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Posted by: rp
« on: February 15, 2025, 03:24:23 pm »

It's not just reproduction. I find people my age to be adulterated more than myself, mainly due to pop culture tastes. This is a view that is actually shared by many. For example, in the comments of many YouTube videos of older video games, you will get commenters saying things like "I was born in the wrong generation, I like these games more than the ones that come out these days". Of course, progressive False Leftists, unable to understand regressivism, ridicule these attitudes (see Reddit).
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: February 10, 2025, 08:22:11 pm »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction_(New_Thought)

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The law of attraction is the New Thought spiritual belief that positive or negative thoughts bring positive or negative experiences into a person's life.[1][2]
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Advocates generally combine cognitive reframing techniques with affirmations and creative visualization to replace limiting or self-destructive ("negative") thoughts with more empowered, adaptive ("positive") thoughts. A key component of the philosophy is the idea that in order to effectively change one's negative thinking patterns, one must also "feel" (through creative visualization) that the desired changes have already occurred.

Speaking from personal experience, I learned this during martial arts training. If during combat your mind is filled with thoughts of losing, it is almost certain that you will end up losing. Thus we should enter every fight believing in the existence* of a path to victory (which is in principle rarely untrue, as even someone with a massive initial advantage over you can make a sudden mistake (see below bold) which then opens up an opportunity for you) and then believing in your ability to find this path. The same applies to confrontational sports/games in general, including video games (Street Fighter, King of Fighters, etc.).

(* This does not mean feeling sure you will win, which is also to be avoided as it leads to underestimating your opponent, which is when most careless mistakes appear.)

I can attest that this approach helps, but of course it does not guarantee victory, because your opponent can also have a similar mindset, whereupon the two cancel out.

I do not believe it applies to non-confrontational activities. Telling yourself you are a musical genius does not help you compose a good song at all. If anything, it is likely to have the opposite effect, since you become less critical of your own work. Same with drawing, writing, etc..

As for physical appearance, I have noticed that people biologically age not so much according to numerical age but more according to generational shift. For example, I for a long time felt youthful even as I was getting numerically older so long as I remained in the youngest generation. But as a new youngest generation started appearing, I felt myself aging biologically just from the awareness that I now had nieces/nephews/etc.. Those of my generation who became parents themselves have biologically aged even more than I (and other non-parents) have. So perhaps what is going on is that the existence of a new youngest generation prevents the previous youngest generation from thinking of ourselves as young, and that leads to us aging more quickly. Thus reproduction is not only (most importantly) violence initiated against the child being born, but also violence initiated against non-parents in the sense of forcing us too to shift upwards in generation without any choice in the matter just because the parents decided to shift upwards in generation voluntarily.

I certainly cannot manifest worldwide non-reproduction just by thinking about it!
Posted by: SirGalahad
« on: February 10, 2025, 12:32:17 am »

@90sRetroFan What do you think of the Law of Attraction or manifestation? It’s a type of New Age thing that people do to make some of their desires a reality. My main criticism of it is that it might not work at all, and would therefore be bad in that it’s a complete waste of time. But if it DOES work, I feel like it still heavily depends on what the person is trying to manifest. For example, it’s shockingly (or not so shockingly…) common for people to try to manifest lighter skin, or a hypermasculine/hyperfeminine appearance according to current conventions of “beauty”. Or, disregarding aesthetics, just self-centered desires in general, like money/economic success, or to attract a particular person to you, etc.

But I guess it could still theoretically be used for utilitarian, or even selfless purposes. Like relieving oneself of some sort of ailment or predicament, or to relieve someone else of some ailment or predicament, or to manifest justice or victory in some form, or to change your personality for the better, etc. Even then, I think it would still depend on the actual mechanics. Who or what is interceding to make these manifestations happen? If manifestation/LoA is just an impersonal fact of how the universe works, is it simply the universe interceding? Because we obviously hate the universe/material world/nature, so maybe even in the case of wishing for something positive, it would still be wrong to do so. Or it could be God. But if that were the case, then one would expect the Devil to be the one interceding for negative or selfish desires. Or maybe the Devil intercedes for all of them, even the positive ones

I’m just curious on your perspective, because I can imagine three separate camps:

1. It doesn’t work at all, and is a waste of time.

2. It does work, and it’s a tool of the Devil.

3. It does work, but whether it’s good or bad depends on what the person is trying to manifest.