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17. Aka "name it and claim it", "blab it and grab it", etc.

Reply to Funtatlaguy (Original post)

Sat Nov 9, 2024, 02:40 PM

Nov 9

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Name_it_and_claim_it
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Secret

Anyone here remember Creflo Dollar? (Yes, that's his real name--like something out of a Saul Bellow novel). This nonsense has a long and storied history in America. Oprah even subscribes to a version of it, though more secularized, which was popularized in The Secret.

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Aka "name it and claim it", "blab it and grab it", etc. keep_left Nov 9 #17

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