[moonrambler]

Originally Posted by John Freestone

Eventually the 'fun' you are talking about is found to fade, like so many of our delusive mind games and addictions. In IM, I believe, the successes are found to be less reliable than was hoped, which leaves us irritated that we're not getting what was promised - hence the large number of posts here asking how to improve, why the failures, the lack of sudden riches, success, etc.,

I've been at this for nearly 25 years in regard to playing around with synchronicity, and the fun hasn't faded a whit. But then I haven't really ever been using it to get something I wanted. I just observe it.

In pure synchronicity-gawping, it might wear thin when you finally wonder if these synchronous events have any use or purpose or meaning other than those you attach to them, and
You might notice that if you can attach usefulness, purpose or meaning to 'synchronicities', you can attach it to nothing whatsoever - you can just get on with life instead and not waste the time you might waste watching closely for the next event.

Again, I have always wondered that. I wondered it a lot right from the start, and then kind of let it go. I moved into a sense of, the synchronicities show me I'm in sync, in tune, on the right path. When they dry up, that's when I should pay more attention. Also -- I can't speak for others, but I don't waste any time watching closely for the next event. I don't have to watch at all. It shows up and hits me over the head. Bonk!

You might have a sudden awakening, for instance on crashing your car because you were so busy watching for the next synchronicity/coincidence.

Where exactly do you think I'm watching? Do you think I'm driving around running stoplights while I'm searching for DeLoreans and Torinos? Again, I'm not searching. The darn thing shows up right behind me or passes me on the county road -- I don't have to search for it.

Assuming for a moment that LoA is not true, there are many risks around wasting time and, much worse, becoming more and more distracted by the mythical world of constructed meanings: I gave one example earlier - I'm buying a car (wow! spooky) and find myself wondering whether I want the one with the cool plate that happens to spell something 'significant' to me an my partner, or the one that is her favourite colour - these kinds of things only distract us from dealing with the important facts, and if I don't stop myself in this fantasy I could easily miss the fact that one has been wrecked and put together again with superglue.

Agreed. A person shouldn't just think with their gut.

Some people like to investigate and think about reality, to try to discover truths, and are uncomfortable just living a life based on wishful thinking and fairytales.

I subscribe to e-Skeptic. I'm a dedicated reader of shamblog. You can't assume that people who believe in synchronicity and LoA are blindly living a life based on wishful thinking and fairy tales. So far I have not experienced the magnificent monetary wonders of IM that ALG speaks of, but I'm not ready to write off IM as a sham. He and Paul both insist that it works, and I am more than willing to keep at it as an added tool in my financial adventures.

The flip-side to 'fun', or pleasure, is pain. These things are balanced and when we get off on fun we bring pain too, even if that means just the natural reaction when the fun stops (like when we Intend and find no Manifestation happening). I don't mean that pleasure should be avoided. I just mean that to keep going for pleasure and fun, and particularly living your life with that as a central principle or, as you seem to be doing here, defending your beliefs on the grounds that they're fun, has a cost. You do so, imho, at the expense of awareness.

I'm not defending my belief in synchronicity on the grounds that it's fun . . . I'm asking where the added value is in deciding that all this stuff that happens is sheer random coincidence (even though I seem to get a LOT of it)?

I see your point about how people can waste a lot of time, and sometimes money, chasing after the fantasy that LoA and IM will magically solve their problems, instead of doing the practical action necessary to solve their problems. I have felt like this myself during my "garbage, all of it!" moments. I can understand why the OP got fed up and made that post and disappeared.