Ladewig
I lost an avatar bet.
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From some Australian skeptics:
Good for a chuckle.
We desperately need closed captioning for the humor-impaired...I have a cat as a pet and didn't find the the suffocated cat as something funny.
I have a cat as a pet and didn't find the the suffocated cat as something funny.
As for the movie, it wasn't a debunking as much as mudslinging.
Yes, it's a potential multi-million dollar lawsuit.I have two shirts and I thought the part where they take shirts disturbing.
Those clips from "The Secret" video, where they break it down into three simple steps, utterly amazing! I'd always assumed life was so much more complicated than that; for comparison, I've tacked on my own [limited, foolish] assumptions to "The Secret" plan:
1) Ask (for something -- make it a goal!)
2) Believe (it will happen, so long as...)
3) it's realistic;
4) you have a bit of luck;
and of course
5) YOU WORK VERY VERY VERY HARD!!! (you *&^%$#@! morons, oprah_noids; I mean --- sweet jesus, mary, and joseph with three mouthsful of molasses cookies do you really think that all you have to do is wish for whatever junk you want like jewelry, parking spaces, cat toys, bicycles, and you get it?!? That you can transmit your petty desires by some bullshiite "law of attraction" that bypasses every other known law of nature, society, and logic and like pebble ripples in a pond magically alters the universe to make you happy?!? That's what you believe!?!
Uuh, uuh, yes.
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The Universe came up $4.98 short, but he did get a very nice rock out of the deal.I wanted to "test" LOA by asking for, believing in, and visualizing myself finding a $5 bill while walking into work. All last week I visualized the path I would take, what it would look like, where it would be, etc. It didn't happen and Friday afternoon I was walking back to my car and thinking about it and I passed a rock on the ground, I smiled, looked at it and kept walking -- then I stopped and looked back down at the rock. I'm in the middle of the 3rd floor of a parking garage in the city and here's this big round rock (size of my palm) and it's really smooth. Why was there such a rock in this parking garage? I smiled again and leaned over to pick it up because it made me realize it was my new gratitude rock. I am taking it that I didn't need $5 but I needed more gratitude for what I already have.
I also picked up two pennies while out shopping this weekend.

Why go through the hassle of cashing a check from the mailbox when you can get hard cash from a household appliance!I keep putting out into the Universe that I am receiving checks in the mail but it hasn't worked yet. But I am now wondering if I need to, because I have created a money machine! In the last week I have pulled $24.30 out of my clothes dryer. And in the past I never get money out of there. I've decided that now I just need to invision a $100 bill coming out of it.
Here's another one from the Secret forum:Why go through the hassle of cashing a check from the mailbox when you can get hard cash from a household appliance!![]()