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Oprah Winfrey, "The Secret" and "The Law of Attraction"

EGarrett

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Can we all...please...collectively urinate-on/mock/denounce this pile of garbage?

I mean...I know people are dumb and prone to wishful thinking, but at least in the past I could delude myself into believing most delusions survived because they had been around for a long time, leading people to think they had to have some validity.

Then this arrives.

A completely new and senseless load of ******** that wastes everyone's time and deludes people by the thousands...and everyone is buying into it. It makes me angry enough to slap them.
 
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How could people POSSIBLY believe something so stupid? This goes beyond typical common sense. It makes me doubt my basic faith in the public to have SOME level of reasoning ability.
 
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EGarrett said:
Can we all...please...collectively urinate-on/mock/denounce this pile of garbage?
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Haven't we already?
I remember this was brought up a couple of months ago.
In any case, I'm all out of urine after urinating-on/mocking/denouncing the "yellow bamboo" videos.
I'll see if I have a few drops left to help out.:D

Regards,
Yair
 
EGarrett: Sure, it quickly came- it'll quickly leave! As a matter of fact, I think it's half-forgotten already!
 
It's been around many times before under a whole lot of names, and no doubt will be around again in the future under another name or two.

Save your urine for something worthwhile. Tomato plants!
 
ugh.. I'd been chatting with this very attractive older woman; first online, then on the phone, I was totally ready to meet her in person. It seemed like she was really a special lady and we had really clicked, until she dropped the bomb..

There's this movie she's really into called..

.. you guessed it.

I was so repulsed I cancelled our first date and haven't spoken to her since!
 
Rebecca and Noblecaboose both gave Oprah what for about this a few months back. Was that here or over at Skepchick.org?

Either way, I just figure all those folks who buy this bs now have a bookend to go with The Celestine Prophecy.

-A
 
You people are all just negative thinkers. Negative things will come to you as a result.
 
clerihew80 said:
You people are all just negative thinkers. Negative things will come to you as a result.
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When is that going to happen? Am I going to accidentally cut myself on my new $250 Benchmade pocket knife? Will I be deafened by my new guitar amplifier? Is my new house going to explode because I don't buy into woo stupidity? Good things happen to people who work hard. Bad things happen to everyone, regardless of their attitude. Being defrauded out of book and DVD money happens to people who have a hard time telling fantasy from reality. :p
 
To illustrate the abysmally stupid thinking of Secretoids, look no further than this thread on the Powerful Intentions forum.
Let me just state with a dismissed bankruptcy,car repossesion,no money,"bad" credit,I walked out of a Kia dealership today with the keys to a brand new 2007 Kia Optima Sedan Car!

THANK YOU,THANK YOU,THANK YOU!

Never,Ever... Think I Can't!!!!!!!

You Can Have,Do,Be Anything!!!!!!!!

Look Out World,Here I Come Manifesting More!

And Hopefully,Here All Of you Come With Me Manifesting Your Dreams!
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Further down the thread, it emerges that the poster's bank apparently made an error in the first place and she didn't owe anything and has a clean credit record (or at least that's what her rather garbled story appears to be).
So what actually happened was that she got herself a $23,000 car on credit - something that anybody with a good credit record can do. Nobody gave her the car, she didn't get any extra money, she's spending her own money.
But all of her fellow Secretoids greet it as definite proof of the Law of Attraction!

I wonder if she'll post about it when the car gets repossessed?
 
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godless dave said:
Good. When you lose that faith completely you'll be on the right track.
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I shouldn't have referred to it as 'faith.' It's actually a belief based on evidence that people all seem to have a functioning brain in their heads. A belief misplaced, but a belief that is/was based on something.
 
sophia8 said:
To illustrate the abysmally stupid thinking of Secretoids, look no further than this thread on the Powerful Intentions forum.
Further down the thread, it emerges that the poster's bank apparently made an error in the first place and she didn't owe anything and has a clean credit record (or at least that's what her rather garbled story appears to be).
So what actually happened was that she got herself a $23,000 car on credit - something that anybody with a good credit record can do. Nobody gave her the car, she didn't get any extra money, she's spending her own money.
But all of her fellow Secretoids greet it as definite proof of the Law of Attraction!

I wonder if she'll post about it when the car gets repossessed?
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Disturbing. Thank you.

I'm going to keep looking through those forums to see if they actually post the numerous times they must "think really hard" about something and then nothing happens.
 
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