How do explain this?

[gr8fl]

In regards to: The Law Of Attraction, Karma and statements such as "Do you serve others and hope they will get all they need and want?", et al:

How do you explain away the following?

Bank Robber Wins Lottery

A Massachusetts man, Timothy Elliott, 55, who pleaded guilty of bank robbery, won $1 million with a ticket he purchased at a supermarket.

As it was against his probation to gamble, buy lottery tickets, or visit any gaming facilities, he had violated his probation.

[dancer]

The universe has an ironic sense of humour.

[viscapes]

Clearly, someone who robs banks spends a lot of time thinking about acquiring money. Maybe if he put his faith into LOA instead of robbing banks he'd have expected his lottery win all along

[Elrond]

You should ask whether or not the LoA concerns itself with morality? I think not.

[Liveformx64]

Does the law of gravity inhibit or alter the laws of probability and statistics?

Why should the Law of attraction affect probability?

The lottery is pure probability and statistics. I think the biggest fallacy we as humans make is to try and apply meaning to everything.

Take for instance a 747 plane crashes into the pacific ocean. Did every single one of those people enact on the exact same behavior to attract this event?
Answer: absolutely not. sometimes $h!t happens.

I think people often put L.O.A. through a religious filter, most likely one they were familiar with during childhood. *smacks hand* put the religious colored glassed down!

[Jeni]

Originally Posted by Elrond

You should ask whether or not the LoA concerns itself with morality? I think not.

As a previous viewer mentioned, the law of attraction works for those who use it for good as well as for evil. It has to do with intention not whether or not you're a good person. Who knows, perhaps the person they stole the money from will recieve the money. It also says something about the robber being unable to buy lottery tickets legally, and it was a breech of their probation. They may end up going to jail for this act of rebellion. Don't automatically assume that this doesn't fit in with the law of attraction.

[MagicalRealist]

Originally Posted by gr8fl

In regards to: The Law Of Attraction, Karma and statements such as "Do you serve others and hope they will get all they need and want?", et al:

How do you explain away the following?

Bank Robber Wins Lottery

A Massachusetts man, Timothy Elliott, 55, who pleaded guilty of bank robbery, won $1 million with a ticket he purchased at a supermarket.

As it was against his probation to gamble, buy lottery tickets, or visit any gaming facilities, he had violated his probation.

The guy is extremely focused on bringing sudden, large sums of money into his life. He's really, really good at manifesting those. ETA: And whether he's a "good" person with the best intentions or not doesn't make any difference to the universe; those moral distinctions are made by humans, while source energy simply is.

Yet however strongly he has aligned himself with bringing large sums of money into his life it is too much energy for him to handle--so it flows right back out. He's focused on bringing money in, but not on actually having it. He can't handle wealth.

He might also have a deep belief that in order to acquire money, one has to be dishonest, even criminal, and that it cannot be come by honestly, by doing meaningful work that he loves. And he ends up caught and punished, because he either knows he fully deserves it for breaking the law, or else fears it so much he attracts it.

In a way, he's like any lottery winner who aligned themselves to getting rich in one big swoop--only to end up poorer than ever within a few years. They wanted huge sums of money, and they got it--but nothing else in their lives was in alignment with that kind of massive influx of energy, so things went right back to the previous state of lack.

That's my best guess, anyway.

[Liveformx64]

Is there nothing to say for probability?

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Liveformx64

Take for instance a 747 plane crashes into the pacific ocean. Did every single one of those people enact on the exact same behavior to attract this event

No. I would say that every single one of those people had unique thoughts and attracted a unique event. They all die, but they all experience their own individual deaths.

Just because a group of persons are in the same place and time does not mean that they all thought exactly the same things and thereby appeared in that same place and time.

[Eisho]

Originally Posted by gr8fl

In regards to: The Law Of Attraction, Karma and statements such as "Do you serve others and hope they will get all they need and want?", et al:

How do you explain away the following?

Bank Robber Wins Lottery

A Massachusetts man, Timothy Elliott, 55, who pleaded guilty of bank robbery, won $1 million with a ticket he purchased at a supermarket.

As it was against his probation to gamble, buy lottery tickets, or visit any gaming facilities, he had violated his probation.

Coincidence. Do it again.

Eisho

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Liveformx64

Is there nothing to say for probability?

Ah yes, that.

Some events and circumstances in life are indeed random. This is inevitable. We all have random thoughts, therefore if LOA is true, reality must reflect that randomness.

[Liveformx64]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

No. I would say that every single one of those people had unique thoughts and attracted a unique event. They all die, but they all experience their own individual deaths.

Just because a group of persons are in the same place and time does not mean that they all thought exactly the same things and thereby appeared in that same place and time.

I see the practice of applying meaning and merit to the consequences and outcomes of peoples lives as sort of a safe harbor to explain away the scary or bad things that we simply don't or can't understand. A pacifier of sorts.

In so many words, I think you mean "everything manifested in an individuals life is 100% brought about by their own doing"

Does your school of thought teach this? I am just wondering how you can rationalize this concept."