Sincerely Worried...

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen of reason and common sense:

I'm sincerely worried about the state of intelligence in this land.

Look, I'm not holding myself up to be the smartest guy around, in fact, I could swear that I used to be much sharper than today, but here's my worry:

I've made some posts around the internet in some forums and blogs about my worry that people are swallowing the half-truth "law of attraction" idea promoted by the currently popular movie "The Secret".

And I've noticed that the response to my lucid discerning postings has been met with some pretty dim witted replies.

One person that replied to my post said "the devil is making him do it". What a wack job!

First of all it wasn't the devil that made me do it, it was alien life forms beaming a hypnotic ray gun at me from the 13th dimension... You DO know I'm kidding about that, right??

Just checking.

Anyway, I'm not surprised that the majority of replies to my posts have been knee-jerk, emotional, out-of-balance reactions from "wide-eyed believers" who only want to "focus on the light" and not hear anything that disrupts their little belief bubble of new-age metaphysical "visualize it and it'll come true" crap. Yes, crap.

I've been accused of being negative, an opportunist, the devil (I think that's my current favorite), a critic, and more that I just can't remember right now... see?-I KNEW my brain used to be sharper!!

Anyway, another reply that really has me worried is where I exposed the LoA as the magical thinking that it truly is - it's on the same par as voodoo dolls or blood sacrifice to bring good weather. The reply was "I like magical thinking" and they were SERIOUS!

Here's the thing about that: that replier (is that a word?) clearly did NOT know what magical thinking is! (rubbing forehead in an irritated manner...)

Okay, I'm done ranting............. for now!

David