Can anyone tell me why I feel my gaze is directed on television shows so that I am constantly focusing on breasts? (e.g., situation comedy) Didn't used to be that way. Sure there were buxom ladies with breasts on a rack for display, but the camera perspective has changed so that they're constantly thrust into your vision.

Why did Oprah's face in the upper left corner during a national show look like it was as thin as a models last night? Next time you print out your picture for someone, grab the right edge of it with your mouse, and lose a few pounds without going on a diet.

Why do Hollywood films use bright flashes of light, often with loud noise, particularly during violence and torture sequences? The startle response bypasses the thinking brain. Probably goes straight to your amygdala where you will NEVER forget the movie trailer you just saw. It could be an explosion or even a flashlight the camera suddenly peers into in a night sequence, it has the same effect.

I have no doubt that discussion forums use plants (like this one???) for a variety of reasons, and are also full of ringers from well financed presidential campaigns who cajole kabitz and attack in order to advance their causes and candidates (e.g., Yahoo! Answers).

Sometimes it's fun though, when you trust an artist, to let go of the awareness of controlled perspective, to enjoy the journey they've created for us. Any novel or play does this, and you needn't know how the sausage is made in order to enjoy the product. I hate it though when ice cubes thrown into a glass or the scotch poured over them sound as if you're standing inside of said glass. I guess I'm just too aware of how they make sausage to enjoy it with abandon. Thank God they don't make us listen to their throats swallowing. Oh, guess they did that for sport drink commercials. Big gulp.

Just wait when smell-vision comes to the movies. Eeew.

I realize that this is off subject, but can anyone PLEASE TELL ME if the book.....Tapping the Healer Within by Roger J. Callahan, Ph.D.  or Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard are beneficial self-help books.  I was about to buy the book, Tapping the Healer Within over the weekend and I thought I'd run it by all of you first - I don't want to waste the time or money if either of these books are not worth reading.  I'm new to all of this so I CAN SURE USE YOUR HELP!  WOULD BE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!!

Madison Avenue has been using professional psychologists for decades now to trick us.  I've been wondering how in the world peope will demand their doctors give them a certain drug after seeing a TV ad and hearing all the dreadful, deadly side effects of the drug they're pushing.  I think it's because we've been trained to accept the "bottom line" of these ads without using our own mental powers to arrive at a solution.  Like when in a checkout, the clerk will say: "$1.50, $2.25 and $4.00, that'll be $7.75" and you pay it without thinking.  They GAVE you the BOTTOM LINE!  In these ads, they tell you the good news and then the bad news and then they TELL YOU what decision to come to and what action to take. It's all very insidious.  I can think of no other explination to why people would knowingly take these deadly drugs just to get rid of toe nail fungus.

IN MY BOOK one of the worst examples of marketing perversion is a guy I describe as MR SINCERITY, He has been around for years on the radio with his own " news program " and using  SINCERITY to SELL  SELL SELL and , as nearly as I can tell, using those insidious UNIVERSITY P R RELEASES type "studies " to constantantly announce NEW MEDICAL DISCOVERIES and I think he calls a major midwest city home. I totally lost interest in him years ago when i read a report on his massive income    chubby

Okay I saw the Gorrila as it walked to the middle pounded it's chest then walked off.  I did not see anything tricky about this video.  Also they do not tell you how many times the white actually passed the ball.  I have my count, they told me it was close enough, what does that mean?  That I was right?  Strange!

I will send my child to Public school for 2 years and Private school for 2 years when they are mentally ready to get a open minded view of the insanity that infests Humanity.  I will then homeschool them for another 4 years than off to Waldorf school they go!  I want my child to have a broad understanding of this world we live in.  Teach that all things exist by varying degrees of opposites and that one should seek to adapt and evolve thier level of understaning at all times.  Never become complacent and seek evoloution in all things, Mentally, Physically and most importantly Spiritually...

"All things have fears, but the brave put down those fears and go forth, somtimes to DEATH, but always to VICTORY!"