Duh, oh so very duh!
 If you truly, truly follow your star all your dreams will come true.

On Jan 1, 6:08 am, Lonlaz <[email protected]> wrote:
> When studying the occult, I was introduced to the idea of initiation.
> In the occult usage, it was a ritual, either short and intense, or
> long a grueling to produce koan-like effect.  A person puts their full
> concentration into something, their whole self is engaged, and then
> the subject of focus is completed, or taken away.. and for a while the
> self disappears with the task, and something is revealed.
>
> I think that this is possibly a positive effect of the self-
> improvement racket.  People who truly try, truly try to follow all
> Seven Strategies, or the tenets of the Celestine Prophecy, or whatever
> will eventually get their efforts worth.  They will achieve their
> ideal selves, and will still have themselves to contend with.
>
> On Dec 31, 8:22 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > In theory, bumblebees should not be able to fly, but they do. Because
> > they have to. But people, no matter how smart or how skilled they
> > might be, do not always get off the ground. We are all born with
> > common sense, but we don't always, or often, use it.
>
> > Must we drift without direction the rest of our lives? Are we doomed
> > if we seem incapable of using our common sense? No, says bestselling
> > author and professional speaker Barry Siskind. In Bumblebees Can't
> > Fly, he shows you how to develop and follow his Seven Strategies of
> > Common Sense. After mastering these simple yet shrewd strategies, you
> > will begin to make more confident decisions, improve your foresight,
> > listen to the wisdom already deep within you - and fly, like the
> > bumblebees!
>
> > Yeah, right!  Sadly for this dork and many other flat earth common
> > sensers, we do know how the bumblebee flies in theory and practice.
> > They make use of turbulence, like moths.  The seven simple yet shrewd
> > strategies come to you from a berk daft enough not to do basic
> > research on the metaphor central to his pitch.  This is the essence of
> > personal development - first find a market segment so stupid it will
> > swallow any old tosh and then write that old tosh!
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