Comments on: Sometimes people are so stupid I can’t believe it.

By: Jo

Jo — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 06:00:38 +0000

Not heard of The Secret before. One wonders why people are so gullible. Not just about black magic either, but "if its in the paper (or on TV) it must be true". I learned that lesson a long time ago when I was involved in a reported incident and what was in the paper had nothing to do with what happened. People like to cling to ideas of Black Magic (or white) as a way to explain things in life they don't understand.

By: Crisetta

Crisetta — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:38:00 +0000

Unfortunately reason rarely wins over emotion – if people want to be superstitious and fearful, they will find something to blame. As for "the Secret"! consumerist nonsense.

By: Aria

Aria — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:46:53 +0000

I haven't read any of The Secret but I've seen the general premise and it's very similar to one I saw in a 'be happy' book I got given once. That one I did turf across the room.

The universe doesn't care about your whims people. No matter how hard you think about them. The only way to get what you want is to do the things necessary to achieve that goal. Not wishing.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:40:53 +0000

The thing that makes me angriest about stuff like The Secret is the thinking that if you ASK the universe, and EXPECT good things, somehow that makes you DESERVING of a reward – the "abundance nonsense. It's beyond me why this personified "universe" should want to reward selfish, entitled white people while it ignores the horror of, eg, the thousands of children who die each year of typhoid/cholera/plain old E coli because there's no clean, safe water available. You ask the entitled white people that and they start with stuff like "maybe they did something bad in a past life". I could throttle them with my bare hands.

By: glenda larke

glenda larke — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:29:54 +0000

Try reading it, Patty. I read a couple of pages, and almost turfed it across the bookshop. Luckily I didn't, because I might have had to buy it…

And the thought of a cent of my money going to such a load of crap…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:15:01 +0000

OMG that book looks horrible. I mean – I'm all for a bit of positive thinking for as far as it can influence your destiny in enthusiams, drive and persistence, but this… is just utter rubbish. Isn't it sad that people are so desperate that they feel a need to believe it?

By: Cat Sparks

Cat Sparks — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:52:17 +0000

'The Secret' would have to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard of, yet people I know — smart, educated people — recommended it to me as something that might be worthwhile when it first came out. Stuff like that really makes me angry.