Have you ever been brainwashed and are you still being brainwashed?

Not that I know of but they sure try in the military !

It feels like it sometimes.

Not that I am aware of, but wouldn't not being able to recognize the fact you have been brainwashed be part of the brainwashing?

I would say there's none, not something that i know of!

But the fact is the beauty of brainwashing is that you feel how original it is. When an idea comes out of your mind.

Each person make their choices and life's path according to several factors.

1.What culture they born in. 2.What location they born. 3.What they have been taught in childhood. 4.What environments they have been involved. 5.What they have been told.6.What they've been seen, heard and done. Cultures, principles and values.

We make choices ourselves but some of them can be caused by indirect brainwashing.

Can we say someone who believe in god is brained washed or not ?

And it's interesting to know what people of North Korea would think about brainwashing!!

People will say you're "brainwashed" for having any opinion different from their own.

Obama supporter? Brainwashed.

Israel supporter? Brainwashed.

Pro-gun? Brainwashed.

Support same-sex marriage? Brainwashed.

The whole point of accusing someone of being brainwashed is that it's not falsifiable. It can't be proven right or wrong, which makes it a worthless claim in the first place. Maybe it's simply born out of the fact that some have a hard time imagining how anyone could think differently from them living in the same world they do.

I have washed my hair zillions of times.  Maybe some of that shampoo has leeched into my brain .... LOL!

Three definitions of brainwashing from the internet. 

Indoctrination that forces people to abandon their beliefs in favor of another set of beliefs.

a forcible indoctrination to induce someone to give up basic political, social, or religious beliefs and attitudes and to accept contrasting regimented ideas

to make people believe only what you want them to believe by continually telling them that it is true and preventing any other information from reaching them

I've had the opportunity to investigate much in my lifetime---I like to test theories, even if they seem obvious at first glance. So nothing I believe is so controversial as to suggest I have been unknowingly brainwashed.

And for some people I've dealt with, I'm afraid that brainwashing has affected them much like water can affect a sugar cube.

I definitely was brainwashed when I was growing up. I was told that you went to college, worked at a job that you didn't particularly like, get married young, have 2.5 children, buy a house and settle in for a boring, dull life.
When I hit 30 years old, I realized that it was just a bunch of bull crap and I started to do things that I liked.

Dear Jan,

Oh yes...I have been brainwashed...spending this whole latter part of life attempting to de-program out of society's  less wholesome morés, to find my way out of that into something more real.

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"The whole thing about consciousness means getting to know you are already it. So, that takes a lot of work, principally because society keeps telling you you're not it."

~ Joseph Campbell

Let's play a game of solitaire.

Sure.

I was born and raised catholic.

I am not being brainwashed now because I have a brain and from an early age I saw through the BS that was my indoctrination program.

life is full of brainwashing from churches to aa to politics to media go your own way