[Lil Chris]

Originally Posted by moonrambler

I apologize for being snarky. However . . . sometimes there is just so much around here that doesn't sound like actual IM.

Hey it's cool no hard feelings... Sometimes it may sound like that especially if it is a small manifestation (although, everything in ones life is a manifestation if we think about it, in my opinion)

I think I've come to see I don't really believe in the "Law of Attraction," which is an entirely different thing than "Intentional Manifestation," and the jury's still out on that one for me, although some people here apparently are very, very good at this, and it gives me hope.

The way ALG, for instance, approaches all this is so very different from a lot of the comments I hear which don't seem to have any solid foundation in the subject. Such as:

"I wanted something and then a few days later I forgot about it and then it happened."

"I was afraid of something and then it happened and so I caused it."

"I wanted something and I guess I wanted it too much because it still hasn't happened."

"I intended to see something and it took two weeks but then I saw it."

"If you want to manifest a red hat all you have to do is go down to the hat store and that counts as LoA."

"If you want to manifest a red hat all you have to do is come to this forum and say so, and somebody will put up a picture of one, and that counts as LoA."

I agree with some of what you say here... In defence of this though, due to the varying degree of beliefs in individuals it is kind of hard to nail down. But, if you could change the way you think to match the way ALG thinks then you'll probably experience things the way ALG does or very similar. ALG is truly an asset in this forum and very well with articulating his words and explaining things (this may come from him being a lawyer, at least I think he was or is a lawyer).

"I had a random thought and then it occurred in reality."

This does happen to me quite a bit, I'm not sure why exactly, but it doesn't change the fact it does happen. I obviously can't prove it to anyone, it's just what I experience and I like to share those experiences of what happened regardless of how weird, different, or simply just nutty they may seem to others...

It's like, how many billions of random thoughts do we have that don't occur? (Thank goodness.) Why one out of a billion? And then why say we created that one thing to happen, but none of the others?

I don't really know, kind of wish I did though... Perhaps it's just my perception of what's going on and because of that perception that is what happens or what my mind is creating... (I'm speculating here)

I should stop debating this subject, about whether LoA exists in an all-encompassing way or not, because I don't think my debating it is doing me or anyone else any good (other than when somebody thanked me for joining in the frustration, lol).

Skepticism is good, but in my mind I wonder if it impedes believing that something is possible. I'm not mad at you and I do share in your frustration as well (it's getting less though, the frustration that is). I'm still learning this stuff and about how my mind works and how I tend to think and for me and my reality that's kind of what matters in my opinion, don't you think?