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Follow Your Heart-its Smarter Than You Think

18 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Follow Your Heart-its Smarter Than You Think
Discover How To Create Abundance Of Every Kind, The Missing Ingredient That Is Left Out Of The Most Popular Law Of Attraction Books, Along With The Simple 9 Steps To Limitless Creation That Will Guide You To Become A Master Of Limitless Abundance
Follow Your Heart-its Smarter Than You Think

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Sara Learns the Secret About the Law of Attraction By Hicks, Esther/ Hicks,

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Q&A: What you think about book The Secret? (Rhonda Byrne)?

12 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by Murcatko: What you think about book The Secret? (Rhonda Byrne)?
I think, that it works… I have personal experiences, but… I can´t concentrate… Because i´m quite lazy and I…
I know, that I can have anything, but… it´s hard to concentrate my mind for 1 thing…
What you think about this book?
(sorry if i have some mistakes there)

Best answer:

Answer by HPvD
I do think that a positive thing about it is that in The Secret – as I understand it – can give you a sense of being responsible for
your own destiny.

Although I do wonder if there isn’t a risk that some people might explane it in a way that they can become very focussed on
material things only.

All the Best,
To your Happy Inspiration,
HP

http://hpshappy.blogspot.com

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Network Marketing – Think And Grow Rich – Your Successful Mind Diet

11 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Network Marketing - Think And Grow Rich - Your Successful Mind Diet

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What do you think of Canada’s new “secret” law where they can arrest and search ANYONE without an ID?

11 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by RLP: What do you think of Canada’s new “secret” law where they can arrest and search ANYONE without an ID?
TORONTO — The Ontario government secretly passed legislation giving police sweeping new powers for the duration of the G8 and G20 summits.

Police are now able to jail anyone who refuses to furnish identification and submit to a search while within five metres of a designated security zone in downtown Toronto.

Critics reacted furiously to the new rules, which remained unpublicized until Thursday when a 32 year-old man was arrested in Toronto for refusing to show ID to police.

New Democrat MPP Peter Kormos said Friday the provincial Liberals created a “Kafka-esque” situation where people could be arrested for violating rules they didn’t know existed.

“This is very very repugnant stuff and should be troubling to everybody,” he said.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) said it was “extremely concerned” that the new measures violate constitutional safeguards

Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Secret+lets+police+arrest+failing+show+near+summit/3201082/story.html#ixzz0ruMrBbVK

Best answer:

Answer by Sadcat
Who do they think they are? Arizonans?

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Can You Think Your Way to a Thinner You?

10 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

One of my coaching clients, let's call her Nadine, once asked me what I thought of using positive affirmations to lose weight. Will repeating "I am losing weight every day" to herself and posting "I love to eat healthy" on her fridge help her drop a …
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Q&A: I think I have perfect vision, but in bright lights my vision gets really blurry?

10 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by : I think I have perfect vision, but in bright lights my vision gets really blurry?
okay i can see well, i think i have 20/20 vision or close to 20/20 vision, but in math class the lights above are bright and i notice my vision gets soo blurry i can barely see the board. do i need glasses? or i have some type of problem??

Best answer:

Answer by carlos E
its the lights, not you. when there is a great amount of light hitting your eyes, it loses focus on some otherthing around you. Thus, there are less details, and i appears blurry. also, if you just came from somewhere a little darker, or just not that bright, then you’re pupils woulld be slightly larger. When you ae in the dark, your pupils get big so more light can be detected. They get small when its really bright because if they remained big when it’s bright (in the room) then all that light affects you even more as your eyes are no adjusted. also, depending on how far away you sit, light can sometimes make it pretty tough seeing details when its so bright
i doubt you need glasses

good luck though

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Q&A: Do you think its ok to transmit spirit energy into the chakras of an unenlightened person?

09 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by Project Nature 5: Do you think its ok to transmit spirit energy into the chakras of an unenlightened person?
In hopes of scaring the crap out of them and making them question their beliefs and role in the universe.

Best answer:

Answer by robe and wizard hat
lay off the drugs, bro

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Q&A: Do you think John die at then of The Grey?

08 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by J.A.N.E.T. 9: Do you think John die at then of The Grey?
I don’t think he died.

Here’s why I think this:

Throughout the movie, they showed that clip several times of his wife(?) girlfriend(?) telling him to not be afraid.

But the last time they showed this before the fight with the Alpha, they showed an IV drip, which I don’t remember seeing in the other clips.

Also, he activated the GPS thing right before the fight.

So I think they found him and was in the hospital.

That’s my take.

What do you think?

Also, how did you feel at the end of the movie?

There was just so much emotion. The scene with John going through the wallets, the music, and the reading of the poem.

Great movie.

Best answer:

Answer by barnaby87
I thought it’d be as the poem of his father suggests, and therefore both. he lived and died at the same time. his head did lay on the wolfs as the wolf was dying

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What do you think of this statement based on judging.?

08 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by Just Human: What do you think of this statement based on judging.?
“I know little therefore I shall judge standing on frailty – and not judge, but instead think of infinite possibilities of what it could be and judge on many.”

Offer any thoughts, any feelings, and thing you want.

Best answer:

Answer by anonimous
This makes me think of an aspect of our jury system that Jurors are to base their decisions on just the things that are presented in the trial. If an expert witness for one side of the trial says something and the other side does not raise any doubt about the truth of the statement then the jury is expected to accept what was said. Jurors are not expected to base the decision on things they have learned prior to the trial. If somebody knows something about the topic of the trial they usually are excluded from serving.

The motivation for excluding such people is to exclude jurors that potentially have a reason to decide one way or the other that is something other than a desire for the truth. If one has a knowledge about the topic of the case one might have a vested interest in a particular outcome of the trial.

This is yet another example of the fact that no system devised by man is perfect.

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Napoleon Hill – Part 11. Creative Vision (Think and Grow Rich – Success Principles)

08 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Join us www.facebook.com Walt Disney and Henry Ford both had multimillion dollar ideas using their creative imagination which Napoleon Hill describes here in this discussion on creative vision. Today, creative imagination is the method successful companies are reinventing themselves. If you haven’t read this classic, here is a chance for you to receive a FREE copy of Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich” Vic Johnson is giving away 1 million FREE copies of Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich” www.FreeTGRbook.com Just pay the shipping starting at .59
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What Universal spiritual laws do YOU think exist?

08 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by someone: What Universal spiritual laws do YOU think exist?

Best answer:

Answer by Ghost of Alice
greed.

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The Metaphysics of Taxation | The Moral Sciences Club | Big Think

06 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

The Metaphysics of Taxation. Will Wilkinson on May 4 2012 623 PM. A couple weeks back I wrote a post for the Economist trying to get my head around the …
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Do you think half an hour of meditation a night is good?

05 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by : Do you think half an hour of meditation a night is good?
It’s creative visualization I do once in deep meditation, so you know.

What’s your opinion on this? What meditations do YOU do? How long do you do them? Share your meditative side too, I love to hear about others’ opinions and practices!

Cheers!

Best answer:

Answer by Multiple Faces
I do really deep meditations to the point as if I’m dreaming. Creative Visualization is way easier when you are meditation. You can feel and see things as if it’s so real and you’re there.

I usually meditate as if I’m on a beach and it feel so calming, so relaxing and just like heaven when I’m there. I also swim deep in the waters and find treasure chests. I open them with a key and when it opens, there is a pure white light that will envelop me! The feeling is awesome!!! I do some kind of AFFIRMATIONS OR AFFORMATIONS that I want to develop in my personality or have something in real life.

This meditation helps you open your mind to possibilities and help you put beliefs in your mind. It erases limiting beliefs.

I also meditate going to a FAIRY LAND with water falls and the FULL MOON so big and with the water glittering with lights. It’s a good feeling. I also make myself look like a GODDESS and I look so beautiful!!! It makes you feel really good and confident in yourself in real life.

I do meditations whenever I feel like it and stop whenever I feel like it. Meditation is a very powerful tool in changing your life, your beliefs and things you want to happen in your life!!!

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Do you think the secret aka law of attraction while beneficial in a common sense way can also be used?

05 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by zzzzzzzzzzzzzz: Do you think the secret aka law of attraction while beneficial in a common sense way can also be used?
as a tool of subjugation rather than empowerment ? I mean to tell someone that has experienced abuse and victimisation they are responsible, this only happens to you because you draw it on yourself, you are creating the reality is irresponsible and dangerous philosophy in some respects. One of my brothers says this to because of my experiences with bullies and emotionally abusive people (including him). His logic is that the things that happen to me happen nowhere near as frequently to him or other members of my family (who all have been assholes to me in various senses). If these things do happen to me it is because I am a soft target, gentle, quiet, I feel guilty if I snuff out the life of a spider let alone hurt a person. But, I do not draw it to myself in a law of attraction sense. It feels really shitty that someone who has made fun of me at my expense or put me down or tried to dent my confidence is now giving me tips on the law of attraction and saying all of this is my fault. It seems like the bullies justification you know. Phoebe Prince did not draw the animals that bullied her to death recently and I do not draw scumbags either into my life but they are out there. Anyway, it seems sometimes like a double blow to start spouting law of attraction stuff to someone that has been insulted and abused in some way you know? Can I really trust my brother who has been one of the people that stepped on my head to feel good and get ahead? Is that a person really on my side who then tells me I am attracting the behaviour from him and the other members of the family? I think there is a logic in the law of attraction do not get me wrong. Positivity is always better than negativity but **** happens too you know that is not any persons fault

Best answer:

Answer by Super Atheist to the Rescue
No, you just need to start standing up for yourself more.

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Napoleon Hill – Part 2. Mastermind Alliance (Think and Grow Rich – Success Principles)

04 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Napoleon Hill - Part 2. Mastermind Alliance (Think and Grow Rich - Success Principles)

Join us www.facebook.com Establish a Mastermind Alliance • A mastermind alliance consists of two or more minds working actively together in perfect harmony toward a common definite objective. • Through a mastermind alliance you can appropriate and use the full strength of the experience, training, and knowledge of others just as if they were your own. • No individual has ever achieved success without the help and cooperation of others. • The value of “gathering together those of a like mind” is self-evident. • A group of brains coordinated in a spirit of harmony will provide more thought energy than a single brain, just as a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery. If you haven’t read this classic, here is a chance for you to receive a FREE copy of Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich” Vic Johnson is giving away 1 million FREE copies of Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich” www.FreeTGRbook.com Just pay the shipping starting at .59
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Q&A: Do you think there is a link between the quantum entanglement and metaphysics?

04 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by : Do you think there is a link between the quantum entanglement and metaphysics?
every thought you have manifests itself in a physiological way is that true?
since we are energy cant it be directed to someone particular?and what about all these psychics who work with police departments to solve cold case murders,and how can they be so accurate and intuitive?Just because something is unexplainable doesn’t that mean it might be real or true?don’t you think two people can have a psychic connection or chords that connect two people together that have bonded?

Best answer:

Answer by Dan
Nothing has been directly proven of either topic. It’s nice to believe that our thoughts can travel to others. But I don’t see any way at this time we can prove it

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Temple Run and the Law of Attraction | Think Positive 30

04 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Temple Run and the Law of Attraction. May 1st, 2012 … I am a magnet for luck, a magnet for love and a magnet for money and I attract all of these things to me.
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Q&A: Do you think children k-12 with disfunctional homes, and learning challenges would benefit from a life coach?

03 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by wadetwitchell: Do you think children k-12 with disfunctional homes, and learning challenges would benefit from a life coach?
Parents, I’m looking to be a life coach specifically working with children that need encouragement, direction, sense of value, and support to make it in today’s challenging society.

I want to know if parents would use this resource.

Best answer:

Answer by Velken
Not alot of them. They are usually dysfunctional because of their parents. A parent that doesn’t care isn’t going to pay you to fix things. There are some children where the parents have truly tried and would welcome the help. If you want to try it, then do so. Just don’t quit your day job until this plan brings in decent money.

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Q&A: hello what do you think of my architectural visualisation?

02 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by alpha: hello what do you think of my architectural visualisation?
i just want to hear some comments from you people.

Best answer:

Answer by Deadgrrl
it seems small.. i do like the curvature of the facing wall,and the windows behind it, but not the sameness at the top of the curve (i don’t really know the terminology) i personally would have wanted it to have less width at the top making come to more of rounded point, or something. and the squareness of the overhang seems a little too, um, not fluid enough… the deck however is nice, would it get afternoon shade?

i really wish i had more descriptive words to use here.. haha.. sorry if i wasn’t very clear.

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How do you think you would cope to have your subconscious mind integrated into you conscious awareness?

01 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by : How do you think you would cope to have your subconscious mind integrated into you conscious awareness?
like most universal species have?

Best answer:

Answer by Hollis Bush
Good question but I believe that you must overcome the matrix of your mind to do that

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Think Again: How Classical Liberalism Morphed Into New Deal Liberalism

01 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

It found expression in the thoughts of many writers across Europe and the British Isles, including John Stuart Mill, John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, Voltaire, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant, as well as in the political arguments of America's founders, …
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In the Law of Attraction, do you attract what you think or how you feel?

30 APR
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by Sam Hale: In the Law of Attraction, do you attract what you think or how you feel?
In the Law of Attraction, do you attract what you think or how you feel?

In the books I’m reading, it says that the Universe does not understand good or bad only thought. So if you think about something negative, such as, “I will never get out of debt.” It will apply the word debt and bring you more of it. However, if you tell yourself, “I am successful.” It will bring you success. It does not bring you the opposite of what you think about, so does that mean that even though I feel like shit, that I can say positive things and these things will happen?
Also, what does “believing” entitle? Is it the thought process where it automatically kicks into full gear without you telling it to? Is it when your feelings are registered under the Law and you are no longer guilt-free but thought-free from bringing yourself down? What?

Best answer:

Answer by amsam
are you reading wayne dyer? i agree with that philosophy absolutely. but you have to believe it. not just say it.

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What do you think of 2nd Nephi chapter 2?

30 APR
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by : What do you think of 2nd Nephi chapter 2?
And men are instructed sufficiently that they know good from evil. And the law is given unto men. And by the law no flesh is justified; or, by the law men are cut off. Yea, by the temporal law they were cut off; and also, by the spiritual law they perish from that which is good, and become miserable forever.

6 Wherefore, redemption cometh in and through the Holy Messiah; for he is full of grace and truth.

7 Behold, he offereth himself a sacrifice for sin, to answer the ends of the law, unto all those who have a broken heart and a contrite spirit; and unto none else can the ends of the law be answered.

Best answer:

Answer by ☠Gamba☠
It isn’t even good enough to wipe my ass with.

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dont you think that gratitude is the magic tonic for life?

30 APR
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by Thankful: dont you think that gratitude is the magic tonic for life?
just try it! be in a mood of gratitude always and your life will become heaven on earth.
thank you .

Best answer:

Answer by LodiTX
No, I think that giving is the magic tonic of life; if there is such a thing. I don’t believe in heaven and none of the descriptions from the imaginations of people tempt me to start.

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Subconscious mind, I come to think that computer had a subconscious mind, how come?

30 APR
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by Azman M: Subconscious mind, I come to think that computer had a subconscious mind, how come?

We had a body and so did computer, we had eyes and ears while computer had visual and sound. So what can embeded what?
Is our existences are somekind of a jokes?
Conscious mind and subconscious mind for what?
@Ocean breeze: Who is programming your memory?
@A P: Does you create personalisation to your computer? Does not you programme your brain characterisation?

Best answer:

Answer by Fred
you may be experiencing some paranoia.no computer has been developed that has a personality yet. you can relax

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Q&A: Has anyone read ‘The Secret’ by Rhonda Byrne? & what do you think of it?

30 APR
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by Bob: Has anyone read ‘The Secret’ by Rhonda Byrne? & what do you think of it?

Best answer:

Answer by friggasapples
bologna

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I think that | Facebook

30 APR
2012

Author: The Oracle

Facebook © 2012. EnglishUS Privacy Terms. More. Like · Neale Donald Walsch 180467 like this. 2 hours ago via Neale Donald Walsch …
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Q&A: Do you think that materialism is the most accurate description of life and the cosmos?

29 APR
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by Life is a picture, and I play the lead: Do you think that materialism is the most accurate description of life and the cosmos?
*Please note: I would prefer it if contributors refrained from quoting scripture or making mere expressions of faith about this question. Anything genuinely theologically, philosophically or even scientifically thoughtful would be much more preferable.

To be more precise in formulating this question, do you think that materialism (or naturalism), the view that all reality is reducible to matter and nothing else, is sufficient to explain everything we observe in the universe, from the most distant galaxies to the inner workings of the brain that result in the phenomenon of the mind?

I personally am inclined to think that it is – even if we cannot yet explain why this fundamental matter came into existence. It seems, at least prima facie, that we thinking things are in fact complex and subtle machines.

However, I only say that I ‘am inclined’ to think that thoroughgoing materialism captures all of life and the universe. For I have also considered that it may not. John Lock, for example, posits that one of two things must be true about us human beings, yet both seem difficult to comprehend: either we must be material objects which think and have emotions, or there must be something immaterial in us which thinks and has emotions and is uniquely related to the material object which is our body. Lock says that if we try to systematically rationalize either view, then we find them to be extremely difficult to comprehend. Yet one of them must be true.

So perhaps this argument demonstrates that the materialist weltanschauung is inherently defective, or at least not as efficacious as some think. Then there is the precise origin and nature of consciousness, which, for now, remains a profound mystery.

This is a question that troubles me considerably and I would be interested in hearing what other, more informed contributors, think about this vexed issue.

Best answer:

Answer by Julius O
Only if you are a ferengi. The Federation does not have need for money.

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Is the real “Secret” that the true “Law” is you attract the opposite of what you think?

29 APR
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by : Is the real “Secret” that the true “Law” is you attract the opposite of what you think?
So many people say they have tried the so-called “Secret” and ‘Law of Attraction” and either nothing changed or things got even worse in their lives.

And personally I can think of several times in my life when I was so positive something was going to be great and work out in every way I hoped with total belief and with no doubts at all and much to my shock things would go to hell and end up being a horrible disappointment.

And many other times when I had no hope at all for various situations that I felt angry or sad about and much to my shock things turned out great!.

SO what the hell? Is the true Secret and Law that you actually attract the exact opposite of what you Truly think and feel?
it is like they want to keep the True secret a real secret
Heathen: lol I have no doubt you are correct
G C: but then why was it SO many times that I dwelled upon things and they went the exact opposite direction?

Best answer:

Answer by Heathen
The real secret is that the author of that book is trying to separate you from your money. That’s it.

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Do you think that materialism describes the true state of life and the cosmos?

28 APR
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by Life is a picture, and I play the lead: Do you think that materialism describes the true state of life and the cosmos?
*Please note: I would be grateful if contributors refrained from merely quoting scripture or making declarations of blind faith on this question. Anything genuinely theologically, philosophically and indeed scientifically thoughtful and stimulating is what I am after.

To be more precise in formulating this question, do you think that materialism (or naturalism), the view that all reality is reducible to matter and nothing else, is sufficient to explain everything we observe in the universe, from the most distant galaxies to the inner workings of the brain that result in the phenomenon of the mind? I am talking about its explanatory power.

I personally am inclined to think that it is – even if we cannot yet explain why this fundamental matter came into existence. It seems, at least prima facie, that we thinking things are essentially complex and subtle machines.

However, I only say that I ‘am inclined’ to think that a thoroughgoing materialism captures all of life and the universe. For I have also considered that it may not. John Locke, for example, posits that one of two things must be true about us human beings, yet both seem difficult to comprehend: either we must be material objects which think and have emotions, or there must be something immaterial in us which thinks and has emotions and is uniquely related to the material object which is our body. Lock says that if we try to systematically rationalize either view, then we find them to be extremely difficult to comprehend. Yet one of them must be true.

So perhaps this argument demonstrates that the materialist weltanschauung is inherently defective, or at least not as efficacious in its explanatory power as some think. Then there is the precise origin and nature of consciousness, which, for now, remains a profound mystery.

This is a question that troubles me considerably and I would be interested in hearing what other, more informed contributors, think about this vexed issue.

Best answer:

Answer by DAVID
There are many things, like death or consciousness, which seem very wonderful to us, and have attracted religious or supernatural explanations. But to a hypothetical scientist from the planet Zog, they might seem like trivial chemical reactions among many others.
I find it very hard to imagine that time has not existed for ever, so why should material, be it Higgs bosons, strings, or something else beyond our ken, not have also existed for ever.

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