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the big secret
For anyone that has had any experience with "The Secret" or Aka The Law of Attraction, what have been your experiences with it and what is your opinion of it? Do you guys think it works?
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No, it's a total scam.
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It doesn't work. It's nothing but a scam to sell books and other products.
The Law Of Attraction is NOT a Law like the Law Of Gravity. Positive thinking has a positive effect, but it's not a law.
The law of gravity can be tested and it ALWAYS works. When it works differently, we can explain why and the law still holds true. Having a positive attitude, being confident, believing you can succeed are all very good and you should do those things, but it doesn't send out magical beams from your brain that actually change reality around you. What they call the brains 'magnetic signature' and all that nonsense, exists only inside your skull. It doesn't get sent out. Scientists have tested this repeatedly, it's not happening, but every scam artist these days knows they have to throw some sort of 'science' into the mix to make you believe it.
The Secret says that the only reason you don't have what you want is because you are blocking it from coming to you with your thoughts. Which the prefect sales pitch, because whenever it doesn't work the Secret just wags it's finger at you and tells you that you must be 'thought blocking', because the Secret ALWAYS works.
Scientology uses the exact same sales pitch: Our system is perfect, if it's not working perfectly for you, you must be doing it wrong.
Try telling the 3 billion people on this planet who live on less than a dollar a day that the reason their children are starving to death is because they are blocking food, medicine and clean water with their thoughts. Try telling the man dying of cancer, that the reason he is dying is simply because he BELIEVES he is dying. Or better yet, watch the completely crazy man who believes he is the president. No matter how much he believes it, and acts like it, aint nobody gonna make him the president.
It's true that sometimes acting a certain way will get you treated that way by others, but that isn't a LAW. Think about this: If the LAW of attraction was ALWAYS true, then every woman who got raped would have been asking for it and welcoming it in her thoughts in some way. That is the logic that holds if attraction is truly a LAW that ALWAYS works.
And Quantum theory has nothing to do with you visualizing romance or a bigger paycheck. Nothing at all.
The Secret is no more effective then a rabbits foot or four leaf clover: It's just good-luck superstition with some false science thrown in.
The Secret is based on simple, old fashioned ideas: Be confident. Visualize success. Believe in yourself and don't let your own thoughts turn against you. But then it takes them way, way too far and turns them into something ridiculous. You can do all that, and get all the supposed benefits of 'the secret' without giving those scam artists your money and being lied too about supernatural effects of brain waves and 'thoughts become things'.
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