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Originally Posted by moonrambler 
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.
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That's one of the main points I'm trying to get across.
Guys, I've been reading and (tried) applying the law of attraction since mid-2000, so it's not like I just wathed the Secret last week.
Can someone honestly comment the above quote, and where the lie of attraction stands there?
How about World War 2?
I'm confused about this...
Regards,
-Tom
Who can come up with an hopnest