They wouldn’t do subliminal mind control, would they?

I wonder how many will see the not so subtle efforts at mind control in the following that came to my email box.

 

“Come, Follow Me” Is Not Just about Curriculum. It’s an Invitation to Become Like Him. The aim of all gospel learning and teaching is to deepen our conversion and help us become more like Jesus Christ. This means allowing Christ to change our hearts, our views, our actions, and our very natures.     Come, Follow Him

 

 

 

 

General Conference: You Could Change the Channel. Or You Could Let the Channel Change You.

Let’s take a quick look.

First, notice that both pictures are the same. Christ is teaching a group of people. The LDS church president is doing the same thing. Are both meant to be copies or mirror images of each other? The group of people are facing the same direction towards the teacher. Subliminally, will our untrained minds see them as the same thing? What if they add more subliminal messaging as support?

In the verbiage of the paragraph just above the “Come, Follow Him” in blue it states, “This means allowing Christ to change our hearts, our views, our actions, and our very natures.” In the paragraph below the second picture, it states, “You could change the channel. Or you could let the channel change you.” What is the commonality? Change. We could allow Christ to change our hearts, views, actions, and natures. We could allow conference to change us. Does this idea of change link the two pictures? Does it equate the LDS church president as being equal with Christ? Just wondering.

For me the real link is in the middle, in blue. Why blue? If you watch news programs and such, they like to use blue as their background color. That is because our minds equate blue with trust, confidence, truth, etc. So those giving us the so called news are more trustworthy in our minds when this color is there. Those in the mind control department of the LDS church understand all of this. Oh, I errored. I meant the publicity department. (Yes, I know it is a link and is also in blue because of that.)

So they put “Come, Follow Him” right in the middle of this little act of mind control, I mean publicity about conference. It links the two sections and will make those sheep, which keep bleating so loud I can’t hardly stand it, more controlled and more firmly believing that if they follow a mortal man, they will be saved. I also thought the saying was, “Come, Follow Me,” not “Come, Follow Him.” I wonder why that was changed?

2 Nephi 4:34 says it quite plainly: O, Lord, I have trusted in thee, and I will trust in thee forever. I will not put my trust in the arm of flesh; for I know that cursed is he that putteth his trust in the arm of flesh. Yea, cursed is that putteth his trust in man or maketh flesh his arm.

And I didn’t have to write that with a blue background. Nephi always spoke quite frankly and plainly, though I did put the link above in 2 Nephi.