The Secret

[dogooder]

What do you think, real or bs?

The Secret

I'll try a poll.

Edit: Okay, a summary.

Basically argues that by thinking about things you attract them (this is "The Secret"). If you want something, simply think about it, and in time it will come to you. It gives many examples of areas where you can expect to see results (money, relationships, health) and many anecdotes of people who've accomplished impossible things because they set their mind to it.

My own opinion is that it's more or less bs, at least all the metaphysical mumbo-jumbo. There is evidence that framing your outlook allows you to notice opportunities that you otherwise would have missed, but it's not magic or some principle of the universe...

 

[BigJ]

An hour and a half long? Nuh-uh.

 

[Cuda1447]

wtf, you expect me to watch all of this without giving me some more info as to wtf Im watching?

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: Cuda1447
wtf, you expect me to watch all of this without giving me some more info as to wtf Im watching?

Thats the secret.

 

[biff 24 2000]

how about a brief summary?

 

[Ika]

it better be good for an hour and a half.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Oh, it's one of these...

EDIT: Looks like one of those "Get Rich" schemes that the OP has been advocating for a while now.

 

[dogooder]

Originally posted by: LoKe
Oh, it's one of these...

EDIT: Looks like one of those "Get Rich" schemes that the OP has been advocating for a while now.

Shh...

 

[The Batt?sai]

Originally posted by: dogooder
What do you think, real or bs?

The Secret

I'll try a poll.

Edit: Okay, a summary.

Basically argues that by thinking about things you attract them (this is "The Secret"). If you want something, simply think about it, and in time it will come to you. It gives many examples of areas where you can expect to see results (money, relationships, health) and many anecdotes of people who've accomplished impossible things because they set their mind to it.

My own opinion is that it's more or less bs, at least all the metaphysical mumbo-jumbo. There is evidence that framing your outlook allows you to notice opportunities that you otherwise would have missed, but it's not magic or some principle of the universe...

why can't i download it for later?

 

[The Batt?sai]

Originally posted by: biff 24 2000
how about a brief summary?

the secret

is the law of attraction

on a thought level


you attract what you think about most

 

[Jgtdragon]

Sounds BS to me.

 

[The Batt?sai]

Originally posted by: Jgtdragon
Sounds BS to me.

:thumbsup:

 

[SlitheryDee]

I've been thinking really hard about how I needed a raise. I asked this week and the boss was totally receptive to the idea (that is to say it hasn't happened yet, but I didn't get shot down either).

Did this happen because I was thinking about it?

Hell yeah!

Did I somehow "attract" a raise by thinking about it?

I doubt it.

It sounds more like the movie is attributing an incorrect reasoning to the idea that you get the things you set your mind to get. It's obvious that deciding to do or thinking about something increases your chances of aquiring it. You would have much less chance of identifying the avenues by which something could be aquired if you weren't worried about it in the first place.

 

[The Batt?sai]

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
I've been thinking really hard about how I needed a raise. I asked this week and the boss was totally receptive to the idea (that is to say it hasn't happened yet, but I didn't get shot down either).

Did this happen because I was thinking about it?

Hell yeah!

Did I somehow "attract" a raise by thinking about it?

I doubt it.

It sounds more like the movie is attributing an incorrect reasoning to the idea that you get the things you set your mind to get. It's obvious that deciding to do or thinking about something increases your chances of aquiring it. You would have much less chance of identifying the avenues by which something could be aquired if you weren't worried about it in the first place.

:thumbsup:

amen.

if this were true then lately i've been having alot of good things happen but it feels like for every step forward there's 2 steps back. is that cause of some dumb law of attraction? shens

 

[The Batt?sai]

if this was true than everyone in the movie would be alot more successful than stuck making that dumb movie :laugh: :thumbsup:

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: Jgtdragon
Sounds BS to me.

And dark.

 

[WildHorse]

Basically argues that by thinking about things you attract them (this is "The Secret").

Well, Ali Landry hasn't shown up at my door, so it doesn't work.

 

[Barfo]

AT geeks think about poon all the time, yet they don't get any, theory is BS.

 

[lokiju]

Well just like when "What the Bleep do we know" came along, of course my Mother insist that this is some life changing event and says I "need" to watch it (never did).

After looking into it just a little, I really have no desire to even consider watching this.

Anyone else have any input about this that's seen it?

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: lokiju
Well just like when "What the Bleep do we know" came along, of course my Mother insist that this is some life changing event and says I "need" to watch it (never did).

After looking into it just a little, I really have no desire to even consider watching this.

Anyone else have any input about this that's seen it?

Did you do a search for secret or soemthing?

 

[archiloco]

Originally posted by: barfo
AT geeks think about poon all the time, yet they don't get any, theory is BS.

not really they think about general poon, they need to think of some very specific and tangeable poon..... (not Jalba but the bagle shop girl who smiles at them in the morning)

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: lokiju
Well just like when "What the Bleep do we know" came along, of course my Mother insist that this is some life changing event and says I "need" to watch it (never did).

After looking into it just a little, I really have no desire to even consider watching this.

Anyone else have any input about this that's seen it?

Did you do a search for secret or soemthing?

Just got an e-mail about it so thought I'd look into it before blindly accepting this movie as being anything more than complete B.S. like most of this nature are.