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Originally Posted by mjukr  The thing is, most people who buy the DVD probably *do* think that just watching the DVD will bring them great riches. Which is why she sees the LOA folks as taking financial advantage of the gullible. Not to mention that the DVD focuses almost exclusively on the wanting and not on the doing.
As for the backward projection, I think her point is that many of these people made their riches through years of hard work and sacrifice. You can't sell hard work and sacrifice to most people, but you sure can sell them an Oprah-endorsed DVD that tells you how to obtain a new car by fantasizing about.
Really, her point isn't that LOA is a sham. Just the recent sensationalist distillation of its complexities into consumerist pap.
I'm an LOA fan, but I like to read critics as well so as not to lose my perspective  |
Let me tell you guys a funny story about LoA and skeptics.
Anyone hear of Simpleology? It's a website I heard about lately that's becoming popular as an answer to "everything". I was curious what it was about so I registered. Simpleology, is basically a total attack on LoA and you can totally tell. The creator of it is a military trained man who obviously is a very conservative thinking and is into "doing" not into "intending" or "creating". I think LoA bothered him so much that he created this "Simpleology" to rid the world of this "LoA nonsense". Just imagine the implications LoA would have on military thinking
The soldier that just got killed beside you ATTRACTED the bullet? See what I mean.
Anyways, I register for the site, not knowing what it is about and there is a demo there explaining the FIRST LAW OF SIMPLEOLOGY. Here's how it works.
They tell you to do this. Get a glass of water, and a stopwatch. They say you must actually do it to learn. So I did. I went and grabbed a glass of water and a stopwatch. When you're ready you click continue. So I did. The little animation then tells you stuff like this:
"Ok, start your stop watch. Now, don't pick up the glass of water and drink it but do this instead. Imagine the water in your mouth. Imagine the water already being in your mouth without you picking it up. Ok, now beg the water to go into your mouth. Now plead for water to go into your mouth. Ok, now get mad at the water. Ok, now think POSITIVE thoughts about the water being in your mouth. Ok, now stop your stopwatch. Take note of the time it took (30seconds) and the result (no water in mouth)."
"Now we're going to use Simpleology to accomplish this feat. Start your stopwatch. Ok now grab the glass of water and take a sip. You now have water in your mouth. Stop the stopwatch. Take note of the time it took (5 seconds) and the result (water in mouth)."
*THIS* experiment is the way this dude is trying to prove to people that LoA doesn't work. Some people will just never get it.
********** OK, now, do you guys want to hear the real kicker? *******
Get this. During the first experiment, when they asked me to "imagine water in your mouth", my fricken salivary glands started salivating like crazy, so that by the time they finished talking about all this water in my mouth I actually HAD lots of water in my mouth!!!! Without touching the glass! Did they not SEE the possibility that some people (those good at visualizing) would be able to control their salivary glands to produce water in their mouths? Is this the type of INTELLIGENCE that these "skeptics" use to design an experiment to prove LoA doesn't work? Man...I had a good laugh.
Such a funny experiment. The very thing that they try to use to prove to me that LoA doesn't work, just re-inforced to me that it does work. LOL.
Anyways, I had a good laugh. Then I removed myself from all emails, deleted my account and I hope I never hear from them again.