How Media Manipulates Your Mind // Our Critical Thinking Crisis

[@matthewpryorfilms]

Couldn’t have come at a better time. The new “Mormon Wives” show is going viral on my social feeds. This is a perfect example of manipulation. Keep doing the work of the Lord brother!

[@SaxSpy]

their feeds are a disaster, too

[@ProlineImagery]

Spot on, I love it…You have a gift, thanks for sharing it.

[@alicewongham3541]

You are truly inspired! This is so needed! I will definitely be sharing this with a lot of people. Thank you so much for the hours of research and work that is evident in this.

[@CalledtoShare]

We need more critical thinkers in the world!

[@devlops]

Very mature! It takes courage to stand for truth like you did, keep up and thank you!

[@username.Username415]

3:05 i remember that video...i bought the camera bc you were a member and I loved your tutorials . Full circle moment for you revealing this. I love that you started this channel to be yourself! God bless you always.

[@Jennifer_Governo]

I took Elder Bednar’s advice last year and made all my social media public. Sharing my countless beautiful and positive experiences as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has given me a huge amount of joy. I highly recommend being a member and talking to others about becoming a member. The gospel of Jesus Christ will change your life and your heart.❤

[@aliciayoungmusic]

Could you give a link to where he advised that? I'd like to know. 😊 Thanks.

[@tomtrump4017]

I’ve had thousands of 5-Star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ experiences with my Savior Jesus Christ in His restored Church! The very few one-star experiences with mortals in this fallen world, should not overshadow the blessed good!

[@emilyk.w3593]

Well said!

[@ginahamilton6978]

So good... keep putting the TRUTH OUT THERE- thank you for being a voice for truth and light!!'

[@josephbates9917]

WoW! That should be an Education Week class. I hope you share this as firesides to the youth. Bless you for your dillenent study, critical thinking, and presenting this information so well. Bless you for that and what you doing here. I give this presentation ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@truthseekersfoundation5705]

I am grateful for your decision to remain faithful. There are too many voices who have fallen prey to the god of money and popularity. I have witnessed you being gracious in the sidelines and in your simple unseen efforts as much as those in the public eye. Thank you Parker for all you do! Russ Barlow

[@supereverything3636]

Thank you so much for sharing!!! Love your integrity and testimony. God bless.

[@rip-lakish]

5/5 stars. Would recommend this video.

[@NateWoodbury]

Wow Parker, you knocked this topic out of the park! Thanks for the work you put into this episode.

[@WonG4mMo]

First comment. This is fire. Much needed perspective on things. Eye opening!

[@coriroxanne]

Thank you for the reminder to make positive messages work to stand for truth and not rest silently in a world of negativity and deception. ❤❤

[@matthale236]

Such a great video. Thank you for pointing us to truth. As a 54-year old man, I feel like these things you shared are things I already know-but that doesn’t mean it’s common knowledge among everyone-especially the rising generation. I want to share this video with my kids and talk to them about it. I love the way you’ve gathered so many quotes and pictures to demonstrate and reinforce the principles you’re teaching. Having it altogether like this in a concise video is so very helpful in teaching it to others.

[@ItsSnagret]

Excellent content - indeed, it seems most faith crises are actually intellectual in nature (eg, needing to learn more about the topic, examine assumptions and sources, check intentions and motives, weigh out alternative worldviews, etc.). Without critical thinking skills, we will be swept up by the media.

[@carmennish1611]

Thank you for another brilliant video and for sharing your talents!

[@emilyk.w3593]

Wow that was powerful! Thanks for sharing!

[@austinbrady]

Great work Parker! Loved this video and it's much needed today.

[@Gearthirty]

Great video, Parker. This will be a wonderful resource to use in our homes, with the youth, and even in church class settings. Thank you!

[@worldkeyvideo9080]

I really appriciate this message and the importance of gaining a personal connection with deity. that is in my opinion what most people who are desieved are lacking is a lack of connection to the source of truth our savior Jesus Christ

[@360sportsman]

Love it brother, this is great! - Taylor Riley

[@jongarrett6530]

Very well made video. This helped me so much and helped answer so many questions of mine

[@julielarsen1314]

Excellent video! I appreciate the time and effort you put into your channel! I will surely share this!

[@leannjarvisl8902]

This video was so great! I learned some things about monopolies that I wasn't aware of at this time. Also thank you for speaking out about truth. I love your channel.

[@jennyfisher3773]

Love this!! I wish I had this to teach my teenagers before they left the church and left our home!. 😢 This is their path. Thank you for fighting against this evil today!

[@ZakCiotti]

From having watched you years ago as you began your video production KZbin channel to seeing the advice you gave missionaries when the pandemic was in full swing, it is outstanding to see you do your work on this channel. So impressed, so grateful. You're not alone in your views, thoughts and testimony.

[@tylerahlstrom4553]

Excellent video! In college, I wrote a research paper on news media bias. Some bias is completely unintentional. Child kidnappings are rare, but because they appear in the news often, people get a skewed perspective on how often it happens and guard more against that than other dangers that are more common but don’t make the news.

[@brianrietbrock]

Thanks Parker. Love your honest and authentic vids.

[@MarthaTannermpht]

I love this video, I have been thinking for weeks that the best gift we can have is the gift of discernment!

[@FalainglesBrasil9395]

So glad you do not monetize your channel Parker. I have a hard time taking anyone serious that monetizes religious material. It may be all done with pure intentions, but it's best to avoid the appearance of personally profiting from the Gospel.

[@Ajkwhatsahandle]

Amen Brother Parker! :) Thank you for so many good points! And challenging us to use our brains to think and not to just be media following mindless zombies!

[@PreparingForZion]

Great video! So needed especially at this time! You are doing a great work! ❤

[@jdchucho]

This is absolutely spectacular

[@pamparsons6744]

This was amazing! Keep posting wonderful videos like this!

[@Anonymous_Monkey]

Parker this is a great video. Thank you.

[@wadeenglund5095]

Great info. Much needed. Thanks for the expose.

[@TysClay1]

Excellent video. Thank you for using your skills to be an advocate of truth.

[@maryjomontoya2841]

Thank you! Excellent information. I'll be sending this to my children to show my teenage grandchildren.

[@Cryptojb76]

Great insights. Love the content. Stay humble, and keep sharing these truths. 👍🏻

[@MikeKellyisawesome]

Parker continues to impress me. I love his content and honesty. I really appreciate this channel. For any videographers out there, seriously sign up for his Full-time filmmakers course, it's worth every penny.

[@SB-qv9jw]

So informative! Thank you Parker!

[@Flowerpowwow]

Love this episode.

[@jerryLG2347]

Thanks for your content. Gives me a lot to think about and a clearer vision of how to proceed. May God bless you

[@brennabrown4790]

Amazing amazing amazing!! Great video Parker! Thanks for sharing this

[@Kevin.Parkin]

Good video. I learned everything that Parker warns about media, as a 17 year old in Mr George Hewitt's Debate Class at Cottonwood High School in 1975.

[@Bookofmormoncentralofficial]

Powerful stuff! Thanks Parker for sharing this. The fact that media algorithms serve up sensationalist content first and foremost complicates people's attempts to see clearly. You have to dig so deep to actually get a fair treatment of any topic. One thing you didn't talk much about which I'd love to hear your opinion on is the major distrust of institutions (such as the Church) amongst younger demographics (such as Millenials and Gen X). Isn't this part of the reason Johnny Harris can amass millions of views on his videos about the Church and yet the most recent book of Mormon video from the Church languishes with a few thousand views? Thanks for all you do.

[@thelifeofryan8683]

Great video Parker!

[@loribierman7310]

Well said, loved listening to this, whole heartedly agree.

[@hpagalla]

Very Good, thank you

[@smepable]

That 6:15 moment was absolutely mindblowing! The people we believe talk the truth are essentially zombies

[@smepable]

They come for our brains

[@DucRiderBang]

great presentation ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@ThoseOneGuysInc]

Thanks Parker!

[@smepable]

You were free to decide If and how you do the Canon Review. It must be even worse in TV where people have to do as they are told

[@JordanSteinagel]

Man, I just love this channel

[@wendyfoster5579]

This is excellent, you are doing a great work. Can you imagine when Christ comes (or they die first) what the ex-mo’s who pull people from their faith will say to Christ.

[@WhatBibleSay]

Fantastic message! I appreciate the time and effort you put into this episode!

[@awiley8711]

This is so well done and is so efficient at capturing what I'm trying to teach people that I'm going to use it as a fireside for our youth. Thanks for using your talents to do the work of the Lord and be a soldier for truth in the last part of the latter days!

[@seanmoss9179]

Great video! Really miss you being on Spotify. Don’t always check KZbin but I’m going my to try and stay up on it more.

[@beckischreyer]

Thank you for this. I’m grateful for the gift and power of the Holy Ghost… it’s the oil in my lamp that I wish desperately… I could share but each person has to develop that relationship on their own.

[@JesseSieff]

90% objective insights and only 10% promoting your religion. Regardless of the blatant irony in how “truth” is defined (Iron Age books are media too) I’m really impressed with this ratio and refreshed by your moderation.

[@JesseSieff]

Update: I kept watching past 32:27 - that ratio is more like 80/20. Still impressive…

[@rachelciarlante6039]

I really enjoyed this.

[@tiffanyseavy565]

Glad to find an LDS KZbinr not jumping on the Heavenly Mother trend. Thank you.

[@americanbee3988]

Amazing video!!

[@jeffsavilleproductions]

Amazing video.

[@Hidden_Seeker_]

ChatGPT recommended this video to me as an example of effective communication of power dynamics

[@VideoMo2axlaizl]

The best video ever. .keep it up. .

[@can_ye_feel_so_now]

outstanding!

[@lynncannon7484]

A perfect scripture that encapsulates this podcast is 1 Corinthians 2:10-14.

[@andrewdurfee3896]

I saw the photo of Joe Rogan recently and your giving the other side of the story was telling.

[@Whatiftheresmore1314]

Excellent content! Thank you! I’d love to see a video on the true nature of God vs. the trinity. Maybe invite a guest. Use Bible content.

[@ChefDawg]

9:30 this is like real house wives lol

[@vitoriaoliveira5452]

Incrível 🎉🎉🎉

[@micheleh3851]

Thank you. This is very timely with the local and national media backlash on the revisions to Church policy handbook happening right now.

[@edinavn]

So so good!! That's what I've been telling all our family and friends. You can not rely on the media at all. The gift of discernment is one of the most important gifts you can have nowadays. All your content is great, I wish you posted more often. Greetings from England

[@redhotsnow14]

In case you want to correct your slide, there is no such word as alterior, it should be ulterior.

[@mae-qt8hw]

The only problem is money, when certain organizations owns too much of the media indifferent parts of the country and actively try to hide the originations or sourse of the money going into the programs, advertising, you have to be very discerning when it appears to be one source it is really coming from another.

[@southwestrunner6384]

I’m glad you don’t monetize your religious videos- there are several who do, and I have a hard time separating it from Priestcraft One Mormon podcast immediately comes to mind- a KZbin/ podcast that constant asks for donations/ Venmo/ support the shop etc…and sells 57-85 dollar baseball hats with their logo How is this not priestcraft? - and there motivation will always be “clicks for dollars”

[@horrorbiz72]

Wow, 😂 the exact same thing you were warning about.

[@tylerluderitz_]

40:06 Genuine question, how can you know what you’re receiving is the truth? Jeremiah 17:9 says “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” If what Jeremiah was saying was true, how could I possibly believe my own personal revelation to be the correct truth? In his letter to the Corinthians, Paul writes that “Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.” How would I know if what I’m receiving is from God or from Satan?

[@austinhanks6060]

This is a great question. Parker's video references an Elder Renlund talk "A Framework for Personal Revelation" that gives related guidance. We can check what we're receiving against the framework: Am I feasting on the words of Christ, and how does what I'm receiving compare against them? Is what I'm receiving something within my stewardship to control or decide on? What commandments have I covenanted to keep and how does what I'm receiving compare against them? What answers am I confident that I've already received that I can build on?

[@can_ye_feel_so_now]

bro that John Delin snap shot of his services is wild!

[@gustavoabalos3783]

man!! you are good !!!! thanks.

[@BettyLeBlanc-k8h]

2nd video- they StILL seem happpy lol!

[@KyleTheDalek]

I have met people who really put up a good argument against this idea. I said everyone is influenced, a product of their environment, and such. I can’t remember exactly what they said but they basically put up a good argument how they aren’t. And it’s also maybe their experience or something (again ironic I can’t remember.). So apologies!

[@rfowkes1185]

Critical Thinking Trap (CS Lewis): "He [the devil] always sends errors into the world in pairs-pairs of opposites. And he always encourages us to spend a lot of time thinking which is the worse. You see why, of course? He relies on your extra dislike of the one error to draw you gradually into the opposite error." (Mere Christianity) Popular pundits and politicians also understand this tactic of pitting one error against another, and they use it on us to their own profit and promotion.

[@danieldunbar2956]

Really enjoyed that video, good work!

[@BazSupport]

I appreciate the honest dialogue here

[@sarahyeager1376]

This was very good. Thank you so much.

[@dabros03]

Such a well presented video. Thank you!

[@jasonchatham4170]

Is Parker the LDS Edward Bernaise (sp) ? 😂

[@jimwinebrenner620]

Great video! Thank you!! You should fix the glaring mistake of mis-spelling and mis-pronouncing "ulterior", though. Even being a millennial doesn't give you free license to ignore truth.😀

[@thabelomatlanyane3075]

Look boy don't believe what's on your TV 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@MrVigilant1]

Very important video. Thank you!

[@greentree_]

Now imagine it with advanced AI. It will be much worse to detect what is true.

[@greentree_]

27:44 goodbye high meat diets!

[@nonrepublicrat]

Meat is by far much better for your health than any plant material.

[@TaurellFussell]

I loved this video but it seems its unavoidable to force a form of thought on people through media..... for example you are mormon so you are going to post things pro mormon and go against things not pro mormon or christian denominations that have a different belief or doctrine than mormon beliefs..... which I am not giving you a hard time about that, I respect your beliefs and your body of work.... but it seems impossible not to control perspectives through media...

[@skjau]

I think you missed thepoint

[@TrueMillennial]

@@TaurellFussell exactly! I’m biased. You can’t trust me. I’m just sharing my perspective on how I see and follow Jesus Christ. But you can only trust God, only through his Holy Ghost can we know the truth of all things. :)

[@TaurellFussell]

@@TrueMillennial great response!!! I totally agree with That. Also as flawed humans I still see you as a trustworthy person. Thank you for all your hard work🙏🏿

[@TaurellFussell]

@@skjau I understood the video I just was sharing a thought I had as I watched. It’s no harm no foul.

[@Eruaphadian]

Yes, everyone is biased, and it's important to keep that in mind when viewing, and look for people to watch who try to temper their biases. The main issue with a lot of media is that they're acting on and enforcing their biases. It's not just the natural flaws of man, but a concerted effort to push an agenda, such as making Joe Rogan look sickly, or filming in front of a tightly packed crowd that ends with the camera's edge. You should always view a broad spectrum of opinions, but try your best to only follow honest sources.

[@nonrepublicrat]

Is there some reason why you don't say the name of this wicked "faith crisis coach"?? Why not let your viewers know who he is? The name of his channel is very deceptive! Before I knew about him, I watched one of his trash videos expecting to see something pro-gospel, not the rubbish that I did find there.

[@Geletin911]

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