[cylon]

Markus, Maxwell--there are many things that benefit my life that I am glad to pay for. I recently purchased "What the Bleep" on DVD. It wasn't free. It was at the store, and it cost money. Money I was glad to pay. I don't own the Secret DVD. I watched it online a few times, and yesterday I was able to watch it online for free. But maybe that's beside the point.

I was a flat out atheist up until I saw the secret. For a few years, I spent many many hours on atheist chat rooms, mocking people who believed in things that science couldn't explain. Magical thinking. I got way into James Randi, Penn and Teller Bullshit, Michael Shermer, other Atheist thinkers. I had a lot of built-in anger towards "magical thinkers", especially born again christians of the judgemental variety, since that's what I grew up with. Even now, I can't wait for the movie "Jesus Camp" to become available in my Netflix cue.

Something happened to me in the last year, as I naturally got away from the skeptical obsession. I didn't stop being a skeptic, I just stopped caring about being right all the time. I spent more time creating art, and having fun, and less time watching the news, keeping up to date on church scandals, getting into online debates about Creationism. I just naturally started being more accepting of people who, to me, were living a life of fantasy. In the end, who cares? What does it have to do with me anyway? Why am I judging people for any reason? Isn't that what "they" do? I would ask you to consider this for yourself: what are you getting out of putting other people down for their beliefs? How is it benefiting YOU as an individual. Likewise, when people enjoy the Secret, how is that affecting YOU as an individual. What does it have to do with YOUR life?

So anyway. I was led to the Secret over a month ago, and have been led to other things since then. And yes I've had to rethink many of my previous assumptions. But now I'm not so attached to being "right", or having all the answers. What's the difference between a true believer and an an atheist? Nothing. They are both absolutely convinced they have all the answers and their view of reality is the only accurate one, and every other view is totally lame, misguided, and dangerous.


We use five percent of our brains they say. Maybe using the LOA pops it up to seven percent. Maybe in 500 years there will be more discoveries and people will be using 9 percent. Who knows. You bring a caveman into current times and he'll see an airplane and freak out. To him it would be a god probably, or something that scared the crap out of him. But it's just an airplane. Something that was magic for thousands and thousands of years, in the end, is really not a big deal. We just understand it now. I think the subject matter of this board is similar to that. In my opinion.