Are TV and the internet slowly destroying your grip on reality?

@lilnono (228)
United States
February 25, 2009 12:03am CST
It seems like every time I try to research a subject on the net. The first couple of pages I click on are jokes or hoaxes or just straight up misinformation. Why does B.S seem to get more traction than facts? Why do so many people believe every thing they are told whether the person telling them has proof or not? Why do so many people start rumors? Who can you trust?
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• United States
2 Mar 09
lilnono we are a country (other parts of the planet as well) of followers in some regard. we are conditioned everyday to believe in what people who control money and media what they want us to believe. its all for control purposes. you know what is almost uncontrollable? the internet. if we didn't have this we wouldn't have my lot. we wouldn't have you making topics about reality and tv and me replying to such topics to get to the point of trying to get to the point of serious illusions in front of us. look at your daily news paper for more disinformation that most of us think is serious facts and points to the bad guys. we are dealing with a system in place that lies 24/7 365 days a year and while we sleep and leave the tv on its programming our minds to accept the cerebral distortion.
@lilnono (228)
• United States
2 Mar 09
I appreciate your comment but it didn't really make me feel better or help me distinguish fact from fiction or fiction from deliberate deception.
• United States
3 Mar 09
you alone have the power to distinguish fact from fiction. you have to learn who the players of the game are. you have to learn the game being played and then the shadows of trickery will be give light so you can see. you have to do it daily and exercise your mind or get away from what it is you think is perfect deception at first. start off slow. the news, your local newspaper, magazines, books, internet, tv shows and find out who really runs the show. open your mind. there are places to go to expand your knowledge. you are in the right direction and you might not even know it. the fact that you are asking these questions is the right direction. i'll send you some info on some things you may not know. peace.
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@reckon21 (3479)
• Philippines
7 Mar 09
Tv and internet are just information and communication tools. They can influence our lives and it vary in to what opportunity it represents. Over all, we are master of our own world. We can be influenced by the outside events, but we are much more intelligent than that. We choose what we do because we want it. Not the other war around.
@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
22 Dec 09
I've done a lot of research online over the years and I go by a hard and fast rule...if I can confirm the information in three seperate sites then I feel it's trustworthy. The problem is that anyone can post anything they want online, true or not. Most of it is opinion, even if they don't say it's opinion. Here's an example: I have come across several sites that swear having a cat declawed is torture. That the cat is never able to walk right, has to hobble and is in constant pain for the duration of their lives. We had our cat, Morgana, declawed as a kitten and she is perfect in every way...she walks fine, has no hobble and shows no signs of any kind of pain. You can even play with her paws and she loves it. She will often kneed boxes, a scratch board that she has or furniture out of instict but with no pain. Perhaps each cat is different but I trust what I see in front of my eyes over what someone else says. [b]~~AT PEACE WITHIN~~ **STANDING STRONG IN MY BELIEFS**[/b]
@ashar123 (2357)
• India
3 Aug 09
[b]Even after seeing that you have marked someone else's response as best one I still am replying because replying to intresting discussions matters more to me. About your discussion, due to marketing competitions and companies wanting to increase their sales, internet and television is used to fulfil their targets. Thats why, whenever you try searching for any topic even needed for your assignment or research some other things open which only seem like jokes. [/b]
@VANILLAREY (1470)
• India
17 Sep 09
I don't think I have faced such a problem. Sometimes we have to type the right words in the search box. By right words I mean words which are likely to give a proper search result. I prefer to think of the right words before searching. However I have landed on site with a trojan while searching for a movie poster. I don't know how they manage to get on the first page.