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2007-02-13 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by tu3031 2007-02-13 12:45|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What's the francise fee?

Posted by Spot">Spot 2007-02-13 14:06|| 2007-02-13 14:06|| Front Page Top

#2 This concept has been bandied about for years, but it has a flip side. The basic concept is that everything in the universe is either a "push" or a "pull".

People continually pull in events and things they want to experience "in their space", *or* push away events and things that they don't want to experience.

This is done throughout the day to overcome the boring situation of life. That is, if we didn't do this all the time, then life would be very, very boring, with people endlessly hoping to be in the right place at the right time, and catching a chance event. We would still be living in caves without it.

It is done so naturally that people aren't aware they do it, and if they do become aware of it, then they consciously interfere with the process, bungling it up.

Again, while everybody has to both push and pull, most people are better at one than the other. Either getting more activity and stuff around them, or leading a more sedate life with fewer things by pushing events and stuff they don't want away.

It also behaves like a single shot pistol, in that the energy used to pull or push has to recharge between uses. People also do it as a group, for bigger projects; even most of a nation might do it, for some international reason, like a war.

As silly as it sounds, proponents of the idea are big on experimenting to find out if its works for an individual.

Nothing much to it, really. Just start small and visualize some unusual, if not rare, object arriving in your immediate area, within 8-10 feet of yourself. After you do this, then think about other things while doing some unrelated activity for a length of time. This takes your mind off of it, helping the process to work.

Alternative, if there is some onerous activity you wish to avoid, imagine it being canceled with you being notified soon enough so you can miss out.

In theory, one or the other, or both of these things might happen.

Some people feel strangely guilty about doing this, which interferes a great deal with their ability.

On a final note, a friend who believed in this years ago noted that they thought they were really good at "pushing" stuff away, far better than "pulling". So he said he shouldn't ever "Visualize World Peace", as he would push it away and help to start a war. In his case, he felt he should "Visualize Thermonuclear Annihilation."

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-02-13 14:39|| 2007-02-13 14:39|| Front Page Top

#3 I begin to see the upside of my sister being smarter than me.

Posted by Grunter 2007-02-13 14:42|| 2007-02-13 14:42|| Front Page Top

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