Kirsten Gillibrand Gives Self-Help Book to Staffers

New York Post ^ | August 30, 2014 | Mara Siegler

[nickcarraway]

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is a fan of positive-thinking self-help book “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne.

[gemoftheocean]

“The secret” is thinly disguised Rosecutian crap. Sure, 6 million Jews died in the holocaust because they weren’t thinking postive enough. It’s anti-christian, and should be avoided.

[Rodamala]

"The Secret" is a variation of that "A Course in Miracles" claptrap... and basically a Godless secular humanism ripoff of Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking which was written in 1952.

There was a really, really funny "review" on Amazon of The Secret... I will dig it up and post it here. I hope it is still around.

[Rodamala]

Customer Review

12,436 of 13,345 people found the following review helpful

The Secret saved my life!, December 4, 2007

By  Ari Brouillette

This review is from: The Secret (Hardcover)

Please allow me to share with you how "The Secret" changed my life and in a very real and substantive way allowed me to overcome a severe crisis in my personal life. It is well known that the premise of "The Secret" is the science of attracting the things in life that you desire and need and in removing from your life those things that you don't want. Before finding this book, I knew nothing of these principles, the process of positive visualization, and had actually engaged in reckless behaviors to the point of endangering my own life and wellbeing.

At age 36, I found myself in a medium security prison serving 3-5 years for destruction of government property and public intoxication. This was stiff punishment for drunkenly defecating in a mailbox but as the judge pointed out, this was my third conviction for the exact same crime. I obviously had an alcohol problem and a deep and intense disrespect for the postal system, but even more importantly I was ignoring the very fabric of our metaphysical reality and inviting destructive influences into my life.

My fourth day in prison was the first day that I was allowed in general population and while in the recreation yard I was approached by a prisoner named Marcus who calmly informed me that as a new prisoner I had been purchased by him for three packs of Winston cigarettes and 8 ounces of Pruno (prison wine). Marcus elaborated further that I could expect to be raped by him on a daily basis and that I had pretty eyes.

Needless to say, I was deeply shocked that my life had sunk to this level. Although I've never been homophobic I was discovering that I was very rape phobic and dismayed by my overall personal street value of roughly $15. I returned to my cell and sat very quietly, searching myself for answers on how I could improve my life and distance myself from harmful outside influences. At that point, in what I consider to be a miraculous moment, my cell mate Jim Norton informed me that he knew about the Marcus situation and that he had something that could solve my problems. He handed me a copy of "The Secret". Normally I wouldn't have turned to a self help book to resolve such a severe and immediate threat but I literally didn't have any other available alternatives. I immediately opened the book and began to read. The first few chapters deal with the essence of something called the "Law of Attraction" in which a primal universal force is available to us and can be harnessed for the betterment of our lives. The theoretical nature of the first few chapters wasn't exactly putting me at peace. In fact, I had never meditated and had great difficulty with closing out the chaotic noises of the prison and visualizing the positive changes that I so dearly needed. It was when I reached Chapter 6 "The Secret to Relationships" that I realized how this book could help me distance myself from Marcus and his negative intentions. Starting with chapter six there was a cavity carved into the book and in that cavity was a prison shiv. This particular shiv was a toothbrush with a handle that had been repeatedly melted and ground into a razor sharp point.

The next day in the exercise yard I carried "The Secret" with me and when Marcus approached me I opened the book and stabbed him in the neck. The next eight weeks in solitary confinement provided ample time to practice positive visualization and the 16 hours per day of absolute darkness made visualization about the only thing that I actually could do. I'm not sure that everybody's life will be changed in such a dramatic way by this book but I'm very thankful to have found it and will continue to recommend it heartily.

[Enterprise]

Did she give them “Fifty Shades of Grey?”

[Ouchthatonehurt]

That’s hilarious!!!

[M-cubed]

and the point of the story?

Always be Jim...and never be Marcus.....Read it again if u don't believe me.....*G*

[EinNYC]

Kirsten Gillibrand is near the top of my list of who I would kick backwards down the stairs if they ever knocked on my door.

She is a total ditz who is responsible for personally ramming a bill through Congress to allow USDA killers to enter Federal wildlife preserves to round up and kill Canada geese. The bill is based on totally fake crap "science", much as global warming is.

The consequence is every single Canada goose, even the fuzzy babies, was rounded up from NYC parks and Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and gassed. Oh, they SAID that they were sent to an upstate slaughterhouse to be "processed" and given to the homeless to eat, but who would eat birds which had been exposed to jet fuel residues and every other type of pollutant around the city and in Jamaica Bay?

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[nickcarraway]

Why?

[Sans-Culotte]

That’s great! Did Jim Norton write it?

[skr]

Lololol! Great comments, too! Thank you for posting this.

[House Atreides]

This adds yet another check mark in the “Yes” column of an analysis of the question “Is Kirsten Gillibrand an idiot?”.

[TBP]

OK, others have given books to their staffs.

[oldbill]

Gillibrand - isn’t she the porky one?

[PGalt]

ROFLMAO review! Thanks. Secret carve-out in The Secret BUMP!

[ottbmare]

That made me legitimately laugh out loud.

[all the best]

The very premise if The Secret is that we are all responsible for our own lives and experiences. Gillibrand is a hypocrite. “Libealism” says that 99% are victims. “Liberalism” is all says that people are helpless and need the government.

[JayGalt]

Thank you for making me aware of the horrific tale of Bloomberg and the Canadian geese. That is simply appalling and I had never heard a word about it. There must be a special hell for those people and I suspect it is inside their own souls. Good for the people of the area who did their best to not allow things to be swept under the carpet. We live in dangerous times because officials have grown bold and flamboyant about their abuses. It follows from the decaying of morality encouraged and modeled by those at the highest levels.

[EinNYC]

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