In order to pre-answer the question "James, what was that outburst about?" I will point you to
The Secret
Now that website, and the movie contained therein, is made up of some of the softest thinking I have ever seen. It stars a combination of wishful new-age positive mumbo jumbo with a nice helping of misinterpreted theoretical physics. Silly, silly, silly. The idea that the human mind could have effects on the physical universe beyond manipulating the body to reach out and move something is stupid. Frankly, plainly, clearly stupid. If this works for one person it will fail for nine. And the people they casted to give statement! The co-author of "Chicken Soup for the Soul"? A peddler of anecdotes and homespun frippery. The author of "Men are from Mars etc."? A carnival salesman with a cart full of bottles of simple advice and compressed stereotype.
Anyone that tells you that they know how to fix your life is trying to sell you something. Anyone. God, man, or angel, they're trying to give you a product and get more from you than it cost them to produce their product. That's not atheism. It's capitalism.
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