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The Secret (The Secret, #1)
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Nov 22, 2011
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Should this book be classified as FICTION or NON-FICTION? I have no idea, but what I'm inclined to do is classfying it as DELUSIONAL...
The Law of Attraction. Whatever you send out of positive thoughts to the Universe comes back to you, ten fold at least. It's a bit like "karma" and positive thinking with a twist: You want to money comming to you? Just visualise it and it will happen. You want to be thinner? Just visualise that food has 0 calories!
Quote from the book:
Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can.
Well, I guess that's why this person is so insanely fat; she must believe that the food she eats has many calories and fat! Someone should have explained to her that it's 0 calories and good for her!
Yes, people ARE that stupid to believe in all the stupid claims that Rhonda Byrne writes.
By all means, I'm all pro positive thinking. I'll go as far as to say that: yes, negative thinking gets you nowhere and that positive thoughts healthier for you - the glass is half full and all that.... BUT..... Jeez Luise! This book is just up there next to Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist: worst self-help fantasy BS ever written.
But what is even worse is that the "author" blames people for their own misfortune: you get AIDS: too bad, you were not thinking positive enough; you are a raped child: too bad, you were not thinking positively enough; you get hit by a bus: too bad, you were not thinking positively enough; your dying of starvation: too bad, you were not thinking positively enough. You ended up in the gas chamber in WWII: too bad, you were not thinking positively enough. You get the idea. Needless to say how incredibly condescending and trivializing this must appear to people who are enduring pain and distress in their lives (whether that be emotional, physical or professional is irrelevant). It's actually quite disgusting when you sit back and think about it! That ms. Byrne's getting away with it and earning millions on it at the same time is beyond me. She must be the most positive thinking person in the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usbNJM...
The Law of Attraction. Whatever you send out of positive thoughts to the Universe comes back to you, ten fold at least. It's a bit like "karma" and positive thinking with a twist: You want to money comming to you? Just visualise it and it will happen. You want to be thinner? Just visualise that food has 0 calories!
Quote from the book:
Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can.
Well, I guess that's why this person is so insanely fat; she must believe that the food she eats has many calories and fat! Someone should have explained to her that it's 0 calories and good for her!
Yes, people ARE that stupid to believe in all the stupid claims that Rhonda Byrne writes.
By all means, I'm all pro positive thinking. I'll go as far as to say that: yes, negative thinking gets you nowhere and that positive thoughts healthier for you - the glass is half full and all that.... BUT..... Jeez Luise! This book is just up there next to Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist: worst self-help fantasy BS ever written.
But what is even worse is that the "author" blames people for their own misfortune: you get AIDS: too bad, you were not thinking positive enough; you are a raped child: too bad, you were not thinking positively enough; you get hit by a bus: too bad, you were not thinking positively enough; your dying of starvation: too bad, you were not thinking positively enough. You ended up in the gas chamber in WWII: too bad, you were not thinking positively enough. You get the idea. Needless to say how incredibly condescending and trivializing this must appear to people who are enduring pain and distress in their lives (whether that be emotional, physical or professional is irrelevant). It's actually quite disgusting when you sit back and think about it! That ms. Byrne's getting away with it and earning millions on it at the same time is beyond me. She must be the most positive thinking person in the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usbNJM...
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If this really worked, I think 7 years is long enough (and, do LOA authors ever explain how long it should take to be effective?) that we should have heard about numerous success stories by now, including some who had retired at a young age. Where are these? I mean, there are a vast multitude of people willing to rush to defend this school of thought, yet you never hear anyone say they've experienced the extreme successes the book promises.
Oh, my tax return was bigger this year because of The Secret (not because you contributed more to a retirement plan, you just imagined a bigger return and there it was! Yippee!!), a new gym opened with lower rates because of The Secret (sure, it just opened because one person wanted it to, never mind it needs more than one customer to stay in business and offering lower rates initially is normal to attract new customers, but hey let's ignore logic), the "Vacuum Law" where you need to remove something from your house to make space for a new piece of furniture (never mind the logic behind that if you have a small house, or if you have a house big enough for both, kind of blows the Vacuum Law theory out of the water LOL).
Those things are just normal every day occurrences that would have happened anyway. Plans for the gym were probably well under way before that person imagined it.
People want to believe they have total control because it makes them feel better and gives hope. But it's a false hope and is quite damaging. Rhonda Byrne promotes sending love out into the world - but refuses to give interviews. Figure that one out folks - what is Rhonda so afraid of when she has the entire universe on her side? She'll get mocked you say? Oh, but then why did SHE attract that mocking and derision? Oh wait, maybe The Secret doesn't work...
Seriously people, wake up from your dreamland. If I said I believed in Santa Claus, you'd say I was nuts - yet you believe in a universal Santa Claus. Come on - The Secret doesn't work, you've been practicing it for 7 years and you're STILL buying the books - and getting nowhere. (Sure enough, someone will come along and say they changed their attitude, and their life changed - that's not what I'm discussing though).
If Rhonda was ever to accept a challenge to debate the subject by someone competent, she would be completely blown away and her BS theories blown to smitherines.
The only person who's benefitting from this crap is Rhonda Byrne herself. As long as the sheepole keep buying into this BS she will keep on milking it to the fullest, while the readers are doing a huge disfavour to themselves as long as they (want to) believe it!
Thanks for commenting! :)
I really want that no children and no animals get (sexually) abused. Guess what? Unfortunately it happens to thousands on a daily basis. Please go see a shrink, Carla. It will do you more good than believing in this kind of crap. Don't pollute your mind with junk like "the Secret". No offensive intended of course, I'm just bring truthful. Hopefully you'll be able to understand that one day.
I was planning to read this one,but now..I don't think I will,or want to for that matter.