Friday, September 9, 2011

Fire Fire Everywhere

Fireboy, aka Mr. Fire himself, is asking people to "Nevillize" away the central Texas fires.

Remember, kids, if you're breathing in smoke from wildfires, it's because you're not being positive enough.

And if Mr. Fire is breathing in fire (instead of spewing out sulfurous material as is his usual modus operandi), then there is only one real solution. That solution is to rally the troops. See, if people will only think positive thoughts, imagine rain, and meditate, use EFT, hooponopono, then it will help. See, he's been doing it and the wildfires in his area have increased in containment. Oh, and it happened INSTANTLY he said.

He writes:
People from all over the world sat and prayed, or visualized, or intended and requested that the fires diminish. 
What happened? 
Almost instantly a friend who had been evacuated from his home due to the fires wrote to me saying the smokes seemed to clear, the power came back on, and he was told he could return home safely. 
Friends of mine who were preparing to evacuate were told they were safe. 
Then I looked at the news and saw that while the fires were still burning and there was no rain in sight, most of the larger fires around my area of Austin, Texas were either contained, put out, or greatly improved in containment.

See? It works! Just pray and think and it will magically fix itself. Oh, but if it doesn't work, he'll bring out some crap about how he talks about action and tell people he never said that thoughts make magic happen.

But here we are again, with Mr. Fire saying that people should use the power of their mind -- and use intentions -- to make the wildfires stop. It worked for his friends!

But in other communications, he'll tell you that intentions are for wussies. Or that he never said that thoughts create magical miracles.

So. What is it? What's the truth? If thoughts, words, intentions and unconscious beliefs create reality, what is Mr. Fire creating every time someone types in mrfire.com? Fire. Everywhere. Fire. Central Texas. Fire. Joe Vitale. Fire boy.

But don't try to blame Mr. Fire for thoughts creating reality, unless it somehow makes him look like he isn't unconsciously Law of Attracting Fire to central Texas.

If you are Mr. Fire, you are using more than 2 dozen scientifical studies that prove when people hold intentions for Mr. Fire, those intentions come to pass. I'm sure all of those FLAMES on your web site wouldn't get hypnotically into people's unconscious, would they.

So. Either thoughts, intentions, and magical thinking don't have any effect, or Mr. Fire has some responsibility in Law of Attracting himself a regional disaster. The logic he uses holds about as much water as the Pedernales River has in it right now. Aka, not much.

I'm not saying people shouldn't pray for Texas. I think a prayer or two would be nice. Supporting the people who are there with tangible donations would be better.

My problem, and the reason for this blog post, is with the fallacy of logic of the past two Joe Vitale posts. It's the fallacy of logic he uses to sell everything from crappy books to overpriced, scammy miracles coaching. It's the fallacy of logic that requires criticism and scrutiny.

Instead of wussified intentions, Joe, why don't you donate some of that vast wealth you say you've accumulated in your marketing to help some of those people who lost their homes?

Also, remember that during the San Diego fires of a few years back, Joe Vitale blamed the victims of those fires for what happened. The evidence has all but disappeared from his blog, but there's enough discussion on the internet to keep your google goggles busy.

Update: Thanks to our friend, Cosmic Connie, here are some links that will remind you of what Joe Vitale REALLY thinks about people who suffer from wild fires.

http://cosmicconnie.blogspot.com/2007/10/all-fired-up.html

http://cosmicconnie.blogspot.com/2007/10/all-fired-up-continued.html

http://cosmicconnie.blogspot.com/2007/10/putting-out-fires.html

http://shambook.blogspot.com/2007/11/mr-fire-indeed.html

3 comments:

  1. Thanks for this, BBF. As one who has been under major stress due to mandatory evacuations all week (though not nearly as much stress as people who have lost everything), I really appreciate this post. I noticed that even though Joe acknowledged there were 180 fires all over Texas, his blog post was all about the Central Texas wildfires, those around Austin and Bastrop -- HIS neck of the woods. The "miraculous" results he documents were all in that area.

    (And once again he talks about those "scientific" studies about group intentions. All of those studies were affiliated with the Maharishi and TM believers, a fact he fails to mention. And now he says there are more than two dozen of those studies. When he first began blogging and writing about them there were just nineteen. Then twenty-three. Now there are more than two dozen. WOW. The evidence is mounting!)

    Meanwhile in my neck of the woods (Waller-Grimes-Montgomery -- the infamous tri-county Riley Road/Magnolia fires) -- it's still very, very iffy. Large areas, including mine, are still under mandatory evac. I would hate to think that all of this happened just because I'm such a hater. Gack!

    And regarding the 2007 San Diego fires: for those who don't feel like Googling a lot, here are some handy links:
    http://cosmicconnie.blogspot.com/2007/10/all-fired-up.html

    http://cosmicconnie.blogspot.com/2007/10/all-fired-up-continued.html

    http://cosmicconnie.blogspot.com/2007/10/putting-out-fires.html

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  2. I'm so self-centered. In my previous comment I gave you several links to my own blog posts about Mr. Fire's San Diego wildfire blunder. I neglected to mention this fine one from Steve Salerno at SHAMblog: http://shambook.blogspot.com/2007/11/mr-fire-indeed.html

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  3. Oh Connie, thank you, again, as usual. I had to, of course, go read your entries from that time again. Isn't it amazing that John Asshataraf was completely unscathed from wildfires because of the wildfires in his soul?

    "Fires," says Mr. Fire, "don’t stop people like this."

    Too bad that wildfire in his soul couldn't save his coaching business, which has, apparently, gone out of business.

    And of course, we all know what the wildfire in James Arthur Ray's soul was about to do.

    Knowing all we know now, reading some of Joe's words from that time are downright frightening. No wonder Tattoo took down that blog post.

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