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Can't see what Krishnamurti has to do with Desteni. Desteni is a MLM-style New Wage channeling cult, that worships Hitler and Equal Money For All... Of course Equal Money means....give all your money to Bernard Poolman. Then its all Equal. Its like when kids grow up. They want Equal Money with their rich neighbors, so they bully and mug the rich kid, and steal his stuff. That is E
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Prior posts on this thread concerning: poker and gambling
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This also has been discussed. Money problems wont be solved until this faucet is turned off. QuoteSandman wrote: QuoteStoic I've used the examples of poker, con-games and marketing because those are the most familiar and obvious to me as being good illustrations of the point, I am not endorsing any of those practices. Bernard Poolman endorses online poker as a 'social and e
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'Bernard Poolman endorses online poker as a 'social and economic tool' That's useful to know, he's familiar with bluffing his way through life then, as if we hadn't already guessed that! ;) He does have big ideas though, if he dreams of an army of Desteni poker bluffers taking over the world. It takes an inborn aptitude married to long practice and total ded
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QuoteStoicI've used the examples of poker, con-games and marketing because those are the most familiar and obvious to me as being good illustrations of the point, I am not endorsing any of those practices. Bernard Poolman endorses online poker as a 'social and economic tool': Process Support - Mixing Work & Pleasure
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I listened to the first couple of minutes of a few of the above video links, I avoid too much exposure to Poolman so am not going to subject myself to any more than that. To me this sounds like a straight-forward Intenet Marketing set-up, with the members as affiliates. The year long Introduction course--which members presumably pay for--will be the sales training. The Process seems to be stri
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According to Bernard Poolman, a new global economic system to eradicate poverty is being implemented by his Desteni company. Of course, Desteni can't possibly make economic or political changes anywhere other than on the front porch of the Desteni farm, and it is all just an internet scam to recruit more disciples, but their efforts towards this appears to involve them taking part in fra
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