I don't know if we'll ever get anywhere on all this besides "agree to disagree" because from what I see of the complete non-skeptics, there is an answer to everything, even though the answers typically are highly anecdotal and theoretical.
I can understand the LoA as applied to places like Africa, if we go with the idea that people tend to attract more of what they've already got.
What I have trouble with is why horrible things happen out of nowhere to people. This theory of how the victim attracts the horrible experience. It doesn't hold up. Let's make an example. A family lives in a nice small town and then one day there's a shooting and several teenagers are killed, including a girl in this family. This happened about 100 miles from here last year.
First we're told that we get what we focus on. But this family never focused on this, never thought about it, never feared it, never imagined anything like that could happen to them.
Then we're told that they feared something else, had some other fear of loss or death or whatever. But -- they didn't. Really, they didn't. They were happy and everything was going great. They felt blessed. They were grateful. They did everything right.
Then we're told that subconsciously there must have been something that attracted this experience. Somewhere in their past some idea got buried in their subconscious but it was still there and suddenly blam, out it came.
I mean, no matter what, you can go anywhere with this stuff. If we reduce it down to that a victim attracts a murder even if she never focused on it, never feared it, never imagined it, never thought about it, never had any idea of it, was simply a happy popular fulfilled teenager looking forward to a bright and fun future -- it falls apart.
If we can't get past this theory of, "somehow, they must have had thoughts attracting it," when they absolutely did not, we are never going to have something substantial to offer the die-hard skeptics. There has to be a better reason. I seriously don't believe that the tornado comes through and only hits houses of people who attracted it while skipping the houses of people who did not attract it. Just like I don't believe one person managed to steer a snowstorm south of their town by declaring they didn't feel like having a snowstorm that day. Here we just set an all-time record for snowfall, and I don't believe it's because we attracted it through LoA, although maybe this last inch of snow we got that pushed us over the top was a result of the mass mourning over the retirement of the quarterback
