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Television Reveals Our Deepest Nature, Sometimes
Self ^ | 10/24/08 | MHGinTN

Posted on 10/24/2008 12:33:20 PM PDT by MHGinTN

The CSI episode (CBS show, Crime Scene Investigation) which aired Thursday evening, October 23, was, as is common, about a serial killer. The killer picked random victims, drugged them to unconsciousness, and killed them in restrained poses, so when rigor mortis sets in (stiffening of the muscles with oxygen deprivation and paralysis of muscle cells) these people are posed in what the killer perceives as ‘artful sculpting’.

Toward the end of the episode, the CSI team discovers the killer has abducted a little boy whom he plans as the last in a series of ‘sculptings’. The frantic criminal investigators locate a warehouse where they believe the killings have taken place and rush to find the little boy. As the child is pulled free from the straps and restraints, unconscious, CPR is started when the boy is carried from the killing chamber.

The audience is left in suspense, momentarily: will the team be too late to save this child; will CPR revive this child?

I watched the end of that episode with tears in my old eyes, pleading in my mind for the little one to breathe. The tears were because I was thinking of how a viewing audience can be manipulated to cheer for that little boy to recover from the carbon monoxide and breathe, yet Barack Obama worked hard in the Illinois legislature to protect killing born alive infants —completely separated from the mother’s body— via forced suffocation of preemie babies left unattended to die alone. And it makes me cry that too many of my fellow Americans are going to vote for this ghoul from Illinois who used the suffocation murder of born alive children as a means to empower himself politically.


TOPICS: Daily Prayer; Freeoples; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; allvanities; anothervanity; elliterate; infanticide; intertainment; serialkiller; vanity
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To: dilvish
Um, 'n00bie' is the affectionate version used for new freepers; 'n00b' is the not so affectionate version. But you can choose which you wish to have for designation, after all, you're registered.

BTW, do you really believe that the little box, the goblin fire in people's living rooms and bedrooms does not fashion public perception and public opinion? ... Right, you'll get lots of agreement with that one!

21 posted on 10/24/2008 2:02:26 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN

No n00bie is not an affection term, anywhere. Anything pointing to the recentness of a person’s account date is an insult. I’ll accept that you didn’t mean it that way, but really it’s an insult.

I didn’t say the box doesn’t shape opinion. I’m simply pointing out the difference in standard human reaction to a faced person (in this case fictional) and many faceless people (in this case real). The box can’t change this simple human reaction, our brain is geared towards being part of familial units and dealing with the kinds of problem familial units have. Subsequently it handles small numbers and personal connections very well, and it doesn’t handle large numbers and impersonal connections well if at all.

For most people any number that’s over 100 (for some it’s as low as 50, others can push it as high as 1000) is basically imaginary. We can’t internalize it, we deal with 1, a couple, a handful, and a couple of handfuls, and everything past that is basically outside our brain. So when you start talking about millions of aborted babies it’s a fog number, most people can’t understand it, and in one of those wierd tricks of the brain most treat it the same as they would hundreds. It’s over 100 and therefore not internalized. TV can’t change this. Millions of aborted babies, no matter how it gets handled on TV will remain a faceless incomprehensible number to the vast majority of people.

TV can change a lot, unfortunately basic limitations of the human mind doesn’t seem to be on the list.


22 posted on 10/24/2008 2:14:52 PM PDT by dilvish
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To: dilvish
There seems to be a dichotomy between what you claim in post #22 and what you stated in post #20:

From #20: "I simply pointed out why people are more able to identify with TV characters they see than real people they don’t. ... I don’t think the TV venue could change any of that. You still have the basic that abortion kids are “faceless” to the masses and won’t generate empathy. They are real human being but they don’t FEEL real to most people, and ni this case it’s the feeling that matter."

From #22: "I didn’t say the box doesn’t shape opinion. I’m simply pointing out the difference in standard human reaction to a faced person (in this case fictional) and many faceless people (in this case real). The box can’t change this simple human reaction, our brain is geared towards being part of familial units and dealing with the kinds of problem familial units have."

23 posted on 10/24/2008 2:24:11 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN

You’re missing the scope of “change any of that” in post 20. Can the TV change opinions? Yes. Can the TV change basic human nature? No. People’s lack of identification with large number os faceless people is part of basic human nature, not opinion.


24 posted on 10/24/2008 2:49:17 PM PDT by dilvish
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To: JennysCool
And why would ANYONE feel the need to watch CBS, except for football?

LOL!

I hear ya. If it wasn't for football I would not ever view ABCCBSNBCFOX.

25 posted on 10/24/2008 3:53:34 PM PDT by A message (Governor Palin is a great choice for Vice-President. McCain/ Palin '08)
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To: MHGinTN

Yep, you can easily guage the mental state of the masses by popular “entertainment”.


26 posted on 10/24/2008 4:35:37 PM PDT by JoJo Gunn (Stupid people shouldn't breed.)
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To: greyfoxx39

Good, except I’m not even crazy about the lead guy (see, I can’t remember his name—I find him pompous and annoying). Of course, I’m even getting tired of House. No one can possibly be that bitter and compassionless all the time. Of course if the lesbian love scenes continue I’ll have to quit watching that anyway.


27 posted on 10/24/2008 6:12:57 PM PDT by brytlea (Obama--Keep the change!)
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To: Evie Munchkin

To be honest, while I’ve never seen that specific episode of CSI, I find CSI to be pretty tame and impossible to take seriously. However, I love the characters and writing for Bones, and it’s a bit more graphic and noticeably more realistic. But, I’ve probably been massively desensitized to all this, cause what I see in my forensics class is stuff that nobody could get away with putting on TV. In a similar way, people get killed in nasty ways all the time in real life - you’d probably be shocked at some of what happens in even ‘quiet, boring’ communities.


28 posted on 10/24/2008 8:45:36 PM PDT by Hyzenthlay (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: JoJo Gunn; jwalsh07; cpforlife.org; wagglebee; Coleus

I was trying to draw the connection to the character of the little boy in the episode suffocating slowly and the suffocation killing of born alive infants Obama sought to disenfranchise in order to protect that method of killing the little ones. I suspect one or two posters didn’t like the connection because it was a negative for their obamessiah, so they played diversion from the connection.


29 posted on 10/25/2008 2:28:46 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN

I just went with “What has America become?” (I very rarely watch TV anymore. Most of the talk about the tube is now Greek).


30 posted on 10/25/2008 2:48:28 PM PDT by JoJo Gunn (Stupid people shouldn't breed.)
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