http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:12:14 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/03/130140.php#comment-710751 While you have point there. I do believe this "Self Destruct Movement" as you call it has helped a lot of people. Not only that. It has helped a lot of people HELP OTHER PEOPLE and I will not bother to elaborate. And I guess you spend a lot of time copying and pasting this same comment to other people's blogs who are sharing what they found out with these so called "Self Destruct Movement". But for ME, I choose to use the positive things of what I am learning so that I achieve my GOALS in life. So that I can Bless Others as God as mandated me to do so. Cheers! 710751@blogcritics.org Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:12:14 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/03/130140.php#comment-707027 And religion continues to be chipped away, as these "love doctors," not to mention preachers, rationalize nominally crass human instincts, twisting the religious teachings in an attempt to align them with the pursuit of our base desires. Crassness and base desires and are just fine with me, but these people are disingenuous charlatans interested primarily in fattening up their bankrolls. "Prolonged spiritual quest" my eye. I'm glad I'm not religious, or I would be appalled, and that would cause a big internal conflict. 707027@blogcritics.org Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:02:15 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/03/130140.php#comment-707015 The Secret is the latest and by far the worst example of a HIGHLY profitable trend where self-help gurus with fabricated new age titles and little relevant education, credentials or legitimate expertise brainwash us into believing that they know what is best for us, our marriages and our families. Often their only contribution to society is introducing some exotic sounding, new age philosophy. However, they often cleverly form an incestuous group of like-minded "experts" who cross-promote each other by swearing their success is due to following the beliefs of another member of their "cult!" All the while, they ply the airwaves jockeying for an ever-larger audience by appearing in the national media to garner third-party endorsements. The Self-Help Movement has become the Self-Destruct Movement by diminishing or destroying our critical thinking skills to choose and evolve on our own. We have given up the freedom to build healthy lives, marriages and families based on our unique history and life experience. Instead many victims, blinded to the value of their own life experiences, are attracted to the latest secret in self-help, in an attempt to find out what they should think, feel and how they should act... this is the definition of a cult. The solution is a return to our (common) senses! The best way out of this learned "self-helplessness" is to go cold turkey. Stop following ALL self-help gurus now. Begin, instead, to reclaim your natural, God-given ability to think for yourself. The common sense that was once readily available to all of us is still there free of charge and waiting to be applied to just about any challenge we might face in life... all you have to do is use it. Please, let's all work together to stop the flock of "sheepeople" who blindly move from one UNPROVEN concept to the next, looking for the answers to life's challenges that you already possess and that is the OBVIOUS! 707015@blogcritics.org Thu, 3 Apr 2008 16:13:23 EDT