My views on "The Secret" (LOA)

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You can find a discussion with more points here.

http://www.book-of-thoth.com/ftopicp-108496.html#108496

The idea that the LOA is a Universal Law, means that it is true all the time. If that is the case, then we live in a just world, where everyone always gets what they deserve.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_World_Hypothesis

This is one of the main aspects of the LOA stuff that I take objection too. The other, is this: "The Secret" tells you that positive thinking will fulfill your desires. But from a Spiritual perspective, can you distinguish between an ego-based desire and an objective that originates in your primordial self? You have to be able to make that distinction. Desiring material goods and trying to use the law of attraction to get them, for your own pleasure because you desire expensive/nice things, or whatever, does not really seem like a spiritual motivation, right? You would still be looking to material things as a source of happiness, trying to use spiritual, energetic concepts to fulfill base desires. It seems like the ultimate form of insanity to me.

In my opinion, this is the type of thinking that the "so-called" Elite love to engage in, because it completely justifies thier actions, and their very existence as the established power. It plays right into their social darwinism, that they have all they do because they are such wonderfully "Attractive" people who deserve everything they have, including thier "divine right" to treat others the way they do. After all, the people who end up maimed, killed and enslaved "attracted their fate".

To say it is a Univeral Law is to say there are no victims, period.
They would love everyone to believe that.

Don't be mistaken in thinking I am telling people not to think positively, rather I am asking people to keep in mind the demonstratable cognitive biases human beings exhibit, and be honest with yourselves.