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jonny (Member Profile)

looris says...

it's better if you have NO open slots, because in that case the save will give you one temporary free slot used for the saved video itself.

I'll let you know (don't hold your breath )

In reply to this comment by jonny:
Great, thanks! Do I need to have an open slot in the queue? If so, give me a heads up whenever you're ready to save it. I've been trying consistently to keep 3 in the queue.

In reply to this comment by looris:
of course I will save it, it's great, thanks for the link!

notice my next three saves have already been given away in advance, but it should be the first one when I can

In reply to this comment by jonny:
Hi there - Do you think I could get a save for this? As a thanks in advance, here's a replacement for this dead video (I think). No worries if they're spoken for.

looris (Member Profile)

jonny says...

Great, thanks! Do I need to have an open slot in the queue? If so, give me a heads up whenever you're ready to save it. I've been trying consistently to keep 3 in the queue.

In reply to this comment by looris:
of course I will save it, it's great, thanks for the link!

notice my next three saves have already been given away in advance, but it should be the first one when I can

In reply to this comment by jonny:
Hi there - Do you think I could get a save for this? As a thanks in advance, here's a replacement for this dead video (I think). No worries if they're spoken for.

jonny (Member Profile)

looris (Member Profile)

Guy Doing some dare-devil drifting on His Bicycle!

Bigboomer says...

jspath I was gonna say the same thing. I BMX'd my whole life and that isnt exactly hard to do. We use to have competitions to see how many fish tails (back and forth with the read tire) you can do after getting up to speed, have skid patches that lasted for many many feet.

If they make this some sort of sport im breakin out the old BMX.

Guy Doing some dare-devil drifting on His Bicycle!

The Secret

Farhad2000 says...

I simply detest this woman, her video and her goddamn book.

Nothing what she says is a secret, it's common sense that has existed for eons. If it was called "Positive Thinking For the Win" no one would have bought the book, but it's called the Secret and sold off as being some ancient texts and rubbish like that becuase it's the same rehashed story you can find in Self-Help texts dating back to the 19th century.

It's just so vapidly stupid... Her entire case is that if you think about it hard enough it will happen? Oh yeah? Tell that to the people in Darfur or Iraq am sure they can just wish all the death and violence away.

Oh I found something that does a much better job...


Karin Klein, editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times, called The Secret "just a new spin on the very old (and decidedly not secret) The Power of Positive Thinking [book by Norman Vincent Peale (1952)] wedded to 'ask and you shall receive'." The editorial, in one of its strongest criticisms, asserted Rhonda Byrne "took the well-worn ideas of some self-help gurus, customized them for the profoundly lazy, [and] gave them a veneer of mysticism..."

Journalist Jeffrey Ressner, reporting in Time, writes that some critics are concerned with the film’s attitude toward "using ancient wisdom to acquire material goods." In one example in the film, "a kid who wants a red BMX bicycle cuts out a picture in a catalog, concentrates real hard, and is rewarded with the spiffy two-wheeler."

Jerry Adler of Newsweek notes that despite the film's allusions to conspiratorially suppressed ancient wisdom, the notions presented by the motivational speakers who make up the film's cast have been commonplace for decades. Adler notes that the film is ethically "deplorable," fixating on "a narrow range of middle-class concerns — houses, cars, vacations, followed by health and relationships, with the rest of humanity a very distant sixth." Noting that the scientific foundations of the movie are clearly dubious, the Newsweek article quotes psychologist John Norcross, characterizing it as "pseudoscientific, psychospiritual babble."

Tony Riazzi, columnist for the Dayton Daily News, also questions the merits of The Secret, calling Byrne's background as a reality TV producer a "red flag." He also said that "The Secret's" ideas are nothing more than "common sense. Take out the buzzwords and pseudo religious nonsense about what you 'manifest' for yourself, ignore the vague prose and you get the message that thinking positively serves you better than thinking negatively."

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