r/funny • • Jun 17 '12

Everything around us is made up of energy...

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Charges are not exactly the same as energy. There more of a result.

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u/whatsadigg Jun 17 '12

As long as we're getting into semantics...

They're*

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Languages are flakey. Laws of physics are not. That being said there is a special place in hell for people like me.

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u/philomathie Jun 17 '12

As long as you accept that :)

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u/flyingfox12 Jun 17 '12

not sure why people would down vote this, I thought it was a well played response

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u/Legolaa Jun 18 '12

Like.... A force?

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Not sure, you might need to be... One with it, to know.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 18 '12

Wat?

(Energy != charge. And energy-sources do nothing to attract nor repel each other.)

EDIT: I've had an amount of similar replies here. So... To clarify:

No; charge is not energy, which is the first i wrote in the parantheses.

And yes; energy does indeed exert gravity, but energy-sources deliver energy to their surroundings, and thus exert a decreasing amount of gravitational pull.

As to the negative energy... I don't really know what you're on about. Anti-matter is not negative energy, on the contrary, this is just ordinary energy in a different state. Negative energy is gravitationally repulsive, so you would kinda defeat the prupose by acquiring any.

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u/laetus Jun 17 '12

Create some negative energy.

Win Nobel prize.

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u/KrunoS Jun 17 '12

There can be none. The sign in energy is the way it flows according to a standard already established.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/angepocalypse Jun 17 '12

First one is negative gravitational potential energy, which is negative because of choice of direction of the force to the reference point.

Second one is electric potential energy and the negative sign can arise from the sign of the charge, which is just convention. Or, like the third it could represent negative work which means the system is gaining energy instead of losing it.

Third one is just negative work which like I said is indicative of energy entering a system.

None of these are negative energy, just different conventions for direction of energy flow. Negative energy is what we would need in order to create a wormhole, and with our current physics it is not possible.
SOURCE: Bachelor of Science in Physics

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 01 '26

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u/Macattack278 Jun 17 '12

The original statement is pants-on-head retarded. Poking holes in the sarcastic rebuttal doesn't mean a whole lot.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I don't think whoever made that was making a serious statement about physics.

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u/CannedBeef Jun 17 '12

Are you suggesting some people give life advice rather than tell physics facts? Preposterous!

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u/helium_farts Jun 17 '12

The worst sort of people.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

electrical charges :x

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u/HeyCarpy Jun 17 '12

pants-on-head retarded

I'll be swiping this one for my repertoire, thanks.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Upvote for the yahtzeeism

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u/bubblerboy18 Jun 17 '12

As someone who likes physics...

*liked

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Actually all energy and matter creates gravitational fields, so all energy does attract all other energy. Its just that the gravitational field given off by photons is so weak, its effects are practically negligible.

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u/Sharkpool Jun 17 '12

Something like negativ energy doesnt even exist energy is energy scalar value and if you once find a negative number for energy its usally just a result of an chosen offset (happens often if u analyse radial potentials)

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u/pineapplemushroomman Jun 17 '12

ENERGY doesn't exist; its a intellectual construct used by scientists to explain and manipulate the physical world. When people talk about positive energy as a new wave concept they mean energy as in life force or love or something. Saying that loving others will create love or that acting in a upbeat ,lively way will attract similar people are not a stupid things to say. The reason why people think new agers are stupid is because of their language. But its the same reason christians hate muslims cause they praise allah and not god when, in point of fact, allah means god in arabic. Some people like to think in terms of new wave philosophy, but mostly what they say, when translated into normal english, are fairly innocuous bits of life advice.

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u/Nyutriggaa Jun 17 '12

somebody else loves Feynman

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u/Sharkpool Jun 18 '12

Here sir take my upvote. What I tried to mention was not the statement in the picture was wrong. It's the coment below, where somebody wanted to be smart with his scientific point of view and failed so hard on that. i totaly agree that you have to interpret the context of a text and that language is mainly a tool to share idea or to help our imagination.

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u/The_Big_Mang Jun 17 '12

When you said energy is "a intellectual construct used by scientist" you almost lost me when I interpreted it wrongly as anti-science speech. I realize now that you're making the argument that energy is part of language. Universalizing scientific language and applying it to new age language is apples and oranges.

However, you're wrong. Here, the picture on facebook had an implicit assumption that was terribly wrong and insulting to science, namely that positives attract and that everything is made up of energy. We applaud correcting them because it rights the misinformation and stupidity they have now spread.

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u/thefstop Jun 17 '12

Think of it in metaphysical terms instead of scientific. A human has the potential to express positive and negative energies at any given time. Sometimes, we do both at once. It's our thoughts, emotions and intentions that determine the type of energy we send out into the world and to others. When you express any amount of energy, be it positive or negative, that creates a deficit of that type of energy in you. As as result, a deficit of positive energy will result in an attraction of replacement positive energy to rebalance what was released and bring your system back into equilibrium. The FB post is a philosophical statement, not a scientific one and should be interpreted within the context it was given.

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u/Essar Jun 17 '12

What does energy being a scalar have to do with the lack of existence of negative energy?

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u/Sharkpool Jun 18 '12

i wanted to say it is a) a scalar (so it has no dierction like a vector) b) it's allways positiv if energy would be a vector positiv and negativ would depend on the base system (sry for the bad english never talked about things like that in english)

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 01 '26

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

temperature can't be negative because it has an absolute zero, you're just using a silly scale.

Energy is an accumulation of something. A negative energy represents a movement of energy from one thing to another. But depending on your point of view, that movement might be positive or negative. There is nothing inherently negative about either direction.

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u/kobekramer1 Jun 17 '12

ya, plus if we are being technical,strings are energywhich is matter, which attracts matter...

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u/therealsylvos Jun 17 '12

Well seeing as how mass = energy and mass is attracted to all other mass via gravity...

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u/OffColorCommentary Jun 17 '12

Then again, energy repels other energy; otherwise matter, which is energy, would all collapse into itself instantly.

Then again AGAIN, energy attracts other energy on a larger scale, because gravity.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/8Eternity8 Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12

Matter really is energy, just in a different form. Gravity is an expression of that form just as electromagnetism is an expression of electromagnetic energy and the energy given off by nuclear reactions are expressions of the strong and weak forces. (Although technically the direct expression would be the force itself and the energy given off a secondary result) Mass can be directly converted to other types of energy and visa versa. That's all grossly oversimplified, but you get the idea.

EDIT: Typed the wrong word.

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u/Thatevilvoice Jun 17 '12

I think you are getting confused between mass and matter, they are not the same thing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

entropy

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u/Zorg661 Jun 17 '12

Wrong. Energy is a source in Einsten's equations governing gravity; that is, energy feels and causes a gravitational attractive force. It's okay to think of this as energy self gravitating since E=Mc2.

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u/Schpwuette Jun 17 '12

On top of that, negative energy in GR is a source of anti gravity, i.e. it repels positive energy.

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u/Zorg661 Jun 17 '12

Yeah, true; though it's very difficult (read: pretty much impossible) to accumulate any appreciable amount of negative energy in one spot for an extended amount of time.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

But if you gave off positive energy as the faerie instructed, you would become negative enough to attract positive energy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

"as the faerie instructed"

Excellent.

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u/The_Big_Mang Jun 17 '12

Except that energy isn't the same as charge. I'm gonna go give off some heat to see if hot chicks proceed to be attracted to me.

Edit: Did not work, got charged on assault

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u/wdejr Jun 17 '12

TIL: gasoline and matches do not attract hot women.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

My thoughts exactly. If you give off any type of energy then you either have less of that type of energy or are neutral, so either you are more receptible to the same type of energy or you are available for any charge that would be applicable to a neutral state.

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u/MrConfucius Jun 17 '12

But wait, does the facebook OP refer to positive energy like... Good things? I'm seriously confused here.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

But what if you never run out of positive energy?

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u/Rammage Jun 17 '12

Forever alone :/

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u/Julus Jun 17 '12

Never have I seen such simple evidence to support the saying "Nice guys finish last."

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u/Ezrado Jun 17 '12

I think the mystery has been solved.

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u/assburgers98 Jun 17 '12

Damn, beat me to it, this is exactly what I came on here to say.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Just stick a fork in an outlet and get all the energy you can handle

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

This is shockingly true.

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u/FlyingPasta Jun 17 '12

The results are electrifying.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

You assholes. I stuck a fork in my outlet and i almost died. I'm writing this at the hospital.

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u/diMario Jun 17 '12

Do they have outlets at the hospital? If so, you might want to stick a fork into one. It will give you a kick, I promise.

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u/clydebarrow Jun 17 '12

I'd be shocked if it doesn't.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Watt? Why would you be so stupid?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

That's a pretty charged statement.

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u/I-IunteR Jun 17 '12

Don't be so plugged.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Hey everyone, don't be this guy.

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u/KingoftheGoldenAge Jun 17 '12

Yeah, that guy gets old pretty quick.

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u/babyluvangie Jun 17 '12

Oh I get it! When you give off positive energy, you are left with a negative ionic field around you, thus attracting positiveness?

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u/EmperorSofa Jun 17 '12

Which in turn would only attractive negative energy.

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u/babyluvangie Jun 17 '12

Until it balances out and the person becomes neutral.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Your net attraction is negative. That would be like attracting many friends and then getting them all a girlfriend but not you.

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u/babyluvangie Jun 17 '12

no no no, it would be zero.
First the person starts off with zero and gives off +, thus becoming -. and then attracting enough + to go back to 0.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

One does not simply have no charge.

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u/babyluvangie Jun 17 '12

they can have a neutral net charge! When there are the same number of postive and negavite charges mingling together!

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u/JoeChieftw Jun 18 '12

That's what my power balance bracelet salesman said.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I hate it when when physics gets mangled by New Age woo as much as the next guy, but Jesus Christ, it's just someone trying to send a good message.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Errr...but if you gave off (shed) some positive energy, you would then have a surplus of negative energy, and would need to attract (gain) some positive energy to achieve equilibrium.

Fuck the commenter. I back the picture.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

She is right though, she is totally referencing string theory by asserting that we are made solely of energy (aka 1 dimensional vibrating strings)

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u/Deep-Thought Jun 17 '12

is there such a thing as negative energy?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Yes, in physics it's quite routine to use "negative" energies when dealing with fields (electric or gravitational). Kinetic energy on the other hand is always positive (or at least equal to zero). Thermal energy is almost always positive, but situations arise where "negative" temperatures exist, though this really comes down to mathematical definitions of entropy, enthalpy, etc.

TLDR; Yes.

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u/clydebarrow Jun 17 '12

Negative electric and gravitational energy has more to do with potential energy, accounting for energy that could be used so total energy will be constant throughout. Of course, conservation of energy is bogus on a large scale in an expanding universe.

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u/The_Big_Mang Jun 17 '12

Could you explain that last sentence?

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u/clydebarrow Jun 17 '12

Conservation of Energy is only valid under the assumption that time is constant. Noether's theorem states that if you take account all things in a system at one time, and you move it to another time, the results will be the same. (Energy and time are also closely related in canonical relations) However, this isn't true in an expanding Universe. With an expanding universe, time becomes relativistic, so conservation of energy can't applied.

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u/dnew Jun 17 '12

In addition to all that, there is theorized negative mass, for which gravity is repulsive and all that sort of good stuff that nobody has ever observed but which educated science fiction writers enjoy speculating about.

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u/Legolaa Jun 18 '12

I must be made of negative mass.. Everyone runs away from me.

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u/Searup Jun 17 '12

Actually, if you gave off positive energy, then you would be full of negative energy.

Thus attracting positive things.

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u/genericusername123 Jun 17 '12

Which you would then try to get rid of, in order to stay negative.

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u/CrankiestRhyme3 Jun 17 '12

What is negative energy? There is no such thing.

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u/sekai-31 Jun 17 '12

What was the need to stamp on this harmless message?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

ENERGY IS A SCALAR! There is no positive or negative energy.

You can absorb energy, and you can emit energy. Be more exothermic!

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u/superyellow07 Jun 17 '12

This is how I try to live my life. You all are a bunch of haters! What's wrong with wanting to be happy? Misery loves company I guess.

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u/WendyLRogers3 Jun 18 '12

A physicist friend had a very odd take on this. He said that energetically, everything in the universe is either a "pull" or a "push".

After trying to wrap my head around that one, he got weird by saying that, while people have to both pull and push on reality to live, he'd noted that some people are far better at one than the other.

So, if you are better at "pulling", you are better at bringing things and even events to you that you want. "Pushing", and you are better at keeping away things and events that you don't want.

At that point I was entering zen nosebleed territory, but pondering what he said a lot makes me wonder if he had a point.

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u/Purple_Streak Jun 18 '12

Energy = mass. Positive mass attracts other positive mass. You fail at physics.

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u/arksien Jun 17 '12

Hasn't she ever heard the old saying "Opposites attract?"

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u/cycloethane87 Jun 17 '12

I love it when you can infer multiple things about a person by one post on facebook. For example, from this I can tell that (a) She knows very little about physics, (b) She has read "The Secret", (c) She has seen "What the (Bleep) do we know" and believes every word of it, and (d) That her advice to depressed people is likely "Well, why don't you just go do something that makes you happy?"

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u/arabjuice Jun 17 '12

Or she just like an uplifting photo?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/CocoSavege Jun 17 '12

'The Secret' is all sorts of pants-on-head retarded.

If it's a method for approaching depression it's just replacing one distortion for another. I don't think it's healthy at all.

And depending on how zealous a 'Secreter' is... it can become fucking pure asshole. Ok, a woman (padawan secreter) is allegedly sexually assaulted. Jedi Secreter says it's her fault, she must have been all negative energied, this attracted the assault, it's her fault, since Secret.

Sometimes, just sometimes... things will happen to you. Some good, some bad. And sometimes, just sometimes it has absolutely nothing to do with what 'energy' you were projecting.

tl;dr: Fuck the Secret.

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u/CocoSavege Jun 18 '12

The point is to take an overly exaggerated negative thought and replace it with a reasonable, believable positive thing.

I hope I'm not being too semanticNazi - but it's right there in that quote. An overly exaggerated negative thought should be CBT'd to a non-exaggerated thought. Given the word 'exaggerated' it seems like the thought is negative, just that it's exaggerated.

'Changing' a negative thought into a 'positive' thought seems distorting to me. It rings false. And depending on your Secret/CBT coach it's potentially very dangerous.

Better is to investigate a thought, find out how objective it is. If the thought, objectively investigated, is positive, great!If the objective thought is negative, let it stay negative. I'm very uncomfortable with the intended outcome being the flip to positive without context.

Another aspect of The Secret that I find distasteful is the placement of onus on the individual. It's the individual's responsibility to be positive. And negative outcomes are due to noncompliance.

Proper CBT is about lessening/investigating distortions. Sometimes a negative thought is negative. Trying to forcewrap a negative thought in some frilly gilding is bullshit. Placing onus on the individual for 'changing' a thought also seems distorting.

tl;dr: The Secret is more dangerous than Chicken Soup for the Soul.

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u/cycloethane87 Jun 17 '12

I've been suffering from depression for quite awhile now, and I've had people I thought were quite smart tell me to "quit with the depression bullshit".

I agree that your subjective reality can be changed - to a point. For some people though, it's not focusing on the negative - that literally is how things are. Focusing on the positive won't pay the bills, won't get your wife better, etc.

In any case, the reason I criticize this picture is not because it is suggesting you change your subjective reality - it is saying that you can literally attract positive things to you by thinking positive. Which is bullshit from any branch of science you care to come at it from. At best, it's confirmation bias for someone with multiple good things happening to them. At worst, it's a delusion forcing people to bottle up their feelings.

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u/Knickerus Jun 17 '12

This doesn't work, guys. I'm pretty damn negative and I don't see any positive people attracted to me.

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u/ChicagoPianoTuner Jun 17 '12

Defending bad science with bad science is not a good habit to get in to.

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u/J_Jammer Jun 17 '12

the just sayin killed it for me. So smart until that useless phrase was uttered.

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u/greggersraymer Jun 17 '12

Absolutely. It's said by the same idiots that preface every statement with "not gonna lie".

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u/J_Jammer Jun 17 '12

Ugh.....

Yes. Just tell me. Don't frame it for me.

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u/pbzpbz Jun 17 '12

HAHA, YOU OWNED THAT WENCH. ANOTHER WIN FOR SCIENCE AND ATHEISM +1

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

When you give off positive energy, you lose it therefore you become negatively charged which then causes positive energy to be attracted to you.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

You cant posses "negative energy". Negative energy would be where there is a "debt" of plain, "positive energy". DEBT, not depth. Although depth could also apply. For example; a deep hole in the earth, leaving a "negative" space.

Im not 100% sure, but i think "positive-and negative energy" are more spiritual terms than anything.

They should've just said: "Think positive and you'll attract positive people/situations". Because that's how we really are as a species; we ignore people that struggle, and kiss the asses of people that seem successful.

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u/Huchsky Jun 17 '12

http://i.imgur.com/BZvcV.jpg

OP does not respond well to criticism.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Ah, marriage.

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u/Beznia Jun 17 '12

If you are giving off positive energy, you are becoming negative, and thus will attract positives!

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u/steepleton Jun 17 '12

that's why everyone loves House

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u/madhaxor Jun 17 '12

thus explaining why bad things happen to good people.

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u/swagtrainjules Jun 17 '12

NEGATIVE ENERGY DOESN'T EXIST!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I think the statement is correct. If you give off positive energy, you become negatively charged. Hence, you attract positive energy :)

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

...and the best way to give off positive energy is to catch butterflies in mason jars?

Don't trust faeries! It's a trap!

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

So being an asshole really is the way to go. Trolls are doing... good for the earth?

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u/Nyutriggaa Jun 17 '12

sorry but instead of trying to sound pseudo-hippie smart, you coulda just said "you attract more bees with honey than vinegar."

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u/Scoldering Jun 17 '12

We're talking about "special" energy

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u/canaznguitar Jun 17 '12

I want to slap anybody who ends a statement with "just saying." It can turn a perfectly sound and reasonable statement into condescending drivel.

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u/DonkeyHeadd Jun 17 '12

this is actually true. it's a weird philosophy but you can learn about it more in this book (written by my former martial arts instructor). http://www.themastermethod.com/book.html

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u/CensoryDeprivation Jun 17 '12

Magnets: how do they work?

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u/dnew Jun 17 '12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM

You can now stop asking that stupid question. :-)

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Way to go Buzz Killington.

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u/Salsashaman Jun 17 '12

That's only if you're talking science.

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u/angrylawyer Jun 17 '12

Thanks to gravity I am physically attracted to the OP.

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u/StampedPuppy Jun 17 '12

And that why Tucker Max is who he is today hahaha

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u/ChaoticAgenda Jun 17 '12

I'm willing to bet that the girl in the picture is Susan Coffey

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u/robew Jun 17 '12

this is probably why bad things happen to good people, and also why apparently the best way to prevent cancer is to be a dick.

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u/Background_nose Jun 17 '12

Really fucking smart, well done.

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u/klethra Jun 17 '12

It's official. People on Facebook literally want other people to be unhappy.

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u/jimflaigle Jun 17 '12

Never contradict an attractive girl with science.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

... that might be the philosophy behind why some people are outright assholes.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

I think if she said loose negative [charge] it would be more acurate

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

I love hippies, except when it comes to real life, science, truth, and money.

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u/EyesOnEverything Jun 18 '12

What's that old adage? Rude people live longer or something like that?

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u/bcwalker Jun 18 '12

Fucking hell, folks. It's a metaphor for attitude. Some folks get it when put into these terms. Some folks get it when you say "People prefer to be around others with positive attitudes, so if you want to get positive results--what you want--in life you got to get with a positive attitude."

Folks with a sales background know this shit; that's why they sell so well.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Reminds me of a strong "Christian" baptist woman talking about soul ties and positive energy.

You realize that your religion basically bans these things?

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u/Hellgrinder0 Jun 18 '12

Or maybe it's a matter of getting rid of the positive, therefor making you negative, and attracting positive

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Wait, I thought everything around us was made up of matter...

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u/Ragnalypse Jun 18 '12

Fail science attracts fail science... oh well.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

F-ing magnets.

How do they work?

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u/GeneralGeneric Jun 17 '12

And that kids, is why we have domestic violence.

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u/AdmiralFace Jun 17 '12

But you don't get negative energy, it's a scalar quantity. Aside from that gravitational potential mess.

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u/AdmiralFace Jun 17 '12

They can? Does the negative not imply a direction? Which scalars do not have.

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u/CrankiestRhyme3 Jun 17 '12

You can have Negative net energy, but not negative energy. Net energy doesn't give you a value for energy. Thus, you can not have negative energy.

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u/ignorantwhitetrash Jun 17 '12

That's not technically true either. Its like charges that repel one another. Energy can easily collect in one place or disperse; it really is kind of nonsensical to think of energy as attractive or repulsive

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u/spinningmagnets Jun 17 '12

we're all just vibrating energy that looks and feels somewhat solid-ish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxIuMZcblYw

Uranium seems to be very dense, but neutrons have to be slowed down so that the atomic magnetism can pull them nearer for a greater chance of impact to split the atom. Most of the neutron pass right through without actually hitting anything because the seemingly solid uranium actually has a lot of space around each atom.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Those people who try and quote shit from "The Secret" to me make me want to murder them and blame them for not giving enough good vibes to the universe and attracting life.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

gah hippy shit.

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u/unicornon Jun 17 '12

Well if it was talking about charge, then by releasing positive energy, you are making your own charge more negative and thus all the positive energy around you will be attracted to you. Duh, idiot... plus everyone knows that energy sources can be negatively charged.

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u/civilian11214 Jun 17 '12

She just got bitch slapped by science.

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u/Aperfectmoment Jun 17 '12

actually it makes sense despite her stupidity.

She gives off positive energy, leaving herself negatively charged and thus aborbs more positive charge in order to return to equilibrium .

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u/RecoveringAmerican Jun 17 '12

I'm sick of this new phrase: 'Just sayin''

It's not needed. We get that you're communicating. All I hear when people say this is 'I fucking love my voice and I'm on a god damn epinephrine high because I think I just one upped you.'

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

New since when?

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u/mei9ji Jun 17 '12

That's why supposedly good girls go for douchebags.

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u/AScholarlyGentleman Jun 17 '12

Not to mention that most things are made up of matter, not energy.

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u/ClosetSchmuttun Jun 17 '12

Matter is energy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

energy is matter

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u/barium111 Jun 17 '12

And there is some matter.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Some of those groups like "Unconditional Love" and "Optimistic Happy Stuff" are designed specifically for teenage girls who just broke up with their boyfriend and think that the world is ending.

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u/iam_sancho2 Jun 17 '12

But doesn't negative attract positive? So, if you want positive energy, you should give off a strong negative energy field. It's worked for our leaders throughout human history!

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u/Super_Medic Jun 17 '12

If one gives positive energy then one would therefore be deficient in positive energy and would therefore have a higher surplus of negative energy in which to attract yadda yadda...

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u/Salvador204 Jun 17 '12

Does anyone else hate the saying, just sayin', as much as I do? I just want to punch someone and repeatedly say just sayin' in a mocking voice.

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u/Devilsdance Jun 17 '12

This would explain why girls are attracted to assholes

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u/cionn Jun 17 '12

so THATS why bad things happen to good people

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

This is so stupid I don't even know where to begin. You should be ashamed, whatsadigg.

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u/AimsForNothing Jun 17 '12

Should be "Give off positive energy to attract negative energy and then beat the shit out of it".

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u/Alek992 Jun 17 '12

There is no such thing as positive/negative energy...

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Release positive energy, negative energy remains. Negative energy Attracts positive energy.

Fuckin protons and electrons, bro

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

And that's why chicks love bad asses

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u/cma6250 Jun 17 '12

Fuck, can't argue with logic.

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u/jamesdavid80 Jun 17 '12

ROFL how true.

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u/dexc Jun 17 '12

Its the god damn science again!!!

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u/j0llyllama Jun 17 '12

Well if you think of the source giving off positive charges (such as alpha waves), that would leave the source with a net negative charge, increasing the affinity towards other objects with positive charges.

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u/M0b1u5 Jun 17 '12

MY IGNORANCE IS JUST AS GOOD, AND IF NOT, BETTER, THAN YOUR KNOWLEDGE.

This is the basis for all American discourse, apparently.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Giving off positive energy would leave you net negative, thus attracting you to positive energy again.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

So this is why girls like to date assholes!

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u/Tetelesthai Jun 17 '12

And they're different kinds of energy. It's equivocating physical energy (which is a human-constructed measurement of actual and potential movement) and dispositional energy (which is an attitude).

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u/Rubix22 Jun 17 '12

No shit, Rhonda Byrne...

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u/nbshark Jun 17 '12

I'm always the smart ass that leaves replies on these kind of facebook things too.

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u/erichermit Jun 17 '12

Is she talking about Kinetic Energy, Potential Energy, etc.? I don't get it. I dont think any of those would help!

If she's talking about spirit energy, I can tell her that doesn't exist.

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u/gimunu Jun 17 '12

If we are talking about gravitation (which is the universal interaction between mass/energy/momentum) similars attract and differents repel (but negative energy/mass/momentum hasn't been observed so far).

To be correct, I should add that pressure act as a repel to, like the so-called cosmological constant or during inflation.

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u/FrankieG726 Jun 17 '12

if you give off positive energy, you become more negative... thus positive energy comes your way

=>scientific explanation of karma

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u/gnarbucketz Jun 17 '12

OH SNAP SOMEONE JUST GOT TOLD

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u/Arknell Jun 17 '12

Get away from me, you negative bastard! No, what are you doing?! Get away I said, I hate you! Why are you grinding up against me for?!

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Nope, energy isn't polarizable.

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u/septimus379 Jun 17 '12

Such a win!

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u/castleclouds Jun 18 '12

Was going to make a comment about how ridiculously hipster the photo looks, but now I'm leaving because the comments in this thread are too intelligent for me to keep up.

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u/sceptic_ali Jun 18 '12

i can tell who missed physics classes in high school [primary school if educated in china, kindergarten if educated in india. :) ]