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do you believe in the law of attraction?
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If so, why?
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I would have bet my next pay cheque on that being your response to katralla.
And no, I don't believe in it either, for the following reason (taken verbatim from the wikipedia entry):
I understand our thoughts create our reality, so in that sense it's true.
I see where you're coming from, you think 'I want that' so you set about getting that, however, just pure thoughts which this is based on doesn't get you those results.
You're conflating concepts. There's a difference between how our brains interpret our sensory experiences, and crazy-Noel-Edumunds-asking-the universe-for-his-own-TV-show-and-a-boat.
You thoughts might create your 'reality', in the sense that they are the means by which you interpret the external world and are the filter through which you make sense of your perceptions of the external world.
But in no way do they create, or have any impact whatsoever, on the external world. As squeal says, only action can do that.
Believing in the Law of Attraction is a form of cognitive bias, similar in important respects to the Just World fallacy.
Lots of things exist without hard scientific evidence to support them.
It may seem simplistic, but I think there may be some truth in it.
Ok, well feel free to continue believing in it then.
The law of attraction tells us that every aspect of our lives is under our control; that people are ultimately responsible for how their lives turn out. If you don't get what you wanted in life then you weren't trying hard enough; you didn't ask the universe clearly enough to give you what you wanted; you weren't sufficiently open to receiving it.
That way, if you are poor, hungry, in pain - well, ultimately you're to blame. If only you had wished hard enough and in the right way, the universe would have answered to your every desire - it must be true, for this is what the "law" of attraction dictates!
This is clearly nonsense. It is similar though to the idea that the world is inherently or innately just - so that whatever happens to you, ultimately you are responsible, because the world is always fair.
Both ideas are bollocks. But it's a way of allowing us all off the hook when we're faced with people in need or who are suffering, because we can assume they must somehow be responsible for their fate. And that's why it's so cognitively appealing, although false. Rich people always want to believe that they are rich and successful because of something they did, that they are responsible for; and that the poor are poor because of their own failings, and not brute luck.
It's bollocks.
We are responsible. Yet I agree there is also luck, good fortune and default.
But taking responsibility is healthy, few would disagree with that.
You agree there is chance, chance, and ... what?
Sure. If you were to win the lottery I'd say you'd been lucky. You've benefited from a statistically improbable outcome.
If life is that easy, why the hell do I have to work for a living?