"The Secret": sequel to "What the bleep!.."?

[Bone_Vulture]

Seriously, what the hell? It just gets crazier as it progresses.

First 20 minutes available at Google Video.

Grade A woo entertainment for masochists.

 

[Upchurch]

First two minutes made me wonder if was a sequal to The Di Vinci Code.

 

[Apathia]

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73527

 

[Achán hiNidráne]

You know, what is called for is a movie, that refutes, claim by bloody claim, the nonsense this movie foists. Of course, that requires money which is something we don't usually have.

What does J. K. Knight/Rathama have that we rational people don't?

Oh yeah, scores of mindless followers willing to fill our coffers to fund "bleep" like "What The Bleep..."

 

[Kage]

My aunt gave me this dvd for christmas. I really wish my relatives didn't look at gift giving holidays as opportunities to preach woo to me.

I would be interested in doing a movie--however I think that one example is really all that is needed:

"What about people in africa? Do they want AIDS?"

Also:

"Muslims seem pretty intent on destroying Israel. How does the law of attraction apply to the mideast conflict? Why hasn't muslim will destroyed Israel yet?"

 

[Bone_Vulture]

First two minutes made me wonder if was a sequal to The Di Vinci Code.

I was waiting for Ray Comfort to pop up, going "the ans'er my friend, is Jeysus!"

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73527

Yeah, I figured this had been posted before. Couldn't find anything with the search function quickly, though.

"Muslims seem pretty intent on destroying Israel. How does the law of attraction apply to the mideast conflict? Why hasn't muslim will destroyed Israel yet?"

I was thinking of conflicting wishes when the film displayed alternatives, like the guy who has his bike stolen. What if there's a bike thief who's projecting strong positive thoughts in the area, like "today I'm going to steal the best bike ever!"? Who'll win over the woo powers?

 

[The Mad Hatter]

"What about people in africa? Do they want AIDS?"

Oh, there's always away around it. In the beginning of that 20 minute segment, when they're talking about traffic jams, they say something like, "The Law of Attraction doesn't know if you want something or not, it just knows if you're thinking about it." So I guess since the Africans are thinking about AIDS, they're getting it as a result.

Naturally, the solution must be to stop thinking about AIDS completely!

"Muslims seem pretty intent on destroying Israel. How does the law of attraction apply to the mideast conflict? Why hasn't muslim will destroyed Israel yet?"

Because the Israelis focus their thoughts on stopping the Muslims

 

[Garrette]

Oh, there's always away around it. In the beginning of that 20 minute segment, when they're talking about traffic jams, they say something like, "The Law of Attraction doesn't know if you want something or not, it just knows if you're thinking about it." So I guess since the Africans are thinking about AIDS, they're getting it as a result.

Naturally, the solution must be to stop thinking about AIDS completely!


Because the Israelis focus their thoughts on stopping the Muslims

I hope they hung the SOB who thought it up first out of whole cloth. What kind of sick imagination did HE have?

 

[Apathia]

http://www.abraham-hicks.com/journal.php?journal_category=14

Scroll down to the bottom of the page. Here Abraham, the so-called channeled entity of "The Secret" (not to exclude Ramtha) repeats his teaching that smoking can only give you cancer if you believe that it can.

Here is where "The Secret" ceases to be a harmless motivational platitude and becomes a dangerous scam.

 

[bonnie]

It's a Good Life, 1961

When I saw The Secret, I couldn't get Billy Mumy's character out of my mind, from the 1961 movie, It's a Good Life....

A young boy with the power to read minds and alter reality terrorizes a small town, after making it disappear from the world (or making the rest of the world disappear). He hates singing, and anyone who thinks bad thoughts. At his birthday party, Dan Hollis receives a Perry Como record. Unable to play it in front of Anthony, he begins to drink heavily. Suddenly he bursts into song. Hollis pleads with the other adults to kill Anthony while he's distracted. Afraid, none of them move to help, and Anthony turns Dan into a giant jack-in-the-box, and sends him to the cornfield. Anthony then makes it snow outside, which will kill off half of their crops. His father, half-hysterically, tells him it's good that he made it snow.

 

[Arg9]

http://www.abraham-hicks.com/journal.php?journal_category=14

Scroll down to the bottom of the page. Here Abraham, the so-called channeled entity of "The Secret" (not to exclude Ramtha) repeats his teaching that smoking can only give you cancer if you believe that it can.

Here is where "The Secret" ceases to be a harmless motivational platitude and becomes a dangerous scam.

Oh, man. Yeah, that's really bad. I can't believe that. So I guess smoking 4 packs a day won't do harm- as long as you don't resist it.

Thaaaat's great. And we get labeled as the negative ones for logically trying to protect people.

 

[Alan Heap]

great quote at around 13:30: "no one even knows what electricity is"

 

[sophia8]

http://www.abraham-hicks.com/journal.php?journal_category=14

Scroll down to the bottom of the page. Here Abraham, the so-called channeled entity of "The Secret" (not to exclude Ramtha) repeats his teaching that smoking can only give you cancer if you believe that it can.

George Ohsawa, the guy who developed the macrobiotic diet, was a chain-smoker for most of his life - up to eighty a day. He apparently believed that he had no need to give up the smokes, as the macrobiotic diet and lifestyle would be enough to keep him healthy. He died of lung cancer.

He obviously didn't believe hard enough.

 

[Cuddles]

When I saw The Secret, I couldn't get Billy Mumy's character out of my mind, from the 1961 movie, It's a Good Life....

A young boy with the power to read minds and alter reality terrorizes a small town, after making it disappear from the world (or making the rest of the world disappear). He hates singing, and anyone who thinks bad thoughts. At his birthday party, Dan Hollis receives a Perry Como record. Unable to play it in front of Anthony, he begins to drink heavily. Suddenly he bursts into song. Hollis pleads with the other adults to kill Anthony while he's distracted. Afraid, none of them move to help, and Anthony turns Dan into a giant jack-in-the-box, and sends him to the cornfield. Anthony then makes it snow outside, which will kill off half of their crops. His father, half-hysterically, tells him it's good that he made it snow.

Suddenly that Simpsons halloween special makes a lot more sense.

 

[I'll_buy_that]

www.stopoprahwinfrey.com how about it Robert?

 

[I'll_buy_that]

Wait,

We landed on the moon? who are these conspirators?

 

[c4ts]

"We can build spaceships with no trouble at all."

They make it sound so easy, like the Apollo program was a no-brainer. If it's no trouble, what are all these dead astronauts for?

 

[WWHP]

You know, what is called for is a movie, that refutes, claim by bloody claim, the nonsense this movie foists. Of course, that requires money which is something we don't usually have.

What does J. K. Knight/Rathama have that we rational people don't?

Oh yeah, scores of mindless followers willing to fill our coffers to fund "bleep" like "What The Bleep..."

Nah, you guys got a movement too, with I'm sure hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of followers. C'mon, james randi runs on donations too you know! And HBO/Showtime funds Bullsh*t.

so no victims, please. Everyone has a right to create and fund media.

 

[Apathia]

Nah, you guys got a movement too, with I'm sure hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of followers. C'mon, james randi runs on donations too you know! And HBO/Showtime funds Bullsh*t.

so no victims, please. Everyone has a right to create and fund media.

That reminds me. One of the other convenient ideas of New Age carpetbagging is that "There are no real victims."

And yes, the best of scam marketing plays and preys on common garden variety greed. In a sense the marks do attract the cons like flies.

Akso it's true that if you focus your full attention on getting money and are welling to do anything you need to to get it, you will suceed at obtaining it.

 

[Whiplash]

When I saw The Secret, I couldn't get Billy Mumy's character out of my mind, from the 1961 movie, It's a Good Life....

A young boy with the power to read minds and alter reality terrorizes a small town, after making it disappear from the world (or making the rest of the world disappear). He hates singing, and anyone who thinks bad thoughts. At his birthday party, Dan Hollis receives a Perry Como record. Unable to play it in front of Anthony, he begins to drink heavily. Suddenly he bursts into song. Hollis pleads with the other adults to kill Anthony while he's distracted. Afraid, none of them move to help, and Anthony turns Dan into a giant jack-in-the-box, and sends him to the cornfield. Anthony then makes it snow outside, which will kill off half of their crops. His father, half-hysterically, tells him it's good that he made it snow.

Wasn't this a Twilight Zone episode? That's exactly how one goes that I remembered, but it wasn't a seperate movie of it's own that I remember.