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Originally Posted by cylon 
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.
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Well said. I too was a skeptic a while back, but now I believe.
One thing I've learned from this is not to try to argue with people who believe in other "magical" things that I don't. Maybe they are totally wrong, maybe they are totally right. As long as they don't affect me in any negative way, who cares what people believe in. I try to listen to what I experience directly for my current beliefs, instead of what "makes logical sense", because I have found that "what makes logical sense" is crap in most cases. We use logic to back up what we already believe, not the other way around.
Paul