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Originally Posted by JHL  Look at the state of the planet, and consider how the marketing of topics such as LOA feed into the decline.
Is that a dim view to take - that it feeds the decline rather than empowers people to better their lives? Maybe it is, but what might bring to light the validity in what I'm claiming would be if someone went through all the posts here and calculated the percentage of people wanting to use LOA are asking for assistance in matters of materialism, as opposed to matters of personal growth (the two are NOT the same).
People have smugly convinced themselves that material abundance is their birthright, otherwise you have a SCARCITY consciousness (like mother teresa or Ghandi, God forbid). Lets see if 100 years from now the planet agrees with this abundance philosophy. |
You are right: the promoters of I-M tell people only what they want to hear, while Al Gore tells people basically what they don't want to hear.
Applying I-M for instant gratification (what most I-M users seek) is exactly what we do NOT need now.
What we need now is quite another attitude: instead of focusing on our own private needs, we should work together to improve the environment on this planet (I haven't read any intention about that on this forum
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I find your last sentence so important that I repeat it here in bold:
Lets see if 100 years from now the planet agrees with this abundance philosophy.
I believe it won't take that long before the majority of the "Smart People" on these forums (including Steve Pavlina) realize that applying I-M is not the way to go in this 21st century.