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Who read the books and then saw the movie?


So I read the original trilogy a long time ago and fell in love with what I read. I feel that what Neale put together was an amazing piece of work and it really helped me to come to my own wisdom.
I later read Friendship with God and then Communion with God and started smelling some inconsistencies with what 'God' was saying. And as time went on, I began to realize that Neale may or may not have been speaking with God but it really didn't matter because the material was so perfect at sponsoring thought and wisdom.
I later learned from someone who knew Neale personally and described some input that he had in the book. "How was it that someone was giving Neale ideas, telling him what to write? Wasn't it God speaking to Neale?" This only confirmed my growing belief that this God stuff that Neale was writing about wasn't really true. But again, it didn't matter because what was written still led to wisdom.


Fast forward to today and this is when I saw this hot piece of garbage film. What I just saw was the biggest, self-serving, schlock commercial for a book. Not only is this movie poorly made, it really is a garbage dump wreck that shows Neale's 'journey of enlightenment' as leading him to some sort of bizarre saint-hood. And what's this crap about God actually "speaking" to him? In the books it was depicted as Neale's hand being "compelled to write". Now we have some faggy voice-over with triple-dissolves of homeless man on a couch and garbage in his kitchen sink.

What did I learn from this experience from Neale? His books came at an opportune time in my life. It helped me to come to my own understanding of my purpose. But the more I realized what Neale was about, the more I understood the cash-cow mentality he has had over his work. From writing too much material, his foundation, his production company and this self-serving, promotion film, he has become, or always was, an egotist profiteer. He work and his message has been cheapened.

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I had a similar experience as Neale Donald Walsch with God talking to me through my writing back in the early 1980s so I identified heavily with the writing. The movie backed up everything I experienced. I don't think his message has been cheapened.

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i did

if it were up to me I'd chose to speak like Humphrey Bogart, but....it isn't

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The movie is pretty bad. The message of the movie seems to be, "Write a book about God, and you can make millions of dollars doing it!"

That final scene of Walsch sitting with his agent as they're bargaining with the publisher was just hilarious. I wonder if Walsch himself was comfortable with the filmmakers portraying him and his agent so greedily.

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