£3.73 wrote:Opinions are based on what we are told, or what is deliberately leaked/spun.
You can apply that to most aspects of life, not just religion.
£3.73, I was thinking that this morning when I was reading the thread about drugs because the whole debate on that is exactly the same. I cannot remember now where I found it but I read a fantastic piece on the debate on drugs a few weeks back where the writer was using many drug-taking/selling analogies on how the ordinary person in the street had a new, much more dangerous drug which was a bigger threat to our mental well-being despite being freely available for little cash.
He/she explained the side effects like initial emotions of happiness or anger, a state of enhanced awareness which was really a form of delusion, making them increasingly detached from reality and unable to form their own decisions becoming paranoid and ending up joining angry mobs and attacking people. What is this drug?
Newspapers.The barest facts are the drug's purest form so actually these facts can make us grow intellectually. However, as we all know, facts are expensive so this writer very cleverly explained using his analogy that in order to save money, unscrupulous 'dealers' (and we know who these are) just mixed cheaper and more toxic stuff like bias, mass hysteria,empty opinions, bull***t, hysteria, adverts and photographs of Jordan and her desired lifestyle. You can see the result everywhere as the poor users don't have a clue at the end of their drugtaking of how toxic it all is. And you can see it on this forum. I do it myself - sometimes I think it's even my own stream of consciousness! We all have media abuse and I thought the writer used a great analogy there. He was discussing how we cannot have a sensible debate about drug control but I would say it is about anything: the Venables/Thomson lynch mob, hated social workers,the MPs expenses debacle, global warming, immigrants, et al - as you say, religion too.
So I'm going into rehab to get cleaned. I'm Govangirl, I'm 29 (
) and I'm addicted to The Daily Sh**e. I was drawn in by the offers of free John Wayne DVDs and the chance to win a bungalow in the country. But now I'm out of control. I'm voting BNP, I hang about police stations hurling abuse at police vans driving out on the chance there are paedophiles inside, I have a one-person campaign to search the lorries coming off the ferries in case any thieving asylum seeker is coming to rob me of my well-earned taxes and I have a strong desire to marry that poor Peter Andre. Please help me, my life is a mess as I cannot sleep at night worrying about what Father Joseph meant by these cuddles when I was 5 and I can't eat because everything will give me cancer and I am way too obese anyway now that I'm nine stone.
Oh hell, what am I going on about. I'm not addicted. I can give up whenever I want, honestly.