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midonov123
I read your story and I feel outraged about Landmark targetting kids! All I can say is those kids should stay away from Landmark. The most effective offense I have found is to point at the Landmark philosophy which is against the Bible (the concept of "responsibility" or "blaming the victim" is in blatant contradiction with God's words in the book of Job). Armed with this type of arguments, you can really challenge Landmark by saying that their endoctrination goes against core religious beliefs. Why don't you take this to your local community church. The church is suppose to help to poor and the weak to fight against deviances from God's words. Maybe they can help. Or call the Landmark center manager and chalenge him yourself. We have to put an end to their manipulation especially when they are targetting our kids!!! Of course, this should not be a religious debate. I am only pointing at this as a mean to attack Landmark's system of beliefs using another (religious) system of beliefs.
Thanks for your reply and outrage. I'm afraid we won't get very far with the dad regarding Biblical issues as he doesn't attend church and hasn't had his kids involved in a church. The girlfriend is an active Catholic - apparently she finds that Landmark and her church are a nice fit, which I don't understand at all.
We had the dad and the 13 year old girl over to our home the other night and my husband tried to engage the dad in a conversation about Landmark. He told him that it was fine if he found Landmark helpful, but to involve children wasn't fair to them. His reply was that he thought everyone should go to a forum and the kids can make their own decision whether or not they want to go. This was probably a lie, as we know that both the kids were held until they signed something. My husband also told him that he knew that the child forum was being held August 19-21 in Edina, MN so instantly the dad said that they had a sports event that weekend in another state, about 250 miles away (sounded like a coverup - they've never traveled that far away for this sport).
I'm in the process of writing a letter to our state attorney general. I know it's a long shot. My biggest obstacle is that no one seems to have heard of Landmark, I don't get why they can remain so secret.
I'm going to try to talk to the dad myself, I couldn't the other night as my anger over what he's doing to his kids is making me want to scream at him. During the six months that he was away from Landmark, he refused to speak about it - we had hoped it was out of embarassment.
He claims he's not "involved" in Landmark - he only goes to "free" things and says he'll never go to anything else that costs money. Does anyone know what these free things are? Wouldn't they be meetings that reactivate some transformation feelings and guilt them into enrolling others?
I like your idea of calling the Landmark center mgr., but I feel I don't have enough knowledge about what they do to the kids during their forum. I don't even know what the point of enrolling children is (money making aside). These two kids do not have influence over other kids at school and talking about Landmark would most likely cause other kids to avoid them, which is a teenager's worst nightmare.
We've warned our kids that are the same age that if they do go to the forum, they aren't allowed to be around them for several weeks unless we are in the same room (I hate that I feel like this), but I don't want them witnessing the strangeness and possibly being enticed from the mysteriousness. I can't count the times I heard "I can't explain it, it's something you have to see for yourself" from their dad after he attended the forum.