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Shrimpboat
This whole LGAT world is a creepy subculture that I had no idea existed.
It's like some netherworld with odd philosophical underpinnings only the inhabitants aren't philosophers and don't know how to evaluate or put the information into any cohesion or context (I'm beginning to hate that word).
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Personally, after doing only a bit of cursory research on LEC and finding so much negative info, I can't imagine why ANYBODY would get involved in this. I mean, if the course costs several hundred bucks, don't people even read up on it before they go? Just a simple google search brings up this website straight away. But if somebody you really trust gives you the hard-sell on it you might go in more unsuspecting.
Beats the sh*t out of me, too.
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I think part of the reason I've avoided hearing about these things before is that me and most of my friends don't make much money, and don't have it to waste on stuff like this!
Yes, you might be on to something here. I'm fairly certain they have some way of discouraging members from recruiting those without deep pockets from which they can finance expensive "programs." Unlike the earlier days, when cults targeted (mostly impoverished) kids, these ("prosperity cult") groups target the upwardly-mobile who are "strivers" and social-climbers. It's easier to hook into their ambitions, I imagine. Like the liquor companies who survive and thrive not off the occasional or social drinker but off heavy drinkers, Landmark-type cults want the so-called "seminar-junkies" who are perpetually "enrolled" in one of their stupid programs and though they'll take your $450, they're really after the thousands they get from their repeat customers.
Ellen