Resist the Click (Page 1 of 3)

that's nice to hear Lyra - hope things work out the way you want ...

what you say about the media - for you it's resisting the click - well - i know i've said on here before that i still watch television - it's been cut off a lot more lately - but just a couple of days ago - on the airplane of all places (i had the television monitor in front of my seat turned off for most of the flight), but at one point, i just turned it on - i couldn't resist the click ... and i caught this news about these people who were caught in toronto trying to terrorize up the scene with some schemes to blow shit up - CSIS had been tracking them for long time apparently - anyways - it's the same thing all over again - spreading fear - and all the whatiffs - then i caught CNN (a chanel i swore i'd never watch again - but it happened) - and the spin they were giving off this situaiton - it is so ... foolish - short-sighted - and i guess it had an impact on me - even though my head is on straight - it just made me sad that how people are willingly or maybe without really knowing what they're doing, spreading more and more fear and not looking for any real, long term solutions to the actual problems - the real issues that lie beyond the 'surface of things') ...

anyways - a lot crappy ass media out there - 2 much of it - i don't want any of it either - in any form

i share that sense you describe of the difference between you and 'mainstream' world - i think i left that place some time ago as well to be honest - so there is a gap in that sense for me too - no doubt that there'd be people on NR who share that - but i still interact with society, probably so do all of us - for me personally - i just don't partake in so many things i guess ...

it's funny - it kind of hit me all of sudden - resisting the click - we're talking about breaking a habit, right ?

it's that word 'resistence' that gets me a little when i think about it ...

is it really possible to get rid of a habit through resistence ? in the sense that there's this pattern i've created for myself in something i do - and i want to free of that pattern - so i resist when the urge comes up ? i think it is possible to break a pattern this way - BUT - does this method - through resistance - create another pattern in itself ? i mean, do i condition myself in another way in order to de-condition the first thing i wanted to get rid of ? and what about the energy that i'm using to resist ?

ya - it's a little difficult to verbalize ... maybe it's a lot simpler than what i'm trying to say - i don't know - i guess what i'm trying to say is that i think understanding how habits are formed - the whole process - because to me, it seems that there's a common link to how all habits are formed  - i think understanding that in itself is important, not necessarily trying to break a certain habit or pattern - i think if you understand how a habit is formed - maybe that itself is what allows you to stop other habits from forming and sets you free ...

this kind of stuff is great to experiment with and see what works and what doesn't - that's the only way to find out what's true

Resist may not actually be the best word....for me, there won't be resistance involved in the sense of a tug-of-war, trying to repress bad habits.   Instead, I have a repulsion that's naturally driving me away from old bad habits.

And with regards to habits....it's a matter of figuring out how those habits formed in the first place.  In the case of excessive internet news site/gossip blog consumption, it was born directly out of boredom, with lack of something else to fill the time.  The computer and internet are right there, in front of me....next thing you know, bad habit is formed.

So the trick is to fill that empty space with other activities.  Bring a book, work on my writing/web site, and so on.  There won't be a tug-of-war, or that whole trying to repress or "resist" stuff as long as I make a concerted effort to better occupy my spare time.   

I still like the phrase "Resist the Click!" though.    It's cute, and catchy. 

Why, right here....check it out:

http://forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic.php?id=3457

So far there hasn't been too many people involved - montalk, Risen, kljsadllksjlksdlj whatever his name is me, and pinkyrylq.  Most people here probably still don't know about it.

Seems to me, its more a matter of what links one clicks on and what sites one goes to.  Shielding ones self from the world doesnt necessarily make it go away, obviously.  Plus there are some truths to be gained from many links.

I agree though, even on sites I visit there are lot of "gossipy" links.  Just a matter of having more foresight into what it is I'm clicking on.  If I stumble across a smelly page, whoops, just hit the back button.

Hey if it wasnt for news sites like rense.com et al, I wouldn't have known about several things that would directly affect me.  Such as Codex Alimentarius.

What being programmed into people from one angle, is the notion of the need for social control and the self policing idea of entrapment for breaking the laws laid down by the elite. Also guilt and the notion that only criminals and deviants would do certain things.
Its all based on and rooted in the highest forms of hypocrsiy.
From all the dirty cracks in our society are emerging all manner of people who are letting their inner nazi out with the support of a very sick media and peer system that get more debased every day.
IN effect what is happening is that the masses, mostly in america have become totally minionized thru the greatest mass mind control device ever conceived of, the TV.
Why do people watch TV? Or are they really people?
They certainly appear not to be.
Just about any hollywood film made is pure trash anymore with the same old repeating themes we have seen too many times. Images of violence and killing mostly. Why?
Why do people want to see this kind of thing ? Why is it ok to sanction this kind of so called entertainment? Pornography is just another kind of virtuality that opens a window for energy sucking to happen. Its all energy games, parroting, and puppeting.
Quite juvenile.

Great post, Lyra.

Television's main job is to "program" (brainwash) and distract us.  As News Anchor Howard Beale said about television in the 1970's film "Network:"  "We're in the boredom killing business, man."

I made a conscious decision to basically turn off television, and also to stop reading mainstream newspapers and magazines some time ago.  I haven't entirely 100% given them up, though...not YET, anyway  My current job requires me to be aware of what's being written about in the mainstream media as it applies to the field I'm in, but luckily, I can just scan clips of those papers compiled by the press people to read what I need to know. 

I do use TV to watch DVDs and VHS Tapes, but by and large the thing is off and UNPLUGGED.  I read somewhere (maybe on this forum) that you should even unplug it, since "they" were capable of sending ELF waves or something through it, even if it was turned off.

I also decided some time back to stop regularly visiting "alternative news" sites such as Rense, Alex, Icke, and all the rest...I just couldn't do it on a daily basis anymore.  It just got to be too much.  Oh, and let me tell you, for a period of time there, I was obsesssed with those sites, and I never missed a day visiting them.  And rarely, if ever, did I go to bed at nite without Alex Jones on!  Ever.  And it went all through the night (as many of you know).

I finally heeded the advice of others in here who were pretty much saying and feeling the same way that I was about those sites after a while, and just stepped back, and stopped going to them on a daily basis.  I just couldn't take one more dire scenario, one more doom and gloom article. 

I don't for one minute diminish the role of these sites and all of the articles by the fine writers featured on them, in my own awakening.  But I found myself too enmeshed in all of it after a bit.  Really enmeshed.  While I  think it's an absolutely necessary step in the process, I now recognize that leaving them behind is another necessary, if not easy, step.

Now I do visit them on ocassion, and I don't think that I will entirely give them up, as Lyra intimates she may do in her excellent post.  But I realize that I basically know what I need to know, and one more story about the horrors TPTB are inflicting on this earth and its people is not going to necessarily uplift me spiritually, which is more and more the information/readings I find myself drawn to now.   

As far as "resisting the click"...I'm 95% there with TV and mainstream print and probably 75% there overall.  But it's getting easier and easier.  When I'm in an airport and CNN is blasting from every nook and cranny, I find myself "running for cover" and trying to escape!  It's almost impossibe to do.  Then you see how clearly they're pushing the various PTB agendas, with their fake, plastic looking talking heads fostering more fear and ignorance with their bird flu hysteria, AIDS hoax, the latest antics of Tom, Paris, their NWO model couple Brad and Jolie, and bla bla bla. 

No thanks.  Not interested.  Good riddance.

Yea, you're right.  No thank you!

Fortunately, I've unplugged my T.V and am in the process of giving it away!  I can't remember the last time I've watched it actually.  Oh, it was probably watching hockey, because I've always enjoyed watching Montreal play, but even watching hockey was annoying because of the commercials and the stupid advertisments on the boards!  Tim Hortons and all the rest of them. Its a perfect technique for TPB, while everyone is watching the puck, the advertisement go directly into your subconscious!

It seems though, like a little bit of media is poping up when in not at home.  Either at work (radio) or getting groceries!  That is the worst, while waiting in line to pay they have to bombard every lineup with fake plastic magazins promoting sex and consumerism.

Tom Cruise?  I don't care!  Brad and Angelina!  I still don't care!

But I 'know' about it.. and that is the sad part! LoL.  Oh well.  We can only do our best to do what we want, rather than what they want.