1. Why do we do fine when people aren’t looking, but if we ask them to watch, we mess up?
2. Do things taste differently for different people – and if we tasted what they taste, then we would like it, too, or are our taste buds different?
3. Why do we have favourite colours? Why do you think whoever thought of it thought of it? When do you think he/she thought of it?
4. When is a child accountable for his or her sins?
5. Is your first memory real, or a dream? Has your first memory always been the same?
6. What if you had all the money in the world? What would you do with it? How long would you have all the money in the world…because if you bought anything, someone else would have money, too. Would your supply of money be endless because you would have money printed for you personally? Do you think it would really be possible to have all the money in the world, or would people be dishonest and steal the money you printed or print their own? Do you think you’d ever find out that you weren’t the only person with money?
7. If you close your eyes, is it harder to smell, hear and taste? If you listen to loud music that drowns everything out is it harder to concentrate on something or smell or taste something? Is that in your head or real?
8. Why do you believe what you believe? Are there any holes/uncertainties in your beliefs?
9. How do you know that something you’ve been doing all your life isn’t wrong?
10. When foreign people write poems, do they rhyme in English, the sounds of the language, or the words of the language?
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I’ll keep running because it lets me be selfish. It’s the thing I do that’s just for me, and nobody else. FYI, I never thought this being-selfish-thing could take so much discipline.
“Cool! She’s doing something for herself! I don’t do that often enough…I should do something for myself once in a while! And if those shoes help me out, then I’ll buy them!”
Wait! Stop! Calm down! Look at the key word, there: selfish. They don’t even try to hide the word behind cleverly manipulated text! They state it right there: selfish.
Here are two more:
A picture of a woman holding a brief case with a purple sign on it. The sign says “I did it for ME.” Everybody has their own reason for looking into BOTOX Cosmetic. If you haven’t called your doctor yet, isn’t it about time?
An inflated picture of a huge, juicy burger, ketchup and mustard oozing perfectly, crisp, green, wavy tips of lettuce poke out from between a dewey tomato and a drip of warm, melting, golden-yellow cheese. The caption reads: Wildly tantalizing, yet totally virtuous. JUST LIKE YOU.
Our society is too easily manipulated by the idea of being selfish and doing something for yourself. You deserve this, you can do that because you’re so selfless the rest of the time…do a little something for yourself sometimes! There isn’t anything wrong with the occaisional thing here or there for yourself, but when you’re overwhelmed by three plus ads in one magazine and billboards and commercials between shows and you begin to get overwhelmed…
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“I think my hair deserves to go beyond one-tone colour.”
Woo. Good for you.
Three pictures of women with spotless faces, creamy skin, shining smiles and silky, smooth, liquid-like, illustrious two-toned hair that’s flowing in the wind.
I’m special. And if I buy this product, I’ll look like these women.
Have you ever wondered about that? You see a picture of a woman with clear, moisteurized skin and below her is a chart of comparisons and “clinically-proven,” “studies show” and “doctors reccomend” comments. You automatically think that if you buy the product and use it you’ll look like the woman in the picture. Have you ever thought that there might be no connection?
There really isn’t. The advertisers are using these pictures to illustrate their product, not prove it. The woman in the picture was picked out of hundreds of women for her nearly-flawless skin and dazzling smile, and even after that she was rendered in a image-manipulating program to make sure all blemishes were gone and her skin looked the way the advertisers wanted it to. This isn’t the way you’ll look if you use their product. It’s the way they want to you to think you’ll look, and it works.
My name: Ellen DeGeneres
Childhood ambition: To work with animals
Fondest memory: I can’t recall, but I’m sure I’m found of it.
Soundtrack: music.
Retreat: nature.
Wildest dream: to sleep more and dream
Indulgence: doing nothing
Last purchase: butter
My card: is American Express
“Wow…that’s cool. She uses that card? Well, I won’t be tricked into making American Express my card just because it’s Ellen DeGeneres’s card…….but…she sounds so much like a “normal person,” not some high and mighty movie star…perhaps American Express is the card for me…”
I’m a Stripper.
“Woah,” you think. “She’s what?”
I’m a Stripper, and I sleep just fine at night. Actually, it was my mom’s idea. She said she found the whole experience very freeing.
“Um…wow. I don’t think I really needed to know that…” And then you read the next sentence:
See, as an allergy sufferer, I used to think nasal congestion – and sleepless nights – were just a way of life. Then one day, Mom brought over some Breathe Right nasal stips. Naturally, I thought she was crazy, but I put one on before bed, and my life has never been the same. It immediately opened my nose, and just like that, I could breathe all night long! Now I wear one to breathe better every night. Maybe you should be a stipper, too.
“Oh.”
The tactic worked – you were shocked into reading more. When I saw those first two sentences I certainly kept reading. I was curious.
But I’m disgusted, really. Using a grotesque tactic that catches our attention by shocking us and then tricks us into reading their ad isn’t that healthy.
Tall, dark, and delicious. We decided to create the richest, most intensely flavoured chocolate possible and then set our sights even higher. That’s how the world’s first and finest organic chocolate was born. It begins with the best organically grown cocoa beans, handpicked and ground until they burst with pure, deep, dark flavour. Our chocolate is then stirred continuously to impart an exquisite velvety smooth sensation. At Green & Black’s, we take as much pleasure in cultivation this chocolate as you will in eating it. Well, almost. Green & Black’s – Made with passion. Consumed with pleasure.
Doesn’t that sound delicious? It sounds so rich and flavourful that I completely forgot that I don’t like dark chocolate.
We may be seduced into buying something because the components sound good or purely because the advertiser sweet-talked us. They might use the best ingrediants but they may be awful chocolate makers. They might stir the chocolate continuously, but they might burn it, too. Who knows what went on behind that smooth, dark chocolate bar.
I have a problem with these ads. Almost everyone has seen them. I’ll take an example from an Eggo ad:
An inflated picture of a stack of pancakes, a perfectly melting pat of butter on top and picturesque waterfalls of seemingly warm, glistening syrup. The caption on the bottom of the page says: Whole wheat and fiber have never been so warm and fluffy.
What’s wrong with this picture?
You think for a moment. Um…nothing…? They’re making their waffles nutritious…good for them!
No. What is a pancake? Answer me that. A pancake is basically bread, and with syrup it’s also sugar. So a pancake is bread and sugar. Does that sound nutritious? When you hear the phrases ”whole wheat” and “fiber” in a sentence, you automatically think that the pancakes are 100% good for you.
Personally, if I had nothing but pancakes (bread and sugar) for breakfast I would end up grouchy by the time lunch came around. So what if they’re whole wheat? It’s still just bread and sugar. And just because it’s whole wheat doesn’t mean it actually tastes good.
Thank you folks. My first post is finished.
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Hey there! I see you’ve found my blog! Well, if you’re wondering where the posts are, I’ve only just joined about three or four minutes ago, so my site is under intense construction – you see…I’ve found nothing to post yet. =D
I will post eventually, I promise, but for the time being, I must gather resources.
- CH
