Subliminal messages and the subconscious mind.

[Rollo Tamasi]

I don't know much about this subject.
But I'm curious about some things and the effect it has on our christian lives.
Someone says a word and it means something bad.
So, instead of saying it, the word is substituted for another word that's not as bad, but still gives pretty much the same meaning.
Then someone substitutes that word for a slang word.
Then another slang word.

Now someone uses this watered down slang word loosely.
Does the subconscious mind automatically pick up the original bad word and it goes into our being?
Should we be using these slang words at all?

Some of these slang words are used to substitute the name of God, substitute swear words, and words with a bad meaning.

Should we be aware of these things?
Should we look to correct our language?
It may not be bad to you but what if it is bad to someone else?

Example: the word "damn".
Now we don't want to be damning anyone, now do we?
We don't say "God damn".
We know that is bad.
So we substitute it with "darn".
Now that's not as bad, is it?
And then "durn"
And then "dang".

Question: is our subconscious picking up "damn" when we use these words?
This is just one example.
Does anyone have a say on this?

 

[Willie T]

Ah, yes, "Christian Cuss Words", such as Jeeze, and Fricken, and several others.

If you even have to ask the question, I think you already know the answer.

 

[agua.]

Check out NLP ( neuro linguistic programming ) it's a tool used to brainwash people.

 

[Claudya]

Example: the word "damn".
Now we don't want to be damning anyone, now do we?
We don't say "God damn".
We know that is bad.
So we substitute it with "darn".
Now that's not as bad, is it?
And then "durn"
And then "dang".

Question: is our subconscious picking up "damn" when we use these words?
This is just one example.
Does anyone have a say on this?

Yep. It's not even subconscious. I'm aware it's a polite "damn". You can just as well say the original word. :D
But then, i's my second language, maybe it's different for you.

 

[Kathi]

Subliminal messages is a way of brainwashing.Danger stuff depending on what it is.Have you ever gone to sleep with the television on and what is on the television is in your dreams?

 

[reba]

Down the street lived a beautiful young woman from Yugoslavia .. She spoke very good proper english ,she also swore like a truck driver One morning around the coffee cups we asked to say ____________in her native tongue.... Her face turned red she stuttered... " I could never say that" it did help some to slow her down...

 

[Claudya]

Subliminal messages is a way of brainwashing.Danger stuff depending on what it is.Have you ever gone to sleep with the television on and what is on the television is in your dreams?

Happened to me when waking up to a radio alarm clock - or when actually not waking up while the radio was running, but weaving the radio news into my dream. They day when the death of the famous tenor singer Luciano Pavarotti was on the news I kept on sleeping when my radio alarm clock went on and subconsciously heard the news. I dreamt I was attending the funeral of Pavarotti. I woke up later wondering why I'd overslept, unaware that the radio had been on at all. When I heard the news of Pavarotti's demise later I remembered my dream and for an instant I thought that by dreaming of his funeral I'd killed him. :shock

 

[Claudya]

Down the street lived a beautiful young woman from Yugoslavia .. She spoke very good proper english ,she also swore like a truck driver One morning around the coffee cups we asked to say ____________in her native tongue.... Her face turned red she stuttered... " I could never say that" it did help some to slow her down...

LOL exactly like me. I don't mind the f-word and I use it a lot myself, but dislike the German equivalent (it's not a common swear word here, but a very deroatory term for sex).
I guess foreign language swearing never sounds as bad as native language swearing.

 

[Kathi]

Happened to me when waking up to a radio alarm clock - or when actually not waking up while the radio was running, but weaving the radio news into my dream. They day when the death of the famous tenor singer Luciano Pavarotti was on the news I kept on sleeping when my radio alarm clock went on and subconsciously heard the news. I dreamt I was attending the funeral of Pavarotti. I woke up later wondering why I'd overslept, unaware that the radio had been on at all. When I heard the news of Pavarotti's demise later I remembered my dream and for an instant I thought that by dreaming of his funeral I'd killed him. :shock

My son and I went on a train trip to San Diego about 10 years ago.We had a sleeper.Early in the morning before anyone was up over the intercom the dining staff would announce in very,very soft words....pancakes......waffles......eggs.....

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

I feel that some people don't care about others, only themselves.
I'm talking christians.
I find today that christians are more loose with their values overall than 30 years ago when I got saved.
But maybe I've just been around, seen more.
I don't know.

 

[Kathi]

I feel that some people don't care about others, only themselves.
I'm talking christians.
I find today that christians are more loose with their values overall than 30 years ago when I got saved.
But maybe I've just been around, seen more.
I don't know.

I agree.That is what I am seeing a hearing.