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Originally Posted by Antiventurecapital  People are so terrified of life that they need to cling to notions that they have total control over everything that happens to them. To admit otherwise is simply too frightening for them. At bottom it's a form of immaturity.
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This is also why so many adults want to believe that the next life is more important than this one and that they will get to spend an eternity lounging about on a puffy cloud listening to angels playing harps.
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Originally Posted by Athena YES!!!!!
We need to see the balance of forces that go on in any event and in any person's life, between the universe, nature, people, individual consciousness, mass consciousness, etc. Someone needs to put it together and give it a name and get it out there. LoA and The Secret is a step in the right direction away from religious teachings that God has all the power, and in giving more power to each person, but there is definitely a balance of forces here that is currently not showing in either extreme. |
I like Rhonda Byrnes and respect what she's done, but I roll my eyes when she says that you "don't have to grow old." Come again? She obviously a woman in her mid-fifties who is getting old. Hell, I'm getting old too despite climbing a mountain for 90 minutes today.
We are not gods.