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I've been around the self-development business for a long time. There seems to be one branch of it that bears further investigation:
A lot of people believe that by doing one thing there will be an automatic response from "the universe". See [Vernon]'s annotation on Evil Genius Contracting Company.
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basis of my proposal is that this process be codified. To wit:
Buying cleaning products <=> Your house will now get dirty.
Spending money <=> More money will arrive.
Do something horrible, often enough <=> Develop stomach cancer.
etcetera
This way, there will be no further guesswork involved as to the likely result of your actions. Just check the big book, and there is the outcome, preordained by "The Universe".
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Open Schroedinger's Catbox and...er, damn. But for certain purposes (like Christian apostasy) a Big Book of Consequences exists--those not so learned as UB should see the last half of Deuteronomy 28 for examples. The Quran is also very strong against "hypocrites" among the faithful...but I wander from the topic at hand. (And I have no desire to start [another] brushfire over religion!) |
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Ho! Here come the Karma Police! Who's been a bad little boy/girl/other? |
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See Korma Chameleon. I had hoped to avoid charges of apostasy, DE. |
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Interestingly close to the 'Revenge Effect' as written about in Edward Tenner's 'Why things bite back' (an initially fascinating but eventually tedious and repetitive book). |
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To take an example, the vacuum cleaner was marketed as a labour saving device for cleaning rugs and carpets in a shorter time. Upon its introduction and acceptance people discovered that they could indeed clean the carpeting they had more efficiently and promptly had more carpets fitted to their houses. This increased the amount of time spent cleaning flooring to a number higher than before the introduction of the vacuum cleaner. The revenge effect in action (Labour saving, my ass). |
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I'm so glad someone had the foresight to invent the comma. |
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Oddly, observational evidence indicates that this may well be correct. |
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This would make a great project if you're a fatalist with lots of spare time. |
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