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Originally Posted by Daffy Duck  And what kind of misconception is that? Are you telling me about not speaking to the Universe in a negative sense? |
No. Let me explain your misconception. Your reasoning runs as follows:
(1) If LOA is true, then whatever I think will happen.
(2) I can think, "The sun does not exist."
(3) But the sun will still exist.
(4) Therefore the LOA is false.
The above is a misconception, because not all your thoughts will change reality, as per the text of your thoughts. The counter-example I provided is of the smoker who thinks casual thoughts about not smoking, but notes no change in his smoking habits.
The smoker example simply illustrates that not all thoughts translate into observable reality, or into changes significant enough to matter. This does not mean that the LOA is false, any more than your sun example shows that the LOA is false.
Another example. Suppose one day a mediocre student thinks to himself, "I am going to score straight A's". And that's it - he never repeats the thought; he never follows through with it; he never builds or cultivates or grows that thought any further. We would not expect him to score straight A's.
What if he does build, cultivate or grow that thought? What if he thinks every day about scoring straight A's, and how he's going to do it, and how exciting it would be, and what are the ideas and strategies for going about it, and where he will get help, and what he needs to do, and how fun this piece of homework is, and how interesting this essay question is .....?
Now we begin to see that the thought grows. At some point, it will be large enough to affect and influence reality. Studying, or working hard, or reading, or whatever other activity this student believes is necessary for straight A's, will become this student's passion. Then come the straight A's.
And of course, people with poor understanding of the LOA will say, "Well, he still needs to study. He still needs to attend class and pay attention. Thinking about straight A's alone is not enough".
What these people don't understand is that your actions are also part of reality. Your thought affects your reality. Therefore your thought affects your actions too (among other things in your reality). If you did not have the thought or intention of studying, you would not have studied. If you did not have the intention of studying hard, you would not have studied hard.
Quite apart from all these, from LOA theory, we predict that other external circumstances will present themselves (if the student has the necessary intention) to assist the student in fulfilling the intention. Eg the necessary teachers may appear; the necessary funds may appear; the appropriate studying environment may appear etc.