I'm only on page 24, and already I want to hurl myself off the nearest cliff.
I CAN HAZ POSITIVE THINKING WISH FULFILLMENT???
SHOCKER:
RICH PEOPLE THINK ABOUT MONEY
THAT IS CLEARLY WHY THEY ARE RICH
:lulz:
My crazy aunt got my daughter a Sylvia Brown book. Now Keelin is sitting on the couch loudly tearing into the author.
I shall have to buy her Palin's book. :lulz:
this just in: I just did a google search where the nearest cliff is. :lulz:
QuoteIf you can think about what you want in your mind, and make that
your dominant thought, you will bring it into your life.
*goes into convulsions*
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 10, 2010, 10:50:54 PM
QuoteIf you can think about what you want in your mind, and make that
your dominant thought, you will bring it into your life.
*goes into convulsions*
Don't you have to "cast a circle" or dress up in a robe or anything?
no, just think REALLY HARD
right now I'm thinking REALLY HARD about Rhonda Byrne's face collapsing on itself.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 10, 2010, 10:46:32 PM
My crazy aunt got my daughter a Sylvia Brown book. Now Keelin is sitting on the couch loudly tearing into the author.
I shall have to buy her Palin's book. :lulz:
Oh my god.
AND
record it!
this book is like one big retarded infomercial, where all they do is repeat the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over again without anything backing up the info.
In all seriousness, there's a bit of truth to it (and by a bit I mean like .09%, and the rest is crap lolll), because thinking positively about things can sometimes help improve people's moods, or inspire them to do things. But me just thinking REALLY HARDDDDDDD about money without doing anything else isn't going to make me rich. :lol:
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 10, 2010, 10:41:36 PM
I'm only on page 24, and already I want to hurl myself off the nearest cliff.
You retroactively got the book commissioned in the first place. IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!
Quote from: Xooxe on January 11, 2010, 04:39:05 AM
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 10, 2010, 10:41:36 PM
I'm only on page 24, and already I want to hurl myself off the nearest cliff.
You retroactively got the book commissioned in the first place. IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!
OH SHIT YOU'RE RIGHT
brb, gonna check out that cliff
:lulz:
Apparently it's not even original but based on a book called "The Law of Attraction in the Thought World" by William Walker Atkinson who under many many pen names actually wrote a ton of other really stupid ass books and eventually pissed off a couple of Rosicrucians.
When you're done with The Secret you can read TLoAitTW here:
http://www.psitek.net/pages/PsiTekTV1.html
so maybe you should look for an another cliff in the meantime.
Why is that not surprising?
:lulz:
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 11, 2010, 04:25:25 AM
this book is like one big retarded infomercial, where all they do is repeat the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over again without anything backing up the info.
In all seriousness, there's a bit of truth to it (and by a bit I mean like .09%, and the rest is crap lolll), because thinking positively about things can sometimes help improve people's moods, or inspire them to do things. But me just thinking REALLY HARDDDDDDD about money without doing anything else isn't going to make me rich. :lol:
Bullshit! The reason you haven't recieved money yet is because yous ain't wish hard enough. It's all your fault, not the systems!!!
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on January 11, 2010, 07:04:13 AM
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 11, 2010, 04:25:25 AM
this book is like one big retarded infomercial, where all they do is repeat the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over again without anything backing up the info.
In all seriousness, there's a bit of truth to it (and by a bit I mean like .09%, and the rest is crap lolll), because thinking positively about things can sometimes help improve people's moods, or inspire them to do things. But me just thinking REALLY HARDDDDDDD about money without doing anything else isn't going to make me rich. :lol:
Bullshit! The reason you haven't recieved money yet is because yous ain't wish hard enough. It's all your fault, not the systems!!!
I'm going to try wishing REALLY HARD! Here it goes!
I poomped. :oops:
I shat myself when SPS IM'd me the opening paragraph of the book. Lincoln, Plato and Napoleon all used Teh Secret? Hot shit, I better get me some of that stuff too!
Quote from: Burns on January 11, 2010, 04:53:28 AM
:lulz:
Apparently it's not even original but based on a book called "The Law of Attraction in the Thought World" by William Walker Atkinson who under many many pen names actually wrote a ton of other really stupid ass books and eventually pissed off a couple of Rosicrucians.
When you're done with The Secret you can read TLoAitTW here:
http://www.psitek.net/pages/PsiTekTV1.html
so maybe you should look for an another cliff in the meantime.
Are Rosicrucians fierce when roused? Did they kill him in some kinda quasi-masonic, bricks-in-pockets affair?
The thing that extra pisses me off about that book is that it ruins the actual power of planning for success for so many people.
Quote from: Cain on January 11, 2010, 09:06:36 AM
I shat myself when SPS IM'd me the opening paragraph of the book. Lincoln, Plato and Napoleon all used Teh Secret? Hot shit, I better get me some of that stuff too!
I should start copy/pasting some of the text into this thread. Then we can all have a parachute-less base jumping contest. :lulz:
Sjaantze's Dad got us "Laws of Attraction" last year for Christmas. It was horrible bad, not kinda bad... just terrible, terrible, terrible bad.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 11, 2010, 01:06:17 PM
Quote from: Burns on January 11, 2010, 04:53:28 AM
:lulz:
Apparently it's not even original but based on a book called "The Law of Attraction in the Thought World" by William Walker Atkinson who under many many pen names actually wrote a ton of other really stupid ass books and eventually pissed off a couple of Rosicrucians.
When you're done with The Secret you can read TLoAitTW here:
http://www.psitek.net/pages/PsiTekTV1.html
so maybe you should look for an another cliff in the meantime.
Are Rosicrucians fierce when roused? Did they kill him in some kinda quasi-masonic, bricks-in-pockets affair?
No but they pissed and moaned a whole lot!
Quote from: teh sekritWe live in a universe in which there are laws, just as there is
a law of gravity. If you fail off a building it doesn't matter if
you're a good person or a had person, you're going to hit the
ground.
:lulz: lol spelling. brb gonna fail off a cliff.
But what if I focus really hard on not hitting the ground?
Quote from: Cain on January 11, 2010, 09:51:14 PM
But what if I focus really hard on not hitting the ground?
Well, that's how you levitate, right? You just fall and miss the ground.
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 10, 2010, 10:41:36 PM
I'm only on page 24, and already I want to hurl myself off the nearest cliff.
I'm impressed you made it that far in the book. I can't even bring myself to touch it.
Quote from: Cain on January 11, 2010, 09:51:14 PM
But what if I focus really hard on not hitting the ground?
I think you're supposed to not focus on it.
Quote from: Cain on January 11, 2010, 09:51:14 PM
But what if I focus really hard on not hitting the ground?
Oh. I decided to stop hating you. Do what you will with that.
Quote from: Cain on January 11, 2010, 09:51:14 PM
But what if I focus really hard on not hitting the ground?
You'll hit the ground more often then. Because the universe doesn't see "not" or "don't" it only sees that statement as "i want to hit the ground, and more often".
Quote from: Brotep on January 11, 2010, 10:32:45 PM
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 10, 2010, 10:41:36 PM
I'm only on page 24, and already I want to hurl myself off the nearest cliff.
I'm impressed you made it that far in the book. I can't even bring myself to touch it.
page 28 :fap:
QuoteEverything that surrounds you right now in your life,
including the things you're complaining about, you've
attracted. Now I know at first blush that's going to
be something that you hate to hear. You're going to
immediately say, "I didn't attract the car accident. I didn't
attract this particular client who gives me a hard time. I
didn't particularly attract the debt." And I'm here to be a little bit in your face and to say, yes you did attract it.
This is one of the hardest concepts to get, but once you've
accepted it, it's life transforming.
you heard that right ladies, it's your fault the drunk driver hit you and killed you. you
attracted it.
:horrormirth: :1fap:
QuoteSince I learned The Secret and started applying it to my life,
my life has truly become magical. I think the kind of life that
everybody dreams of is one I live on a day-to-day basis. I live
in a four-and-a-half-million-dollar mansion. I have a wife to
die for. I get to vacation in all the fabulous spots of the world.
I've climbed mountains. I've explored. I've been on safaris.
And all of this happened, and continues to happen, because
of knowing how to apply The Secret.
FACT: this guy does not actually exist.
"Attracted the debt"?
:lulz:
Yeah, I have a credit card balance. I ATTRACTED this debt by SPENDING MONEY. :lulz:
Fortunately, I ATTRACTED this debt in a reasonable fashion.
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 12, 2010, 03:04:14 AM
QuoteSince I learned The Secret and started applying it to my life,
my life has truly become magical. I think the kind of life that
everybody dreams of is one I live on a day-to-day basis. I live
in a four-and-a-half-million-dollar mansion. I have a wife to
die for. I get to vacation in all the fabulous spots of the world.
I've climbed mountains. I've explored. I've been on safaris.
And all of this happened, and continues to happen, because
of knowing how to apply The Secret.
FACT: this guy does not actually exist.
If he does, he should kill himself. He lists his wife among his possessions.
Ugh.
I was waiting for this :lulz:
QuoteHow it will happen, how the Universe will bring it to you, is not
your concern or job. Allow the Universe to do it for you. When
you are trying to work out how it will happen, you are emitting a
frequency that contains a lack of faith—that you don't believe you
have it already. You think you have to do it and you do not believe
the Universe will do it for you. The how is not your part in the
Creative Process.
DON'T ASK QUESTIONS!
JUST BELIEVE!
let's seee.....where have we all heard that before? :?
:horrormirth:
:x :x :x
Thing about these Secret folks is they take everything right with positive thinking and changing your own life and twist the two together and make it horribly horribly wrong. Took it too far, like a joke you tell to some friends that you're rather proud of, and then that one guy just kills it. Kills it dead and rapes the corpse.
Quote from: Epimetheus on January 12, 2010, 03:19:50 AM
:horrormirth:
:x :x :x
Thing about these Secret folks is they take everything right with positive thinking and changing your own life and twist the two together and make it horribly horribly wrong. Took it too far, like a joke you tell to some friends that you're rather proud of, and then that one guy just kills it. Kills it dead and rapes the corpse.
It has been the position of The Church for 30 years that there is precisely nothing good about "the power of positive thinking". In fact, it is anathema.
This crap wouldn't sell so well if people weren't lazy bastards drowning in denial.
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 12, 2010, 03:18:31 AM
I was waiting for this :lulz:
QuoteHow it will happen, how the Universe will bring it to you, is not
your concern or job. Allow the Universe to do it for you. When
you are trying to work out how it will happen, you are emitting a
frequency that contains a lack of faith—that you don't believe you
have it already. You think you have to do it and you do not believe
the Universe will do it for you. The how is not your part in the
Creative Process.
DON'T ASK QUESTIONS!
JUST BELIEVE!
let's seee.....where have we all heard that before? :?
Operation Iraqi Freedom?
"Change"?
Any informercial dealing with making money via real estate, etc?
Quote from: Brotep on January 12, 2010, 03:34:57 AM
This crap wouldn't sell so well if people weren't lazy bastards drowning in denial.
You cannot con an honest man.
Lizzie, I've very happy to see that you've copied and pasted those quotes from the book.
If you payed money for it, I'd feel very very sad.
(http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa261/broodwitch/sads.jpg)
When i first saw this book I dubbed it "Chicken Soup for the New-Age Soul". Which turned out to be not so funny when I saw that Jack Canfield, the created and editor of the chicken soup series turned out to be a large contributer.
These concepts, they can be found through a wide range of new age books. Someone was just clever enough to put in a nice, easily swallowed, user-friendly form. Worst thing since ugh, can't remember the name of that movie...
Had to do with Quantums...What The Bleep Do We Know. God how I hate that fucking movie.
Check it out some time. For the :horrormirth:
Quote from: Burns on January 12, 2010, 04:11:02 AM
Lizzie, I've very happy to see that you've copied and pasted those quotes from the book.
If you payed money for it, I'd feel very very sad.
(http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa261/broodwitch/sads.jpg)
pfft never! I torrented. :D
Quote from: Alty on January 12, 2010, 06:44:17 AM
When i first saw this book I dubbed it "Chicken Soup for the New-Age Soul". Which turned out to be not so funny when I saw that Jack Canfield, the created and editor of the chicken soup series turned out to be a large contributer.
These concepts, they can be found through a wide range of new age books. Someone was just clever enough to put in a nice, easily swallowed, user-friendly form. Worst thing since ugh, can't remember the name of that movie...
Had to do with Quantums...What The Bleep Do We Know. God how I hate that fucking movie.
Check it out some time. For the :horrormirth:
That movie pisses me off more than anything cos it has a truly amazing sequence at a wedding with animated neuroreceptors that totally illustrates how the brain works, immediately followed by some hippy bullshit about channelling gaia to make water happy. :x
BUT WATER DESERVES TO BE HAPPY TOO :argh!:
ASK THE JAPANESE GUY IT WILL CRYSTALIZE IN SMILEY FACES!
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on January 12, 2010, 12:21:12 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 11, 2010, 09:51:14 PM
But what if I focus really hard on not hitting the ground?
Oh. I decided to stop hating you. Do what you will with that.
OK.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on January 12, 2010, 12:20:37 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 11, 2010, 09:51:14 PM
But what if I focus really hard on not hitting the ground?
I think you're supposed to not focus on it.
Ah. This Secret stuff is clearly much more complicated than I gave it credit for.
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 12, 2010, 01:22:28 AM
QuoteEverything that surrounds you right now in your life,
including the things you're complaining about, you've
attracted. Now I know at first blush that's going to
be something that you hate to hear. You're going to
immediately say, "I didn't attract the car accident. I didn't
attract this particular client who gives me a hard time. I
didn't particularly attract the debt." And I'm here to be a little bit in your face and to say, yes you did attract it.
This is one of the hardest concepts to get, but once you've
accepted it, it's life transforming.
you heard that right ladies, it's your fault the drunk driver hit you and killed you. you attracted it.
:horrormirth: :1fap:
This makes me want to set everything on fire.
I always wondered if the people who write this kind of shite believe it themselves. If not then it's acceptable conmanship, imho but if they do then :horrormirth:
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 12, 2010, 05:21:19 PM
I always wondered if the people who write this kind of shite believe it themselves. If not then it's acceptable conmanship, imho but if they do then :horrormirth:
The author can't possibly actually believe it, because otherwise the book wouldn't have been written. You're supposed to just sit back and let the universe do it, not actually do it yourself.
except this woman wants to help people. By taking their money of course...
this just in:
people who are overweight are because they think *wait for it* fat thoughts. Not because they eat 500 sub sandwiches a day with no exercise, are born a certain shape, just had a kid, hormone imbalances, pill side effects, thyroid conditions, etc....
no, it's because they think fat thoughts.
:lulz:
It's like she's focusing on the internal processes while excluding the environmental processes. :roll:
I think she must be a troll. Because I have a hard time thinking anyone could be THIS stupid.
She's not stupid, she just thinks stupid thoughts.
Oh, wait...
i c wut u did thar
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 16, 2010, 06:29:07 PM
this just in:
people who are overweight are because they think *wait for it* fat thoughts. Not because they eat 500 sub sandwiches a day with no exercise, are born a certain shape, just had a kid, hormone imbalances, pill side effects, thyroid conditions, etc....
no, it's because they think fat thoughts.
:lulz:
:x :x :x
Quote from: Cain on January 16, 2010, 07:23:30 PM
She's not stupid, she just thinks stupid thoughts.
Oh, wait...
:lulz:
question: how long does it take for me to see results or my request from the universe?
answer: time is an illusion.
wat?
QuotePeople are amazed at how I line up parking
spaces. I've done this right from when I first
understood The Secret. I would visualize a parking space
exactly where I wanted it, and 95 percent of the time it would
be therefore me and I would just pull straight in. Five percent
of the time I'd have to wait just a minute or two, and the
person would pull out and I'd pull in, I do that all the time.
Actually, I do this with my grandma. When I was little she told me about "the Jewish blessing" (note: we aren't Jewish, and apparently neither is the guy she learned this from) where if we
believe the parking spot will be there, we'll find one. Always works for some reason. :? However...my mom thinks it's shit, and coincidently can never find a good spot. lol
moral to the story? I AM A FUCKING PARKING WIZARDDDDDD!
Wait, so she uses the power to bend reality to her desires to find parking spaces?
Hello, aiming a little low arent we?
Next trip to the supermarket I'ma visualise zombies :zombie:
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 19, 2010, 09:09:59 AM
Next trip to the supermarket I'ma visualise zombies :zombie:
STOP DOING THAT.
SRSLY JUST STOP.
HAVE YOU SEEN WALLMART
Never had the pleasure but gimme a shotgun, a chainsaw and a backup machete and I'll go have a look
i think they have all those there.
In that case I don't get it. Amerikanses are forever criticising this establishment but it stocks the three essential weapon groups? WTF?
you have to claw yourself through the zombie masses first, though.
i heard some of them are even cyborg zombies. They move around in strange carts, their bodies mutated into horrible nameless shapes, the muffled, maddening beating of the drums and thin, monotonous horns of blasphemous music, the crackling tinny voices coming from behind the walls of the blind, voiceless, mindless gargoyles from mouths that are no mouths.
... and it's full of really fun weapons. Sounds perfect! Like Disneyland for sociopaths :fap:
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 19, 2010, 03:35:47 PM
... and it's full of really fun weapons. Sounds perfect! Like Disneyland for sociopaths :fap:
Welcome to the United States of America. Particularly the Mid-western states, and Deep South. :fap:
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 19, 2010, 03:05:31 PM
you have to claw yourself through the zombie masses first, though.
i heard some of them are even cyborg zombies. They move around in strange carts, their bodies mutated into horrible nameless shapes, the muffled, maddening beating of the drums and thin, monotonous horns of blasphemous music, the crackling tinny voices coming from behind the walls of the blind, voiceless, mindless gargoyles from mouths that are no mouths.
Holy shit, trip.
Quote from: Felix on January 20, 2010, 03:54:36 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 19, 2010, 03:05:31 PM
you have to claw yourself through the zombie masses first, though.
i heard some of them are even cyborg zombies. They move around in strange carts, their bodies mutated into horrible nameless shapes, the muffled, maddening beating of the drums and thin, monotonous horns of blasphemous music, the crackling tinny voices coming from behind the walls of the blind, voiceless, mindless gargoyles from mouths that are no mouths.
Holy shit, trip.
no shit, this needs to go in BPotD.
some credit goes out to mah man HP Lovecraft and the final paragraph of his awesome horror poem short story Nyarlathotep (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nyarlathotep).
best fucking Lovecraft story I read, ever. Hands down.
I have that one in print. The Crawling Chaos FTW.
I saw a collected works of Lovecraft for sale the other day, should've bought it. Oh well. Next time, perhaps.
try to get an annotated version, it helped me greatly in enjoying and understanding some of the more obscure cross-references in the stories, the mythology and some old fashioned words and things [although once it spoiled the plot for me, though friends told me I could have seen that coming myself as well].
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 23, 2010, 12:25:12 PM
try to get an annotated version, it helped me greatly in enjoying and understanding some of the more obscure cross-references in the stories, the mythology and some old fashioned words and things [although once it spoiled the plot for me, though friends told me I could have seen that coming myself as well].
This. The Penguin Classics versions (there are three volumes, afaik) are very well annotated and true to Lovecraft's original writings. I had two bookmarks whenever I read them: one for the story, another for the annotations in the back.
It was the Penguin Classic which I saw.
Is Lovecraft as bad at writing dialogue as I hear?
Quote from: Shrunkenheadspace on January 23, 2010, 04:35:41 PM
Is Lovecraft as bad at writing dialogue as I hear?
No idea, I can't remember. Dialogue is not the important part anyway. It's all the gloomy descriptions of eldritchness and nameless horror from beyond space that makes it fun to read.
His dialogue isn't wonderful, its true (especially in his earlier stories, he is very much a product of his period). But like trip says, its the nameless horrors that drive man insane and live beyond this dimension where he excels. Especially if you know how derivative horror was at the time, you can truly appreciate the break he made.
Quote from: Cain on January 23, 2010, 07:30:38 PM
His dialogue isn't wonderful, its true (especially in his earlier stories, he is very much a product of his period). But like trip says, its the nameless horrors that drive man insane and live beyond this dimension where he excels. Especially if you know how derivative horror was at the time, you can truly appreciate the break he made.
It was a dark and stormy night outside the spooky Victorian mansion as the mysterious Chinese man lured his victim to her doom.
How to write like Lovecraft 101:
Make sure not to use any descriptive words, evar. Especially when describing things. Like the old horror movies cliche - it's better if it's left to the imagination. Therefore every horrific thing which you write about should be "unimaginable", "Unspeakable", "horrific beyond description" even "unnameable" that way, if someone reads it and thinks it sucks you can blame their lack of imagination.
what if it's unimaginable suckings from behind the walls that are no walls?
Q and E to the motherfuckin D
Quote from: LovecraftWhen age fell upon the world, and wonder went out of the minds of men; when grey cities reared to smoky skies tall towers grim and ugly, in whose shadow none might dream of the sun or of spring's flowering meads; when learning stripped earth of her mantle of beauty, and poets sang no more save of twisted phantoms seen with bleared and inward-looking eyes; when these things had come to pass, and childish hopes had gone away forever, there was a man who travelled out of life on a quest into the spaces whither the world's dreams had fled.
TELL ME IT FUCKING SUCKS. SAY IT.
:lulz:
That's what I love about Lovecraft--the horror is so much more psychological.
It's not just "oh shit, things with tentacles".
Ultimately he's not writing about monsters--he's writing about nightmares.
Quote from: HPLThe most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
Most of us have probably seen this quote a bajillion times, but you know what? That's because it's awesome.