enthronedbyGod1:



You are quite a confused man.
I've seen most of your write ups and they make absolutely no sense to me.

In 2017, I was somewhere and someone came some distance close to me and pointed a gun that looks like a rifle at me and shot.
I saw the bullet coming straight at my forehead, when it was as if it was almost going to hit me, a force instantly turned it towards the person that shot it, and instantly the person disappeared, I also didn't see the bullet again.

The person came fortified, but obviously was unaware of the person he was sent to kill.

This is one of the many stories of God's preservation power.

I'm invisible to the kingdom of darkness young man and no force in heaven or earth can bring me down, cos I have a 10billion soul mandate from God, which I'll live to fulfill, cos God swore by His holiness to see the vision fulfilled.
As long as I've not fulfilled my ministry , I can't be taken down.

God is solidly behind me and no power in heaven or earth can bring me down.

Do you run a church?

kingthreat:


This is the problem of being in a public forum without moderation. With the aggressive way you are talking, if little pressure was put on you in a cult-filled environment, you would have joined a cult too. Someone like me with anger problems, I bless God that I didn't go to somewhere like Uniben because I no go gree make you slap me go scot-free. Here, people who have made mistakes are trying to make amends by telling others to say no to cultism. Dont be the devil here trying to stop them. Whatever reason you are venting out your hatred for cultists is actually counter-productive. You that is talking, you dont know if a family member of yours was a notorious cultist too. Calm down.

make una stop dey give the guy attention.. For Ogida (Benin City) This happened a few months ago, some SEC boys go kill one NBM guy, the day them bury the guy named that day them hunt the SEC boy when him face cast drop am down, people dey cry but them nor know say na him run hit of person when them bury that day... Last last those when go still kill the SEC guy their face still show and them Don still drop some of them... The cycle go continue, the guy nor read post where them say person go run level take avenge him sister, but after the vengeance men catch am give am cement drink.... Same injews guys when follow you in the mission na him go still snitch on you, exposing you to danger...
Na so two politician one na SEC the other na NBM, them be friends.. Next thing one young guy pass (NBM number1) , the NBM guy begin whisper give him SEC friend say look that guy when greet me just now na small but mighty o, na him dey do all the killings, na this na that na dadadadada.... This NBM guy was a barrister (for those of you saying there are sensible cultists) and based on his profession he ought to know better that he was selling that guy out, the only saving grace to that guy was that the SEC guy was not interested in any of the gist, cos he became a cultist to make it to the top as a politician but found out later that they were useless and all he needed was the money and they will answer to him..


Together we can make Nigeria better

Nigerian youths drop your differences and unite.


God bless Nigeria.

Let me drop my piece about the influence of music.
Yes, music influences a person unconsciously, subconsciously and consciously.
I grew up listening to Eminem a lot.
If you listen to EMinem you'll know that most of his lyrics are violence related, seeking revenge and misogynistic. He also hates his mom Debbie Mathers because of her addiction to drugs, how she gave him and his siblings medicine by claiming they were sick (hypochondriac)

Well, some of his lyrics speak to me almost directly with songs like Stan, Beautiful, Stronger Than I Was, Beautiful Pain, Guts over fear, etc, as i listen to them when i feel depressed and feel like giving up and somehow i draw strength from it.

But the crux of the matter is that, subconsciously, i started hating women too,not letting go of things and i was having issues with my mom too so his lyrics seemed to fuel them.
Music affects you, take it or leave it


And, just like the guy above is trying to say, it really is a grey area. There is no guarantee that if you renounce, law of Karma won' catch up with you because even the bible says "Do not be deceived, God is not to be mocked. For whatsoever a man sows, so shall he reap".
There are exceptions because of grace.
Just like the Viking guy that collected my phone, if i find myself in an advantaged position to f.uck him up, i certainly will, i hope not though. God please help me.

Some girls feel that after living rough lives, damaging their wombs, taking Postinor-2 or having multiple abortions, doing assorted charms and jujus for protection and to trap men that it won't come back to haunt them.

Some actually get married and don't have children and they start acting like God is at fault. Like i said, there are exceptions because of grace that is why some people think they can actually live a rough life, damage their lungs and kidney with smoking and xcessive alcohol and damage their skins with bleaching creams and when the aftereffects start to show, they start running from one family member or the other to help foot the medical bill or running from church to church.

That said, you can renounce and nemesis can still catch up with you for the lives you've taken or grace can find you.
Peace.

MODIFIED

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made He man (Genesis 9:6)

So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it. (Numbers 35:33)

Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. (Genesis 4:11)

But,you notice that most of these scriptures were in the era of the law, not Grace.
But the scripture from Galatians 6:7 "Do not be deceived, for God cannot be mocked. Whatsoever à man sows, so shall he reap" was made in the era of grace.

According to the op saynotocultism and enthronedbyGod1, they went through a lot of spiritual cleansing and nightmares for what they did, they may still be going through them.
Shedding of blood is not a child's play.
In a verse in the OT, God said that he that shed blood, his punishment will be up to the 3rd (or 4th) generation (I'm not sure).

Cultist or not.
Do not shed blood, please, biko, ma binu, I'm on my knees, it is a very severe and grave offence before God and man.
I'm an imperfect man.
May God guide us all.
Bless.

Blessedaredweak:


lmao....rotf...... Do u need to go that far to prove a point, you must really think we are children on this thread. WTF, who the Bleep will believe this, oh!! I forgot,religious people.
you saw a bullet,and then the bullet changed direction not left or right but backwards and it still didn't kill the person instead the person disappeared.
na wa oo, thankfully this isn't a religious thread, take it there Abeg

The things of the spirit are foolishness to the natural mind.

Eze2000:


Do you run a church?

To everything there's a season and a time for every purpose under the heavens.

He has made everything beautiful in His time.

Blessedaredweak:


lmao....rotf...... Do u need to go that far to prove a point, you must really think we are children on this thread. WTF, who the Bleep will believe this, oh!! I forgot,religious people.
you saw a bullet,and then the bullet changed direction not left or right but backwards and it still didn't kill the person instead the person disappeared.
na wa oo, thankfully this isn't a religious thread, take it there Abeg

lol nothing we no go read here. if na so the thing dey happen usa no go invest on bullet proof na
even all these babalawos claiming to have bullet proof juju for be billionaires now. just leave that guy, with him religious stuff. e no know say some of us don evolve , we cant be confused like they confused our parents

bigbananai:
as for any member of my family, i do no care if he or she gets killed as a result of the people or person he killed. i believe that when you messup, u should be ready to face the consequences. I DONT PREACH GOD OR RELIGION, I PREACH KARMA

You do not care if a member of your family is killed as a result of the person he/she has killed, why then say you'd go to the ends of the world to avenge a brother that's killed by a cultist? Cultist 'rarely' kill non members.

enthronedbyGod1:



To everything there's a season and a time for every purpose under the earth.

He has made everything beautiful in His time.

I know. I'm not a movie.
I am awaiting my own time.

Passionate888:
You do not care if a member of your family is killed as a result of the person he/she has killed, why then say you'd go to the ends of the world to avenge a brother that's killed by a cultist? Cultist 'rarely' kill non members.

i said if you killed my brother in the name of cultism, that statement was meant for extended family members like cousins nieces, nephews etc. btw, i like how u picked out that from the length write up

bigbananai:
i said if you killed my brother in the name of cultism, that statement was meant for extended family members like cousins nieces, nephews etc. btw, i like how u picked out that from the length write up

Thank you. What if that brother is a cultist and has killed before, will you still avenge him?

Passionate888:
Thank you. What if that brother is a cultist and has killed before, will you still avenge him?

yes i will avenge with all my might. my rule will still stand in my case too. if i have killed to avenge my brothers death, then i will be killed too sooner or later. these things are real facts. doing that then coming to beg for forgiveness and all that shit is why this thread pisses me off. we need to learn how to take responsibility for our actions. this thread has been so modified in a way that it gives these incoming cultist the feeling that they can commit very grievous crimes and then denounce and take a new leave and everything will be by gone. that is not how to saynotocultism. if you guys want to say no to cultism, follow the footsteps of the op. expose your own cult, expose how you initiate, expose how people died, expose how u or ur friends killed etc etc. if you plan to fine solace, please create another thread for that . the only guy that came here to really expose cultism so others wont tow the same path is op.

enthronedbyGod1:


To you it might be a genre of music but in reality it isn't.

When I was a man of the underworld, there's a song that one listens to when one wants to go on astral travel.
Once the person listens to the song via earphone, the spirit leaves the body and starts going towards the second heavens.

Whatever I talk about, I talk strictly based on experience and revelation.

Music is more than what you see on the physical plain.

I agree with this opinion. This is because some kinda music like 'Jazz' music by Yanni and others I listened to entered deep into me. Some of you may know the guys called Gregorian chant, try listen to their songs like tears in heaven amongst others in the night and you will be surprised how you feel the environment turns satanic .

Ent3rpreneur:
Let me drop my piece about the influence of music.
Yes, music influences a person unconsciously, subconsciously and consciously.
I grew up listening to Eminem a lot.
If you listen to EMinem you'll know that most of his lyrics are violence related, seeking revenge and misogynistic. He also hates his mom Debbie Mathers because of her addiction to drugs, how she gave him and his siblings medicine by claiming they were sick (hypochondriac)

Well, some of his lyrics speak to me almost directly with songs like Stan, Beautiful, Stronger Than I Was, Beautiful Pain, Guts over fear, etc, as i listen to them when i feel depressed and feel like giving up and somehow i draw strength from it.

But the crux of the matter is that, subconsciously, i started hating women too,not letting go of things and i was having issues with my mom too so his lyrics seemed to fuel them.
Music affects you, take it or leave it

You are so right. I became misogynistic after I turned an Eminem stan. Also, I developed so much resentment towards my ma. Don't get me wrong, my love for Eminem didn't build those resentment, it made me comfortable harbouring them.
I also listen to Em when I'm sad and depressed.

bigbananai:
i will addres your points one after the other.
1. as regards moderation, u nigerans hate to hear the blunt truth. when you hear the blunt truth, u call it aggression, i still say it AS LONG AS U ARE A CULTIST THAT HAVE KILLED, YOU WILL BE KILLED, SOONER OR LATER. how this sounds to you is not my business.

2. i attended one of the most notorious secondary school and university in nigeria. i am lucky to be among the few humans that rationally think above the box. i have always hated following the crowd or doing what everyone is doing. this helped me in my school days and now that i am abroad. for example, in abroad, guys believe that you most either do yahoo or do drugs to succeed. as someone that hates doing what everyone does, i sat down and came up with my own plans and strats to make money legitly without stress. yes it paid off and is paying off now. i dont want to go into that. i am only bringing this up to prove a point to u that i do not follow the crowd.
during my schooling days, i had cultist all around me. the initiation started from secondary school and they took it to the univeristy, i was close to most of the top guys without even knowing. most even tried luring me into it but i declined for personal reasons. i have had my toes stepped on severally, sometimes i treat the Bleep up myself and sometimes i let it slide.
even now, they are still blending people my age into ayes, vikins, ban etc. most of my guys are NAS. so your point about if i was put in a cult filled environment i for join doesnt work with me.

3. as regards people that have made mistakes, yes its a good thing for them to tell the up-comers to say no to cultism, what i am against is them using this thread to give themselves solace or hope after committing grievous crimes by saying shit like hey , if you where a notorious cultist , u can still denounce, change your life and u will be free. dude say something like if you are a notorious cultist, u can still denounce but there is 99% chanc that you will pay for all the shittt you did while u where a cultist. if you say this, i will never come countering you because that is the truth. you guys make this thread look like a thread where cultist that have killed maimed and dismembered several people come to find peace by telling themselves that since they have changed their ways, all sins are forgiven, all they need to do is change their ways and denounce and they are free. this is what this thread turned into. that was not why op opened this thread. op opened the thread, told people about how notorious he was and exposed the ayes indebth. you guys are not even doing that yet you still have the guts to scream saynotocultism. if you genunly want guys to say no to cultism, do the way op did it. expose them fully, no be only ayes dey here, op was aye and he exposed them. u as vikings or maphite or ban, expose yours like he did before screaming saynotocultism. all i see the rest of you doing is just trying to find solace.

4. lastly, u asked if i know if a member of my family is or was a notorious cultist. bro, there is no family in nigeria that does not have a cultist in it, if no be your nuclear family, na your extended family. personally, i have several cousins that are cultist. i tell them the same shitt. i tell them that if they have killed they will be killed sooner or later. i tell them to try to play it low so as not to get so active to the point where they will be picked to go do hits because if they ever kill, they will be killed too.
as for any member of my family, i do no care if he or she gets killed as a result of the people or person he killed. i believe that when you messup, u should be ready to face the consequences. I DONT PREACH GOD OR RELIGION, I PREACH KARMA

Okay I have heard you. Your radical stance is cool as long as its "Say No To Cultism". Premeditated murder is a serious thing as a cultist or not. Its just that some ex here you are attacking have actually done what you said in 3. They have casted and demystified what seemed so precious to them. So lets take it easy. I cant remember someone here saying "I have killed but still say no to cultism". Have a nice day.

yehmy:
kiss daniel looks like a fyn boi to me from his dressing but with the way he screams fly boi i'm thinking he's a bird plus he loves the blue berret more than the yellow or black

Olamide isn't an axeman

5inchdick:

You are so right. I became misogynistic after I turned an Eminem stan. Also, I developed so much resentment towards my ma. Don't get me wrong, my love for Eminem didn't build those resentment, it made me comfortable harbouring them.
I also listen to Em when I'm sad and depressed.

This is just the summary.
Eminem didn't make me become misogynistic or resent my mum, it just showed me an outlet.

retake89:



Olamide isn't an axeman

is everything okay at home?

I listen to Eminem, 2Pac, still I’m not violent or misogynistic, I play GTA but I’ve never committed larceny, I love horror movies but I have never taken a soul, I read crime/mystery books still it has never influenced any decision I have ever taken in this life. My point is, if after listening to a song then a fellow decide to act on how he/she feels after that, then the person has always wanted to do what he/she has done prior to listening to the said music.


If listening to a song makes you want to do something you won’t do on a normal circumstances, it’s best you stay away from such music

The aim of this thread is still #saynotocultism not #saynotomusic, &the impression that listening to cult groups' gyrations influences harboring thoughts of becoming a member, is like attributing same consequences to reading the exposé of cult groups' OT on this thread which is shear hypocrisy because, in all honesty, listening to cult gyrations (adopted from varieties of music genres&modified with their jargon), is another method of demystifying cultism, which in turn is undoubtedly one of the effective tools employed on this thread to support it's aim of #saynotocultism, so in order to discontinue further derailing arguments concerning that, a plethora of cult gyrations, 'jolly', 'jojo', 'sally', 'melly', 'phlaming', 'tts', whatever term pertains to the respective cult groups, can be viewed on YouTube by searching through the names of various cult groups that I listed here in one of my earlier posts&I can even offer explanations on how to download them in various formats at greatly reduced sizes from YouTube, but just as public usage of the various cult groups' OT demystified here is discouraged, likewise same applies to the gyrations, nevertheless you can lead a horse to water but can't make it drink.

bigbananai:
3. as regards people that have made mistakes, yes its a good thing for them to tell the up-comers to say no to cultism, what i am against is them using this thread to give themselves solace or hope after committing grievous crimes by saying shit like hey , if you where a notorious cultist , u can still denounce, change your life and u will be free. dude say something like if you are a notorious cultist, u can still denounce but there is 99% chanc that you will pay for all the shittt you did while u where a cultist. if you say this, i will never come countering you because that is the truth. you guys make this thread look like a thread where cultist that have killed maimed and dismembered several people come to find peace by telling themselves that since they have changed their ways, all sins are forgiven, all they need to do is change their ways and denounce and they are free. this is what this thread turned into. that was not why op opened this thread. op opened the thread, told people about how notorious he was and exposed the ayes indebth. you guys are not even doing that yet you still have the guts to scream saynotocultism. if you genunly want guys to say no to cultism, do the way op did it. expose them fully, no be only ayes dey here, op was aye and he exposed them. u as vikings or maphite or ban, expose yours like he did before screaming saynotocultism. all i see the rest of you doing is just trying to find solace.

bigbananai:
if you guys want to say no to cultism, follow the footsteps of the op. expose your own cult, expose how you initiate, expose how people died, expose how u or ur friends killed etc etc. if you plan to fine solace, please create another thread for that . the only guy that came here to really expose cultism so others wont tow the same path is op.

Points duly noted and not disputed as a result of considering the reality, cultism and any other vices has short and long term, physical and spiritual consequences irrespective of your active status, one of which the op @saynotocultism recounted here when he visited a state&was spotted by rival cult members, implying rival cult members (including your so called brothers) are indifferent toward your self-acclaimed renunciation, so obviously, the message motive is to #saynotocultism entirely, that is, refrain from joining at the onset rather than encouraging joining and committing atrocities, only to come online to show deceptive remorse, but more importantly, it isn't enough to just type #saynotocultism to atone for the atrocities committed, your self-acclaimed renunciation should be evident in severing all ties to cultism especially your cult group's OT, to the extent of explicitly demystifying it here, following the pattern below, exactly the way the op, @saynotocultism&few other persons did in order to support the aim of this thread, otherwise in all sincerity, deep down you still exhibit allegiance to your cult group by upholding the so called OT sacred, as if you want to use it withdraw money from the bank or take it to the grave to meet and appease your cult group's deity, which spites the aim of this thread #saynotocultism.

Cryomancer:
You can start this way, but it must be a detailed write up and contains lots of lessons for people to learn from

1. Your kind of person and your ways before you became a BAN boy

2. Full details of your encounter with the BAN guys and what led to your complete initiation.

3. Initiatian process and rites that were performed during the initiation.

4. Your dealings after becoming a Buccaneer (Hits, missions, flexings, jor jor, benefits)

5. Your worst and life threatening encounters as a BAN boy.

6. Your regrets after discovering that the movement is a lie and not a way of life.

7. And other thing you can remember to add on your own.

8. Your message to young ones out there and those who are already in the game but wants to leave but they don't know how to ho about it.

P.s: kindly remember to hide sensitive information about yourself which can help other BAN boys to track and find you easily.


I hope this helps to guide you through the write up.

I wish you goodluck Sir.

yehmy:
is everything okay at home?

Ask your pops

Nickshrapnel:
I listen to Eminem, 2Pac, still I’m not violent or misogynistic, I play GTA but I’ve never committed larceny, I love horror movies but I have never taken a soul, I read crime/mystery books still it has never influenced any decision I have ever taken in this life. My point is, if after listening to a song then a fellow decides to act on how he/she feels after that, then the person has always wanted to do what he/she has done prior to listening to the said music.


If listening to a song makes you want to do something you won’t do on normal circumstances, it’s best you stay away from such music

If you haven't started behaving like them then you aren't truly a fan. It is not necessarily mean to kill but you must have been inspired by one of its lyrics to fashion after his lust. Music is a language of art that promotes norms amongst its adherents. This is not to music alone, even to sport and many of them.

These same people that are criticizing others for listening to frats songs.....are the same people that will go and download it and listen to it so they can know what the hype is all about.

Hippocracy at it's best is when you listen to burna boy....wiz khalifa...lil Wayne....Nicki minaj talking about pusi, f'cking, and dirty money....and still claim u are a saint because u don't listen to dodorima....egede.... anchor me....eletielele.

I love reading mafia books.... because they broaden my area of imagination.....yet I am not a killer nor a toturer.....and will never be a killer nor a toturer.

Just because a spirit possessed u when u where listening to a frat song....does not mean spirits posseses everyone. A spirit has never possessed me and it will never possess me because I know my self.

One thing I av very much within me is control.....things don't control me.....I control things. U can't control urself does not mean every one else cannot control themselves.

Yes....I listen to frats songs.....but I av never and will never identify with the words and songs in public.

Nickshrapnel:
I listen to Eminem, 2Pac, still I’m not violent or misogynistic, I play GTA but I’ve never committed larceny, I love horror movies but I have never taken a soul, I read crime/mystery books still it has never influenced any decision I have ever taken in this life. My point is, if after listening to a song then a fellow decide to act on how he/she feels after that, then the person has always wanted to do what he/she has done prior to listening to the said music.


If listening to a song makes you want to do something you won’t do on a normal circumstances, it’s best you stay away from such music

SIMPLE.

Cheny:


I can attest to ur submission about Unilorin. Yes it is almost totally Cultism-free due to Oloyede's Strict and No-nonsense regime. Prior to his Era, Unilorin was almost becoming a horror horizon because everyother day,blood was spilled and gun shots were a norm especially in that Mini Campus that cultists and cultism thrived so much that u couldn't walk anyhow.

In the late 90's and early 2000's, Unilorin was too hot to roam freely because these devilish cultists were always involved in their useless and foolish supremacy battles and anyone could innocently or carelessly fall btw their crossfires.

I remember then they two main rivals were known as Airlords and Landlords(I guess u understand),and in the heat of their wars,lecturers and students often get injured or killed. There was one Lecturer in the Dept of Geography(Dr Adeyemi),who got killed in one of their crazy free-for-all exchange of bullets.
Also a guy I know very well was mudered brutally by rival cultist when he was traced and targeted along that popular walkway at the Main Campus in broad daylight. This was a guy with good prospects as he was very very talented and skillful in football. Hmmmmmnmnnn,Topé !!! nobody new u were a cultist untill u died. It's a pity he ended his life that way and was buried with all his potentials due to his myopic view and unfortunate sojourn into cultism.

Cultism in Ilorin would have reached the level of what we see and hear in Makurdi today if not for the fact that it was timely tamed at the University of Ilorin back in mid-2000.

For the sake of ur loved ones stay away from cultism and for the sake of ur future don't harbour thoughts about becoming a cultist or listen to voices echoing thru ur mind in ur periods of silence that u must belong,because at the end of it all, you will discover that you have really really wasted not just your precious time,but also distorted and bastardised your priceless heart which is the seat of ur destiny & purpose.

You are so right on Professor Ishaq Oloyede's time but you forgot the real pillar behind the control against cultism in Unilorin back then. This was the anti cult student body that was spearheaded by Woli B (Wole Badmus) and Commandeered by the one man mopol man called "Oluaye" a fearless student activist who had the cultists (all colours) contacts and frustrated their bloody operations, Oluaye was the bomb back then so I heard,

5inchdick:

You are so right. I became misogynistic after I turned an Eminem stan. Also, I developed so much resentment towards my ma. Don't get me wrong, my love for Eminem didn't build those resentment, it made me comfortable harbouring them.
I also listen to Em when I'm sad and depressed.

The way ur spirit interpret a song is different from others.. I'm a big fan of Em, in fact as a teenager, I knew most of his songs, but according to u, these songs never made me hate women, I love my ma and my sisters, I also love the girls..listening to Eminem makes me emotional because his style is different and very hard.. And dude is very good at it..he works very hard and I love his art.. Now if you feel comfortable wen u have issues with ur ma, it's not ems fault or his music, it's ur fault. Fix it.

Tyriq:

The way ur spirit interpret a song is different from others.. I'm a big fan of Em, in fact as a teenager, I knew most of his songs, but according to u, these songs never made me hate women, I love my ma and my sisters, I also love the girls..listening to Eminem makes me emotional because his style is different and very hard.. And dude is very good at it..he works very hard and I love his art.. Now if you feel comfortable wen u have issues with ur ma, it's not ems fault or his music, it's ur fault. Fix it.

I can't blame Em for it and I've fixed the ish with my ma. Even em said "I never knew I,d affect this kid; I never knew I'll get him to hit this bitch..."
When you are predisposed to do something, music can spur you to actually do it. It's like what Covid 19 does to old people and those with underlying health problem, so does music. It doesn't necessarily affect you for merely listening to it; and as it doesn't affect you, there are those it does.

subcbouy:
If you haven't started behaving like them then you aren't truly a fan. It is not necessarily mean to kill but you must have been inspired by one of its lyrics to fashion after his lust. Music is a language of art that promotes norms amongst its adherents. This is not to music alone, even to sport and many of them.

As much as I agree with you on this, you committed the "no true Scotsman fallacy here."

Nickshrapnel:
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If listening to a song makes you want to do something you won’t do on a normal circumstances, it’s best you stay away from such music

I don't believe listening to a song make you do something you don't wanna do though I do believe it can make you execute a preconceived thought.

5inchdick:

I don't believe listening to a song make you do something you don't wanna do though I do believe it can make you execute a preconceived thought.

Violent Music Lyrics Increase Aggressive Thoughts and Feelings, According to New Study
Even humorous violent songs increase hostile feelings

Read the journal article
Exposure to Violent Media (PDF, 234KB)
WASHINGTON - Songs with violent lyrics increase aggression related thoughts and emotions and this effect is directly related to the violence in the lyrics, according to a new study published by the American Psychological Association (APA). The findings, appearing in the May issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, contradicts popular notions of positive catharsis or venting effects of listening to angry, violent music on violent thoughts and feelings.

In a series of five experiments involving over 500 college students, researchers from Iowa State University and the Texas Department of Human Services examined the effects of seven violent songs by seven artists and eight nonviolent songs by seven artists. The students listened to the songs and were given various psychological tasks to measure aggressive thoughts and feelings. One such task involved participants classifying words that can have both aggressive and nonaggressive meanings, such as rock and stick.

To control for factors not related to the content of the lyrics, the violent and nonviolent songs were sung by the same artists and were in the same musical style in three of the experiments. In the two other experiments, the researchers tested the arousal properties of the songs to make sure the violent-lyric effects were not due to differences in arousal. Also, individual personality differences related to hostility were assessed and controlled. The study also included songs with humorous lyrics to see how humor interacted with violent song lyrics and aggressive thoughts.

Results of the five experiments show that violent songs led to more aggressive interpretations of ambiguously aggressive words, increased the relative speed with which people read aggressive vs. nonaggressive words, and increased the proportion of word fragments (such as h_t) that were filled in to make aggressive words (such as hit). The violent songs increased feelings of hostility without provocation or threat, according to the authors, and this effect was not the result of differences in musical style, specific performing artist or arousal properties of the songs. Even the humorous violent songs increased aggressive thoughts.

The violent-song increases in aggressive thoughts and feelings have implications for real world violence, according to lead researcher Craig A. Anderson, Ph.D. of Iowa State University. "Aggressive thoughts can influence perceptions of ongoing social interactions, coloring them with an aggressive tint. Such aggression-biased interpretations can, in turn, instigate a more aggressive response -verbal or physical - than would have been emitted in a nonbiased state, thus provoking an aggressive escalatory spiral of antisocial exchanges," said Dr. Anderson.

The study investigated precursors to aggression rather than aggressive behavior itself. More research is needed, say the authors, to identify the short-term and long-term effects of violent song lyrics. Repeated exposure to violent lyrics may contribute to the development of an aggressive personality and could indirectly create a more hostile social environment, although the authors say it is possible that the effects of violent songs may last only a fairly short time.

"One major conclusion from this and other research on violent entertainment media is that content matters," said Dr. Anderson. "This message is important for all consumers, but especially for parents of children and adolescents."

Article: "Exposure to Violent Media: The Effects of Songs With Violent Lyrics on Aggressive Thoughts and Feelings," Craig A. Anderson and Nicholas L. Carnagey, Iowa State University and Janie Eubanks, Texas Department of Human Services; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 84, No. 5.

Lead author Craig Anderson, Ph.D., can be reached at (515) 294-0283 or by Email.

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