I picked up the first book on ebay a while back - to check it out without contribution, you know - but I've yet to crack it open.
Don't worry, we're sure to spot Faith first. She's like this cleavagy slut-bomb walking around 'Ooh, check me out, I'm wicked-cool, I'm five-by-five.'
Willow ,'Get It Done'
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
brenda m - May 08, 2007 10:36:53 am PDT #6089 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
askye - May 08, 2007 10:42:02 am PDT #6090 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
If anyone is interested in seeing how freaky the book is but doesn't want to actually read it I suggest checking out the slacktivist blog -- [link] The blogger, Fred, does a great job of breaking down the insanity of the books. He does Left Behind Fridays (almost every week).
He's also a Buffy fan so during one post he referenced Anya -- it must be Bunnies! -- and included a clip from OMWF.
Allyson - May 08, 2007 10:44:45 am PDT #6091 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Speaking of fucked up shit, my neighbor has fallen prey to The Secret. I've tried to talk her down from the poor-man's scientology cult, but she just thinks I have no magic in my heart.
tommyrot - May 08, 2007 10:48:15 am PDT #6092 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Is The Secret fairly new? I've only first heard about it a day or two ago.
Vortex - May 08, 2007 10:49:28 am PDT #6093 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
What's The Secret? I mean, are you allowed to tell me?
Topic!Cindy - May 08, 2007 10:49:46 am PDT #6094 of 10001
What is even happening?
I intended to read the Left Behind series so I could argue against them, intelligently. I made it through the first book okay, but I don't think I made it through the second (or maybe I made it through the second, but not the third). I took the ones I read out of the library, because I did not want to pay money for them.
I grew up in a small denomination that does not believe Hell is for humans, and my understanding of the end times (which is more from reading as an adult) is quite different from the one in the LB series, so the whole thing made me uncomfortable.
sumi - May 08, 2007 10:50:29 am PDT #6095 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Isn't The Secret some book that Oprah featured? Or something.
Allyson - May 08, 2007 10:51:31 am PDT #6096 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
It's a book that tells you that all you have to do is sit around wishing for shit and it will come to you. Conversely, people who are like, dying in the Sudan are in their predicament because they were thinking too negatively.
Jessica - May 08, 2007 10:52:28 am PDT #6097 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I've been hearing about The Secret for maybe a month or two? I don't know if it's been out for a while and just got popular, or if it's new.
beekaytee - May 08, 2007 10:52:41 am PDT #6098 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Groan. I hate what is happening with The Secret. It's taken a quite simple notion...focus on what you want vs. what you don't want...and turned it into a joke.
I don't begrudge people making a living. Truth to tell, I wish _I'd_ thought of repackaging a bunch of superhyped/popular ideas in a skinny little book with evocative graphics and making a great Caesar's mint off of it.
But this phenomenon is backfiring and causing me trouble in my work. On one hand, I have a former client telling me that they recognize things I taught him in the text...but that he 'get's it' more now for some reason. On the other, people who shy away from anything that gets too big (Tony Robbins anyone?) rejecting things they could really use.