the thinking and implanting ideas is more difficult, but not impossible.
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When I hear "don't think blue" I immediately think "grey, grey, grey" then decide on whether or not thinking blue is a choice I would make or disregard of my own volition-so it really depends on how much of a contrarian 1 is. I usually rejected implanting once aware of a choice
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To implant a thought is not to force you in to it, but to make you choose it. We choose with our knowledge which is not really a choice because we don't really have our own independently created knowledge.
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Maybe. It all depends on what the origin of consciousness is & how we define the self. Implanting thoughts may be considered done like injecting pathogens-But it doesn't ensure they take hold or express unaltered. There is a complex interplay guided by the self=to originality
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The self is a social product.
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Maybe. It may only be that the expression of the self that we currently understand is a social product. When one considers NDE, DMT, OOB experiences & ancient knowledge there is much more than our mechanistic material world & the interactions currently known primarily through it.
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Sure, Haywood Jablome, but we are not talking about our spiritual essence which has nothing to do with our material self :) On the other hand once we get to know our true self which is the spiritual one, we start dealing much better with our ego (material self).
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I would argue that there is powerful evidence our physical self is heavily influenced by our spiritual self-but on a day to day basis it is harder to prove this scientifically unfortunately.
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