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James Suicide Makes an Appearance on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric

Submitted by James

Edited by Rahodeb

Tags: The Secret, James Suicide, Hal Sparks, CBS



Wednesday night the CBS Evening News aired a segment about the insanely popular documentary and book The Secret. Among the people interviewed about the documentary (including one of the experts featured in the documentary itself, Michael Beckwith) was our very own James Suicide, a.k.a. Samantha Humphreys.

The documentary and book outline the universal "law of attraction," a tool used by great minds throughout history to gain financial and personal success by focusing on the positive feelings that come along with their goal. For more information about The Secret and the law of attraction, you can visit the official site for the film.

James, an avid practitioner of all things positive, was asked to share her story about how the secret has worked in her life. The segment also features SG member halsparks, one of James's favorite funny-men.

You can view the video online here.

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jason

jason

USA
August 2002

MAR 02, 2007 10:59 AM

Poptard said:
Also, Realplayer won't let me view the vid.


they are all standing in a kitchen and then the guy says "so,
The Secret works for you?" and Hal Sparks is like "its always working" and then James and Hal Sparks start making out and then the guy asks James when she is going to get $100,000 and she says "whenever the universe wants to give it to me."

Quirky

Quirky

Birmingham, AL
October 2005

MAR 02, 2007 11:02 AM

jason said:

Poptard said:
Also, Realplayer won't let me view the vid.


they are all standing in a kitchen and then the guy says "so,
The Secret works for you?" and Hal Sparks is like "its always working" and then James and Hal Sparks start making out and then the guy asks James when she is going to get $100,000 and she says "whenever the universe wants to give it to me."



Do they then mount two pegasi and fly over a Rush concert into the sunset, holding hands?

thefreak

thefreak

NEWSWIRE

Gardner, MA

MAR 02, 2007 11:09 AM

Poptard said:

jason said:
they are all standing in a kitchen and then the guy says "so,
The Secret works for you?" and Hal Sparks is like "its always working" and then James and Hal Sparks start making out and then the guy asks James when she is going to get $100,000 and she says "whenever the universe wants to give it to me."


Do they then mount two pegasi and fly over a Rush concert into the sunset, holding hands?


I don't know about you, but I'd pay to see that.

-TM

Uncognitive

Uncognitive

Brooklyn, NY
May 2003

MAR 02, 2007 11:15 AM

Pilkington said:
Which is more important....mocking something you haven't experienced and/or don't understand by being ironically cynical in a pseudo-intellectual way OR stopping not only the real suffering (e.g. hunger or AIDS) of other people and by doing so alleviating the suffering in your own mind?

If you chose the former, I'd say your priorites are seriously fucked up.



You can, of course, do both at the same time.

What's fucking hilarious to me is that this brew of New Age hooey and late-night infomercial "God wants you to be rich!" capitalist dreamweaving is doing fuck all to stop "the real suffering" around the world, and is actually a not-so-subtle form of blaming the victims of that suffering for just not being happy enough to make food appear, or remove the HIV virus from their bloodstream, or make bullets bounce off their skin.

Pilkington said:
In my experience, the choice between positive and negative thought is the choice between the embracing of life or death.



Oddly enough, I'm a horribly negative human being, and have remained to date surprisingly death-free. Maybe I just don't have enough hubris to grok how letting a smile be my umbrella can alter the fabric of the universe or something.

Fatality

Fatality

SUICIDEGIRL

USA

MAR 02, 2007 11:49 AM

Uncognitive said:

Pilkington said:
Which is more important....mocking something you haven't experienced and/or don't understand by being ironically cynical in a pseudo-intellectual way OR stopping not only the real suffering (e.g. hunger or AIDS) of other people and by doing so alleviating the suffering in your own mind?

If you chose the former, I'd say your priorites are seriously fucked up.



You can, of course, do both at the same time.



Welcome to my life

Uncognitive

Uncognitive

Brooklyn, NY
May 2003

MAR 02, 2007 11:54 AM

Fatality said:

Uncognitive said:

Pilkington said:
Which is more important....mocking something you haven't experienced and/or don't understand by being ironically cynical in a pseudo-intellectual way OR stopping not only the real suffering (e.g. hunger or AIDS) of other people and by doing so alleviating the suffering in your own mind?

If you chose the former, I'd say your priorites are seriously fucked up.



You can, of course, do both at the same time.



Welcome to my life



Would you like to attend my wildly semi-popular "Power Of Negative Thinking" seminars for only three low low payments of $199.95 each?

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

MAR 02, 2007 12:00 PM

Pilkington said:

apesamongus said:

Pilkington said:

Uncognitive said:

Caeruleus_A said:
perceptions impact upon the world we live in. Depending on what are perceptions are of our environment - determines our environment. The universe cannot truly be interacted without human imposed measurements. These measurements are not a "fact" of the universe, they are just something we imposed on the universe so we could try to understand it. Apply this concept of imposing a positive perception on the world, and the world will change to reflect it.



Quick, someone airlift a shit-ton of these DVD's to refugee camps in the Sudan, so they can start imposing a positive perception on the world and thus determine their environment!

whatever




See...Instead of wasting my life and yours just then by being an assface that could have been appeal for whatever you actually think will help refugees in Sudan...In the words of Tom Vu, "Way to go, Loser!"


What if we think mocking new age mumbo-jumbo does make the world a better place?



Which is more important....mocking something you haven't experienced and/or don't understand by being ironically cynical in a pseudo-intellectual way
OR
stopping not only the real suffering (e.g. hunger or AIDS) of other people and by doing so alleviating the suffering in your own mind?

If you chose the former, I'd say your priorites are seriously fucked up.

In my experience, the choice between positive and negative thought is the choice between the embracing of life or death.

Um, your own journal says "All i want in this world is to fuck then die. I have no aspirations. I have no enlightened overarching goals. The point is to procreate then get the fuck out of the way. "

So, yeah, I guess you know of what you speak.

Brodi

Brodi

St Adolphe, MB
April 2006

MAR 02, 2007 12:17 PM


Brodi

Brodi

St Adolphe, MB
April 2006

MAR 02, 2007 12:18 PM

Uncognitive said:

Fatality said:

Uncognitive said:

Pilkington said:
Which is more important....mocking something you haven't experienced and/or don't understand by being ironically cynical in a pseudo-intellectual way OR stopping not only the real suffering (e.g. hunger or AIDS) of other people and by doing so alleviating the suffering in your own mind?

If you chose the former, I'd say your priorites are seriously fucked up.



You can, of course, do both at the same time.



Welcome to my life



Would you like to attend my wildly semi-popular "Power Of Negative Thinking" seminars for only three low low payments of $199.95 each?



Nihilism with a price tag biggrin

Fatality

Fatality

SUICIDEGIRL

USA

MAR 02, 2007 12:26 PM

Uncognitive said:

Fatality said:

Uncognitive said:

Pilkington said:
Which is more important....mocking something you haven't experienced and/or don't understand by being ironically cynical in a pseudo-intellectual way OR stopping not only the real suffering (e.g. hunger or AIDS) of other people and by doing so alleviating the suffering in your own mind?

If you chose the former, I'd say your priorites are seriously fucked up.



You can, of course, do both at the same time.



Welcome to my life



Would you like to attend my wildly semi-popular "Power Of Negative Thinking" seminars for only three low low payments of $199.95 each?



It's alright, I got my shelf of Nietzsche books right here wink

Uncognitive

Uncognitive

Brooklyn, NY
May 2003

MAR 02, 2007 12:29 PM

Fatality said:
It's alright, I got my shelf of Nietzsche books right here wink



Damn you and your fancy book learnin'! wink

halsparks

halsparks

Santa Monica, CA
February 2005

MAR 02, 2007 01:03 PM

Caeruleus_A said:

OctEgon said:
This sounds a lot like Chaos Magic.

I want the Hardcore Zen take on this Secret hoopla. You hear me Brad?



Chaos Magic...yep!



Indeed there are a lot of similarities. That's why you'll find links to people like Grant Morrison and the like on my page and on James'.

James

James

SUICIDEGIRL

USA

MAR 02, 2007 01:09 PM

wow.

halsparks

halsparks

Santa Monica, CA
February 2005

MAR 02, 2007 01:12 PM

Poptard said:

jason said:

Poptard said:
Also, Realplayer won't let me view the vid.


they are all standing in a kitchen and then the guy says "so,
The Secret works for you?" and Hal Sparks is like "its always working" and then James and Hal Sparks start making out and then the guy asks James when she is going to get $100,000 and she says "whenever the universe wants to give it to me."



Do they then mount two pegasi and fly over a Rush concert into the sunset, holding hands?



Rush Concert? HELLO! ...it was a DRAGONFORCE concert! .....rush....

apesamongus

apesamongus

Atlanta, GA
July 2002

MAR 02, 2007 01:15 PM

Pilkington said:

apesamongus said:

Pilkington said:

Uncognitive said:

Caeruleus_A said:
perceptions impact upon the world we live in. Depending on what are perceptions are of our environment - determines our environment. The universe cannot truly be interacted without human imposed measurements. These measurements are not a "fact" of the universe, they are just something we imposed on the universe so we could try to understand it. Apply this concept of imposing a positive perception on the world, and the world will change to reflect it.



Quick, someone airlift a shit-ton of these DVD's to refugee camps in the Sudan, so they can start imposing a positive perception on the world and thus determine their environment!

whatever




See...Instead of wasting my life and yours just then by being an assface that could have been appeal for whatever you actually think will help refugees in Sudan...In the words of Tom Vu, "Way to go, Loser!"


What if we think mocking new age mumbo-jumbo does make the world a better place?



Which is more important....mocking something you haven't experienced and/or don't understand by being ironically cynical in a pseudo-intellectual way
OR
stopping not only the real suffering (e.g. hunger or AIDS) of other people and by doing so alleviating the suffering in your own mind?

If you chose the former, I'd say your priorites are seriously fucked up.

In my experience, the choice between positive and negative thought is the choice between the embracing of life or death.


Well, stupidity hurts me personally when I'm exposed to it and hunger and aids don't really affect me, so it's a pretty easy choice. And it's not like I can really do anything about hunger and aids.

And, seriously, if you think just sitting around and thinking happy-happy thoughts is going to cure aids, then I weep for humanity.

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