How can anyone be stupid enough to believe the Secret

[Zixinus]

I am sure it slightly works, basic human psychology of setting goals. If you keep your goal in mind more often, the more you pay attention to what needs to be done to obtain it.

That may be true, but the problem is that "the secret" states that you JUST need to will it, and not actually do something for it.

[darthbob88]

What really gets me is the fact that this alleged "Law of Attraction" has like objects attracting each other. Correct me if I'm wrong, but, aside from gravity, isn't it always opposites attract and likes repulse, as with electromagnetism and the nuclear forces?

[Alan Bolte]

I wish I was enough of a sociopath to write a bunch of bullshit and sell it to the uneducated masses as a way of improving their lives... Well, not really.

Every time I begin to think I have sociopathic tendencies, something like this makes me realize what nice guy I really am.

[Ford Prefect]

You know, I never knew what 'The Secret' actually was until now (though I've heard about it lots; there's a whole lot of noise in Australia about it, I believe). I'm actually astounded by how stupid it is. I was ambivalent about the people who lost money on this in Australia before, but now I have negative sympathy for them.

[Darth Wong]

I'm no fan of The Secret, but how is it any more retarded than any other religion?

[Imperial Overlord]

I'm no fan of The Secret, but how is it any more retarded than any other religion?

It's no different than any other religion or self help guru and attracts the same kind of people. It will have its fifteen minutes and then be replaced by the next new thing.

[Dark Hellion]

Religions get monsters, and are thus inherently cooler.