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Originally posted by metaldemon2000
Originally posted by newcovenant
Originally posted by metaldemon2000
reply to post by newcovenant
Opposites attract.
Like objects repel.
Yes. Opposites can attract and like objects repel when you are dealing with magnetism but that doesn't negate the law of attraction. Like attracts like.
Uh, with electricity too.
Electromotive force is the basic principal on which the universe works.
What school did you go to?
For what your talking about I only found a bunch of new age websites. Your "law of attraction" was made by people with very little understanding of physics who are just trying to sell a few books/products. These new age beliefs are totally adverse to science, and even religion in some cases and if even a small portion of the human race were to believe in it our species would be taking a giant leap back in progress.
Just because a bunch of people say it on the internet and post pretty pictures on Facebook with unicorns and rainbows doesn't make it so. New age crap is designed to prey on weak and broken people who should be seeking psychological help. Its easy to get you hooked on and once you are in there are a million shysters waiting to screw you out of your money (which you gladly hand over to them).
I am personally related to one of these crooks and its absolutely disgusting on how she goes about ripping off people going through crisis. Meanwhile, thousands of people are taken in by her and she is somewhat of an "authority" on the subject. If they only knee how terrible of a person she was and hownher life has been one giant con game after the next. She has openly admitted to me that its all crap, the whole thing. All this law of attraction (which I thought was pretty stupid anyways) and fairy dust BS. Its just a facade people use to hide the harshness of their reality that they are unwilling to accept.
Anyways. Please leave this law of attraction (that wacky version) out of the conversation. Too many of you clowns on ATS these days. What happened to this site? Used to be lots of intelligent discussions on here.
Laws of attraction
In c. 391 BC, Plato built on Empedocles’ conception of philia (attractive force)... by postulating the first law of affinity that “likes tend toward likes”, e.g. earth to earth or water to water, etc.
In 1250, Albertus Magnus applied the conception of ‘affinity’ to chemical systems and postulated four laws of affinity. In 1687, Isaac Newton proposed that chemical affinities were due to certain forces that would likely follow similar laws analogous to the three laws of planetary motion.
In 1718, after translating Newton’s Opticks, French physician and chemist Étienne Geoffroy proposed a new law of affinity that ‘whenever two substances are united that have a disposition to combine and a third is added that has a greater affinity with one of them, these two will unite, and drive out the other.’
... most consider Isaac Newton to be the one who stimulated the discovery of the "laws of attraction".
en.wikipedia.org...
Originally posted by metaldemon2000
reply to post by newcovenant
Oh and "like attracts like" is BS. I'm surrounded by people that I hate. The people I would rather have as company either dint exist or don't exist near me. I know these real do-gooder people who really have no idea what goes on outside of hockey and reality TV shows and I am so the polar opposite of them its not even funny.
Even my wife, we have absolutely nothing in common, don't share any of the same friends. We can't even watch TV together. We are exact opposites.
Looks like science wins again.edit on 12/12/3 by metaldemon2000 because: (no reason given)
I tried the thinking things into existence (Law of Attraction) and it doesn't work. And when it did work, I am pretty sure it had nothing to do with my "thinking" now that I look back on it - but at the time I believed it was actually my thoughts. Tell that to those who believe in their gods - pray for food yet starve to death.
Originally posted by arpgme
If you are not too optimistic about life, you are less likely to be disappointed.
Originally posted by arpgme
reply to post by AfterInfinity
Yes, just a theory. It doesn't work for the many who are starving in poor countries with nothing to eat. If they think about food, the stomach growls even more and yet there is no food and sight and not a way to get it. .
Originally posted by arpgme
reply to post by newcovenant
I tried the thinking things into existence (Law of Attraction) and it doesn't work. And when it did work, I am pretty sure it had nothing to do with my "thinking" now that I look back on it - but at the time I believed it was actually my thoughts.
Originally posted by arpgme
Even if you could just "think" things into existence, that does NOT give any purpose to live. Everyone will die, and in a billion years it all would have meant nothing, anyway.
There is no purpose to life, and that's why people give their own meaning...
Originally posted by arpgme
If you are not too optimistic about life, you are less likely to be disappointed.
Originally posted by arpgme
Anyone who claims to be better than anyone else for any reason, lacks true humility, because, to be humble is to put everyone before yourself - it is altruism, sacrifice, putting yourself as last before ALL others....
Originally posted by arpgme
reply to post by newcovenant
I tried the thinking things into existence (Law of Attraction) and it doesn't work. And when it did work, I am pretty sure it had nothing to do with my "thinking" now that I look back on it - but at the time I believed it was actually my thoughts. Tell that to those who believe in their gods - pray for food yet starve to death.
Even if you could just "think" things into existence, that does NOT give any purpose to live. Everyone will die, and in a billion years it all would have meant nothing, anyway.
There is no purpose to life, and that's why people give their own meaning... still doesn't change the fact that it is just a made up meaning that a person BELIEVES in their mind - and reality is just HAPPENING...
Originally posted by arpgme
reply to post by newcovenant
I tried the thinking things into existence (Law of Attraction) and it doesn't work. And when it did work, I am pretty sure it had nothing to do with my "thinking" now that I look back on it - but at the time I believed it was actually my thoughts. Tell that to those who believe in their gods - pray for food yet starve to death.
Even if you could just "think" things into existence, that does NOT give any purpose to live. Everyone will die, and in a billion years it all would have meant nothing, anyway.
There is no purpose to life, and that's why people give their own meaning... still doesn't change the fact that it is just a made up meaning that a person BELIEVES in their mind - and reality is just HAPPENING...