Law of Attraction/Positive thinking....*May trigger* : Borderline ...

Having a positive attitude, or pretending to, can definitely have positive effects. People treat you better, want to be around you, are more inclined to do you favors, etc. (You might also get sad sacks glomming onto you, though.)

However, anyone talking about a "universal law of attraction" (especially based on a DVD promoted on a hugely successful, recently-ended afternoon talk show), except in a metaphorical sense, is essentially a consumer or a seller of a newly-invented (and profitable) religion.

Of course, some people might have a positive attitude because, statistically, things just tend to work out better for some people than others. Take that back to my first paragraph and you can see how things just keep getting better and better for some people. In fact I know people like this, who have had amazing luck starting at birth, which has given them incredible self-confidence and satisfaction, which has reaped rewards which further increased their self-confidence and positive attitude, which...etc.

OR maybe they're just narcissists and the (self-)image they're compelled to maintain is that of a positive person....

Anyway, if "the Universe" or God or whatever other entity is paying attention to what you feel, think and desire, there is no way for you or anyone else to "know" that except through faith. Which is fine, but that's religion, not some "newly-discovered" or "ancient but rediscovered" objective truth.

And yes, at least some proponents of the belief system pushed on those DVDs have said that, for example, the people of Darfur are being raped and murdered because they don't have the right positive attitude. They are deluded or dishonest enough to say that the most positive, optimistic, good-hearted person on the planet developed and died of cancer because he or she didn't believe (enough) in the belief system they're selling or buying into.

To my mind, these aren't people you want to let get their hooks into you.

-- Thu Apr 05, 2012 12:28 am --

Let me put it another way:

People who say you just aren't trying hard enough?

How do THEY know how hard you're trying?

They desperately want to believe that people get what they deserve.

Therefore, if you're not getting something, they HAVE to believe you don't deserve it. Otherwise their whole world falls apart.

But they have no actual basis for this belief that people get what they deserve except that it makes them feel better. Who knows, it might even be true, but the human beings saying it MADE IT UP for their own peace of mind. Unless you think they're actually talking to God or spirit guides or whatever.

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"The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience." -George Horne

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