"woo" story

[Hopalong]

This is beyond odd but fun to relate.

I was in bed this morning grousing to myself about how frustrated I felt that in addition to two different stores for my employer, I'd need to go to the big-box place for TP (which I always buy in bulk). I was on my last roll and not looking forward to the expedition. Then my pooch goes nuts about somebody coming. I go to the front porch and a lady in a white van had just deposited a big 27-roll package of TP there.

Long story short I did NOT order this (from an office supply store, yet)!. I actually worried for a minute that I'd had a sleeping-pill dementia moment during the night. But I was positive (because the shipment also included a plastic ruler I definitely would never need). So I spent some time on the phone with a customer service guy (in India) and the story finally was that it was just some mistake or other. Some business I'd never heard of ordered it (via a credit card I don't have) and I'd never heard of any name associated with their account either. Dunno how my name and address got in their database...but the rep finally said, we'll credit them and you keep the merchandise, as it's not worth scheduling a pickup.

Is that bizarre or WHAT? The kicker: it's even my preferred brand.

I do not subscribe to woo. But that is the oddest benevolent coincidence I've experienced in a while! Thought it'd be a fun Friday night tale, silly as it is.

I can't quite believe that I was thinking, damn, out of TP, don't wanna go. And...it materializes (free) on my porch. Next time I'm going to try to manifest something more impressive!

 

Hops

[sKePTiKal]

Hey that's a really good trick! Can you teach it to me??

I need oh.... 10 rolls of R-19 insulation, 15 full sheets of drywall, 3 dozen studs (2x4 kind), concrete lag bolts a big bundle of firring strips, a pallet of landscape timbers and 4-5 bundles of heavy rebar; 4 ft long....

and that's before I get to the big stuff and the crew of "rent-a-men" to help me do stuff with it.

See? the universe is looking out for you Hops... and apparently the gods know the way to a woman's heart - just the right gift! LOL.

[lighter]

Happy TP day, Hops. 

And.... the word of the week for me is "manifest."

The question is.... "What are we manifesting for ourselves in our lives?"

Is this why some people tend to experience chaos and crisis over and over, or the luck of the devil , as they say here?

 Can we manifest anything in our lives?

Even if this isn't woo, Hops.....

it certainly is food for thought; )

Light

[Twoapenny]

Lol, oh my word, that story is just amazing, Hops!  How really odd - that is exactly the sort of story that you read about when you read about manifesting/law of attraction stuff!  I'm kind of wishing you'd been thinking about diamonds or something though   What an odd thing to happen (but in a really lovely way!) x

[Hopalong]

My friends are calling it The Miracle of the Toilet Paper.

 

xo
Hops

[Twoapenny]

My friends are calling it The Miracle of the Toilet Paper.

 

xo
Hops

Lol, life is one long glamorous adventure xx

[sea storm]

What a great event.... toilet paper wish comes true. Louise Hays would say... This is just the beginning. That is so amazing.

Sea

[Hopalong]

I know.
And I am SO allergic to woo.

I walked out of a Louise Hays workshop years ago...the facilitator was explaining how children, out in the universe, select their parents and then come and be born. I asked, what explains infants being abused? He said, that means they had XX from a past life to work out in....

I was slamming the door behind me by then.

I really DISlike the whole "Secret" thing. I don't think I "manifested" anything and have zero explanation for the Miracle of the Toilet Paper. Although it's quite true that toilet paper IS very important to me. I mean, who doesn't wanna be certain they don't get to a last roll and ooops... 

But I always think that woo sez: just mumble this, pretend that, preoccupy yourself and spend hours and hours mentally insisting on this other magic-based thing... and TA DA will happen. And I always worry that people will derail some very prime, fine, creative, innate capabilities within themselves (yup, preaching to self) that could produce astonishing results in their lives -- because they're learning, basically, just to beg. Instead of ACT.

Oh wow. I really am preaching to my fat lazy passive self. Oh, my.

Very good pondering going on, here! Maybe that's the real Toilet Paper Miracle. If it gets me thinking about action, and recognizing that if there IS any real woo, I'll never be able to predict it or figure it out. So what I can do is, be truly grateful and delighted by good woo whenever it delightfully and randomly appears...and the rest of the time, rely on logic, facts, intuition and behavior to change my life.

Hmmm.

love,
Hops

[Twoapenny]

I know.
And I am SO allergic to woo.

I walked out of a Louise Hays workshop years ago...the facilitator was explaining how children, out in the universe, select their parents and then come and be born. I asked, what explains infants being abused? He said, that means they had XX from a past life to work out in....

I was slamming the door behind me by then.

I really DISlike the whole "Secret" thing. I don't think I "manifested" anything and have zero explanation for the Miracle of the Toilet Paper. Although it's quite true that toilet paper IS very important to me. I mean, who doesn't wanna be certain they don't get to a last roll and ooops... 

But I always think that woo sez: just mumble this, pretend that, preoccupy yourself and spend hours and hours mentally insisting on this other magic-based thing... and TA DA will happen. And I always worry that people will derail some very prime, fine, creative, innate capabilities within themselves (yup, preaching to self) that could produce astonishing results in their lives -- because they're learning, basically, just to beg. Instead of ACT.

Oh wow. I really am preaching to my fat lazy passive self. Oh, my.

Very good pondering going on, here! Maybe that's the real Toilet Paper Miracle. If it gets me thinking about action, and recognizing that if there IS any real woo, I'll never be able to predict it or figure it out. So what I can do is, be truly grateful and delighted by good woo whenever it delightfully and randomly appears...and the rest of the time, rely on logic, facts, intuition and behavior to change my life.

Hmmm.

love,
Hops

I have the same issue with the child abuse stuff, Hops, not least because the theory that you choose lessons before you come into life is the complete opposite of Law of Attraction, which is all about your thoughts drawing stuff to you, not your soul picking out lessons for you to learn.  I do believe that a constructive? attitude is a good one to have (ie someone who trys to learn and grow from bad experiences) but obviously most of us don't start to actively deal with our abuse until we're much older and the early stuff is affecting our later stuff.  I also don't get how Law of Attraction explains earthquakes, disease outbreaks, sink holes and so on.  So many disasters and awful things going on in the world.  If it works why don't they all think really hard about world peace or clean water for everyone on the planet and make that happen?  I would find that impressive

I have found positive mantras have helped to lift my mood or clear my head a bit and I do think positive thinking is a good thing to have.  I do remember, however, talking about law of attraction stuff with a CBT therapist (who was very good), and she said that if you stand in a garden with your eyes shut thinking over and over again 'There are no weeds, there are no weeds' the weeds will still grow, no matter what.  Then she went on to use examples of getting the gardening done but thinking positive thoughts about it rather than endlessly muttering to yourself 'I hate gardening' you'' feel better by the time you've done it.  I have tried the law of attraction stuff many times and it hasn't worked.  I even bought a book that claimed to have 9 scientific experiments in it to prove law of attraction worked and they didn't work either.  I do think the 'children pick the lives they want to live' has an element of victim blaming in it, which I really don't like. 

[Hopalong]

Smart therapist!

Totally agree with you, Tupp, that positive thinking is...well, positive. My set point is a happy nature, given conditions. Some days/years it's been harder than others, but the arc of my universe leans toward gratitude if not justice.

Agnosticism is sometimes healing and often painful. But I'm there. So I struggle sometimes for explanations about suffering. Prosperity gospel drives me nuts. So does original sin. Capital punishment. All those convoluted justifications for human callousness.

One good thing (for me) about agnosticism is that it reminds me of the reality that my inability to be all-knowing is reason to be humble. My ignorance about many things is a fact as empirical as gravity. I have to choose to trust my thinking to some degree, but I also need to keep my mind open.

Mostly, I feel right when I lead with the heart.

And I am entirely open to random good woo! Imagine how many butt-wipes for the rest of my life will offer me the opportunity to contemplate the miraculous!

 

love,
Hops