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Originally Posted by moonrambler  I looked through a plastic canvas magazine for good pictures for an auction listing. There was a basket with jelly beans in it. There also was a pattern called "Happy Frog." (Wax Frog, you lurking?) Then I got an e-mail that somebody responded in a thread I'm watching in the eBay forums about the management's controversial decision not to allow sellers to leave negative or neutral feedback anymore. Somebody had posted a long piece of information by someone else claiming to be an eBay insider. I could see that eBay won't leave that sit up there very long, so I Googled to look where else on the Net it might be posted where there might be commentary. For this Google search, responding to my search in quotes "spirit of ebay," with 5,280 results, the number 2 result begins with my first name (spelled properly) in big capital letters, along with some numbers: 258A SHELLEY.
Now. What're the odds of THAT? LOL!
Interesting also about the numbers 5280 and 258A.  |
Just to mention, this is my post # 285.
John Freestone -- one thing, I've asked you twice now what you would need to experience to believe it was a significant synchronicity, or whether there's nothing at all that would convince you the phenomenon exists. I'd love it if you'd answer that.
Bummer that you deleted what you wrote since you took the time to write it. That's the point of this thread, after all.
Alegro -- I don't know if anybody here is truly advocating the idea of LoA with no action. Even those who are big proponents of this, are still taking action. ALG, for instance (talking about him in the third person, Hi ALG if you're lurking), insists he can create events with no action, yet in order to get a poetry book deal he had to write a book of poetry and he had to send the manuscript around. In order to create big monetary gains through his work, he has to do a spectacular job, and he had to get education to get the type of job he has, and so on. And he gets job offers that he didn't even look for, but that isn't uncommon with people who have high-level positions and are doing spectacular work. We have an entire industry employing people who spend all their time trying to hire away the best people from one company to go to another, and they are called head-hunters.
You'll also find that if a person comes to this forum looking for LoA help with curing a disease or fixing financial problems due to unemployment, for instance, the first thing that person will be asked is if they've gone to a doctor, or in the other case, if they've been applying for work. Even the most fervent LoA proponents want to make sure the basic action is covered before moving beyond that.
The LoA is fundamentally stating the tendency that "like attracts like." People who have money and have a good attitude about money are probably going to get more of it. People who have money and have a negative or conflicting attitude about money are more likely to run into financial problems. People who don't have money but have a positive and motivated attitude about getting money are more likely to get it than people who are opposite of that.
Here is a little LoA experience that happens to me now and then. I go around to rummage sales and I find a magazine from the 1980s that I've never seen before since starting to work in resale. I know I've never seen it, because if I would have seen it, I would have bought it. There are five of them, and I buy them. The next day, in an entirely different part of town, I find another one of these magazines at a yard sale, and then later in the day I find a couple more. I have no idea why this happens, but it's not uncommon. JF would say it's "just a coincidence," but it's weird. The other day I was looking through books at a sale, and I picked one out which was unfamiliar to me, and a woman says to me, "I'm reading that book right now!" And I said, "Oh, yes?" or something, and she says more adamantly, with a big grin, "I mean, it's in my car right now!" And I realize she's got her own LoA experience going here, and I get a big kick out of that.
Nevertheless -- I still have to take action and get in my car and go around to these sales for any of this to happen. The LoA builds from that.