Is The Secret fairly new? I've only first heard about it a day or two ago.
Early: Where'd she go? Simon: I can't keep track of her when she's not incorporeally possessing a space ship. Don't look at me.
'Objects In Space'
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
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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.
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.
tommyrot - May 08, 2007 10:55:09 am PDT #6099 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.
What's The Secret? I mean, are you allowed to tell me?
The Secret is Fight Club!
Atropa - May 08, 2007 10:56:49 am PDT #6100 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
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.
Or, as my Very Wiccan big brother and I snarked recently, it's a book that takes the idea of making your will manifest and removes aaaaaaaaaalll the need for personal responsibility and work from it.
beekaytee - May 08, 2007 10:58:43 am PDT #6101 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Basically, the Secret is a rehashing of the Law of Attraction , which is itself a rework of operant conditioning with a metaphysical sheen.
eta: Jilli said it much better. That is the crux of my problem with it.