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Originally Posted by moonrambler  This does not hold up in real life, and you know it. |
Actually I think it does, and I've explained it before. It does take some time for me to retype the explanation, so maybe you may want to do a search.
I'll give a few simplified answers in point form:
1. The reasons why not all your scary fears manifest into reality are the same reasons why not all your joyful hopes manifest into reality.
2. It is correct that a fear may compel you to take certain precautions, such that the feared outcome is prevented from occurring. This works the same way as a positive intention being counteracted by a limiting belief.
3. People are repulsed by the idea that they create such terrible,tragic events in their reality. What they don't see is the flip side - all the most positive, beautiful and wonderful things in their reality are also created by them.
4. People are also repulsed by the idea that they are responsible for creating tragedies - in that the idea would entail some sense of moral culpability in them, which they cannot accept. However, as I've also previously explained, your moral culpability only exists to the extent that:
(a) you were aware that your thoughts/beliefs had such negative effect;
(b) you had the ability to change your thoughts/beliefs on such matters; AND
(c) you refused to change your thoughts and beliefs,
Vast majority of people on this planet don't meet the (a) criterion, much less (b) and (c), and therefore you need not feel personally responsible for the famines in Africa, or the New Orleans disaster, or the massive snowfalls in China.
(5) Also you must understand that a specific circumstance in your life does not usually occur as a result of your specific thought about such a specific circumstance. For example, a person may get lung cancer not because he is always thinking about lung cancer, but because of a combination of different thoughts not related to lung cancer. Eg that he has done certain bad things in his life and will one day be punished for it; or that life is not worth living and he doesn't have much worth looking forward to; or that his relationship with his family members is rotten and he wishes that (something will happen) such that they will really pay attention to him and take care of him. Etc etc.
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We digress briefly to a Big Question which no doubt all religious persons have considered, in one form or another:
"If God exists, why do bad things happen to mankind?"
There is a relationship between the above question, and this one:
"If my thoughts create reality, why do bad things happen to mankind?"
And the answer(s) to the first question will shed light on the second.