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    This article provides a satirical critique of the self-help movie "The Secret" and its central idea that positive thoughts can attract desired outcomes without effort. The author watched the movie and was left feeling more discouraged about society. He argues the movie's message will actually lead to a "vicious cycle of un-attraction" as people passively wait for their wishes to be granted while becoming less attractive. In the end, the author presents the movie's real message as one of "self-empowerment" through perpetuating despair and a decline in fulfillment.

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    This article provides a satirical critique of the self-help movie "The Secret" and its central idea that positive thoughts can attract desired outcomes without effort. The author watched the movie and was left feeling more discouraged about society. He argues the movie's message will actually lead to a "vicious cycle of un-attraction" as people passively wait for their wishes to be granted while becoming less attractive. In the end, the author presents the movie's real message as one of "self-empowerment" through perpetuating despair and a decline in fulfillment.

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    CreatingTheClouds Part6

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    This article provides a satirical critique of the self-help movie "The Secret" and its central idea that positive thoughts can attract desired outcomes without effort. The author watched the movie and was left feeling more discouraged about society. He argues the movie's message will actually lead to a "vicious cycle of un-attraction" as people passively wait for their wishes to be granted while becoming less attractive. In the end, the author presents the movie's real message as one of "self-empowerment" through perpetuating despair and a decline in fulfillment.

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    CREATING

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    Part VI
    By Randyl Longmire

    “The Secret Behind The Secret”


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    The Word and its editorial staff would like to make it clear that Randyl Long-
    mire is not a doctor, nor a therapist, nor a professional in any convential sense
    of the term. In fact, no one on our staff has actually ever spoken to Mister
    Longmire, who is rumored to reside in or around Portland, Oregon. We receive
    his columns attached to cryptic, vaguely menacing emails, and we publish
    them only to exploit his genius.

    April 2007 17

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