by Et in Arcadia ego » Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:21 pm
By the way, and I must stress that I am making absolutely no insinuations towards you whatsoever, but reading your thoughts on this last night reminded me of someone who often spoke in the same terms in regards to 'positive thinking'..He liked to employ deferations to the 'Universe' as his safety net, meaning, I'd often hear him say that 'As long as I place trust in the Universe, I have no problems', and recited this frequently especially around bill collecting time, etc..<br><br>Anyways, for context, the guy was married and had like 3 kids when I met him(I was briefly staying in a commune of massage therapists/hippie weirdos while I was in college cause teh rent was dirt cheap.) He had recently left his family and his well-established trade as a Carpenter to train to be a massage therapist and because he was older, he used to attract younger people to him which were further sweetened by his 'universe' talk(ask the Universe for some candy and you're gonna get some, ad nauseum).<br><br>Well, he must have leaned pretty heavy on the Universe for some ass and not been accomodated cause he ended up raping one of the young girls he was always spouting his crap to. She told us that through it all from begining to end(the actual rape), he kept telling her to think positively about it and the Universe would make it ok..<br><br>I'm not big on positive thinking, personally. Positive Thinking is/can be employed for 'Evil' in ways that can't be imagined.. <p>____________________<br>Oderint, dum metuant</p><i></i>