:byzsoc:A problem you may encounter is that “The Secret” has already addressed the possibility of some one trying to refute it. The people to which you present refutation may take your actions as a confirmation of something that “The Secret” told them would happen. You may be seen as an entity that is trying to discourage them.
I didn’t know about it, but having looked into it now, I’d ignore it. People get caught up in these things, but then it passes when their problems just keep manifesting over and over. It’ll go away of you don’t feed it.I presume everyone knows about the book “The Secret”, and that ridiculous DVD which is also available. Well, it’s seemed to have caught on around here, and I am looking for some resources on how I could refute the rubbish that it preaches, as some people I know are seriously believing what it teaches. Does anyone know of any sites, videos, or anything I could look at?
God Bless
A few years ago someone kept bugging me to read it; I haven’t. It’s too New Agey.
Typically Amazon allows it’s users to police the review content. But unless something is blatantly offensive, deceptive, or goes way across some other line it’s going to be left alone. Though users do have the option of down-voting reviews that you see as being unhelpful.
It’s a level. Just like the original story. Amazon once had a l kind of cheesy-looking t-shirt on sale with, iirc, three wolves on it. Bunch of people started coming in saying how wearing the shirt brought them the favor of some Native American god, poker players started showing up in the shirt, it was all a big joke, a “level” as they say. The shirt got to be very popular!
Well, we already know the real secret, and that is: it’s not a secret! Though often told in parables.
Having seen it, I’d say it teaches more that people should become self-centred, selfish, materialistic idiots. It focuses almost entirely on getting more material possessions and that will make you happier - completely contrary to a Christian way of life. It completely ignores that not all things are within a persons control - for example, by ‘the secret’ if someone gets cancer it’s because they attracted the cancer to them, which anyone with a modicum of intelligence or common sense should know is idiocy. It teaches you to completely ignore being considerate or kind of charitable to other and to only think about oneself - again completely contrary to a Christian way of life.
Honestly, I’ve seen part of the DVD (I had a class about self-help literature) and I fail to see how anyone can take it seriously. It is the most clearly ludicrous piece of trash I have seen in a long time.I presume everyone knows about the book “The Secret”, and that ridiculous DVD which is also available. Well, it’s seemed to have caught on around here, and I am looking for some resources on how I could refute the rubbish that it preaches, as some people I know are seriously believing what it teaches. Does anyone know of any sites, videos, or anything I could look at?
God Bless
But up here-yah in Maine, we say…Wherever you go, there you are."
I can understand wanting to refute it given how I’ve seen some people implement it. I’ve got three associates who after seeing the Secret started to think that the mishaps they encountered were the result of insufficient positive thoughts being thrown out instead of the consequence of personal decisions. If something didn’t go right instead of examining the causes of an outcome and making an adjustment the reaction was to think more positive thoughts. Had the message they took away been something like “I need to keep a positive attitude!” I might have had no problem with it. But that’s not what was taken away.
Ayuh! We don’t just hang around waiting for the potatoes to grow. We philosophize.
I was at the Univ of Maine at the same time as King. He had a gossip column in the school newspaper called, “Steve King’s Garbage Truck”. I think he still writes garbage. Ghosts, poltergeists, psychokinesis and time travel? I can’t take it seriously.
Probably… this for me though is like saying:“better than nothing”. I just believe that we as christians are obliged to show them not a better way but the best way.
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” - is i guess, a more christian approach and is what i suggested my cousin
The Secret quotes the bible and many followers believe that it’s bible based or at least compatible with the bible, but it is not.
Not, it really doesn’t. We are to look to God to provide, but this does not mean being passive or lazy (off the top of my head Proverbs 31).
If the Secret does not confess Jesus Christ then there is no truth in it.
Wisdom of the world perishes in the light of Christ. I take it you deny Christ (off-the-record). This stupid book called the Secret claims to have spiritual answers to spiritual questions. It claims to be a book of truth yet it does not confess the spirit of Truth, the Holy Ghost; nor Father, nor Son. How could a book of Truth that confesses neither Father nor Son be anything but a book of lies?