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The Secret

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Stackys · 21/08/2020 09:29

AIBU to give “the secret” any thought?

I toyed with it years ago. Asked “the universe” for a £10 note. Walking through York the night after, found a wet soggy £10 note on the floor in a graveyard.

Played with it again a few weeks later. Asked the universe for a red balloon. Immediately afterwards I put YouTube on to listen to some music and the first recommended video was a song called something like “10 red balloons”. I’d never heard of the song before.

When I was a child, before I knew of “the secret” we were moving house and I desperately wanted a garden with steps in it. That would have been highly unusual in this area but I kept on thinking about it obsessively. The house we moved to had steps in the garden (the only house in the whole street that did).

My friend goes on about the secret all the time, I put all my “successes” down to coincidence as the alternative sounds batshit but some people truly believe it works, intelligent people!!

I watched the movie yesterday and I’ve decided I want £50k in my bank by New Year’s Eve 😂 ironically DH said to me this morning “we have nearly x amount in bank! The most we’ve ever had!” (Nowhere near £50k) ... maybe it’s already working lol

This is of course lighthearted but I’d be interested to hear other people’s experiences of it?! Please don’t turn it into a “you’re a fucking imbecile OP” type thread, it’s just for fun.

OP posts:
DGRossetti · 20/10/2023 15:35

Who woke me up ? I was peacefully sleeping, waiting to die.

Lily1214 · 20/10/2023 18:37

🤣🤣

ScarlettSunset · 20/10/2023 18:49

I like to believe in this sort of thing. It doesn't hurt anyone or really cost anything and it can help provide confidence to take positive steps to improving things.

Fionaville · 20/10/2023 18:55

It's nice to think you have some control over things that are hard to control, so I see no harm in asking.
I asked the universe for something big once, that seemed absolutely impossible and I got it. I like to think my asking worked, but I obviously wouldn't give a seminar on the effectiveness of it 😅

Mollylolly · 11/03/2026 21:45

Did you ever get the 50k? X

YouOKHun · 11/03/2026 22:28

Hangingover · 21/08/2020 11:53

It effectively blames people’s cancer on their unhappiness to name a few , which is disgusting

Thank fuck I didn't read it! Someone I barely know tried really hard to push this on me when DM was dying.

And it’s this element that is used to manipulate and control people. Law of Attraction and manifesting have woven themselves through lots of scams. The Secret is the bible of the MLM industry.

‘Our scam didn’t work for you? It’s because you didn’t want it enough. You didn’t have the millionaire mindset. You listened to those boring envious people. Your vision wasn’t strong enough’.

The strong implication that things like illness, bereavement and infertility are as a result of not thinking in the right way/following the right path is pretty prevalent and very damaging.

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