The universe kinda becomes like a god. All that energy and vibe stuff is like a way of praying. It’s all about faith, not really backed by evidence.

It’s like how I see thunder, so there must be a god of thunder. In this case, seeing vibration and energy (like in String Theory, which still hasn’t been proven) makes me think there’s gotta be some deeper meaning and that it can make my wishes come true.

And of course, there are people out there selling books, spreading fake news, and posing as manifesting professors just to cash in on others’ ignorance.

But hey, for a lot of people, it’s just a way to find hope and relax a bit through positive thinking, focusing on their goals and planning things out. So I’m not trying to bash “believers”, just sharing a shower thought.

  • Dieterlan@lemmy.world
    22·
    6 months ago

    To all the people downvoting: “Law of Attraction” is not a lay person’s way of saying “Law of Gravity”.

    It’s the belief online that “if I give off good vibes, good vibes will be attracted back to me. You know, because everything is, like, made up of vibrating strings, and stuff” (that last bit is just the connection to String theory OP mentioned)

    OP is not endorsing these beliefs, just observing them.

    • Khiêm Từ@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      Thank you for pointing this out! Now I see why people keep downvoting. Imagine listening to a dude talking like that about gravity 😂

      At least it’s good to know that most of us haven’t heard of the “Law of Attraction” I was talking about.

  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
    237·
    6 months ago

    Well, that’s bullcrap. Science is about finding the truth, religion is about shifting the blame to someone else (and about controlling masses, depends on which side you view this from).

    Sure, some people believe in string theory. But the moment it’s proven wrong, they’re gonna stop. Another important difference is that no one thinks it has any meaningful impact on you as a moral human being, while religiots base all their morality on what their fake god has told various goat herders and child rapists centuries and millennia ago.

    Edit: I was not aware that “Law of Attraction” had some weird bullshit meaning. The fact that attraction basically means gravity in my mother language didn’t help matters. And the mention of string theory also made it plausible that the OP was a weird rant about science.

    • dsemy@lemm.eeEnglish
      231·
      6 months ago

      Law of Attraction is a spiritual belief that thinking positively/negatively will affect your life in the same way. It is based on a pseudoscientific explanation that people are made out of energy, and that energy attracts similar energy.

      It is not science.

      • Obi
        5·
        6 months ago

        Never heard of that so I assumed it meant something like gravity, I was very confused.

    • Khiêm Từ@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      35·
      6 months ago

      religion is about shifting the blame to someone else

      I agree, in this case, the Law of Attraction blames the believers, but somehow people fail to see this and instead think they deserve the misfortune because they haven’t ‘put in enough energy’.

      • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
        2·
        6 months ago

        Sorry for my rant, I thought this was about physics, not some pseudo bullshit, I haven’t heard about that thing ever before.

    • Khiêm Từ@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      I didn’t think this would get this much downvotes. Maybe I wasn’t clear enough, leading to people misunderstand my post and think that I was trying to prove law of attraction is true.

  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    6 months ago

    The universe kinda becomes like a god.

    If anything is going to be qualified as a god, the literal embodiment of everything, everywhere, all at once seems to fit the bill. Call it what you want—the universe is our everything as far as we know it, and that has traditionally been an interpretation of what god is as well.

    • Khiêm Từ@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      I see, I think describing the whole universe as a god in a symbolic way can make sense.

      Anyway, the trouble starts when people go beyond symbolism and start asking for help, making wishes, and sometimes blaming this “deity” for undesirable events. Relying on an entity whose existence remains uncertain, let alone he/she cares about you, is like gamble, which sounds unsettling.