Comments on: I’ve got a secret: the Law Of Attraction is a lie

By: Rina

Rina — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:25:46 +0000

the only vibrations I’m feeling come from my vibrator lol, if somethings too good to be true it usually isn’t

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By: Fiar

Fiar — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:27:09 +0000

The question is whether it works most of the time, and if it does, is that useful? The point is that if the answers are: Yes it works. Yes it’s useful. Then it doesn’t matter why it works, or how, or if there are exceptions. It is useful, so use it.

Does medicine work? Is it useful? How about Faith? You can answer for yourself, but I would say they both would answer yes on both questions. Just substitute whatever you want. Ask if it works and if it’s useful. If yes, then there’s no downside to believing in it.

If it’s not useful, or it doesn’t work, then it is stupid to believe in it.

By: David Beach

David Beach — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:07:40 +0000

lol..Interesting Fiar… so… I can also assume Medicine is a lie.

I dont disagree with you.. mind you, just find that to be the oddest leap of logic…

Faith can not be described as a lie, yet using your logic… I assume it is.

Perhaps love… and war as well

By: Fiar

Fiar — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:05:14 +0000

Wow! This thread is still causing quite a stir.

Johnathan, I would say that the best way to sum up the Law of Attraction is that it IS a lie, but if you pretend that it is true, most likely it will be. I’m somewhat paraphrasing Richard Bandler there. He would begin a seminar by stating, “Everything we are about to tell you is a lie, but if you act as if it is true, most of the time you will find that it works.” Or something like that. Generalizations are lies, because they are not ALWAYS true. Therefore, it’s a lie. However, generalizations exist because they are GENERALLY accurate. Just not always.

This post boils down to stating that although the law of attraction is a lie, it mostly works. Regardless of whether it works for the reasons that they state, or for some other reason.

It mostly works.

Just not always.

So it’s a lie.

By: Ignatius Castor

Ignatius Castor — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:21:00 +0000

While the proposed scientific explanations thus far don’t fully support a thing like the law of attraction, I’m not so quick to dismiss it as optimism vs. pessimism – though this may very well be the case. Recent theories and discoveries in physics seriously call into question things like linear time and space-exclusivity (i.e. electrons and other elementary particles may occupy several locations at once, or several particles may occupy the same space), and experiments in teleportation technology have yielded phenomena in which two unrelated particles interact with one another over a seemingly impossible distance, beyond the limit of electromagnetism. If one goes so far as to consider String Theory or Loop Quantum Gravitation, large spans of space suddenly become intimately connected, and quantum vibrations may indeed harmonize with other elements of reality.

The crux of the issue is that the law of attraction, at times, SEEMS to work with absolutely no physical effort. I’ve done it myself, with things as simple as what I eat for dinner and who I’ll run into today. It was my own skepticism that led me to test the “law,” which I’m wont to concede is really a “law” and not some misunderstanding of a larger phenomenon. I was torn between the optimism-pessimism explanation and the metaphysical manifestation explanation, and I saw the real determinant as whether or not I could literally “draw” or “attract” things to me without seeking them out myself. The truth is this was a meaningless endeavor, since every action taken could unwittingly bring me to my goal.

One last explanation I’ve come up with is rather out-there, but is again based on theory supported by some physicists. I won’t go into it here, but it involves multiverse theory and the splitting of matter into second-order time. The big picture, if accurate, has profound implications for conceptualization of the self, God, and universal equality, as well as explaining many mysterious religious texts. It’s a big picture I’m still working on, but once I’ve got it down, I’ll let it loose…

By: Ignatius Castor

Ignatius Castor — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:53:17 +0000

In terms of the law of attraction, the other nine doubted at some point that they would get the part; the one had utmost faith and expectation to the point that (s)he would have been awestruck at not receiving the part.

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Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:28:02 +0000

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By: sunada

sunada — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:50:35 +0000

I’m a little late to the party here, but I wanted to add my voice to the mix. I recently wrote in my own blog about this topic, based on the words of the Buddha. While I do thing there are common points between LOA and Buddhism, it DOES need to be rethought a bit!

http://www.mindfulpurpose.com/blog-home/a-buddhists-rethinking-of-the-law-of-attraction

By: Bryan R

Bryan R — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:30:09 +0000

Well i believe that the law of attraction does not state that you will just get what you want from just thinking about it. I believe that it is to strive for what you really want it life and to pull yourself to it instead of just saying i cannot do that or i am not worthy. Therefore i do believe that just thinking of something will not get you something but telling yourself to work for it instead of just sitting around saying i cant do that. I believe that that is the deeper meaning of the law of attraction