I get your angle. I don't mean anything derogatory in my comments. I wonder though, do you get it? That is, when you state "You all are just programming yourselves. Like Pavlov's dogs. Stimulus and response", do you understand that you too are a cog in the same machine? The difference being that your illusion, or poison, or programming, or what-have-you would seem to exclude the purchase of iPods.
Ipods are 100% self programing. 100% self hypnosis. The other ways are far from this 100%
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