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Originally Posted by WanderingOak  My main problem with the LOA is that it can be used in an attempt to manifest 'dangerous' fantasies. Look at the current political situation regarding Iraq: "Mission Accomplished", "Slam-Dunk", and "God told me we are going to win in Iraq". It sounds to me as if somebody was attempting to manifest a victory in Iraq. What's worse is that it's not working, so people are dying needlessly because of this fantasy, unless of course you believe that we are actually winning and being fed lies by the liberal media. Actually, I think that particular spin is another attempt to manifest victory.
Unfortunately, other people have tried the same thing before. Anybody ever see 'Triumph of the Will'? To me, that sounds a lot like an attempt at manifestation. Those people were convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that they had a god-given right to take over the world. Of course they failed miserably, and you can't even mention their name in polite company anymore. Heck, water crystals freak out at the mere mention of the name of their leader.
It could be that I don't have enough of an understanding of the LOA to see why it can't be used to manifest the egregious examples that I mentioned above. Then again, this could just show that there is a 'dark side' to the LOA as well. |
Funny I was going to say something similar - particularly about Bush - he does seem to try to 'manifest' by avoiding reality in Iraq and it took a long time for him to finally face reality - though some people say he hasn't even done that thus the attempts at a 'surge'
In the book think and grow rich, I think napolean hill kind of touched on this - with henry ford - you have to be single minded and driven to succeed- that's what made ford produce autos for $500.00 when eveyone else was charging $3000-5000.00 but there came a point where his doggedness caused Ford Motor to fall behind. I forgot what Hill said about it - I am going to look it up today.
Regarding LOA:
The alternative to not accepting that you are responsible for your circusmstances, is
not accepting them. and if you don't then why would you be truly, deeply motivated to do anything, if a deus ex machina can come down in ActIII?