The universe uses bablefish

Is DavidS still not able to access b.org while at work?

I like you can't think "I don't want to be fat" becaues the universe will get confused and make you fat.

No shit, I've read the same thing about giving instructions to toddlers. That toddlers only hear the last one or two words you say so if you are telling them, "Don't run." all they hear is "Run" and then, do so and piss you off.

Interesting.

How can you sit across someone at a table who thinks a belief you hold so deeply is completely ridic? Wouldn't you be all, "why do I want to hang out with someone who thinks this thing that is so important to me is false?"

Well, I'm the only member of my birth family who believes in God (well, now that my mom is dead). And yet? Still loves them all. Then again, my belief in God is somewhat offset--at least in terms of cultural norms--by my deeply-held distrust of religion, so I probably don't come across as a believer to most people.

What's interesting about believing The Secret is that it takes something that seems defensible and easy to be believed a couple of clicks to a place that seems, from the outside, somewhat crazy.

I believe that wallowing doesn't really help a situation. For example, if I wallow in my current distaste for how I look, then it doesn't really help me at all with either changing the way I look or getting over it. So being constantly negative usually does not help situations (though with some people, the Power of Negative Thinking is it gets some people to instigate change).

But to take it to the Universe not recognizing the word No? Huh?

The universe is nothing but a toddler!

But to take it to the Universe not recognizing the word No? Huh?

That's where I disconnect with it too.

One thing with the Secret that's double-bizarre to me is that the wording is really important, because The Universe doesn't understand the concept of "no," or some shit, so if you say "I want to be less fat!" all the universe understands is "I want to be fat!" So you have to be really careful to only say "I want to be thin!" If that's your goal.

Well I guess that explains all the poor and starving people in the world. If only they'd remembered to think "I wish I had a sandwich" instead of "I wish I wasn't so cold and hungry!"

But to take it to the Universe not recognizing the word No?

I first ran into this exact same theory in someone who was promoting the use of telepathic communication in dog training. Maybe the universe is just a dog who doesn't understand "stay off the dining room table"?