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Movies are literally ads with our subconscious minds being the portals. You won't normally notice where the advertisements are or that there are any in the first place but I guarantee you at least one ad in every cinema movie.
I don't even like Doritos, but after watching Channing Tatum devour a pack I was non the wiser. A (not so good) movie represents this brainwashing to buy goods without knowing is "Josie and the Pussycats".
Watching a movie today, as soon as I arrived the smell of popcorn invited itself inside my soul. From the moment you step inside the cinema everything screams food! And fair enough for the business which relies on food sales more then movie tickets. But that leads me to think, do we, as independent people who like to think we make our own decisions, being manipulated? Did we really choose to buy large popcorn? or we chose to update our phone? Some will say 'yes I chose to do this' and I'll challenge that by asking you what if there was no smell of popcorn to lure you in and did you even plan on buying popcorn in the first place? Some will say 'yeah so what, the ads are working and I choose to be lured in'. But does that still make you an individual? Making your own decisions? If we stop making our own minds up, we are allowing others to manipulate us into thinking, doing and even believing anything they want us to. By "they" I mean those smart people in advertisement and media agencies. As a consumer, having someone think for me is something that I can't allow and I must admit that for a long time I was guided by the medias' suggestions of purchasing whatever they wanted to sell. Food is the largest selling market.
When fasting, you realize that you have treated food as something that is always there. You don't realize how much it is apart of your life until you fast. Subtracting it from your life you begin to literally ask yourself 'what do I do all day'?
I think fasting magnifies my senses to notice food in places I was not fully aware of. Magnifying my senses and noticing food embedded in certain places, I can finally make a clear decision to wither I really do want to purchase those Doritos or if it was just smart advertisement. A really clever t.v show that explores advertisement is "The Gruen Transfer" which I highly, highly recommend.
Walking through my shopping center, there are always people trying to sell me things. AVON, Kitchen Knives, hand cream, Loom Bands, Bioflow but it is refreshing to see donation stands being placed in between. My favorite charity among others is World Vision. This foundation catches my eyes because it stands up for children more then anything.
I think fasting every year helps me to remember the people who go on for days drinking dirty water and no food the exact same time I am writing this. While I am pressing every key, a child is dreaming of a better life. And every time I finish a sentence, a child has lost hope. I can't think of anything sadder then an innocent child experiencing life unjustly. A gold coin, knowing that it will go towards little kids with no meal for tonight, takes away from the sadness. And now that I think of it, how selfish must I be? To be thinking about the sadness I feel and the warmth this it is exchanged with when donating. The action of giving should only be that and not as a means of brightening my mood. But is that not human nature? We are all connected some way or another if not directly then through God. Knowing that a child will be saved brightness my mood not for the sake of my emotions, but from knowing that someone will be smiling. Your happiness is my happiness.
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Movies are literally ads with our subconscious minds being the portals. You won't normally notice where the advertisements are or that there are any in the first place but I guarantee you at least one ad in every cinema movie.
I don't even like Doritos, but after watching Channing Tatum devour a pack I was non the wiser. A (not so good) movie represents this brainwashing to buy goods without knowing is "Josie and the Pussycats".
Watching a movie today, as soon as I arrived the smell of popcorn invited itself inside my soul. From the moment you step inside the cinema everything screams food! And fair enough for the business which relies on food sales more then movie tickets. But that leads me to think, do we, as independent people who like to think we make our own decisions, being manipulated? Did we really choose to buy large popcorn? or we chose to update our phone? Some will say 'yes I chose to do this' and I'll challenge that by asking you what if there was no smell of popcorn to lure you in and did you even plan on buying popcorn in the first place? Some will say 'yeah so what, the ads are working and I choose to be lured in'. But does that still make you an individual? Making your own decisions? If we stop making our own minds up, we are allowing others to manipulate us into thinking, doing and even believing anything they want us to. By "they" I mean those smart people in advertisement and media agencies. As a consumer, having someone think for me is something that I can't allow and I must admit that for a long time I was guided by the medias' suggestions of purchasing whatever they wanted to sell. Food is the largest selling market.
When fasting, you realize that you have treated food as something that is always there. You don't realize how much it is apart of your life until you fast. Subtracting it from your life you begin to literally ask yourself 'what do I do all day'?
I think fasting magnifies my senses to notice food in places I was not fully aware of. Magnifying my senses and noticing food embedded in certain places, I can finally make a clear decision to wither I really do want to purchase those Doritos or if it was just smart advertisement. A really clever t.v show that explores advertisement is "The Gruen Transfer" which I highly, highly recommend.
Walking through my shopping center, there are always people trying to sell me things. AVON, Kitchen Knives, hand cream, Loom Bands, Bioflow but it is refreshing to see donation stands being placed in between. My favorite charity among others is World Vision. This foundation catches my eyes because it stands up for children more then anything.
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| What you get if you give a coin donation. Its a magnet |
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