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Sephra Star
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Posted - 2008.03.03 15:56:00 -
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Edited by: Sephra Star on 03/03/2008 15:59:09
I'll probably get flamed for this, but I really do feel its honest truth.
Video Games might contribute to violence, but even if they do it is far less culpable than telivision IMHO.
Telivision is the primary device used for our social programming. Consider how much money is spent in commercial advertising to tell us what we like to eat, drink, and do.
Why do they spend money on advertising?
Because it works.
The reason people like to play violent video games is from the social brainwashing they are programmed with primarily from telivision.
The violent video games just happen to give people an outlet to act out what they have been programed with from telivision.
So in a way I agree with people who say violent video games have little if anything to do with causing people to be violent, but only because I firmly believe it is telivision that is the cause and that video games are merely benign mode of acting it out.
Violent Video games may actually contribute to there being less violence in the real world because it may very well be just enough of a fix that some people need to avoid going over the edge and acting out their programmed social compulsions in real life.
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Posted - 2008.03.03 16:25:00 -
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This Is Your Brain On Violent Media
Violence is a frequent occurrence in television shows and movies, but can watching it make you behave differently?
Researchers at Columbia University Medical CenterÆs Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Research Center have shown that watching violent programs can cause parts of your brain that suppress aggressive behaviors to become less active.
Columbia University scientists show that a brain network responsible for suppressing behaviors like inappropriate or unwarranted aggression (including the right lateral orbitofrontal cortex, or right ltOFC, and the amygdala) became less active after study subjects watched several short clips from popular movies depicting acts of violence. These changes could render people less able to control their own aggressive behavior. Indeed the authors found that, even among their own subjects, less activation in this network was characteristic of people reporting an above average tendency to behave aggressively. This characteristic was measured through a personality test.
A secondary finding was that after repeated viewings of violence, an area of the brain associated with planning behaviors became more active. This lends further support to the idea that exposure to violence diminishes the brainÆs ability to inhibit behavior-related processing.
None of these changes in brain activity occurred when subjects watched non-violent but equally engaging movies depicting scenes of horror or physical activity.
ôThese changes in the brainÆs behavioral control circuits were specific to the repeated exposure to the violent clips,ö said Joy Hirsch, Ph.D., professor of Functional Neuroradiology, Psychology, and Neuroscience and Director of the Center for fMRI at CUMC, and the PLoS ONE paperÆs senior author. ôEven when the level of action in the control movies was comparable, we just did not observe the same changes in brain response that we did when the subjects viewed the violent clips.ö
ôDepictions of violent acts have become very common in the popular media,ö said Christopher Kelly, the first author on the paper and a current CUMC medical student. ôOur findings demonstrate for the first time that watching media depictions of violence does influence processing in parts of the brain that control behaviors like aggression. This is an important finding, and further research should examine very closely how these changes affect real-life behavior.ö
This research was published in the Dec. 5 on-line issue of PLoS One (published by the Public Library of Science),
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071206093014.htm
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Sephra Star
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Posted - 2008.03.03 16:38:00 -
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 Originally by: goodby4u
Edited by: goodby4u on 03/03/2008 16:31:50
Edited by: goodby4u on 03/03/2008 16:31:23
I guess but planning and doing are two entirely different things.
I would be lying if I said I have never had thoughts about how to kill someone,we are human we all have those thoughts...However ive never done such an act and will probably never do so unless its necessary.
Though truthfully the mentally unstable shouldnt play violent video games if they cannot seperate reality from fiction most others should be fine.
Lets then add in the factor of the massive ditribution of psychiatric medications being doled out to children and adults that play into this equation.
Medications (poisens really)that have been prooven beyond any doubt whatsoever end up contributing to suicidal as well as homicidal behaviors.
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Sephra Star
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Posted - 2008.03.03 16:53:00 -
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The list of anti depressent SSRI's is pretty extensive.
I have done quite a bit of personal research on the long term effects psychiatric medications. Try surfing the forums of psychiatric medication survivors who had there lives turned into living hells by taking them. People desperate to get off of them looking for help from others who have been through it.
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Posted - 2008.03.03 17:31:00 -
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Edited by: Sephra Star on 03/03/2008 17:36:54
Originally by: Erotic Irony
Originally by: Sephra Star
The list of anti depressent SSRI's is pretty extensive.
I have done quite a bit of personal research on the long term effects psychiatric medications. Try surfing the forums of psychiatric medication survivors who had there lives turned into living hells by taking them. People desperate to get off of them looking for help from others who have been through it.
internet research itt
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I can only presume your trying to be sarcastic about my remark of doing research on the internet about the effects of psychiatric drugs.
Perhaps I should have explained why I was bothing.
At the time I was taking care of someone who was taking them. She was having uncontrollable epileptic like siezures on a daily basis compounded by near death emergency room visits for various unexplained physiologicfal conditions.
We determined it had to do with drug toxicity from her prescription medications and began to ween her off the medications she was on. We ended up having to admit her into a psych ward for attempting suicide.
Turned out she had been secretly planning it for a good long while.
The woman in question had a PHD in Psychology...
She was also into law enforcement as a career until she became disabled.
The vast majority of her free time was spent watching the CRIME shows on telivision and her favorite ones were the documentaries on murder investigations of serial killers and domestic murders.
Go figure
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Sephra Star
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Posted - 2008.03.04 16:10:00 -
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Got news for ya. We have been having genocide of indiginous populations going on non-stop now for decades; not to mention the mass assassinations of intellectuals in nations targeted for coups.
The United States is one gruesome guilty party when you expose it to the light.
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