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impaul99 · 01-07-2010, 09:01 PM

What is really accepted as "True" out there anyways?

Something as simple as Chiropractic medicine is ridiculed and called "Bogus" by most traditional doctors, yet there are hundreds of Chiropractic offices in the city I live in alone.

Each Chiropractor's office has hundreds if not thousands of clients who keep coming back, so obviously they experience benefits from the treatment.

I see the LoA no different from things like:
- Chiropractic care
- Martial Arts
- Quantum Science
- Psychic Abilities
- Reiki Healing
- Naturopathic Medicine
- Vitamins

For every person that believes in one of these things, I know a few that think they're "Bogus". I know people who think Martial Arts are totally bogus and that they wouldn't help you defend yourself in a "real fight" because they watched Karate Kid 1 and thought it looked fake.

Same thing with things like Vitamins. Science has proven that certain Vitamins help the body with certain things, but there are still people who think it's a bunch of crap.

The one thing I do find common with most people who think that things are bogus is that they haven't even tried it.

For example, I'll hear a conversation between two people in martial arts and one person will be bashing martial arts, but when I ask them if they've ever been to a martial arts class, or done any research on it, or trained in any martial arts they say No. They just judged it based on what they saw on TV.

Same with Vitamins. People will say they are useless, often stating something like "You just urinate all the stuff out anyways" or "There's already all the vitamins I need in my food", yet when I ask them if they've ever tried buying a good quality Multi-Vitamin product and taking it for 30 days to see how they feel, they say No.

It's the same thing with most of the things I listed above and hundreds of other things in life. Everyone's got an opinion, but 95% of the time they haven't even tried the thing they're bashing.

When I first learned about LoA I didn't believe in it right away. Why would I if I haven't tried it yet. But, I didn't bash it. Instead I tried it. I wanted to test it either way. So I tried using it in my life, my business etc. and it turned out to work for me, in really big ways.

Same with martial arts. I actually signed up for some classes and tried it.

Same with Psychic readings. I actually got Psychic readings done to see if there was any validity/accuracy to them.

The way I see it, there are 2 types of people out there:

(1) People who judge things based on personal experience or a well researched point of view.

(2) People who judge things based on their limited and often ignorant sense of "common sense" or "logic", or based on what they saw on TV or read in a Newspaper, with no personal experience at all.

I find that most skeptics fall in the #2 category and really I just mostly ignore them because they offer no valuable information, they just repeat what they heard or saw on TV.

I haven't seen the show, but the first question I would ask is if Bill Maher actually experimented with LoA and the concepts taught in The Secret personally or if he was simply given a topic for the show and told to bash it for ratings.

As far as Deepak Chopra is concerned, pretty much all of his books speak of concepts very similar to Law of Attraction, Synchronicity, Creating Abundance, Spontaneous Fulfillment of All Desire, etc.

01-07-2010, 09:01 PM	#18 (permalink)
impaul99 Banned Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: BC, Canada Posts: 1,935	What is really accepted as "True" out there anyways? Something as simple as Chiropractic medicine is ridiculed and called "Bogus" by most traditional doctors, yet there are hundreds of Chiropractic offices in the city I live in alone. Each Chiropractor's office has hundreds if not thousands of clients who keep coming back, so obviously they experience benefits from the treatment. I see the LoA no different from things like: - Chiropractic care - Martial Arts - Quantum Science - Psychic Abilities - Reiki Healing - Naturopathic Medicine - Vitamins For every person that believes in one of these things, I know a few that think they're "Bogus". I know people who think Martial Arts are totally bogus and that they wouldn't help you defend yourself in a "real fight" because they watched Karate Kid 1 and thought it looked fake. Same thing with things like Vitamins. Science has proven that certain Vitamins help the body with certain things, but there are still people who think it's a bunch of crap. The one thing I do find common with most people who think that things are bogus is that they haven't even tried it. For example, I'll hear a conversation between two people in martial arts and one person will be bashing martial arts, but when I ask them if they've ever been to a martial arts class, or done any research on it, or trained in any martial arts they say No. They just judged it based on what they saw on TV. Same with Vitamins. People will say they are useless, often stating something like "You just urinate all the stuff out anyways" or "There's already all the vitamins I need in my food", yet when I ask them if they've ever tried buying a good quality Multi-Vitamin product and taking it for 30 days to see how they feel, they say No. It's the same thing with most of the things I listed above and hundreds of other things in life. Everyone's got an opinion, but 95% of the time they haven't even tried the thing they're bashing. When I first learned about LoA I didn't believe in it right away. Why would I if I haven't tried it yet. But, I didn't bash it. Instead I tried it. I wanted to test it either way. So I tried using it in my life, my business etc. and it turned out to work for me, in really big ways. Same with martial arts. I actually signed up for some classes and tried it. Same with Psychic readings. I actually got Psychic readings done to see if there was any validity/accuracy to them. The way I see it, there are 2 types of people out there: (1) People who judge things based on personal experience or a well researched point of view. (2) People who judge things based on their limited and often ignorant sense of "common sense" or "logic", or based on what they saw on TV or read in a Newspaper, with no personal experience at all. I find that most skeptics fall in the #2 category and really I just mostly ignore them because they offer no valuable information, they just repeat what they heard or saw on TV. I haven't seen the show, but the first question I would ask is if Bill Maher actually experimented with LoA and the concepts taught in The Secret personally or if he was simply given a topic for the show and told to bash it for ratings. As far as Deepak Chopra is concerned, pretty much all of his books speak of concepts very similar to Law of Attraction, Synchronicity, Creating Abundance, Spontaneous Fulfillment of All Desire, etc.