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It's Michael. He changed his name to avoid being found and was survived by a teenage son. That theory again: http://thefuselage.com/Threaded/showthread.php?t=79497

Yeah Pen, the brother of the priest... maybe... From that theory... a video of the smoke monster scanning a diver: http://www.videoray.com/Video/video.htm Amazing!

Then maybe Yemi. http://thefuselage.com/Threaded/showthread.php?t=79497 That theory will blow your mind. It HAS to be right.

The Hands Down Most Accurate Theory on Lost: http://thefuselage.com/Threaded/showthread.php?t=79497 This theory nails everything, from the numbers to the smoke monster to the "Others" to the end of the show. Don't read it if you want to keep the show a mystery!

I'm not asking for your opinion. I'm making a statement. Look up the word. Arguing for the existence of something without evidence is irrational. It's faith.

Believing in the existence of God requires being irrational. To hold an argument, both arguers must adhere to rationality -- it supplies the rules of the game and let's a winner be found. An argument between a believer and non-believer will be fruitless. So what's the point?

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Too true. If you "get" The Secret, you don't "get" logic.

If it's true for you, it's true for you. - L Ron Hubbard

Let's look at some actual psychological factors. 1. Confirmation Bias -- Tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms preconceptions. 2. Base Rate Fallacy -- Not taking overall correlation in a population into account; only focusing on instances where a specific...

Does the movie misrepresent some brilliant arguments made in the book? I'll go out on a limb and say... slim chance. But please, present the brilliance of the book if you've read it. You can make us all put our foot in our mouths.

I think the sticking point here is that the anti-Secret posters are arguing the Law of Attraction can't exist as an actual force. What personally drives me nuts is that that assertion seems obviously true. And without the "Law" being real, the whole "Secret" is pointless. It also drives...

Nice work on the ridiculing ;)

Too true!

Cute. But brain-stem does not equal unconcious. There's no "mind" in there in the lay sense. Actually, in the sense of the subconcious/unconscious mind and it not existing as a thinking entity, the point applies to Freud's and the others' conceptions. i.e., none of them know what they are...

They're making specific claims about how the "law of attraction" and the mind-universe interface operate: "Your life is a physical manifestation of thoughts that go on in your head" "You end up attracting to you the predominant thoughts that you're holding in your awareness, whether those...

If you listen only to, say, James Inhofe, then you'd probably believe there is such a debate. But there are two sources that anyone taking this seriously cannot avoid: Peer-reviewed empirical journals The position statements of established and respected scientific organizations. In...

If you have to put in effort to get the thing you want in the first place, then there is no point, is there...

The "Law of Attraction" and the "Secret" are horsesh!t. Thanks for posting this Deep Dish. What's sad is that we're so dumb these days it isn't immediately obvious that the arguments are completely unsupported and incoherent.

Your letter seems clear, honest, and respectful; so go ahead and send it if you like. But why not think about why this makes you uncomfortable? You can learn about yourself. You're in college. Isn't that the point?