Brainwashing

Originally posted by sonship
..How you live will make a deeper impression on your children than all you say most of the time. And I don't think you have to be a spiritual person to realize that.

..How you live will make a deeper impression on God and Christ than all you say most of the time. And I don't think you have to be a spiritual person to realize that

Originally posted by vistesd
Brainwashed is perhaps a strong term, except in extreme cases. I think that we are all conditioned by family, religion, culture beginning before we have language skills (e.g., by nonverbal responses to certain behaviors), but especially as we learn language. Broadly, I’ll just call what we learn “cultural norms”. These can include religion, morals—a compl ...[text shortened]... t be the best for someone else. “Is that good enough”? I don’t understand the question . . . .

It has been said that forgetting what has been learnt is not the solution; unlearning is. Learning new behaviours, attitudes, ideas often involve unlearning previous paradigms. As you say it requires effort. And help.