• underisk [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    the worst are the ones that go off in a metaphysical direction where they say you can literally alter reality with mantras and right-think. the dilbert guy wrote a book like this that I read when I was a kid and it was so awful and stupid that I never liked dilbert again.

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      1 year ago

      I remember when The Secret came out and multiple people started dropping it in conversation. I didn’t know it was related to a book, it was kinda surreal.

      EDIT: Earnestly, someone said that they could do better at Warhammer 40k because he could influence dice rolls with his belief. Which would be cheating.

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Haha, I know exactly which book you’re talking about. I didn’t end up reading it and so I didn’t really find out how weird he was until he started becoming a Trumper.