IMPACT Trainings
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NOTImpacted
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Date: September 30, 2007 03:11AM
Thanks for all of your input... Ex, I know what you're saying about how talking a TIT3'er out of their, what I consider to be a permanenet "hypnosis" would be similar to talking a devout religious person out of their beliefs. Perfect analogy. I guess it's all starting to sink in for me just how involved the people I could once relate to, and loved and counted on for support and encouragement have totally abandoned all sense of reality. So yeah, maybe NOTImpacted wasn't the best choice of names because I, and those of us not involved in this shithole called Impact, have definitely been impacted.
We were raised LDS, and literally forced to go to church until my parents split up. After that, we weren't so much forced but rather guilted (same thing I suppose) into going. My mom, who only went so far as Lift Off, is a devout mormon (oxymoron I suppose). After Lift Off, she stopped wearing her garments, started drinking cofffee and an occasional adult beverage. TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY OUT OF CHARACTER FOR HER. She did, however, stop critisizing me for my non-beliefs in religion and it got to the point where for the most part, we could relate to each other. But then I found myself watching my words around her, like I noticed the misuse of the term "get to" instead of "have to". And the "working" and "not working" instead of right and wrong. What bullshit. Yeah, go ahead and tell yourself you "get to" have surgery, or you "get to" have a root canal. Stupid stuff like that started getting under my skin. As far as the rest of the siblings who have gone through Impact, I think that my oldest brother (and the one who is the most into this shit) was going to church at that time. Keep in mind, he has wavered in his religious beliefs for about 20 years now. Mormon, not mormon. Mormon, not mormon. I've had a hard time keeping up. Now, though, he belongs to the church of the poison minds, the church of Hans Berger. UGH.
As far as getting them to stay away from their Imact family... I truly believe this will be next to impossible. They spend, what seems like, EVERY SPARE MOMENT either staffing or training or going to some fucking "retreat". Frankly, the only time I see them (or care to see them) since this all started is on birthdays and major holidays. And even then, it's extremely difficult to be around them. They huddle into little circles and talk the most unbelievable shit. Or they'll sit in a corner and look at each other and cry. What the hell is that?????? It's very uncomfortable and now that I have the knowledge I have, I will put an end to that behavior if/when it happens in my own home. Walk into any one of their houses and the first thing you see is a "collage" of, what I'm assuming is the stuff their putting their energy into??? I don't really know, but it's sickening (I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about).
My guess is that my older brother, at the very least, may be in Hans' little circle jerk. I think after he finished Lift Off, he did some art/advertising for him as payment for others in my family to attend. Sickening. And knowing my brother, he will reject the bad that is right in front of him and continue to look at Hans as a God. Really sickening.
So I had the misfortune of watching some of (not all of, because it made me want to vomit) The Secret. This was before I knew or heard that Impact uses those principals. Is this true? And if so, in what sense?